Here are the five big firms reporting Wednesday morning before the opening bell. These all seem to be financial “perma-risers” to me, but click on any of these for a large version. They all seem to be eerily steady.
Pre-Market Earnings
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Unicorn Horns
With all the “year end roundup” stuff happening, I got an email from TechCrunch mentioning their Unicorn Leaderboard, which I had never visited before. As you might guess, it is a compilation of all the funded private companies which ostensibly are worth more than a billion bucks. The sum total is at the top, showing the not-quite-plausible $2 trillion valuation of all these outfits, almost none of which I’ve ever heard of.
Bouillabaisse of Charts
Liquid Assets
In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
Matthew 5:45
Our brains are all wired in different ways. In my experience, having used my brain for most of my life, I know that my strengths tend to be thinking of things in metaphors, analogs, and patterns. I have historically been weak in math (or at least never interested in it), and even though I’ve watched my kids fence for many years, I still have absolutely no idea what the hell is happening on the strip. None.
(more…)Black & Blue
No, I’m not referring to my trading day (although it would be apt). I feel compelled to share once more the 10 year-2 year interest rate spread chart, which has been the most reliable recession indicator I’ve found.
Fundamentals
And yet another improvement! And on a major holiday, no less. Check out this new item in the Statistics data panel:
Initial Public Offerings
Slope is in a constant state of being expanded, improved, and polished. One subtle change in the menus is that an entire section is dedicated to Options, and I’ve renamed the Markets menu to instead read as Equities.
