A New Position for Jason Apollo Voss

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 24, 2011 in Blog | 8 comments Good morning folks! I am pleased to announce this morning that I have accepted a position as a Content Director for the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFAI).  The CFAI is the organization that awards the famous Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation that you see after the names of many investment professionals, myself included. As a Content Director it will be my job to scour the...
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Smoke or Fog?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 23, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   Since the beginning of July global stock markets have been self-immolating using the fires of fear.  A little bit of uncertainty and bad news was tinder for outright panic on many trading days.  In fact, since the 7 July, 2011 peak the S&P 500 has fallen 16.95% as of yesterday’s close. Unfortunately, all of that selling created a lot of smoke; smoke that obscured the actual real...
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A Recession Brought About by Fear Alone

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 19, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   This post will be brief.  I wanted to point out that the over all health of businesses, consumers and governments is all pretty healthy.  However, fear that these various economic groupings are not as healthy as believed is actually planting the seeds for a recession.  This situation is utterly unique in my, almost 20 year, career. For a change a recession may not be caused by...
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Update on the Mood of the Stock Market

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 18, 2011 in Blog | 6 comments   Sorry to have been incognito for the last several days, but there just has not been much in the news worth commenting upon.  Additionally, I just have not sensed a change in the mood of the investment community’s collective consciousness. For today’s post, I am going to repeat a question that came from the comments section of the blog as a way of addressing that enduring...
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Have the Financial Markets Turned Up?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 15, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments   A brief post.  Last week financial markets saw wild, wild swings, triggering widespread panic and a lot of traffic to the What My Intuition Tells Me Now Blog.  In the midst of all of the noise I posted a, “Brief Update About Mood of the Financial Markets.”  In that post I stated: “Before I make some sort of call as to a market low being reached I want to feel a sense of...
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Reports of Large Corporate Share Repurchases

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 12, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   London’s Financial Times is reporting this morning that a number of U.S. corporations have engaged in large share repurchases this week.  Frankly, this soothes the soul as I have been complaining since late 2010 that businesses ought to be deploying their excess cash to earn higher rates of return. One area of return that they seem to have been avoiding is repurchasing shares of...
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Jobless Claims Improve Again

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Aug 12, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   Amidst the filth and the fury of stock market rises and falls this week economic data have kept chugging away.  Yesterday the Department of Labor reported that initial jobless claims data have improved again, falling by 7,000 this week to a level of 395,000 claims.  Economists had expected 400,000 new unemployment claims to be filed. Analysis: It is economic gospel that jobless claims...
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