Friday, April 26, 2013

Top of the Market? PIMCO's Bill Gross Continues Auctioning Stamp Collection

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We last looked at Bill-the- Philatelist in " Stamp Collecting for Fun and Profit (PIMCO's Bill Gross and his $100 Million Collectio...

Questions the World Wants Answered "How quickly does hotness fade?"

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From Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Ratemyprofessors.com allows students to grade a professor's clarity, helpfulness, ease and -...

Goldman's Jim O'Neill: It Makes Sense For Central Banks To Own Equities

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One can assume that this is the official Bilderberger Goldman party line. From CNBC: Play Video As the Bank of Japan ramps up i...

Did the Tesla Motors Inc. Tweet Spook the Bears? (TSLA)

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As we repeated in April 3's "Tesla: The Knives Come Out, Stock Drops 8% (TSLA) " (after the last time Mr. Musk did the tweet t...

What If Google Launched a Currency? (GOOG)

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The Goog has more or less given up on their energy trading activities so what the heck, use the FX desk for alt-currency! From Phil Pearl...

CME Group to Launch Futures Based on Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN credits)

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This sure looks like the kind of side bets the 1890's bucket shops used to offer which, if it weren't for that pesky supremacy claus...

Bank of Japan Rolls Out First 2015 Inflation Forecast

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Following up on last night's " UPDATED--Japan "Core"* CPI Prints at Negative 0.5%, Gold Pops ". From FT Alphaville:...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

UPDATED--Japan "Core"* CPI Prints at Negative 0.5%, Gold Pops

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*Not to be confused with "Core-core", excluding fresh fish ,gasoline, veggies, oil. Tokyo-area reports one month ahead of ...

"When Swindlers Worked the ‘Big Con’ on Stock Investors"

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From Bloomberg Echoes: In the 1900s and 1910s, hundreds of swindling teams worked the Big Con in U.S. cities. The time was right becaus...

Baby Glencore: "Trafigura to invest around $400m in Spanish mine"

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It's a big baby, over $125 Billion in revenues, more below the jump. From Reuters via Mineweb: The company plans to spend over $390.4...

Collaborative Robot That Assembles IKEA Tables, Doesn't Mind Horse Meat

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From Quartz: Hopefully robots can understand these instructions better than humans can. Robots are great at doing the same thing ...

"Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption"

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From Politico: Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capito...

Natural Gas Inventory Estimates

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First up, via the CME: Weekly Natural Gas Storage Survey  By Energy Metro Desk - Thu 25 Apr 2013 08:29:33 CT ...

Keynes on Economists

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A repost from 2009: The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intelle...

Hey, Société Générale's Albert Edwards is Still Alive and Still Looking For the S&P to Trade at 450 (and gold at $10,000)

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It's spring and the bears stumble out of their caves, blinking in the sunshine. Albert has been one of the best on bond yields, one of ...

"Central Banks Load Up on Equities as Low Rates Kill Yields"

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First they buy up all the safe assets. Then they start buying into an already shrinking pool of stocks ( Equities: The Wilshire 5000 is Down...

Zeitgeist: Country Starting To Realize New Era Of American Innovation Never Gonna Happen

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From America's Finest News Source: Sources say they have been misled into thinking America was on the verge of an exciting an...

Brent-WTI Spread Drops to Another 52-week Low

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From Bespoke Investment Group : While gold has been hogging the headlines of the commodity space in recent weeks, there has been a notabl...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

In a Desperate Bid to Lift the Stock Price and Re-capture the All-time Highs, Apple Introduces iToke (AAPL; TOKE)

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Via Scoopertino:   Cupertino, CA — If you thought Apple’s customers were smiling before, wait till you see them now. Beating all com...

iRobot Stock Had a Good Year This Morning (IRBT)

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What had been a one trick pony oddity has turned into the pure play publicly traded robot company. That said the company has to keep  innov...