Time to look in the other direction—at least for short-term bounce?
Jack Crooks (October 7th, 2008) Writes:
Key News• Australia's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by one percentage point. (Bloomberg)
US Economic Events (WSJ):7:45a.m. ICSC Chain Store Sales Index For Oct 4: Previous: -0.2%. 8:55a.m. Redbook Retail Sales Index For Oct 4: Previous: -1.3%. 2:15p.m. Sep 16 FOMC Minutes 3:00p.m. Aug Consumer Credit: Expected: +$6B. Previous: +$4.6B. 5:00p.m. ABC/Wash Post Consumer Conf For Oct 4: Previous: -41.
Quotable “Why are markets turbulent? I am a scientist, not a philosopher; so I can only hazard some suggestions. One possible source is the world outside markets—what economist call exogenous effects. After I had, in the early 1960s, focused on scaling and long-term dependence, key traits of turbulence, I soon found innumerable other examples in many natural phenomena; these phenomena, in turn, may impress a corresponding pattern on prices. For instance, I have found characteristic scaling patterns, from many small items to
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