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After writing yesterday about James Bullard’s concern about the mounting risk of some asset-price bubbles bursting, I did a bit more investigation. Little did I know also that Thierry LaDuguie would write about Sentiment Analysis and Stock Market Timing and charting the S&P index here on ADVFN, when I had planned to continue writing about the concerns about […]

“If you are driven by the stock price you are going to go crazy.” – Michael Bigger There’s no speculator in the world that hasn’t, in one period or other in their career, experienced the emotion of anger. Every trader becomes angry because of some reasons. Even the renowned Dr. Van K. Tharp (a trading […]

James Bullard is the President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. While all eyes have been on Janet Yellin the past several days, Bullard was in New York City this morning, speaking to representatives of the European American Chamber or Commerce. Aside from his address, he made a comment to reporters that, as Lincoln […]

That’s right! I don’t want to write about Barclays (LSE:BARC)! You probably think that means that Mr. Chambers is making me do it. That is simply not the case. I don’t want to write about Barclays because everyone else is writing about Barclays today. I don’t want to write about Barclays because they are a […]

I worked in the automotive business for more than 25 years. I have owned only one automotive stock, and it was the only stock I have owned that I consider to have been a bad investment. But I drive a Jaguar convertible, so today’s report of stellar sales at the Jaguar Land Rover division of […]

Every month is a part of a repetitious cycle of, among other things, waiting for job reports and central bank reports so that investors have some idea of what to do with their money. The longer I am associated with investing and the economy from a reporting perspective, the more this cyclical waiting and reacting […]

Have you ever woke up in the morning and you just knew it was going to be “one of those days?” That’s how Kazuo Hirai and Mary Barra woke up in completely different parts of the world this a.m. On the other hand, it’s just as likely that neither of them slept at all last […]

FTSE 250 (FTSE:MCX) is currently gloomy for the bulls, but a boon to the bears. The price has been trending southward and it could go further as such. This stock formed a top in January 2014 as further northward effort was rejected. Since then, it has crossed the EMA period 21 to the downside, while […]

Oil giant announces results BP today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. Underlying replacement cost profit 1 for the fourth quarter was $2.8 billion, compared with $3.9 billion for the fourth quarter of 2012. Full-year underlying replacement cost profit was $13.4 billion for 2013, compared with $17.1 billion […]

Shares in multinational cable telecommunications company Altice S.A. (NYSE:ATC) today began trading on the Amsterdam market of Euronext, a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE:ICE). With a total offering valued at approximately € 1.3 billion Altice is the largest IPO in continental Europe for twelve months. Altice provides cable based services, amongst which high...