Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
Global investment funds are rotating away from developed markets into emerging markets as they struggle to value Stocks, according to a new Global Equity Strategy report from analysts at... Read More
John Melloy, an executive producer at CNBC, is leaving the financial news network in order to become the Chief Executive Officer of StockTwits, according to reports this afternoon. StockTwits... Read More
Bob Benmosche told Bloomberg Television’s Betty Liu that he decided to step down as CEO of American International Group (NYSE:AIG) earlier than he'd planned after his cancer worsened. Benmosche... Read More
Earnings growth expectations are low against their historic average, close to troughs seen in the aftermath of previous recessions, but with metrics improving they may be set to start... Read More
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Gimme Shelter: The U.S. Dollar Trade And It's Risks by Michele Mazzoleni, Research Affiliates
The resurgence of the U.S. dollar has been one of the leading investment stories of the... Read More
We reported yesterday on moves made in Egypt to censor parts of the internet and carry out an especially draconian campaign on porn sites. Information garnered from local sources... Read More
The United States Bureau of Labor statistics released employment figures for February today, Friday. The report says that the number of employed has increased by 227k and that employment... Read More
Struggling photographic firm Eastman Kodak Company (PINK:EKDKQ) has announced the sale of its digital imaging patents for $525 million to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed Intellectual Ventures and... Read More