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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.

The best real estate plays in 25 years

By Lawrence Delevingne, CNBC, The global real estate market in 2039 will be city-centric, with an increased focus on Asia […]

A Look Back At The First Quarter

By JC Parets, Now that we’re officially in the second quarter of 2014, we can look back at Q1 to […]

Major Public Pensions Hit All-Time High of $3 Trillion

By Jon Ogg, 247WallSt, The U.S. Census Bureau has released data on year-end pension assets for 2013 from the 100 […]

European non-core loan sales up 40 per cent, says PwC

From PwC, 2013 was a record year from a transaction perspective with EUR64bn of Europe’s non-core loans sold as part […]

Raising the bar: Vietnam’s luxury chocolate pioneers

Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) – Deep in the Mekong Delta, two Frenchmen have their heads buried in a sack […]

Gundlach – Rates Will Remain Low in 2014

By Robert Huebscher, Slowing economic growth, low inflation and a lack of motivated sellers will keep interest rates depressed, at […]

The Most Important Economic Chart

By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, If you must know only one fact about the U.S. economy, it should be […]

Romania on the Right Track

Sometimes, change and reform don’t happen as fast as we’d like in some countries, and Romania has been one of […]

REITs, Asset Allocation, & The Correlation Headwind

Morningstar’s Samuel Lee warns “that REITs’ diversification powers are down and so are their expected returns.” Maybe, but it’s premature to dismiss […]

How China (and the Rest of the Emerging Markets) Spend Today

By Matthew O’Brien, The Atlantic, After 30 years of catchup growth, consumers around the world are starting to look more […]