Traders in Japan suffered a rude awakening yesterday morning when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that the troubled country?s GDP shrunk by -1.6% during the third quarter. Analysts had been expecting a gain of 2.2%. What?s worse, this is the second consecutive quarter of negative GDP, meaning that the Land of the
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By now, the reasons behind this year?s bear market are pretty well known. Even my cleaning lady, Cecelia, can site them chapter and verse. Quantitative easing went global. Inflation fell, with the prices of almost all business input costs, like commodities, energy, interest rates, collapsing. Labor costs remained muted, so corporate profits rocketed. Voila! Stocks
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Foreign exchange traders are an odd lot. They tend to maintain a laser like focus on specific numbers that are utterly meaningless to us mere mortals, but which have momentous importance to themselves. Right now, one is hearing the battle cry over the 120/120 targets. Specifically, traders want to take the yen down to Y120
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?The longer that we see consistent returns in the stock market without messy 20% pullbacks, the more people are going to feel safe owning equities, and the more likely money comes out of bonds,? said Tom Lee of Fundstrat Global Advisors.
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Be nice to investors on the way up, because you always meet them again on the way down. This is the harsh reality of those who have placed their money in the fracking space this year. The hottest sector in the market for the first half of the year, investors have recently fallen on hard
?The question is not whether Tesla will sell 37,000 or 40,000 cars this year, but whether they will sell 14 million or 15 million in 15 years. I believe they can do it,? said Ron Baron of long-term value player, Baron Capital.
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?Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy, and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.? That is one of my favorite quotes from Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet, and it was never more true than during the past 30 trading days. It turns out that the lowest risk day to buy stocks in 2014 was October 15, when
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?Asking if Hillary Clinton is going to run for president in 2016 is like asking if John Dillinger is going to rob a bank,? said conservative commentator, Mike Murphy.
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I am writing this to you from my lakefront estate at Incline Village, Nevada. I thought I?d get one more 100-mile hike in before the heavy snow falls. By now the mountain lions have migrated to lower altitudes so it?s safer. I?ll need the fresh air to map out my trading strategy for 2015 to
?When you look at the size of the US work force over the next 30 years, it is going to increase by 30%. That compares to Japan, where it is going to be shrinking, Europe, where it is contracting, and even China, where it turns down. The idea that the baby boomers are going to
