Today our imaginary, and somewhat humourous stroll, that included crossing paths with five unknown important money people concludes. As a review, our first fellow walker, Dominique Strauss-Kauhn, who became mired in controversy, but unofficially proving our choice as important and unknown, at the time…
Last Wednesday (2-9-11) at a group CFA related dinner event, Marko Papic, a Senior Eurasia Analyst, discussed events surrounding the Euro and the ECB’s (European Central Bank) influence on the Euro countries. This topic is very interesting as I have long had…
Good Monday morning! As we enter the teeth of the 90 day treadmill (better known as earnings season), with much of the public commentary focused on our nick named 90 day treadmill, we thought it timely to mention the latest…
Not only do we have a much watched mid-term election on Tuesday, an FOMC meeting/statement on Wednesday, scattered earnings results, but a full economic week as well. Not withstanding the above mentioned items, key economic reports we will be watching…
With about 150 companies from the S&P 500 reporting already and a handful more to report today, so far, so good. We have been pleasantly surprised by management’s ability to navigate the economic recovery (slower than usual) and do more…
Last week the Capital Markets took a decidedly positive tone during the first couple of days of September, but with a Holiday weekend looming, we paused before commenting as trading volumes were, and still are, light, as investors across the…
“If such and such, jumped off a cliff; Would you?” The peer pressure talk I received several times as a kid, and most likely will be repeating verbatim to my kids soon enough. Yesterday in the capital markets, peer pressure…
Given the negative economic reports and general over all negative tone towards many parts of the developing worlds, mainly the US and the UK, if one had to close their eyes and guess what the total loss for the capital markets in August…
Last night, just before my house hopefully goes dark, (finishing first full week of school), as usual, I scrolled through the evening news stories for a last glance at what was on deck for this Friday. Reuters leads with “GDP number…What will Bernanke’s…
The Employment Report, due out tomorrow may be one of the most important recent economic reports we have received in some time, for some not so obvious reasons. Here is the set up: We are at the tail end…
