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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.

Western Balkan is uncorrelated with global stock exchanges developments!

The region with the highest rates growth in the world! We strongly believe that there is a strong growth of […]

Get Ready For A Weak Dollar World

Stocks officially entered a bear market last week, at least as measured by the MSCI World index. But then that […]

Big banks are fleeing the mortgage market

Banks originated 74% of all mortgages in 2007, but their share fell to 52% in 2014, the most recent data […]

Website Revamps, Enhanced Mobile Capabilities among Top Online Trends in Financial Services

Monitor Awards from 2015, including major trends from the year in online and mobile innovation. For more than 15 years, Corporate […]

Apartment builders woo the wealthy with over-the-top services

During the height of last decade’s housing boom in Los Angeles, developers drew up plans to place luxury condos on […]

Let’s Talk Politics

by Brian Andrew, Johnson Bank, Last week we met with a number of customers and prospective customers to discuss markets […]

Marijuana legalization is already making Mexican drug cartels poorer

  Updated by German Lopez We’re still not sure of the full impact of marijuana legalization, in terms of pot use and abuse, in […]

Advocates push for the U.S. Postal Service to offer basic banking

Until the late 1960s, you could walk into a post office and deposit money in a savings account at the […]

The Rise and Fall of Shaolin’s CEO Monk

Shi Yongxin built the Shaolin Temple into a global business. Now, karma’s catching up  Christopher Beam His Holiness the Venerable […]

Start-ups bank on the customization of you

Gone are the days of wearing a plain Gap T-shirt and khaki outfit — the look that swept the 90’s and embodied […]