Trader’s Narrative

The following is a guest post by a buy-side analyst working in a US asset management firm. The author’s comments are in italics. I welcome your feedback in the comments:

Paris on red alert after bomb threats empty Eiffel Tower – deploying thousands of police and soldiers to ‘sensitive’ locations after at least four bomb threats […]

The following is a guest post by a buy-side analyst working in a US asset management firm. The author’s comments are in italics. I welcome your feedback in the comments:
Former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized in Cleveland, the Associated Press reports. Carter became ill while traveling to Cleveland on a commercial flight. – WP
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The following is a guest post by a buy-side analyst working in a US asset management firm. The author’s comments are in italics. I welcome you feedback in the comments:

During the late September visit by Russian officials and Russian energy companies to China, the two countries hope to secure a long-delayed natural gas supply contract. […]

The secular gold bull market has been momentarily eclipsed by its plebian cousin, silver. While gold has gone up 18% so far, silver’s performance, year to date is 27%. And from 2009 until now it has gained 90% compared to gold’s 47%. Those performance numbers are starting to get noticed.
The media has recently featured many […]

About a month ago Ian Dogan of Insider Monkey shared his Roubini Sentiment indicator. Today he updated this Google Trends based sentiment indicator and added two other ‘permabear’ prognosticators: Nicholas Taleb, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber. Basically, he is looking at the mentions of these four names over time in the media as quantified by […]