C’est La Vie – Friday Night Music

Like a song Out of tune and out of time All I needed was a rhyme for you C’est la vie Do you give Do you live from day to day Is there no song I can play for you C’est la vie Greg Lake – Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Live in Montreal, 1977

For Your TGIF Pondering – February 27, 2015

These are some of the interesting reads that I found on Thursday and Friday morning. Hope you too will find them interesting. Some are market related, some are on geopolitics and some are just for fun. Investors Are Optimistic About 2015 – Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s semiannual Investor Pulse Poll surveys a national sample of investors…

Disappointing Existing Home Sales: Short Analysis With Charts

Monday morning, the National Association of Realtors came out with existing home sales figures and it wasn’t very pretty. Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, fell 4.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.82 million in January (lowest since last April at 4.75 million)…

Around The Net -Monday Edition, February 23, 2014

Here’s Yellen’s Challenge: Staying Cautious With Good News – The biggest unknown for Yellen and her policy committee is how financial conditions respond to the first rate increase. How will that affect business investment, the housing market and the cost of credit for everyday consumers? Overcoming an over-sized reaction in credit markets depends a lot on communicating…

Weekend Reading Ideas – February 21, 2015

Noted for your weekend procrastinations. Cyprus: an island in search of a saga to learn from – In March 2013 Cyprus stared into the abyss of financial collapse. In order to qualify for a €10bn Troika loan, the absolute maximum the Troika – i.e. the European Union, EU, the European Central Bank, ECB and the International…