Kurt Osterberg

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Your Boss Is Now Tracking You at Home

Myrna Arias knew that her professional life was monitored by her boss. As part of her sales job at Intermex, a wire transfer service, she had to install an app called Xora that uses GPS to keep tabs o...
On May 18, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
EC Perpetualization Of The Too Big To Fail Banks

I am in the middle of the Atlantic on a cruise ship headed to Europe. Having spent 15 years of my life on the high seas and attending ship owner’s conferences, I always take a critical look at c...
On May 16, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Explodes To Within 0.5% Of All-Time High In Just One Week

by Simon Black, Sovereign Man Remember all that talk about “taper” last year? After years of conjuring trillions of dollars out of thin air and rapidly expanding its balance sheet, the Federal Res...
On May 16, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
Inmates Run The Asylum – Financial Review

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:15 — 6.1MB) DOW + 20 = 18,272 SPX + 1 = 2122 NAS – 2 = 5048 10 YR YLD – .10 = 2.14% OIL – .01 = 59.87 GOLD – 2.20 = 1223.00 SI...
On May 16, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
Wyckoff Technical Strength And Weakness

According to Wyckoff, a technically strong stock sees demand/buying power building; a technically weak stock sees supply/selling power building. Running length 00:08:26...
On May 16, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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View From The Hill: May 15, 2015 – Market Commentary

Equities: Although performance was not robust, stocks bounced off their lows and finished at the upper end of their weekly trading range. Weekly percent changes: SP-500 (SPY) +0.39%; Nasdaq-100 +0.82%...
On May 15, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Wall Street Demands Exemption From Punishment In Exchange For Guilty Pleas In FX Rigging

Just three days ago in “Wall Street To Enter Hollow Guilty Plea On FX Rigging, Return To Business As Usual,” we lamented the fact that the Justice Department’s latest attempt to convince an inc...
On May 15, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
Is Silver Breaking Out?

Precious metals have been under pressure for a long time, but the three charts below indicate that silver might be breaking out. The last breakout attempt of the white precious metal was capped by th...
On May 15, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
Early Insights From 13F Day: Qualcomm, Yum, Pioneer Natural

by Stock Pucker It’s here, 13F day that is; in working up the suite of activist investor focused newsletters to go out in a few days, it’s hard not to get distracted by the various other 13Fs fro...
On May 15, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg
Finance 0
S&P 500 Record Close On The Second Lowest Intraday Price Range Of 2015

The economic news today was not good. The Fed’s Industrial Production index for April posted its fifth consecutive monthly decline. Michigan Consumer Sentiment took a dive, its biggest plunge ...
On May 15, 2015 / By Kurt Osterberg