10-21-2015, 11:00 PM
Cramer said in today's rapid-fire news cycle, most institutions have just minutes to scan a company's earnings release, compare numbers against expectations, then cobble together a reason why there was a "beat" or a "miss" before moving on to the next stock. But without listening to the company's conference call for context, these instant analyses are often dead wrong.
Jim Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Why 'Headline Investing' Is Irrational - TheStreet
The broad take-away is that the majority of gains have happened when the market wasn’t trading,” Pearkes said in an interview Wednesday. “If you are only trading between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. and going out flat every night, you are missing a huge amount of the overall moves the index is making.
Most stock market gains are made when you’re asleep - MarketWatch
A major cause of low core inflation is the high rate of unemployment. Labor market reforms in recent years, mainly in southern Europe, have made inflation more sensitive to the level of unemployment. High unemployment now means low inflation, and the reforms have potentially lowered the level that unemployment has to fall to before wages and consumer prices start to rise.
Europe starting to look more like Japan - Business Insider
As a free-market loving individual, it pains me to see so many of my fellow travelers claim the Fed has artificially suppressed interest rates since the onset of the crisis. Recently, I was disappointed to see George Will and Bill Gross repeat these claims. They have made these claims before, but I was hoping after all these years they would begin to question the premise of their views. But alas, it did not happen.
Macro and Other Market Musings: A Plea to My Fellow Free Marketers
Real borrowing costs are highest in weak eurozone countries such as Spain (where inflation is lowest), and lowest in the strongest (where inflation is highest), leading capital and skilled labour to flow to the eurozone’s stronger economies. The Spanish government cannot boost government spending to counter this effect and the eurozone lacks fiscal mechanisms to compensate weaker member-states for it.