Is the Market Still a Future Indicator?
At this point, you would have thought the Efficient Market Hypothesis would have died a quite death. But as is its wont on Wall Street,...
Lessons Learned From A Dangerous Year
In the beginning of the year, a column I wrote for Real Money discussed some lessons of the past year. It never was moved over to the...
Crude Oil Breaks Below $115
Crude Oil is down to $115 (continuous cash futures contract). We also have some Backwardation — meaning futures (September...
No 90% Up Day
Mea Culpa: I was surprised when I saw Mark Hulbert say that "Markets were up, but not ‘9-to-1 up" on Tuesday. I checked...
“Take A Report” fired from Citi
Take A Report (you’re done), the outrageous, raunchy, and at times, hysterically funny anonymous blog from an unknown Trader has been...
300 Point Rally follow up
Wow, lots of interesting responses from yesterday’s 300 Point Dow Gains? During Bear Markets ONLY. I appreciate those of you who...
David Rosenberg: The Frugal Future
Click for Video Thoughts on the future of the economy, with David Rosenberg, Merrill Lynch North American economist Click for Video Final...
300 Point Dow Gains? During Bear Markets ONLY
Merrill Lynch’s David Rosenberg was on CNBC this morning, discussing the current Bear Market. He noted that this was the sixth 300...
InTrade’s Strangely Misnamed Recession Bet
US Recession 2008 Chart via Intrade I am only a partial believer in The Wisdom of Crowds. Why? Most of the time, the crowd...
Hedge Fund Winners and Losers
The NYPost is looking at the winners and losers in the NY area hedge fund community: Note that Jake at EconompicData does a much better...