Salient to Investors: New marketing research shows how we shop has as much to do with our mental state as with our material needs. People spend because they are sad or are feeling guilty or insecure. Martin Lindstrom says there is a direct correlation between lack of self-esteem and the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: A recent Pew survey found that only 51 percent of Americans think it’s essential to act on immigration reform this year, versus 70 percent who demand a deficit reduction deal this year, despite the wealth of data that shows that immigration reform will lead
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Paul Farrell writes: We are at a market top and an economic turning point. Bernanke’s non-stop cheap-and-easy-money printing presses are loved by Wall Street banks but are bad for the rest of America. His reappointment – certain to become Obama’s greatest domestic blunder – so shocked Nassim Taleb
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tim Hartzell at Sequent Asset Mgmt said the Fed’s comments took a little excess out of the stock market as equities had gotten ahead of themselves in the belief there’s always going to be $85 billion come into the market from the Fed. 72 percent of the 427
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Michael T. Snyder writes: The US economy is slowing down – freight volumes and expenditures are way down, consumer confidence is down sharply, major retail chains are closing hundreds of stores, the sequester threatens to bring austerity. gas prices are rising rapidly, corporate insiders are dumping massive
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tim Courtney at Exencial Wealth Advisors said all these deals are good news for the markets because they show that capital is being put to good use for investors. The difference between the price of put options protecting against a 10 percent slide in the S&P 500
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