by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 07 2010 | Blog
This morning President Obama signed into law the financial overhaul bill that has been debated for almost his entire Presidency. This marks a milestone for many. First, the investing public finally gets protections that are essential. With these protections in place...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 07 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Much start-stop strangeness is happening in the stock markets. Ostensibly this is due to companies reporting earnings that either exceed or are in line with expectations; yet whose revenues fail to excite. This is the very same issue I wrote about over a year ago as...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 07 2010 | Blog
Good morning everyone. The news is that U.S. retail sales were down 0.5% in June from their levels in May. This level compares to an expectation from economists of a 0.3% drop. However, if you exclude food and energy prices, both of which fluctuate dramatically,...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 07 2010 | Blog
Several weeks ago I gave the heads up that the Greek government announced its intentions to attempt to raise more money by the issuance of more debt. This was a very closely scrutinized event. If the Greeks failed then it would be a vote of no confidence from the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 07 2010 | Blog
Fears of economic meltdown in Europe’s PIGS economies remain, as Moody’s downgraded the debt of Portugal yesterday by two notches, down to an A1 rating. [PIGS is short for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, and is an apt name given the huge appetite for...
