Private Equity investor Chris Douvos has been watching a lot of Indiana Jones movies with his kid. In his current fave, The Last Crusade, Douvos finds in the three tests Indy has to pass to obtain the Holy Grail some essential lessons for investors: Challenge #1: The Breath of God… […]
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The folks at GOOD collected a sample of gas prices from throughout the industrialized Western world in this infographic: Here are some more countries, via the Gasoline-Germany site: Afghanistan: $8.04 Bolivia: $2.26 Brazil: $5.99 China: $4.47 Greenland: $7.14 Hong Kong: $7.67 India: $4.57 (for 91 octane, on July 14, 2010) […]
Om Malik has been covering the telecom beat with great insight for many years and isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In the wake of the huge AT&T (NYSE: T) acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Malik weighs in, saying “it’s hard to find winners, apart from AT&T and T-Mobile shareholders.” The […]
Clusterstock created this interesting chart from a Barclays report about the coming reconstruction boom in Japan, which concludes that short-term GDP declines will ultimately give way to faster GDP growth. (Click image for full size) What companies will profit from the reconstruction boom? According to Scott Rothbort of StockPickr, there […]
The New York Times created this infographic about exploiting the local grocery store’s salad bar for the most value (click for full size): Sources: “How to Beat the Salad Bar” Nate Silver. New York Times, 3/17/11. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20Subversion-t.html?_r=2
For those who may not be familiar, Footnoted is a website devoted to corporate SEC filings. Michelle Leder and her staff dig through filings for interesting disclosures amongst the corporate boilerplate. Today she posted about how corporations have been including the Japanese disaster in their filings. There have been 48 […]
In a prescient 1989 article entitled How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street and the World Economy, author Michael Lewis looked at historical earthquakes to project the economic impact of a (at the time) hypothetical massive Tokyo earthquake. It’s a bit hard to read in this scanned version from […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) tracks 30 large well known American companies. Clusterstock released a chart showing how the Dow reacted Wednesday to nuclear headlines – details on each headline here: Source: “Chart of the Day: The Dow Makes Huge Swings on Every Fukushima Headline” Gregory White. Business Insider, 3/16/11. https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-dow-march-16-2011-3
Visa (NYSE: V) announced a new service today that allows someone who holds a Visa account to receive and send funds to any other Visa account holder. From the press release: Bank customers of participating financial institutions will have the option to select a Visa account as the destination for […]
Barry Ritholtz posted this great infographic showing the month to month price changes in the price of houses using the cities that comprise the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Source: “Housing Heat Map” Barry Ritholtz, 3/9/11. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/housing-heat-map/
At Business Insider, Joe Weisenthal published an remarkable graphic originally from Stifel Nicolaus. It shows equities and commodities over the last 140 years and presents a strong bullish signal for equities – at least by this measure: Source: “A Big, Beautiful, and Bullish 140-Year Look at Equities Vs. Commodities” Joe […]