Tuesday, October 31, 2017
From Richard Lloyd Parry’s wonderful new book Ghosts of the Tsunami, reporting on Japan’s drowned spirits.
Tsunamis anywhere destroy property and kill the living, but in Japan they inflict a third kind of injury, unique and invisible, on the dead. At a stroke, thousands of spirits had passed from life to death; countless others were cut loose from their moorings in the afterlife... In such circumstances, how could there fail to be a swarm of ghosts?
↩︎ Longreads
The shape of adaptation.
For some inspiration, a pair of French "adaptive surfers"—a man who lost half his leg in a shark attack, and a guy who lost an arm when a tree fell on him—demonstrate how to catch waves despite physical challenges.
An interesting look at the problematic celebrity of novelist/spokeswoman Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Adichie’s over-reach is again bigger than her. It is a consequence of a growing culture of stanning. Adichie has been steeped in a celebrity culture that has created the Beyhive – which functions as an emotional bodyguard for the singer; and she has been embraced and championed by the black girl magic movement.
↩︎ Africa Is a Country
BestX launches reporting module, partners NAB
As performed live in a cemetery, of course.
Canadian composer Mark Korven, who specializes in scary movies (X-Files, Cube, The Witch), built a special sound machine to pluck, bow, and hit metal rulers; spin squeaky hurdy-gurdys; and e-bow single strings.
Bitcoin Pigs Get Fat, But The Hogs Are Going To Get Slaughtered
Unless you have head your head stuck under a rock for the last 12 months, you have heard of Bitcoin and how the price of the first crypto-currency has skyrocketed this year. After hearing about this 'once in a lifetime investment opportunity,' I am sure most of you have thought about buying some digital currency. […]
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Market Breakout - Now or Never - This Week Will Set the Year-End Tone
Market Breakout - Now or Never - This Week Will Set the Year-End Tone
Top Performing Stocks in November (Seasonality)
November is a good month for stocks overall, and these stocks tend to do even better than the market, rising at least 77% of the time and producing as much as 7.7% gains on average. Stocks mentioned: MCD, VMC, MMM, AOS, ROK, PH, SNA, GPS, ETN, EMR and HBHC.
Seasonality is the study of how assets perform at certain times of the year. The stocks below have shown a strong tendency to rise in November,…
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Satan owns a movie theater.
That's the trailer from Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, part of Dennis Mahoney's excellent round-up of lesser-known horror films to thrill and disturb you this Halloween season.
Atmospheric and quietly tense, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) lulls you, and eventually owns you, with clichés made fresh under the masterful direction of John D. Hancock, and with flashes of brilliance you simply don’t expect from a cheap ’70s flick with a goofy title.
Dr. Martin Luther King’s daughter and others respond to John Kelly’s latest comments praising Robert E. Lee.
It’s irresponsible and dangerous, especially when white supremacists feel emboldened, to make fighting to maintain slavery sound courageous.
↩︎ Bernice A. King / Twitter
New Change FX offers mid-rate in NDFs, forwards and restricted currencies
Horkan becomes chief operating officer at LCH
Robson joins Goldman Sachs in sales
Monday, October 30, 2017
The Ascent of Money Documentary – History of Money, Credit and Banking
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is Harvard professor Niall Ferguson’s tenth book, published in 2008. It was adapted into a television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US). The financial documentary examines the long history of money, credit, and banking, along with the benefits and problems various systems have produced.
The documentary is broken up into 6 parts, each about 45 minutes. The first is Dreams of Avarice, followed…
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A former Gitmo hunger striker reacts to news that staff are letting inmates starve to the point of organ failure.
They could torture me. But they couldn’t make me swallow their food. And I knew they wouldn’t let a detainee starve to death. That, however, may no longer be the case.
↩︎ New Republic
Wells Fargo appoints Sara Wardell-Smith as head of Americas
HUI Is Testing Support, XAU Is Yet To Try
Much to my dismay, I’ve never covered these hot indices in my posts. I detected some interesting chart patterns as well as significant price actions and thought if it might be interesting to cover and discuss. These indices have a long trading history as well as great companies that are tracked by each index. The […]
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Several months of off-the-cuff quotes from hard-smoking, hard-golfing John Boehner, gnashing over his legacy.
“When you play golf with somebody, they can’t hide. You know who they are, you know how they are, you know what they’re capable of, you know whether they’re being honest with themselves. It exposes everybody.”
↩︎ Politico Magazine
This Market Rally Will Last Another Week - Then We Need Tax Cuts
This Market Rally Will Last Another Week - Then We Need Tax Cuts
Sunday, October 29, 2017
China to loosen grip on yuan – Westpac
Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery
We've asked Michael Seery of SEERYFUTURES.COM to give our INO readers a weekly recap of the Futures market. He has been Senior Analyst for close to 15 years and has extensive knowledge of all of the commodity and option markets. Michael frequently appears on multiple business networks including Bloomberg news, Fox Business, CNBC Worldwide, CNN […]
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
A Method Traders Can Use to Confirm an Elliott Wave Count
Elliott wave is a complex technical analysis method. Elliott wave is not required for successful trading, but there are concepts that traders may find useful. The channeling approach discussed below is one of them, because it helps assess whether recent movements are corrective or impulsive. This in turn can help determine where the price is likely to go next. –VantagePointTrading
By Elliott Wave International
When you are watching a pattern develop on a chart, how…
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Housing Starts Down In September A Sign You Should Buy Housing Related ETF
Housing starts for September came in at 829,000 units, lower than the 851,000 units reported in August. Some economist and market participants are saying the weak housing starts are a sign the economy is beginning to show signs of wear. Others have noted that 15.3% of the decline in starts came from parts of the […]
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Friday, October 27, 2017
How Rogue Trader Nick Leeson Brought Down Britain’s Oldest Bank
When it comes to banking scandals, no name is more infamous than that of Nick Leeson. While the likes of UBS trader Kweku Adoboli and former Allfirst banker John Rusnak were responsible for bigger losses, Leeson’s illicit trading in the early 1990s brought down Barings Bank, Britain’s oldest and most respected investment bank. It was an event that sent shock waves throughout the entire banking industry. At the time, no one could believe that just…
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Forget steampunk. Here's "seapunk."
A Danish art group stuck five musicians underwater and told them to bring their instruments.
"There are a lot of challenges underwater," says Between Music co-founder Robert Karlsson, "especially with acoustics. The percussion instruments are very sensitive, so if you just move them even ten centimeters inside a tank, you get a different tambour and sometimes even different notes."
Lesson learned: The world needs more Danish art groups.
Why South London’s anonymous artist is electronic music’s best interpreter for the 21st century.
Where dance music is generally about abandon, Burial’s music is about abandonment.
↩︎ Pitchfork
Big Tech Earnings Boost NASDAQ
Hello traders everywhere. The NASDAQ has gained over 2% today spurred by fantastic earnings from the tech sector, which has seen substantial profit taking as of late. Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) reported earnings per share of 52 cents a share, way ahead of Wall Streets estimate of 3 cents a share. Amazon Web Services, the company's […]
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Robot lasers defend your blueberry crop.
Some Oregon farmers were losing a quarter of their crop to avians like the American robin and European starling, so they set up an automated laser system that can frighten birdy bandits without harming them.
A poem for this period of sexual harassment news, from the latest Poetry: “Sunshower,” by Natalie Shapero.
Some people say the devil is beating / his wife. Some people say the devil / is pawing his wife. Some people say / the devil is doubling down on an overall / attitude of entitlement toward / the body of his wife.
↩︎ Tom Thompson / Twitter
“So FX is now illegal”