I know I am starting to feel lonely here talking about retracement in the market, especially after a huge upside move in the US market today. So far earnings have been pretty good with a verythigh percentage of stocks beating expectations. Intel, Starbucks,...

I know I am not bullish about further strength in the market right now but I know some of you are. So it is my job to report any interesting news or research I come accross if I think they could be useful to investors. Today, I found this really good...

Today, once again, the US market released some good numbers from Merck, Coca cola and more particularly Caterpillar. I say more particularly because it is a stock Japanese investors always look at when comparing to Komatsu and Hitachi Construction Machinery....

Carlos Ghosn is probably one of the best CEO in the automobile industry. I am especially talking about his skills for public relation. He is one of the most recognized names in the automobile industry. He will never say anything bad about its companies...

From the beginning of the financial crisis, government and economists have repeated many times that the real cause of the crisis was the Derivative Market and more particularly the un-regulated, Over The Counter, market for derivatives. The OTC for derivatives...

It is still the time to get ride of your risky and high beta stocks. The market is still on its high for the year ahead of the earning season. I know so far the market has been very resilient with some strong result coming from the US especially Intel,...

I have just received a nice excel spreadsheet today with most of the Nikkei225 companies' earning reporting date. Unfortunately I still miss a few of them but it should be very helpful to you if you want to follow and better understand the behaviour of...

The beginning of the earning season is not the only reason for the pull back in the stock market in Japan. The rapid appreciation of the Japanese currency versus the dollar and the euro is also going to weight on the possible recovery of the market. If...

The market has spoken today, at least that is the way I interpreted the downward move in the S&P500. The Non Farm Pay Roll number for the month of June in the US showed another 467,000 jobs destruction, which is a bout 150,000 more than economists expected....