November 2009
November 22, 2009 –
These days financial markets and corporations have a very short-term focus, everything is about the next quarter and after that, who cares, they’ll deal with it when they get there. As it is a case with teenagers where short term gratification often gets upper hand over the long term goals, it seems to me that there will be no end to boom/bust cycles until financial markets learn (or are made to learn) to focus on long-term objectives. But you know what it means – it means an end to the get-tick-quickly schemes that require volatility. It means getting steady 2-5 % return each year. Is that even possible? It is probably not even possible; it seems to be so much against the nature of the current instant gratification society. Inn the financial press the bets are now made on how good the Christmas shopping seasons is going to be; as if a good spending by the consumers is going to heal all the wrongs with the economy. Nobody dares to look beyond the holiday season and ask - what then? What if the holiday spending is good, so what, how does it help whatever happens next? [more]
November 20, 2009 –
I am probably more worried about H1N1 than an average american due to flu epidemic both in Russia and Ukraine. It is pretty bad, though perhaps not as bad as reported in certain attention seeking media sources. [more]
November 20, 2009 –
I am looking at the market down 2nd day in the row and wondering what is up? I mean, it couldn't be due to bad fundamentals, right? Fundamentals were bad last week and the market was up. And then I remembered - November 23rd, isn't it one of the crash days predictions? Something to do with Chinese giving US a deadline to fix the dollar? [more]
November 13, 2009 –
Market will probably go down next week because after watching all the nonsense going on I added to my commodities positions today, all kind – gold, silver, oil, agriculture. [more]
November 13, 2009 –
As suspected, governments around the world have been trying to stop the slide of the dollar to keep their exports competitive. No luck for them. Nobody can fight the printing power of the US FED. They are giving up, which means the dollar slide could turn into an uncontrollable avalanche. [more]
November 10, 2009 –
I love a good conspiracy theory. Here is one which has been discussed many times over - the PPT to the point that nobody really cares anymore. Many people noticed jamming of SPY futures , where it seemed the buyers objective was not to make a profit but to drive the market higher. [more]
November 09, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: GLD
Gold is breaking out last few days. I wonder is it in the orange box on CNBC yet? It cannot be officially recognized as a bubble until it is in the orange box for a month at least, lol. [more]
November 06, 2009 –
Well, it is official - the bubble got completely detached from fundamnetals at this point. [more]
November 05, 2009 –
(from CNBC report) [more]
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