Author: Vivian Lewis

Dear rss free blog,       It was a big Sunday in New York yesterday. Not only did Bloomingdale’s open its 1st foreign department store in the United Arab Emirates (with a local emporium as partner), but Paul Volcker wrote...

Dear rss free blog,       Eighty is the new sixty! These days I am beginning to feel like a kid again. Despite being a recipient of Social Security and Medicare, mainly to finance this re-start-up, I am in my 60s. And these...

Dear rss free blog,       Stock trading is screwed up today because of technical problems in the consolidation process at the NYSE. It may be linked to a surprise dump of snow which hit New York this morning. Or not.       I...

Dear rss free blog,      Today we will get to hear the State of the Union address. The Federal Open Market Committee is meeting, which may be bullish for stocks (a theory of Tom McClellan of mcoscillator.com). The first of the...

Dear rss free blog,       Reporter Dan Markman e-mailed me:       “Last March was much more predictive than Jan. for the year’s stock market performance. One possibly alarming but significant explanation could be that the...

Dear rss free blog,       There was more from Barrons’ Chevaliers de la Table Ronde this week, and it all sounded a bit dated after the huge sell-off. The magazine holds its gabfest over one day (at the Harvard Club no...

Dear rss free blog,       Gott ist im Detail. Alternatively: der Teufel ist im Detail. Either way, our President cannot stay above the fray. This is not being talked about as the Volcker Plan or Glass-Steagel II. It is the Obama...

Dear rss free blog,       With the Chinese Bank Regulatory Commission putting a freeze on new bank loans for the rest of Jan. and a new Boston tea party tossing a local pol into the River Charles, it might not be a good idea to...

      A long weekend with the Barron’s Roundtable, here summarized: they’re all bulls. And they have no idea what makes stock markets go up. They think the US government bought shares on Wall Street and will continue...

Astor Capital is excited to announce the launch of its new Hudson FX Program.  This managed account offers investors a program to be involved in the foreign exchange sector.  This Program was created with the current market in...