360° Financial Trend Detection
360° Financial Trend Detection
The 83-Second Hologram So, Jerome Powell, the most powerful man in finance, beamed in a pre-recorded message to a room full of community bankers today. The whole thing lasted one minute and twenty-three seconds. I timed it. He was "travelin...
Let’s be clear about what’s happening at PepsiCo. The stock is trading around $139 a share, a full 22% below its 52-week high and lagging the S&P 500 by a staggering 20 percentage points year-to-date. This isn't a minor dip; it's a signific...
On the surface, the news cycle on October 9th offered up a classic piece of corporate shuffling, the kind of headline that makes most of us yawn and scroll on. PepsiCo, the monolithic giant of snacks and sodas, announced a new Chief Financi...
Gold at $4,000: Deconstructing the Data Behind the Hysteria Gold futures punched through $4,000 an ounce this week. The headlines are, as expected, breathless. The year-to-date gain is over 50%—to be more exact, 50.4% as of Tuesday's open o...
So, some guy in a suit named Ed Yardeni is out there telling anyone who will listen that gold is going to hit $10,000 an ounce by 2030. Ten. Thousand. Dollars. Let that sink in. He’s not whispering it at a cocktail party; he’s publishing it...
Let’s get one thing straight. A company called D-Wave, which was trading for about a dollar a year ago, is now worth around $12 billion. Its stock, `QBTS`, shot up over 3,000%. Why? Because it helped a police force in Wales schedule their p...
So, a Bitcoin miner slaps an "AI" sticker on its forehead and suddenly its stock shoots up 500%. Give me a break. You're telling me a company called IREN, which most of us had never heard of a year ago, went from digging for magic internet...
The End of the Hometown Bank: Why a Stadium's Name Change Reveals the Future of the American Economy When the news broke that Comerica—a name etched into the Detroit landscape for over 175 years—was being acquired by Cincinnati’s Fifth Thir...
Of course. Here is the feature article, written in the persona of Dr. Aris Thorne. --- I want you to forget, just for a moment, about the stock tickers and the dizzying charts. Forget the breathless headlines about a 2,000% surge and the Wa...
When I was at MIT, we used to spend late nights debating the precise moment a technology crosses the threshold from a laboratory curiosity to a genuine force in the world. Is it the first major patent? The first billion in venture capital?...