Update: Baidu’s Q3 Displays The Power Of Its Market Position
Update: Goldcorp Earnings
Starbucks: A Slight Miss Is No Big Deal
NQ Mobile Rejects Bison Capital’s $785M Buyout Offer And Why I’m Buying This Dip
Baytex Energy’s (BTE) CEO Jim Bowzer on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
How Disappointing Are Celadon Group’s Quarterly Results
Has The Bank Of Japan Started Another Round Of Central Bank Wargames?
Never pick a fight with a central bank. The only one who gets hurt is you. Unless, of course, you are another central bank.
Central banks routinely intervene in the markets to influence the prices of assets, commodities and currencies. That’s the way monetary policy is conducted. It’s the principle behind QE.
Generally, everyone co-operates. When a…
PCTEL’s (PCTI) CEO Martin Singer on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
K12’s (LRN) CEO Nathaniel Davis on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
BioTelemetry’s (BEAT) CEO Joseph Capper on Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Going Mobile: a Guide to Investing Apps
New technology is making it easier to manage your money. Here’s how to use apps to your advantage and avoid the pitfalls.
Japan Takes Massive Stimulus Actions
Japan’s central bank and its main government pension fund said they would pump trillions more yen into the country’s sputtering economy, taking a risky new stimulus tack that jolted global markets.
Best Places to Look for Seasonal Work for the 2014 Holidays
2014 is shaping up as a great year to land a job for the holidays, and it’s not just retailers that are hiring. Now’s the time to apply.
The Story Changes: Ebola Is Now "Aerostable" And Can Remain On Surfaces For 50 Days
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The End of the American Dream blog,
When it comes to Ebola, the story that the government is telling us just keeps on changing. At first, government officials were claiming that it was very difficult to spread the Ebola virus. Some of them were even comparing it to HIV. We were given the impression tha…
A Massive FX Quake Hits Japan: This Is What It Looked Like
When central bankers go wild…
h/t @NanexLLC
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The Next Step for May Grads: Choosing Student Loan Repayment Plans
Time’s up. The six-month period after graduation where you don’t have to make student loan payments could in November for most federal student loan borrowers who graduated in May.
Who Will Suffer From A Leveraged Credit Shakeout?
Submitted by Charlie Hennemann via CFA Institute blog,
Of all the noteworthy moments from the 2014 CFA Institute Fixed-Income Management Conference, the bombshell may have been the default call from Martin S. Fridson, CFA.
Fridson, CIO at Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors, has been a leading figure in the high-yield bond market since it was known as th…
The Fed’s Term Deposit Facility comes of age
As discussed earlier (see post), the US monetary base had stopped growing in July and is now in fact lower than it was over the past few months.Given that the securities purchases continued through October, the flattening of the monetary base was the result of the Fed “draining” some of the reserves. Most of that was due to the reverse repo program (…
Meanwhile, The French Are Revolting…
Amid record unemployment, even recorder youth unemployment, and politicians willingly breaking EU treaties (with apparently no consequences), it appears – just as in the US – police brutality in France was the straw that broke ‘Le Camel’s back. As RT reports, another anti-police brutality protest turned violent in the French city of Rennes, with mask…