Ever since reading Steve Jobs phenomenal graduation speech at Stanford University in 2005 I’ve been a fan and a believer that he was a business leader with a solid moral center. But a startling front page article (subscription required) in…
If this chart doesn’t scream “Sell China” I don’t know what does. That chart looks to me like it’s about to curl around and head back in time while going up at the same time. Some trick that would be!!!! …
Gold closed at $695.80 today according to Bloomberg. Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter, wrote (subscription required): A near perfect storm has aligned both technically and fundamentally for gold. A test of the 2006 highs around $735 is not a…
Short interest on the NYSE rose 4.6% (subscription required) for the monthly period ending last Friday April 13. That’s on top of a 9.5% rise for the previous monthly period ending Thursday March 15. That’s an overall rise in short…
On the back of Google’s superb earnings report after the close yesterday, the market has taken off. The Dow has powered through 12900 for the first time in its history, up 124 points with an hour and a half left…
After today’s excellent earning’s report, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) finally looks poised to breakthrough $500 and settle above that level. Google has flirted with $500, closing above it 3 times around last Thanksgiving and twice this January but has been been…
Back in the day at UC San Diego, Vishesh Kumar and I would argue philosophy. We met in a class on Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, etc…). He was a fan of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and an opponent of “rationalism” and “scientism”; I…
The S&P 500 closed today up 15 to 1468, marking a 6 1/2 year high. That’s 8 points higher than the most recent high close of 1460 on Tuesday February 20 – the week before the huge sell-off of February 27. To say…
One of today’s best performers was a stock by the name of Jones Soda (NSDQ: JSDA) – up $3.32 or 11.76% to $31.54 on huge volume. It’s just the latest of many off the chart days for Jones Soda recently. …
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal E.S. Browning said (subscription required): Whether, and how, the [forthcoming 1st quarter] profit news surprises investors is likely to be the main determinant of the market’s direction in the next few weeks. Finally we can…