06-02-2014, 11:54 PM
Hedge funds, those financial funds run by extraordinarily rich men, are going mainstream. Not content to be investments for just the super rich and super connected, they are starting to offer services to the average investor.
The 'Bad Boys Of Finance' Are Mainstream - Business Insider
Lasers are used frequently in medicine to destroy tissue, by making tiny surgical cuts, erasing spider veins, and banishing body hair. This week, researchers showed that low-power lasers can be used for the opposite purpose: to regrow missing tissue.
Laser Light Puts Stem Cells to Work | MIT Technology Review
But the country may gain more attention this week when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy unveils a 6.3 billion euro ($8.6 billion) stimulus package after years of growth-sapping austerity.
Spain says goodbye to its king—and austerity
A lot of smart people have been calling for a market correction for an awfully long time. And all of them have been dead wrong.
Why all the correction calls have been wrong
Dennis Gartman, publisher of the Gartman Letter, told CNBC's "Futures Now" on Tuesday that gold is "breaking down." He said that gold looks increasingly weak as geopolitical concerns over Russia and Ukraine subside and that the only thing that would motivate him to buy gold would be an "egregious upward turn in inflation" or "a war of some sort," and neither of those seem to realities at the moment.
Gold is sinking—and now it could get even worse
Bloomberg has an interesting piece on how high bond prices and low yields have been shocking investors who relied on old models. Some of this, I suspect, is because many people still — after all these years — haven’t wrapped their minds around the implications of a zero-lower=bound economy and the risks of a low-inflation trap.
For bonds, this time is different
Stocks hit an all-time high this past week. What is puzzling now is that investors and traders keep hearing that the raging bull market is over, and that this has turned into a stock picker's market. Investors still will try to make gains, but they will want to avoid getting caught in bad stocks. As 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of analyst upgrades and downgrades each day of the week, there are almost always some hidden gems, many of which are in stocks trading under $10.
Eight Analyst Stocks to Buy Under $10 for Big Upside - Yahoo Finance
Learning a second language can have a positive effect on the brain, even if it is taken up in adulthood, a University of Edinburgh study suggests.