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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.

Are Emerging-Markets Stocks Too Cheap to Ignore?

By Ben Johnson, Morningstar, Emerging-markets stocks have gone from the penthouse to the outhouse. Over the 10-year period ended Oct. […]

Market history is calling, and it’s saying stock performance will be crappy for another ~10 year

Stock performance has been weak for the past 15 years. If history is a guide, it’s likely to stay weak for […]

Everyone you know will be able to rate you on ‘Yelp for people’ – whether you want them to or not

You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing […]

Study projects Asians will become largest US immigrant group

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major shift in immigration patterns over the next 50 years, Asians will have surged past […]

Tough Decade Ahead for Stocks, Says John Bogle

By Christine Benz, Morningstar, Morningstar director of personal finance Christine Benz recently sat down with John Bogle at the annual […]

World Markets Weekend Update: Three Up, Five Down

By Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives, Three of eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains over the past week, […]

Yuan devaluation could weigh on Chinese buyers of US homes

Shanshan Wu already owns three houses back home in China. But the 36-year-old has spent the last two months in […]

With SecondMarket acquisition, Nasdaq moves closer to liquidifying private shares market

Nasdaq (NDAQ: NSQ) announced that it would acquire private transaction platform, SecondMarket. Founded in 2004, SecondMarket was the 2nd most active […]

China Mall 2020 Report to Explore Future of China Retail

by Michael Cole After covering China’s real estate market on a daily basis for more than three and a half […]

China says to promote equity crowdfunding to support startups

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will promote greater use of equity crowdfunding for startups to encourage entrepreneurship in the world’s second-largest […]