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- Warren Buffett And His Life
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” - John Ruskin
He was born 10 months after the Wall Street Crash. Two weeks before his first birthday, a run began on the local banks. England in subsequent weeks went off the “gold standard”. He became a dollar millionaire at 32, at a time when a million was a big number and a dollar was genuinely worth something. … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. 
Переслать - Retail Sales To Suffer In 2009 As U.S. Consumers Curtail Spending
Retail experts are predicting one of the most dismal holiday shopping seasons in decades this year - a crucial stretch that will set the stage for poor retail sales throughout 2009.
As the U.S. economy decelerates, pummeled by the aftershocks of the worldwide financial crisis, consumers have been hit from every direction: Unemployment has spiked, and will continue to rise, economy unwinds and continues to work through the aftershocks of the global credit crisis, consumers have been beset … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Short Selling Of Financial And Auto Stocks Declines Sharply
Short selling of financial and automaker stocks has fallen sharply since July - according to Reuters. Both sectors have remained under heavy selling pressure from beginning of the year and have been blamed for causing disruption in the functioning of the securities markets creating often a crisis of confidence.
Based on Short Alert Research data released this week, short interest on financial companies has fallen since July 10 nearly 40% to an average of 3.68% on Nov. 14. Among … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: Next Week's Highlights Of Events And Economic Releases
Next week will be dominated by 4 interest rate announcements from around the globe. The all important US Unemployment Report will also be announced on Friday. Eurozone and UK PMI data will be announced and US Car Sales will bring the auto makers back to center stage.
Below is a review of the key events and economic releases:
Reserve Bank of Australia
Monday 10:30 PM EDT
Estimate: Cut of 75 -100 basis points to 4.25% -4.5%The Reserve Bank of Australia get the interest … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Trend Not There Yet For China's ETFs
As investors deal with a vacillating market, predicting the top and bottom would be very lucrative, especially in China’s exchange traded fund (ETF).
Last week’s low for the IShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (FXI) was about 5% higher than October’s low with record volumes traded in Friday’s rebound, writes VIX and More.
Signs of bottoming out look promising in the FXI compared to many others in U.S. equity markets. FXI is currently down 51.5% year-to-date.
There is debate … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - 3 Rules For Today's Markets
I’ve been asked by several friends, family and readers of this letter…
“What are you doing with your money?”“Is this the end of the stock market, of America’s empire???”
“Are we headed for a great depression?
Or even worse, are we headed for a post-apocalyptic version of Cormac McCarthy’s best selling novel, The Road?”
In the next several pages, I’m going to tell you what I’m doing with my personal investment capital, the precautions I’ve taken, and what I see on the horizon … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Sharp, Enel To Set Up Solar Power Venture
Japan’s Sharp Corp and Italy’s largest power company Enel SpA, are planning to establish a joint venture by spring of fiscal '09 and invest more than $2.6 billion in setting up, mainly in southern Italy, a number of photovoltaic power plants. The project is designed to tap growing demand for cleaner energy despite a global economic slowdown.
The joint venture will develop a number of photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 189 MW by the end of 2012, and will utilize … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Russell 2000 Index: A Short Setup
I’m watching the iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM) as a potential shorting opportunity. It’s approaching the top of a declining channel, setting up a potential short. I’ll set a 2pt stop above the top of the declining channel. My price target is 34 area.
IWM - Russell 2000:
Short Russell2000 Proshares (RWM):
I’ll start looking at purchasing RWM on Sunday … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Holiday Retail Sales Up: What Happened To The Worst Economy Since The Great Depression?
Waco, Texas - “Shoppers out in droves for Black Friday despite weakening economy.” Waco shoppers Friday gave Scrooge the boot and thumbed their noses at a bad economy as they filled parking lots and even did some good-natured shoving as they entered stores en masse.
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) - U.S. holiday retail sales increased 3% yesterday from a year earlier, the smallest gain for a “Black Friday” in three years.
CNN - Holiday Shoppers Are Spending
Guardian — Holiday Shopping … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Unearth Big Gains From The Commodity "Supercycle"
Consider that your computer could contain up to 38 separate chemical elements and that all of those elements needed to be mined and refined. Everything from cell phones to housing supplies requires massive amounts of raw materials.
Our modern lifestyle encourages us to buy the latest products, all made with increasing amounts of technology - and more raw materials.
But industrialized nations aren’t the only players clamoring for these commodities. Developing nations around the world … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Stock Market Has Just Had The Strongest 4-Day Rally Since 1933
In Friday’s post-US Thanksgiving shortened session; volume was the lowest of the year, prices did side-track until 11:20, and there was an upward bias into the close, rising +120 points in the DJIA (^DJI) in the final 100 minutes.
