We tend agree with the old trader’s adage that “Retail investors open the market and institutional investors close it.” Domestic US Google search volumes for the term “stock market” typically peak between 9am and 10am every day....
We will withhold judgment on today’s US equity market selloff for a few reasons: After the rush into equities this month, it makes sense to expect a modest pullback as we roll through the final days of January. As Plautus said, “Moderation in...
DataTrek’s Nick Colas did a CNBC Trading Nation segment on Friday on how to use Google search trends for bitcoin to understand its volatility. You can check it...
Of all the talks at Davos last week, one was closest to our mandate for this section of our daily notes: “Big Tech, Big Impact”. The speakers were: Matthew Murray. Executive Editor of The Wall Street Journal (Moderator) Ursula Burns (UB)....
I don’t use Uber very often, but I can still remember the first time I saw “Surge pricing” in action. It was a rainy and cold Thursday night and I was in a part of NY with little access to public transport. After consulting the app, I saw...
“A strong dollar is in the long term best interests of the US.” Those simple words are something called the “Rubin doctrine”, after 1990s Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin. Most of his successors have held to that basic message, although in...
