Merger Monday’s Again–Maybe
The early part of the week has proved to be interesting the last several weeks as mergers have become a regular occurence. Way back on January 6 2009, we posted a blog 2009 Key Market Items to Watch for this year. We…
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An Interesting Time with W. Michael Cox, Former Chief Economist of the Dallas Fed
Yesterday during lunch I had the good fortune to hear Michael Cox, Former Chief Economist of the Dallas Fed and currently Director, O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Cox had a few very interesting comments. The…
Rumors and Light Attendance = Selloff
As we near the end of summer, rumors, national events or any other headline has dramatic effects on the markets. Yesterday the markets had a pretty sharp down day. Not to minimize the impact of the day, but as a…
Expectations vs. Reality
As the summer comes to a close, market participant’s will begin to come back from their vacations and once again focus on the direction of the market. Once again this course will be laid with the expectations of both the…
End Of Summer Doldrums After Labor Day
With the headlines reading multiple up days in a row, which is certainly good news, keep in mind many of these days have been just by a hair, and summer doldrums are set to continue through labor day most likely.…
Bernanke Re-Appointed, To Be a Fly on The Wall
As word leaked out this morning that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will be reappointed to a second four year term a few items from Greenspan’s personal notes most recently printed in the book Maestro are worth noting. Greenspan noted in…
Expect More of the Same
One thing most people can agree on is that we can expect more of what we have seen over the last few days from the markets moving forward. While it seems that each economist has their own view of what…
An Interesting Weekend of Sports and How it Relates to World Capital Markets
Avid golf fans watched in amazement as Tiger Woods lost his lead for the first time in 36 events to South Korean native, and current Southlake Texas resident, Y.E. Yang, marking the first time an Asian native has won an…
A Coiled Spring Being Held Down…Careful !
The Federal Reserve meeting press release, (see link below) gives us a bit of concern from an artificial market force. Here is the meat of the release in case you are having trouble with the link “As previously announced,…
Nouriel Roubini More In Line With Our View (Update from Q3 Newsletter)
In our last Newsletter (Q 3 2009), we commented that Nouriel Roubini a noted economist was one of our favorites, yet we did not totally agree with his timing of a recovery. Today he revised his comments, stating the recovery may…