This post is a guest contribution by Bennet Sedacca*, President of Atlantic Advisors Asset Management In the chart below, please note the very simple channel in long bond futures going back to the beginning of the bull market....
Read MoreGlobal stock markets reversed course during the last three days of the first full trading week of 2009 as investors were confronted with dreadful economic data, escalating layoffs and a bleak earnings outlook. As investor...
Read More“Au” and “Pt” may be dull chemical elements, but gold and platinum have certainly played their respective parts during the unfolding of the financial crisis. Revisiting the metals’ movements, it is...
Read MoreIn addition to more “Outlook for 2009″ videos (dealt with in last week’s Video-o-rama), the past week saw material covering a hodgepodge of topics. Although the topics were varied, good viewing material was...
Read MoreDead on target at the beginning of the new year, 75-year-old Byron Wien again published his annual list of surprises to expect in 2009. Wien, chief investment strategist of Pequot Capital and one of Wall Street’s best...
Read MoreThe video clip below features Charlie Rose discussing Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package with Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner and professor at Columbia University, and Martin Feldstein, professor at Harvard...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Bennet Sedacca*, President of Atlantic Advisors Asset Management. Long time students of the market will tell you that “the crowd is usually wrong at the extremes”. Judging by what...
Read MoreChanging the digits on the calendar from ’08 to ’09 may not have transformed the dire outlook for the global economy, but during the holiday-shortened New Year week investors appeared adamant to put the rout of 2008...
Read MoreA great deal has been said in the media about the performance of stock markets during 2008, and also specifically about the reversal of fortune since the lows of November 20. I therefore only briefly summarize the year-end...
Read MoreAlthough this is a holiday-shortened trading week, there has certainly not been a lack of video clips hitting the airwaves. A number of these review the historically brutal year that has just drawn to a close. Others attempt to...
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