At the close Friday, the DJIA (+102.43 +1.17% to 8829.04), S&P 500 (^GSPC) (+8.56 +0.96% to 896.24) and NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) (+3.47 +0.23% to 1535.57) were very strong.
Before the day started, I remarked that equity prices were lifting, yet … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: The Week Ahead
The stories, data, and stocks that may have the greatest impact during the coming trading week. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Stock Market Recap: 5th Day Of Gains For Both The Dow And S&P 500
The markets traded up on a shortened trading day Friday due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. The Dow Jones (^DJI) traded up 1.17% or 102.43 to settle at 8,829.04 while the Nasdaq (^IXIC) traded up 0.23% or 3.47 to close at 1,535.57. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) also managed to finish the day in positive territory up 0.96% or 8.56 ending the trading session at 896.24. All three of the major U.S. averages traded up towards the end of the trading session after being in negative territory … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Gold To Rise Above $2,000?
That is what an internal memo to clients says from a Citigroup (C) analyst. I agree with the forecast in principal, however I wish it had not come from Citigroup because when it comes to creditability, Citigroup is at the bottom of the list.
I guess Citigroup should know a thing or two about massive flooding of liquidity… they got the biggest bail out in history and the US taxpayers are on the hook for Citigroup’s management failures.
As my long term readers know I have … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Will Gold Continue To Perform Well?
Gold and silver were flat yesterday (Thursday) and have remained unchanged in Asian and early European trading. Gold is set for a fourth straight week of gains on safe haven demand and on the likelihood of further dollar declines with further reductions in U.S. and international interest rates and further quantitative easing next month.
Euro gold and British pound gold remained firm at €633 and £529 after recent gains. Even gold in Swiss francs (possibly the most defensive currency) … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Real Gas Prices Lowest Since January 2004
The cheapest gas in the country can be found in Kansas City and St. Louis for as low as $1.33 per gallon, and the national average retail price for gas is now down to $1.83 per gallon. Without the high-priced states of Alaska ($2.68) and Hawaii ($2.73), the national average for the other 48 states is down to $1.79 per gallon.
Using real gas prices from the EIA (in November 2008 dollars), the chart above (click to enlarge) shows how today’s gas prices compare to past prices.
The … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Are You Optimistic Or Pessimistic About The Economic/Corporate Earnings Outlook?
One of the reasons why stocks change hands a million times over everyday is because no matter how great or dire the economic/corporate earnings outlook is, there is always two sides to the story. Optimists and pessimists will always disagree, and each side can usually make a compelling case to either leverage yourself to the hilt and buy stocks with all your resources, or to sell everything stash most of your cash underneath your mattress and use the rest to build a bomb shelter. I think … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Black Friday: Will There Be A Surge In Retail Stocks?
The day that US retailers count on to turn their balance sheets from red to black. However, any retailer that believes their balance sheet will transform from red to black today believes in Santa Clause. The reality of the real economy is all one needs to gauge consumer spending this year.
With unemployment rising very rapidly, consumer credit being reduced or outright cutoff, housing prices still dropping, and life savings having been cut in half for a substantial number of people it is … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - The New Political Economy
In the old days if you wanted to get rich, you did it the Warren Buffett way: You learned to read balance sheets. Today you learn to read political tea leaves. You don’t anticipate Intel’s third-quarter earnings; instead, you guess what side of the bed Henry Paulson will wake up on tomorrow.
Today’s extreme stock market volatility is not just a symptom of fear — fear cannot account for days of wild market swings upward — but a reaction to political decisions that have vast economic … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Frontline Slashes Dividend
After paying dividends of $2.75 and $3.00 for the first two quarters of 2008, Frontline Ltd. (FRO) has elected to pay only 50¢ for the 3rd quarter to shareholders of record on Dec. 9. As the largest publicly traded oil tanker company, Frontline has been popular with investors due to their generous dividend policy. Since 2001 FRO has paid out over $53 per share in dividends. As I have cautioned many times when discussing tanker companies, these companies pay out dividend on the amount … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - People And Businesses Trade, Not Countries
There’s a growing anti-trade sentiment in our country. Much of the dialogue is grossly misinformed. Let’s try to untangle it a bit with a few questions and observations.
Does the U.S. trade with Japan and England? Put another way, is it members of the U.S. Congress trading with their counterparts in the Japanese Diet or the English Parliament? Of course not. When I purchased my Lexus, I had nothing to do with either the Japanese Diet or the U.S. Congress. Through an intermediary, a … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Strong Dollar Could Set Stage For Gold To Shine
Advocates of gold suggest that it is a safe bet, especially if the U.S. dollar retreats. It’s a great tool to hedge with if investments are traded or invested in depreciating currencies. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Credit Crisis Watch: Are Credit Markets Thawing Yet?
For the world’s financial system to start functioning normally again, it is imperative that confidence in the credit markets be restored. In order to gauge the progress being made to unclog credit markets, I regularly monitor a range of financial sector spreads and other measures. By perusing these one can ascertain to what extent the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections are having the desired effect.
