Archive - Jun 2014 - Blog entry
June 11th
Oil Prices Will Hike After Mosul Falls
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 06/11/2014 11:40 -0500Oil prices are set to hike in the next few days with the growing fear that fighting in the northern city of Mosul will spread southwards in Iraq.
"For many the Bull is short for Bullshit."
Submitted by StalingradandPoorski on 06/11/2014 09:24 -0500New All time highs almost every single day, yet market volumes have literally collapsed. On any given day, you would see an average of 2M eminis (S&P Futures, spoos) trade, and now we are seeing barely 1M trade, sometimes even lower. This has left everyone, including big banks, who are now being forced to lay off traders amid the slowdown, asking the same question: WTF is going on?
June 10th
Banzai7 Hashtag: #CantorsNewJob
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 06/10/2014 21:14 -0500Tweet and/or post your suggestions here...
Activist Investors In Retail Stocks Show Negligible Beneficial Impacts
Submitted by CalibratedConfidence on 06/10/2014 19:46 -0500Looking across retailers with at least $1B in market cap, the top 20 of those with the highest concentration of activist investors has under-performed a leading retailing index.
Why Dave McClure Could Ruin Your Startup
Submitted by Capitalist Exploits on 06/10/2014 18:01 -0500Why unrealistic valuations are a good way to set up a company for difficulties in later stage financing
LaTeST PoLL: 99.99% OF ZeRo HeDGe MeMBeRS WouLD SWaP O'BuTTHeaD FoR ELViS...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 06/10/2014 12:27 -0500Return to sender...
Scottish Referendum in 100 Days and Counting
Submitted by Marc To Market on 06/10/2014 08:10 -0500A quick thumbnail sketch of the Scottish referendum on independence
Wall Street Yield Trade: Another Explanation For Low Inflation
Submitted by EconMatters on 06/10/2014 07:30 -0500One major factor to the slow growth/low inflation in the U.S. is the Wall Street Yield Trade. By incentivizing unproductive use of capital, low interest rate via monetary policy is actually deflationary.
June 9th
No Wonder Impeachment Was “Off the Table”: Democrats Approved Mass Surveillance and Torture … and the Subsequent Cover-Up
Submitted by George Washington on 06/09/2014 17:52 -0500No, It Was NOT All Bush and Cheney's Fault ... Even Back THEN
UK Bank RBS Has '£100 Billion Black Hole' & In 'Danger Of Failing' - Bail-Ins Cometh
Submitted by GoldCore on 06/09/2014 15:14 -0500Bail-ins or deposit confiscation can now be used in the UK, EU, U.S. and G20 countries. Investors and savers best get prepared for the coming bail-in era. After Cyprus, which country will be the next to suffer bail-ins?
Morning Paper
Submitted by Tim Knight from Slope of Hope on 06/09/2014 10:51 -0500What has the top attention of the residents in my fair town of Palo Ato? The answer: the monthly salary of the 20 year old interns at local firms like Facebook, Google, and Palantir. Here ya go, America - - this is what kids still in colllege are pulling down:
What the ECB Did and What it Means
Submitted by Marc To Market on 06/09/2014 10:38 -0500A dispassionate look at what the ECB announced last week and the potential implications
You'Ve All HeaRD Of ToNY BoLoGNa...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 06/09/2014 10:33 -0500But have you heard of...
Money Does Make You Happy…
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 06/09/2014 08:20 -0500There’s an old adage that the rich try to pooh-pooh and say that it’s not at all true and that’s: ‘Money makes you happy’.
