China’s Oil Grab
You work long enough on Wall Street, you meet interesting people. Some are charming, some colorful, some sardonic, some brilliant. ...
China on Course to Overtake US Economy
Here’s a stat to get the old ticker pumping first thing in the morning: Past 25 Year Growth Rates: China: 8%+U.S. ...
The Growing Risk of Housing ‘Bubblettes’
More Than a Dozen Cities, Eight in California, Have Excessive Home Prices:The percentage above or below expected level based on such...
Media Appearance: Power Lunch (2/10/05)
I am back on CNBC’s Power Lunch with Bill Griffeth and Sue Hererra, between 1pm and 2pm today. We’ll be talking...
New Column up at Real Money (02/9/05)
. My latest Street.com column, "Rosy Jobs Rate Has Thorny Underside is up at RM. It is loosely based upon Unemployment Rate: Worse...
Internals are Ugly
Nasdaq A/D is worse than 2 to 1 negative, the Up/Down volume is also poor, at 7 to 1.5. Not quite a 10 to 1 down day, but pretty ugly....
DVD Sales Boom, 2004 a Record Year
Yet another new media taking names and kicking old media ass: DVD sales posted huge gains in 2004 for the fifth year running but the...
Video Game Industry Sales Reach Record Pace in 2004
Following up on yesterday’s debate, I wanted to highlite to a few more relevant datapoints: "The video game industry enjoyed...
Jobs Data Round Up
For those of you who may not have been paying attention Friday, we had another below consensus Jobs number. Drilling beneath the...
Barron’s picks up Unemployment Rate: Worse than it Appears
> Yesterday’s comments, Unemployment Rate: Worse than it Appears, was picked up by Barron’s. I have to admit that I like...