ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Quantitative easing alleviated economic crisis, says Bank of England | Business | The Guardian The emergency quantitative easing programme rolled out after the financial crisis boosted the economy by as much as 2%, the Bank of England said today, adding weight to calls for more money printing. (tags: BankofEngland quantiative_easing United_Kingdom economy) 4 Rare Earth … Read more
Many technology stocks have rebounded sharply off their August lows. Stocks like Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) have even managed to register fresh all-time highs in the past week. On the other hand, Google (GOOG) has gone nowhere in about two years and now faces overhead resistance yet again. In today’s trading, GOOG was turned … Read more
'Go Where the Crisis Is — Europe' to Buy Stocks – TheStreet David Marcus, manager of the Evermore Global Value Fund, says alarming news stories about Europe's debt debacle — including a possible default in Greece — is creating the biggest bargains in two decades. As a global value-fund manager, Marcus has put his focus … Read more
Evergreen Solar and Solyndra Fail: Is Wall Street's Hatred of the Solar Industry Still "Irrational?" | Alternative Energy Stocks Much has been made this week about the nearly contemporaneous bankruptcy filings of two American solar companies, Silicon Valley’s Solyndra and Evergreen Solar (formerly ESLR) out of Massachusetts. These two had something in common: Both made … Read more
Obama signs patent reform bill – CNN.com "We have to do everything we can to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit wherever we find it," Obama said at a signing ceremony at a high school in Arlington, Virginia. This measure "cuts away the red tape that slows down our inventors and entrepreneurs." (tags: patents patent_law Obama reform)