10 Tuesday PM Reads
My afternoon train reading: • How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads (Wired) • SEC Trials Increase 50 Percent as Execs Fight Lawsuits (Bloomberg) • Social Security is not going broke (Reuters) • Creating the Windows 8 user experience (MSDN Blog) • Goldman Sachs Boosts Tech Investments After Facebook IPO (Bloomberg) • A new...
Will America Ever Recover From The Housing Crisis
Click for ginormous chart: Source: Bank Of The Internet
Existing Home Sales: Without Forclosures, Prices Pop 10.1%
Source: Calculated Risk Existing Home Sales were released today. To back out the strong effect seasonality has on this data, we prefer using the NSA chart (above). Existing-home sales rose in April and remain above a year ago at a slightly better sales pace than April 2011, but they remains significantly lower than...
10 Tuesday AM Reads
My early morning reads to start the week: • Two market perspectives: …..-Leading indicators of a market top (Market Watch) …..-S&P 500 Has Biggest Gain in Two Months on China Signals (Bloomberg) • U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury orders (Reuters) • JP Morgan’s Isn’t the Only Bad Bank Chart (Market Watch) •...
10 Monday PM Reads
My afternoon train reading: • The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace (Businessweek) • A Few Disconnects in CEO Pay (WSJ) • Euro austerity example Ireland ‘may need second bailout’ (Telegraph) see also Cracks are appearing in Europe’s state-backed lenders (Telegraph) • Tax policy shocks and the business cycle (MacroMania) • Walking a Treasury Tightrope...
Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics
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Banking 101 Videos
Perhaps this would be of assistance for the JPMorgan Office of Investment Management in London: > click for Videos on how banks work and how money is created.
10 Monday AM Reads
My early morning reads to start the week: • Worst Market Since Reagan Greets Obama Before Election (Bloomberg) • JPM Whale-Watching Tour: Oh, so now it’s a $5bn loss? (FT.com) • More Earners at Extremes in New York Than in U.S. (NYT) • Euro Bonds Would Cost Germany Billions (Spiegel.de) • What the Chinese Want...
Watch the Bounce
click for updated futures Good Monday morning. Following last week’s down 4% mess, markets are set to bounce. Investors are advised to watch the quality of this bounce to discern any insights about what the near futures might hold. Negative headlines have been driving sentiment issues — start with the Greek Exit (Grexit?...
Congressional Threat to Every Investor, Business Owner and Citizen
Congressional Threat to Every Investor, Business Owner and Citizen May 21, 2012 This is an open letter in response to legislation recently passed in the US House of Representatives. The behavior of Representative Harold Rogers, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has made the front page of The New York Times, describing the $17,000 drip...
