Those of you who have seen the chart below on my blog over the last year-and-a-half might have already guessed what it looks like after yesterday's dramatic plunge in the consumer price index - it's now screaming DEFLATION.Not that there's anyreal significance to the fact that it's screaming deflation.As noted here, in a world full of fiat money, "deflation" is nothing more than an am...
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This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Battle lines forming in nascent robotics field
Microsoft Corp. has very clearly set its sights on what could be the next big field of technology – robots. But the software titan will have to compete with open-source developers who are also making a big push in the field.
Earlier this week, I attended Greentech Innovations, a conference focused on completing the transition to a green economy. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing a series of articles that chronicle the detailed information presented there on a wide variety of topics. Today, I want to begin with a broad view of a cleantech road map that provides a glimpse of what the future of energy wil...
On SPY (SPY) yesterday we rallied 4.25% in the last hour of trading and today (Wednesday) we fell 3% in the last hour. This type of violence, with today alone being down over 6.33%, is what makes holding positions too difficult for the average investor. Volume was as heavy as yesterday with most of it coming toward the close like yesterday. But unlike yesterday the performance reversed. Breadth...
This is certainly the season for the bears. They were able to break the 2008 lows on the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000. The Dow has somehow managed to hold above its October intraday low and I’m sure everybody will be watching that level in the coming days. That Dow low holding seems to be the last hope for the bulls in the short term — and that would be nothing but hope. Th...
Now that today’s close is firmly in place, we have a potential game-changer in terms of the technical structure. The monthly chart also shows a major bearish development Let’s look at the current S&P 500 (^GSPC) chart closely to see what this means. S&P 500 Daily: Not a whole lot has changed on the daily structure, provided you note that today’s price marked a fresh ...
Now that today’s close is firmly in place, we have a potential game-changer in terms of the technical structure. The monthly chart also shows a major bearish development Let’s look at the current S&P 500 chart closely to see what this means. S&P 500 Daily: Not a whole lot has changed on the daily structure, provided you note that today’s price marked a fresh 2008 int...
