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Identifying consistent patterns and trends in business and in the financial markets. Useful key indicators for market timing, warning signals, bullish investing signals, and trading/investing opportunities.

One of the Decade’s Hottest Bond Markets Is Imploding in China

Rebecca Choong Wilkins and Lulu Chen (Bloomberg) — When investor demand for Chinese property debt was approaching its peak back […]

By Aidualc | 18 Aug 22 | Also posted in Asia, Hedge Fund, Real Estate, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

This key indicator has foreseen the past 8 recessions—and it’s sending off warning signals again

Will Daniel There’s a heated debate going on across the country about the proper definition of a recession. When investors […]

By Aidualc | 16 Aug 22 | Also posted in Investment Wisdom, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Ultrawealthy Americans are flocking to get ‘golden visas’ in Europe amid political turmoil. Here are the top 2 places they’re going.

BY CHLOE BERGER It seems as if the chaos and general bleakness of life in the U.S. is just too […]

By Aidualc | 12 Aug 22 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Tech war: US-EU united front on tech to erode China’s supply chain advantages, analysts say

The united front in trade and tech forming between Washington and Brussels is likely to impede China’s access to advanced […]

By Aidualc | 08 Aug 22 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

TOP 100 U.S. HOUSING MARKETS

The Top 100 U.S. Housing Markets… A major goal of the FAU Real Estate Initiative is to provide information that will allow […]

By Aidualc | 02 Aug 22 | Also posted in Real Estate, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Is Putin Dead? Pay Attention When Russia Starts Broadcasting ‘Swan Lake’

by Brynn Shiovitz  Vladimir Putin’s enemies are keeping a close eye on a bird in pointe shoes, because a broadcast […]

By Aidualc | 13 Jul 22 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

There’s an amazing new rap sheet on Trump

by Rick Newman A variety of Trump watchers have tracked Donald Trump’s business failures, lawsuits and assorted controversies. Now, Trump’s social media venture has […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jun 22 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Strippers can apparently better forecast the market than your finance bro

by Jane Nam In a tweet that has since gone viral, a netizen who claims to be a stripper declared […]

By Aidualc | 22 Jun 22 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Prime 50’s Off 5th Ave Luxury Hotel & Residential Condo Development Opportunity (Plaza District NYC)

Projected capital structure: $56.5MM ($20MM equity ($15.5MM for site acquisition), $36.5MM debt LTC 65%) 41.9k gsf (12 residential units 9k […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jun 21 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Investment Wisdom, Oxstone Investment Commentary, Private Equity, Real Estate, Retirement & Savings, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2021 Edition)

By Dorothy Neufeld, Visual Capitalist, The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2011-2020) Being a commodity investor can feel like riding […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 19 Jun 21 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)