Each year, Bill and Melinda Gates' Letter is a worthwhile read.
This year they discuss their Big Bet for the Future.
via Gates Notes.
Current Affairs
February 20, 2015
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Seeming profound is easier than being profound.
Just saying ...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Famous Business Books Summarized in One Sentence. (Business Insider)
- Windows 10 Upgrades Will Be Free for Existing Windows Users. (Infoworld)
- Sign of the Times: Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers. (NPPA)
- Compilation Video of People Using Exercise Equipment Wrong. (Facebook)
- World's Saddest Service Offers Make-Believe Mate. For $25 you get 100 text messages, 10 voice mails, one handwritten note & a lifetime of secret shame. (ValleyWag)
- Apple Now Sells More iPhones in China than the U.S. (Cult of Mac)
- Google 'To Take On Uber with Driverless Cars'. (Telegraph)
- CME To Close Open Outcry Futures Trading Pits By This Summer. (B.I.)
- Seattle Gets a Marijuana Vending Machine. (USA Today)
- The Best Investment Advice from 20 of the World's Top Market Minds. (Forbes)
World Markets Showing the Love
For Valentine's Day, the market shared its love by pushing the broad S&P 500 Index to new highs.
via StockCharts.
The Nasdaq Composite also made new highs earlier this week.
Worldwide, Germany, Australia, France, Thailand, Indonesia, Shanghai, India and The Netherlands have all made new 52 week highs in 2015.
February 06, 2015
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
Most people say they want the unpleasant truth, rather than the comforting lie ...
What do you think?
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Warn of Artificial Intelligence Dangers. (Mashable)
- An Open Letter to Everyone Tricked Into Fearing Artificial Intelligence. (Popular Science)
- 70's Rock Legends In Their Parents' Homes! [Photos]. (Peewee)
- The Hair of Men: What Hairstyle is Best for You. [infographic]
- How Exercise Changes Our DNA. (NYTimes)
- US Debt Soared By $100 Billion on Last Day of 2014, Hit Record $18.14 Trillion. (ZH)
- Chinese Attacks Cost U.S. Defense Department Over $100M. (GigaOM)
- The Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia's Oil Games. (Money)
- After Warning About 2008, Yale's Robert Shiller Has Another Concern. (Valuewalk)
- Countries Begin The Race To Repatriate Their Gold. Are They Concerned About a Potential Financial Crisis? (Valuewalk)
Is a Leading Indicator of Economic Activity Drying-Up?
If you are looking for insight into global supply and demand trends, the Baltic Dry Index is one of the purest leading indicators of economic activity.
It offers a real-time glimpse at global raw material and infrastructure demand, as well as the supply of ships available to move this type of cargo.
The low is troubling because this Index is often interpreted as a reliable indicator of demand. The Index moved higher from 2003 to 2008. Since then, we have seen a series of lower highs and lower lows.
The only positive I see is the divergence of the momentum indicator (at the bottom), which is higher - even though price is lower.
However, with stock markets around the world near all time highs ... and demand for bulk commodity movements at all time lows, the paradoxical position is staggering.
For commodity followers, low prices are one thing but some of that can be attributed to a soaring $USD.
The Baltic Dry Index tells us how much demand there is for movement of the commodities. It is clearly indicating global weakness and the Central Banks around the world dropping their interest rates ahead of the analysts in almost every market suggests all is not well.
There is always a way to be a little better!
I was in Phoenix for a meeting this past week.
Usually, the highlight of a trip like that entails desert vistas. This time, however, I had a chance to visit the stadium where the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl was held (and thanks to some friends at Infusionsoft, got to see a game there too).
It was kind of cool to watch a celebration of those just a little better than who they play against.
There is always a way to be a little better!
January 29, 2015
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Annualized Returns for Major Asset Classes
Research Affiliates takes a look back at the last ten years and calculates the annualized return of a classic 60% equity / 40% fixed income portfolio versus 16 pure asset classes on their own.
The 60/40 portfolio generated 7.2% annual returns (nominal) from 2005 through the end of 2014, edging out 9 of the 16 asset classes in their data set and with significantly less volatility than most as well.
via Research Affiliates.
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