by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 29, 2013 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
I boarded the flight from Chicago to London. From the plane’s speakers I could clearly hear Tom Petty’s voice singing his song about “dancing in the zombie zoo”. “How appropriate”, I thought. “It seems that we have a zombie economy which dances around equities’ gains,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 21, 2013 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Numbers reveal conceptual relationships. Price movements become powerful sources of inferential knowledge regarding changing historical conditions. The rhythms of price movements signify an historical inevitability as has been shown over the course of the millennia....
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 12, 2013 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
All signs – as initially discussed below – point to a good year for equities in 2014. Of course, we are not deaf to the voices that talk about a stock market bubble, however and as we pointed out before we do not believe that we are dealing with a bubble, at least not...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 6, 2013 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Next Tuesday U.S. regulators are expected to approve a stricter version of the Volcker rule. The latter prohibits banks from proprietary trading which was at the heart of the financial crisis not only in 2008 but also last year when J.P.Morgan lost more than $6...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 27, 2013 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Last Saturday night the P5+1 nations (US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China) signed a limited agreement with Iran that paves the way for something which potentially would be very significant not only for security reasons but also for economic and financial ones....