“The paradox of Norway’s oil exports is that lower foreign earnings translate into more, not less, demand for NOK.” That’s from Deutsche Bank and it sums up the conundrum facing Norwegian offi...
On Monday, one of the first Regulation A+ deals will successfully close. Elio Motors says it’s raised about $16 million so far on StartEngine.com. Thousands, probably tens of thousands, of investors...
The purpose of the capital markets is to allocate capital to its most efficient use. Research on economies around the world shows that functioning capital markets are positively correlated with econo...
The U.S. economy grew at a weak annualized growth rate at 0.7%, just below expectations, but perhaps it could have been worse after yesterday’s data. Core PCE is 1.2% as expected while the wide PCE...
Crude has made a slight bounce, but it need desperately to close above $32.35 yesterday just to pause. There is no change of a real reversal in trend here. Crude would need to close above the $38.35 a...
With operations in more than 180 countries, Xerox Corporation (XRX – Analyst Report) is a leader in the development, manufacture, marketing, servicing and financing of document equipment glo...
Written by Jill Mislinski The Advance Estimate for Q4 GDP, to one decimal, came in at 0.7 percent, down from the 2.0 percent for the Q3 Third Estimate. Today’s number was on par with most mains...
From the beginning of the year there has been some anti-synchronisation between gold and the dollar, which usually have a strong negative correlation: as the dollar rises, the general rule is that gol...
Wal-Mart (WMT) generated revenues of $484 billion over the last 12 months. If Wal-Mart were a country (assuming revenue is about equal to GDP), it would be the 28th largest in the world. Compare Wal...
A friend of mine just emailed me the chart below. Considering the fact that we just witnessed 7 full years of ZIRP (zero interest rate policy), I probably shouldn’t be surprised just how massive the...