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International Growth: The New Asian Dragons

International Growth: The New Asian Dragons

Image Source: Unsplash In the second half of the 20th century, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong were commonly referred to as the “Asian Dragons”, in reference to their decades of strong industrial growth. The Asian crisis of 1997 sounded the death knell for these extraordinary years. Now, as the world changes, Indonesia, Vietnam, the […]
Grains Report – Monday, March 18

Grains Report – Monday, March 18

WHEAT General Comments: Wheat was mostly lower last week in anticipation of a bad weekly export sales report that showed bad sales, but Chicago SRW closed slightly higher. Trends are still turning up in these markets. It looks like the current prices have accounted for most or all of the bad news to hit Wheat […]
This Week: NVDA CEO Huang Keynote AI Speech, BOJ And Fed Decisions

This Week: NVDA CEO Huang Keynote AI Speech, BOJ And Fed Decisions

Monday at 1 pm PST, Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang will be giving a keynote speech at the SAP Center in San Jose, CA on the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Obviously, Huang is going to hype AI. The real question is whether it can get NVDA’s stock going or if it’s a sell-the-news event. […]
How To Spot A Change In Stock Market Direction

How To Spot A Change In Stock Market Direction

Image Source: Pexels As a trader, I live by several mantras. One of the most important is “searching for a market top or bottom is a loser’s game.” However, you can learn how to spot a change in stock market direction without trying to perfectly time the markets.Traders who do try to time markets end up […]
Gold Price: The Test

Gold Price: The Test

  ↵Image Source: Unsplash Today is an important day for gold price. Will the Dec. 2023 hold? The USD Index might be showing the way.Here’s the key thing to watch right now: After failing to move above $2,200, gold declined, and right now, it’s testing its December 2023 high.At the same time, it’s also testing its rising […]
“Grocery Prices Have Soared. That’s Spoiling Biden’s Economic Pitch”

“Grocery Prices Have Soared. That’s Spoiling Biden’s Economic Pitch”

That’s the title of an article in Bloomberg today.Here’s a picture of the headline CPI and the “food at home” category.Figure 1: Headline CPI (blue), and food at home (chartreuse), and ERS forecast based on Jan CPI, all in logs 2021M01=0. NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray. Source: BLS via FRED, ERS, NBER, and author’s calculations. The article […]
What Caused Humana’s Shocking Earnings Miss?

What Caused Humana’s Shocking Earnings Miss?

Image Source: Pexels In this video, Chuck Carnevale, Co-Founder of FAST Graphs will go over Humana (HUM). Humana missed estimates dramatically for the 4th quarter of last year and analysts have now cut their forecast for 2024 virtually in half, what could have happened to this well-managed healthcare company? Watch this video to find out.Video Length: […]
GBP/USD Stabilizes Ahead Of Key Central Bank Decisions, UK’s Inflation In Focus

GBP/USD Stabilizes Ahead Of Key Central Bank Decisions, UK’s Inflation In Focus

Photo by Colin Watts on Unsplash  The Pound Sterling losses steam and treads water against the US Dollar as traders prepare for the announcement of major central banks’ monetary policy decisions. The Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve are expected to hold rates unchanged, though a ‘hawkish tilt’ of the Fed might weigh on Sterling; the […]
Australian Mid Caps: A Sweet Spot For Diversification And Historical Outperformance

Australian Mid Caps: A Sweet Spot For Diversification And Historical Outperformance

The S&P/ASX MidCap 50 was up 5.35% in February, outperforming the S&P/ASX 50—which posted 0.25%—by more than 5%. This was the largest relative outperformance of the mid-cap segment compared to large caps in a single month since October 2008.A closer look at Australian midcaps, as measured by the S&P/ASX MidCap 50, shows the segment offers less concentration at […]
More AI Models To Choose From

More AI Models To Choose From

Elon Musk’s xAI has officially open-sourced its AI chatbot Grok, which is now available on GitHub. The release includes the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1: a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license, which enables commercial use but does not include the data used to train it or connections […]