Here’s an indicator I had never seen before.  Reuters is highlighting the slow-down in Suez Canal traffic as a possible harbinger of stagnating global economic growth: “As this week’s Chart [ … ]

Here’s a really incredible chart.   Do you follow the Spanish stock market?  Yes, me neither.  So I was surprised to notice this incredible chart of the pain in Spanish [ … ]

The WSJ had a good piece today on the collapsing expectations for corporate earnings.  They report: “Analysts have been lowering expectations for both first-quarter and full-year earnings. They now expect [ … ]

Here’s a very good chart from Reuters showing one of the dominant trends in the market performance of the last 5 years.  It shows the 3 month moving average of [ … ]

Here’s the latest from Investor’s Intelligence on the 9 month high in the bull/bear spread: “After a second weekly gain just above 2% the bulls were 52.7%, from 50.5% a week ago. Their number [ … ]

A pick-up in this spring’s housing data doesn’t seem to be translating to much in terms of housing prices.  Case Shiller reported another decline in housing prices through January as [ … ]

I guess there’s a reason why I do macro….For the last 6 weeks I’ve been watching Apple’s stock move higher literally every single day.  The crazy thing is that 6 [ … ]

File this one under the “check back in 10 years” folder.  This is a stat that will blow your mind.  Apple’s market cap is now bigger than the ENTIRE U.S. [ … ]