Nowadays, stocks can trade at miniseconds. Was stock trading ever that fast for example in the 1980s? I'm assuming with the lack of personal computers and that most trades were phoned into brokers so trading was slower back in those days... as opposed to a click of a mouse button ...
The markets are slightly higher after Italian yields fell back below 7%. This 7% level seems to be the master point of a rally or a fall. While the markets are not up much, it does help calm investors. All eyes continue to be on Europe and this will dictate ...
This is an interesting piece by John Waggoner of USA Today, especially on a personal level, as I've been looking at a host of yield producing products to 'barbell' against an equity exposure. With the war on savers that Bernanke has waged - and will continue to wage for many ...
Working on 18 other things today - will get back to blog-ville this weekend. Have a good one.
One note - the labor force participation rate dropped another 0.2% last month, from already record levels! At the rate we're going half of America's working population is going to drop out of ...
I tweeted this morning around 10 AM that if the market was not so overbought (+7% in a week and a half) that the indexes would have a good chance of going green today.
fundmyfund: Mild selloff. If the market had not come in so overbought I'd think we could ...
Of the "Big 4" proposed "web 2.0" IPOs - Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, and Groupon* - only the former 2 are showing the potential of big gains in profits at this time. Not that it will necessarily matter when they come public in a country starving for high growth stories. While ...
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I just lost a boat load of cash on just about every trade I made today. I'm done trading for today. I'm gonna wait for the stock market to crash again before I get back in.
Every piece of economic news runs from bad to horrible and the market goes up today purportedly on the news that the Obama administration may create banks to absorb the bad assets of other banks. Do people understand how desperate that is? Is it just that the stock ...
