Category Archive: Entertainment
Learning About Black Friday From Google Trends
As usual, economists will be paying close attention to Black Friday shopping, trying to get a glimpse of the overall retail sales this holiday season. Expectations this year are more optimistic than what we saw the last couple of years (see chart). Can we learn anything from Google search frequency statistics about trends for Black […]
Rail Week Ending 22 November 2014: Rail Growth Slowing Continues. End Of Growth Cycle Or Simply Holiday Distortions
Econintersect: Week 47 of 2014 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) was mixed according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. The rate of growth softened in all of the rolling averages reported below. Holiday season transport may be affected by a change in logic by shippers. This will […]
T2108 Update – Finally Overbought, Essentially (Including Chart Reviews Of DE And INTC)
T2108 Status: 69.99%T2107 Status: 54.6%VIX Status: 12.1General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold (bullish positions)Active T2108 periods: Day #28 over 20%, Day #26 over 30%, Day #23 over 40%, Day #21 over 50%, Day #16 over 60% (overperiod), Day #98 under 70% (underperiod) Reference Charts (click for view of last 6 months from Stockcharts.com):S&P 500 or SPYSDS (ProShares UltraShort S&P500)U.S. Dollar […]
EC Time For Pie
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW + 12 = 17,827 SPX + 5 = 2072 NAS + 29 = 4787 10 YR YLD – .03 = 2.23% OIL – .35 = 73.75 GOLD – 3.20 = 1199.00 SILV – .13 = 16.64 Another record high close for the Dow Industrial […]
Did Bernanke Really Save The World?
Ben Bernanke and his teenaged Wall Street media groupies like to claim that he saved the world with QE. But if QE was such a cure-all why has the “recovery” in Japan and Europe been so weak? The ECB printed money out the wazoo for a while and the BoJ is giving Japan, the US, […]
It’s Raining Offers For RadioShack Buyers This Holiday Season
Beleaguered electronic retailer RadioShack Corp. (RSH – Analyst Report) has redesigned its retail website, with new deals in the offing, in an effort to ramp up sales in the upcoming holiday season. Following the development, the company’s shares have jumped nearly 3%. Starting today, Nov. 26, RadioShack will provide exciting price offers on modern tech-gadgets […]
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Now Thank We All Our God
“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” Henry Ward Beecher The joyfulness of simplicity is a folly to the world, but the charism of a loving God to His people. Gold and silver were both flat in lackluster trade today, as the US markets […]
Stocks Close At Record-est Highs, Ensuring ‘Confident’ Black Friday, Despite Macro Massacre
The S&P 500 closed at new record-er-est highs (a record 29th day above the 5DMA) providing just the right amount of confidence-inspiring ‘wealth creation’ to ensure you spend, spend, spend this weekend all those gas price savings (despite 9 of 9 macro data misses today). Dow and Trannies underperformed today as Nasdaq surged on AAPL strength. […]
E Gasoline Production Rises, Could Be Indicative Of Supply Beginning To Overtake Demand
The United States Energy Information Administration released its latest report on the status of oil inventories in the United States on November 26, 2014. This is the report for the week of November 21. The report shows much the same as has been occurring over the past several weeks. While both commercial oil inventories and […]
Harry Dent’s Simple Strategy For Surviving Withdrawals From ‘Markets On Crack’
An aging world is a deflationary one, according to “The Demographic Cliff” author Harry Dent. In this interview with The Gold Report, he predicts a major, painful crash in the next two years based on population statistics and historic patterns. He has some positive short-term predictions for gold, and investment suggestions for how to be one of […]
