“Don’t use the east bathroom” the young kid in the yellow jacket announced, “it’s happened again.” The year was sometime in the early 90’s and I was visiting the Chicago Mercantile Excha...
We have encountered several people in the past year who have been gutting the equity in their homes via mortgages and ‘Home Equity Lines of Credit’ to speculate on other properties and security po...
Two weeks ago, I took a shot and called the top of the stock market. If you are a newsletter writer and you aren’t trying to call major turns in the market, you are not really doing your job. If yo...
According to a recent MarketsandMarkets report, the global cloud billing market is expected to be worth $16.59 billion by the year 2021. The cloud billing market was estimated at $5.7 billion last y...
Audio Length: 00:53:58 On the eve of the implementation of India’s national goods and services tax (GST), we had the pleasure of speaking with Viral Acharya, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of I...
While the hedge fund community has once again failed to take advantage of what so many predicted would be a new “golden age” for the 2 and 20 crowd as a result of a collapse in pairwise co...
The renewable energy industry is not well-known for housing high-quality, recession-resistant businesses. It seems that every quarter there is an announcement of a large-scale bankruptcy in this fledg...
The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) has now released the June Non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), also known as the ISM Services PMI. The headline Composite Index is at 57.4...
The US services sector is growing at an accelerated speed: a score of 57.4 points, better than 56.5 expected. The expansion is seen in a strong order index, a robust business activity component and ...
It was just last Thursday when the S&P 500 was on the cusp of a breakdown. Since then, it has been up, up, up. But only 13 points to show for the 3-day rally in the stock market. And each rally ...