Monthly Archives: January 2011

Last week the US equity markets finally succumbed to the continuous barrage of excessive bullishness and had a rare down day. The excuse was the growing protest movement in Egypt that had started to disrupt economic activity there and shut … Continue reading →

Here is this long weekend’s reading list of economic and market news. To see all the links, go to news.tradersnarrative.com: The Stock Market is for Suckers Update on Presidential Election Cycle James Stack: Curb Your Enthusiasm Bernanke Gets 66% Approval … Continue reading →

Here are some great sources for breaking news and live coverage of the ongoing Egyptian protests: Al-Jazeera journalists’ twitter updates Ian Lee (twitter – journalist) Sultan Al Qassemi (twitter – jounalist broke the story of arrest of Interior Minister by … Continue reading →

Guest post by Jeff Clark for BIG GOLD: It’s time for our annual gold forecast survey in BIG GOLD, which will be released tomorrow. And I have to say, this might be one of the most informative and useful editions … Continue reading →

Here are two additional data points to keep in mind for this week’s sentiment overview of the markets: Advisor Sentiment The gap between the investing public’s sentiment and financial advisor’s sentiment is growing. The Rydex SGI Advisor Confidence Index (ACI) … Continue reading →

The market today had one of its first serious down days in quite a long time. The Nasdaq fell 2.5% while the S&P 500 index slid 1.8%. We’ve been watching with wrinkled brow as the market has continued to inch … Continue reading →

I’ve been stalking gold during its most recent correction. In early December I cautioned saying that it seemed gold was making a top. That proved to be a very good call as gold did top out at $1424. I followed … Continue reading →

Speaking of the dearth of IPO’s and the decline in public issues, we had the arrival of two new companies to the NYSE: Nielson (NLSN) and Demand Media (DMD). I wanted to take a closer look at Demand Media (DMD) … Continue reading →

As I mentioned yesterday in the tangential discussion of Marc Faber’s recent bearish views, the FCIC finally released its full report on the financial crisis. The report is below or available at the FCIC website. In the coming days the … Continue reading →

Felix mentioned a discussion at Davos about the end of the era of public companies. In a follow up post he features a few charts (incorrectly attributed to SecondMarket) which shows the decline in public listings of issues on the … Continue reading →