Category Archive: Entertainment
Market Catches Breath After Yesterday’s OPEC-Induced Moves
OPEC decision to roll-over existing quotas sent oil prices sharply lower, pushed European bonds and stocks higher, and generally gave the US dollar a boost. Today’s theme is more consolidative in nature. At the same time, the dollar’s firmer tone against the yen helped lift the Nikkei while European stocks and bonds are struggling to extend […]
OPEC’s Crude Bloodbath Sends 10 Year To 2.20%, Energy Companies Tumble
The biggest, and most market-moving, event overnight continues to be yesterday’s shocking OPEC announcement, which is still reverberating across the energy space as markets largely ignore European and Japanese inflation data which is once again sliding back dangerously fast, or Italian unemployment which rose more than expected, and joined France in hitting a new record […]
Gold – A Revival
The Swiss referendum will be the this weekend to prevent the central bank from selling its gold. While Swiss sources say this is really about a protest against the central bank policy since they pegged the Franc to the Euro incurring tremendous losses, the Swiss are now watching their currency decline with the Euro. There […]
EUR/USD Forecast: Nov. 28, 2014
The EUR/USD pair has been in a massive downtrend for some time. However, during the entirety of November, we have seen quite a bit of consolidation near the 1.25 handle. I think that the market is probably due for a bounce at this point, and as you see on the chart I have highlighted the […]
Put It This Way – Profiting From Put Options
by Russ Allen Recently I’ve written about hedging strategies that use options. One of the strategies I’ve described was buying put options as insurance. Another was selling covered call options against the stock position, to reduce its cost and therefore its risk. Yet another was to combine those two strategies, in what is known as […]
The Future Of Social Media
Photo Credit: Shutterstock, BELGRADE – MAY 04, 2014 Popular social media website logos In today’s digital age, social-media networks will always exist in one form or another because Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn – and all of the others – are just modern communications channels. The key is to understand the greater context. Mass communication has existed […]
EUR/JPY Significant Bullish Pressure
The EUR/JPY pair did very little during the Thursday session as the Americans were away at holiday, and the rest the world simply did not move the ball very far. However, this is a pair that certainly has a significant amount of bullish pressure underneath it so I look at it is a market that […]
Synesthetic Marketing: Could Your Presentation Taste Better?
Don’t aim to influence just one of our senses. Connect them and you’ll see wonders in your marketing results. Photocredit: Vimodi Is your sales and marketing pitch a red, a blue or is it a Bouba or a Kiki? Is it sweet enough? ‘Please, gentlemen, a little bluer, if you please! – when Franz Liszt addressed his orchestra […]
The Cultural And Political Consequences Of Fiat Money
by Jorg Guido Hulsmann It may seem unusual that an economist would talk about culture. Usually, we talk about prices and production, quantities produced, employment, the structure of production, scarce resources, and entrepreneurship. But there are certain things that economists can say about the culture, and more precisely, that economists can say about the transformation of the culture. […]
Bull Of The Day: Micron Technology
Micron has recently bounced back nicely after last month’s sell-off. As analysts continue to raise their estimates ahead of its fiscal first quarter results, the stock could continue its positive momentum in the coming months. Founded in 1978, Micron Technology (MU – Analyst Report) is a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions. They manufacture and market DRAM, NAND and […]
