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Trends, Patterns, Indicators

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.

Presidential Stock Market Returns (Chart)

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, We’ve been busy crunching data from the Measuring Worth website on the Dow Jones Industrial […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 20 Feb 17 | Also posted in Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, Stocks, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Reagan vs Trump Macro Initial Conditions (Chart)

By Macromon,  Global Macro Monitor, We here lots of talk these days about,  Why Donald Trump’s Market Rally Echoes Ronald […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

MAPS: America’s $200 billion obesity problem by state and age group

The United States is one of the most overweight nations in the world. The US Senate Committee on Finance estimates […]

By Aidualc | 16 Feb 17 | Also posted in North America, Statistics, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Map: The most valuable brands in the world, in one chart

By Sue Chang, Market Watch, Apple, the most valuable brand for 5 years in a row, loses its place to […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Feb 17 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Statistics, Stocks, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Pakistan Beats India, Again

After beating India in equity markets, Pakistan beat India in another metric recently: Geopolitics. The country’s leaders have skillfully leveraged […]

By MarketAngel | 08 Feb 17 | Also posted in Asia, Stocks, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

This three-mile-high skyscraper design is coated in self-cleaning material that eats smog

2017 only just arrived, but one manufacturing company is already looking 45 years into the future. Arconic, a materials science […]

By MarketAngel | 06 Feb 17 | Also posted in Commodities, Private Equity, Real Estate | Comments (0)

How Are Those Crowded Trades Doing?

By Macromon, We take a look here at what BofA/Merrill Lynch has surveyed as the “most crowded trades” in the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Jan 17 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

UBS BUBBLE INDEX SHOWS IMPACT OF CHINESE INVESTORS ON VANCOUVER, SYDNEY

As housing markets on the mainland have started to look more dicey, Chinese home buyers have flocked to global gateway […]

By MarketAngel | | Also posted in Asia, North America, Real Estate, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Almost All World’s Currencies Undervalued

By Macromon, We’ve put together a couple of tables showing the undervaluation of the world’s currencies based on their 2016 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, North America, Retirement & Savings, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

A startup that wants to transform insurance ‘beyond recognition’ has added $33 million to its war chest

Two months after launching out of stealth to take on the peer-to-peer insurance industry, New York-based Lemonade has raised $33 […]

By Aidualc | 26 Jan 17 | Also posted in North America, Private Equity, Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)