All Hail December’s Job Numbers
I keep getting asked what I expect the number to be tomorrow; Quite frankly, I haven’t the slightest idea what it will be —...
2004 Year-end Film & Music #s
The year end numbers are now out for both Film and Music sales in the US, and they are rather interesting. Each data point contains both...
Vomit Indicator
Rob Fraim‘s contributions to these pages are always welcome. Today’s comments are so amusing I felt they deserved a wider...
EW names Grey Album the Record of the Year
Grey Album named Record of the Year Whether you like the idea of Mash ups (See also the Beastles, as well as Hip Hopera) or not, this is...
Hunting for the next iPod
If you didn’t get to go to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, you can still see the latest and greatest gadgetry at the...
PMI Peak versus SPX Earnings Top
Chart of the Day illustrates the principle of a market indicator generating a possible sell signal long in advance of the actual market...
Long Chaos
A friend writes: The QQQQ have had a 4% drop from the previous day’s high 259 times in the last five years. The next day, 142 were...
Dividend Math
. Floyd Norris reports “good news for shareholders: the number of negative dividend actions hit a record low of just 64. The previous...
Gift-card effect? Not so much . . .
The $17 billion gift card addendum –about 8% of holiday sales — turns out not to cause a "January effect" as...
Five for ‘05
‘Tis the season for lists, predictions and “best of ‘04” type commentary. . This won’t be one of those. Instead, I hope to...