Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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Zombie ships send maritime freight into worst crisis in living memory Cheap debt, the China slowdown, and a glut of ships have seen the B...
Monday, January 18, 2016

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Mercator to exit dry bulk shipping business due to downturn    Mercator decides to exit dry bulk cargo business carried on by its Singap...

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 Baltic Exchange Capesize index in new low  Opportunities are emerging to tempt those with strong nerves..

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Quick Overview is up-to-date

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Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is up-to-date   New low :(
Sunday, January 10, 2016

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The whole world is on edge “again” so global stocks had a miserable start to the year – the worst ever. China’s stock market lost almo...

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Monday, December 07, 2015

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Charts are up-to-date

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(The Economist) November was another strong month for America’s labour market . The economy added 211,000 jobs, according to data published...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Interesting Chart of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate

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  There are an estimated 10,000 Baby Boomers retiring each day..   A Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) study estimates that 55% of the d...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

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Daily charts are up-to-date

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Lazaridis added that “in the case of the Capesize and Handysize vessels , this looks to be a double gain, as we only need to see a similar ...
Monday, September 07, 2015

Charts are up-to-date

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Some that could be of interest: Vix ratio ROC S&P Cycle (short term low tomorrow?) DJIA CPI adjusted  -  is back to 2000 level   ...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

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U.S. gains 173,000 jobs in August; unemployment 5.1% The uncertainty over whether the  Fed will raise interest rate in two weeks stil...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

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Killing the European Project Can Greece pull off a successful exit? Will Germany try to block a recovery? (Sorry, but that’s the kind of th...

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EU Demands Complete Capitulation From Tsipras In addition to requirements to cut pensions and raise sales tax, which Tsipras accepted las...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: .. Instead they were confronted with a text from the creditors that upped the ante, demanding a rise in VAT on to...

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Charts are up-to-date
Monday, July 06, 2015

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The German government signaled a tough line towards Greece on Monday, saying it saw no basis for new bailout negotiations and insisting...

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Piketty: When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, the...
Friday, May 01, 2015

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Bernanke and the Inflationistas There’s something about inflation derp that goes straight to the ids of certain people — largely, one sus...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

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The TPP: Toward Absolutist Capitalism There are many excellent arguments against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), two of which — local...

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-trac...

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U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday, with both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index refreshing their record closing highs, as maj...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

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Euro pean stock funds attract $5.2 billion in ninth straight week of inflows   (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based funds pulled $1.8 b...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

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The U.S. economy will expand by 3.2% or more this year, its best performance since at least 2005, as an improving job market leads to ste...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

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Happy Holidays

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Conquest Is for Losers Never mind shock and awe: In the modern world, conquest is for losers.
Sunday, December 14, 2014

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Earth faces sixth ‘great extinction’ with 41% of amphibians set to go the way of the dodo As ecologist Paul Ehrlich has put it: “In pushin...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

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Swiss Gold Referendum Fails .. 78% vote against.    China 's official PMI slips to 50.3 in November.. below forecast.  Investor...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

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 If the DJIA closes above 17355 "and" the DJTA closes above 8720 InvestmentTools.com view of  Dow Theory  returns to bullish.  ...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

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World economy so damaged it may need permanent QE Markets are realising that the five-and-a-half year recovery since the financial cris...

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With the close on 10/13/2014 of Dow Transports at 7717.69, and Dow Industrials at 16321.07, IT’s opinion of Dow Theory is now bearish.
Sunday, October 05, 2014

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The U.S. adds 248,000 new jobs in Sept. - the jobless rate falls to 5.9 %  U.S., Brazil strike new deal to end decade-old cotton t...