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Doug Noland: Ominous Portents
Friday headlines from Bloomberg: “Retail Sales Rise Most in a Year, Marking U.S. Consumer Comeback” and “Consumers Turn Out to Be U.S. Growth Lifeline After All.” Ironically, U.S. retail stocks (SPDR S&P Retail ETF) were slammed 4.3% this week, trading… Read More ›
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If Sy Harding took Warren Buffet’s Bet
I do not post often to my seasonal blog, but this one I wanted to point my readers too. I agree with much of what Warren Buffet says about actively managed funds in terms of cost and poor performance.
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Doug Noland: Inflection Point for Emerging Markets
Don’t let a relatively tame week in the S&P 500 engender complacency. Perhaps it was not obvious, yet the trading week provided important confirmation for the incipient “Risk Off” dynamic thesis. Indeed, the global bear seemed to roar back to… Read More ›