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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.

At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates

By Jonathan Spicer and Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters, In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners with wealthy private investors, Ben Bernanke has […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Jun 14 | Also posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Housing Misery Maps Going Viral on China’s Weibo

By Michael Cole, Mingtiandi, Map of China housing “agony” shows years of work necessary to save up a down-payment   […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 22 May 14 | Also posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Real Estate, Statistics, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

How Technology Will Drive the Promising Future of Medicine

From Laissez Faire, Vivek Wadhwa Health care is a misnomer for our medical system. It should be called sick care. […]

By MarketAngel | 15 May 14 | Also posted in Private Equity, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Does the index reflect the market on Liv-Ex 100

In the world of wine investing, Liv-Ex is like the New York Stock Exchange. Liv-Ex is short for the London […]

By PeterSmith | 12 May 14 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

This only took place in 1999 and 2007 … Now it’s happening again!

 By Chris Kimble,   CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Only twice in 35-years has the NYSE Index been at all-time […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 08 May 14 | Also posted in Statistics | Comments (0)

Seven Nations Buying the World’s Gold

Gold prices may have tumbled in 2013, but gold has tried to make a significant recovery at the start of […]

By Aidualc | 07 May 14 | Also posted in Commodities, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Smart Money Quietly Abandons The Housing Market

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014 AT 2:12AM In real estate, national averages paper over the gritty details on the ground and […]

By Aidualc | 01 May 14 | Also posted in North America, Private Equity, Real Estate | Comments (0)

Finance in 25 years: Wall Street banks fade away

By Kayla Tausche, CNBC, In the world of finance, the landscape is likely to be a lot different in 25 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Apr 14 | Also posted in Private Equity | Comments (0)

Three trends for global hedge funds in 2014

By Robert Mirsky, KPMG, The global hedge fund industry has a lot to be bullish about for in 2014. A […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 25 Apr 14 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Retirement & Savings, Statistics | Comments (0)

The Housing Crisis That Refuses to Heal

  By Doug French, President Obama crowed in his State of the Union speech about the economy, even mentioning “a […]

By MarketAngel | 23 Apr 14 | Also posted in North America, Real Estate | Comments (0)