Wow, things have changed. I looked at some charts that I had produced a year ago and looked at those same charts today. You’d never know it was the same stock market. Let’s start with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ ...
Focusing on the Economic Modern Family, the weekly charts will help us see who is doing what, why, and perhaps help us understand for how long. Granddad and Grandma Russell and Retail are the matriarch and patriarch of the Family. ...
Company insolvencies in England and Wales last month rose by 40 per cent year-on-year to the highest level since monthly records began in January 2019. Data from the Insolvency Service yesterday showed that 2,552 companies were declared insolvent last month, ...
In what can be called a fairly buoyant week of trade, NIFTY went on to move towards its previous high point and closed at its lifetime high. The financials, though, represented by Banknifty (Nifty Bank) relatively underperformed as the Banknifty ...
Governments worldwide are trying to replace cash with CBDCs, and people worldwide are starting to wake up, but we need a lot more. A CBDC is a government-run crypto-token that replaces the national currency with a tracking ledger—a list of ...
As a banker and economist, I am riveted by the expeditious demise of Silicon Valley Bank and other institutions. Were these crashes due to bank mismanagement, as many pundits as well as regulators have posited? Were they due to not ...
People commonly believe that a society without central political authority will dissolve into chaos. But a small kingdom within Spain existed peacefully for seven hundred years under what we would call anarchy. Original Article: “Coto Mixto: Anarchy in Galicia“ ...
The weight of the evidence remains strong for stocks, but this is not a bull market that lifts all boats. It is a relatively selective bull market led by technology, housing and a few other groups. This is not necessarily ...
University of Rochester economist Steve Landsburg joins Bob to discuss the abysmal performance of ChatGPT on his undergraduate exam. They also discuss the importance of market prices in guiding behavior and the unexpected problems with the government handing out “free” ...
In this episode of StockCharts TV‘s The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews the health of the broader market, while also highlighting breakout stocks among a new area and why they’re trending higher. She also looks into the effects of the continued move ...