I am planning on updating this “Credit Crisis Watch” … [visit site to read more]Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: The "Blackest" Friday Of Them All
Black Friday is upon us and unfortunately for some, the day when shoppers tend to spend the most money, the cash registers and lines are a lot shorter than before. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Dollar Rises On Small Trading Volume
On an abbreviated US trading session, weak equities markets and continued concerns over a global economic recession has allowed the safe-haven US dollar to post gains in trading against the euro this session. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Black Friday's Stocks To Watch
On a shortened trading session on “Black Friday,” all eyes and wallets will be focused on electronics, toys, and clothing retail companies Walmart, Target, Besy Buy and JC Penney to see if their sales meet and beat expectations/ … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: GBP/USD Moves Below 100-Hour Moving Average
The GBP/USD has moved below the 100 hour moving average once again. The pair moved below the level earlier today but bounced sharply . Since then the pair has used the level as support. It is now back below the level and looks poised to test the downside further. The 100 hour average comes in at 1.5308. A move back above negates the current bearish move down.Watch this level today especially as the Europe and London close approaches at 11:00 -12:00 EDT.
The caveat for the … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Icahn Grabs More Yahoo Shares
In the latest phase of Carl Icahn’s “activism” regarding the direction of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the conspicuous billionaire has just bought an additional 6.8 million shares of the Internet giant. Icahn had gotten a seat on the Yahoo! Inc. board of directors last summer and promptly called for now ex-CEO Jerry Yang’s head after the executive dismissed a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft, Inc. (MSFT).
Now with Yang out of his leadership role at the company he helped found, … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: USD/CHF Breaks Through Resistance Today
Yesterday (Thursday), the 100 hour moving average broke below the 200 hour moving average. However, we commented on if the the pair broke through the 200 hour moving average and the 50% retracement level of the recent move lower, the bearish 3 day move would lose steam.
Last night the pair moved back above these levels (at 1.2056 and 1.2064 respectively) and the pair moved sharply higher.
Going forward the crossing of the moving averages (100 and 200 hour) and the sharp 3 day … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - S&P 500: Weak Futures In The Morning
NYSE Closes at 1pm today. We’re up 20% off of the 10d lows. I’m listening to all the stupidity about “Black Friday” holiday shopping; I’m amazed that people are willing to camp out to wait to get into Best Buy (BBY) to buy things on credit that they can’t afford. The media hypes it up. It’s American Propaganda at its finest - Good ‘ole USA wants people to spend money on imported Chinese goods. It’s really absurdity at its finest.
Standard and Poors 500 - 11/28/08
S&P … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Black Friday Has Silver Lining For ETFs & Shoppers
Black Friday is just around the corner, and retail exchange traded funds (ETFs) are holding their breath.
Penni Crabtree for San Diego Union Tribune reports that distressed retailers are already rapidly discounting prices before the official startup of the holiday season in hopes of giving their near financial futures some hope. Black Friday marks the traditional beginning of the period in which retailers reach profitability for the year, or get in the black.
Holiday season sales growth … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Forex Trading: EUR/USD Moves Below Support Levels On Weaker Data
The lower inflation and higher unemployment has led to sharply lower EUR/USD this morning. The pair moved back below the 100 hour moving average at 1.2900, the 50% retracement of the recent move higher and the 200 hour moving average at 1.2739. All these levels will act as resistance … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - November Soon To Be Over Before It's Begun
November has been a very strange month indeed.
For the entirety of the month, Macro Man has been trying to chip away and establish a P/L foothold from which to increase risk and try and put together a half-decent return. Suddenly, however, it’s the last day of the month, and Macro Man is still trying to establish that foothold. Come Monday, November will be over, seemingly before it ever really began.
While November started (however briefly) with an Obama rally, it’s ending with a … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - US Stock Market Volume Likely To Be The Lowest Today
In today’s (Friday) post-US Thanksgiving shortened session; volume is likely to be the lowest of the year, and prices side-track, with an upward bias into the close. Equity markets of the world that were open yesterday and earlier this morning were higher - until Europe opened.
To get caught up, on Wednesday the DJIA (^DJI) (+247.14 +2.91% to 8726.61), S&P 500 (^GSPC) (+30.29 +3.53% to 887.68) and NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) (+67.37 +4.60% to 1532.10) were very strong. Toronto … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Europe Mulls Stimulus Package
As Europe faces slow economic growth a new proposal aims to get the economy on its feet. … [visit site to read more]
Article Published On DailyMarkets.com - visit Daily Markets - Financial News & Opinions for more great content. Переслать - Video: Pre Market: Black Friday
It’s the busiest shopping day of the year, but in hard economic times, will consumers spend? … [visit site to read more]
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