SCADACore recently announced that it has acquired Path RF. Path RF's free RF Line-of-Sight and Tower Maps (Canada, US) are now found on SCADACore's website. The free tools are especially useful for field technicians setting up their radio and/or cellular SCADA networks. See SCADACore's press release below for more information. Calgary, Alberta - [...]
"The Fed always have the fail-safe that they are data dependent. They always say they are going to act based on the data. They have actually never committed to doing anything. What is amazing is that the Fed has any credibility at all. Because I don't know why people haven't figured out this [...]
"A break above here, if seen, would suggest extended gains towards at least the $62.50 area as we move towards early 2017. On a longer term basis the 55 – 200 week moving average setup and this inverted head and shoulders would suggest that the gains could be into the low $70’s (this would be [...]
"The six months under review have seen central bankers continuing what is surely the greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world. We are therefore in uncharted waters and it is impossible to predict the unintended consequences of very low interest rates, with some 30 percent of global government debt at negative [...]
"This year is proving that strippers are much tougher than many analysts gave them credit for. While many strippers have taken action to cut back some of their less profitable wells, by and large, stripper production is much more resilient than many had expected. That reality holds important implications for the industry at large - [...]
"According to an analysis by Goldman's Charles Himmelberg, if rates rise by the Jamie Dimon-referenced 1 percentage point, the market value loss would be between $1 and $2.4 trillion! Putting this loss in context, even the smaller $1trn loss would be over 50% larger than the market value lost in the 1994 bond market selloff [...]
Readers of this site should already have a good sense of how economic policies affect oil prices. For the past year, this site has provided sources of information that predicted the teetering stock market and unstable oil prices. For those that have frequent the first iteration of our Facebook page, for the past [...]
"“As you move out on that spread, what you do is you create a definite bias towards producing and purchasing only those capital assets with short life expectancies. So what we’re seeing now is software is doing well; non-residential building isn’t doing well at all.” What’s valued is a quick turnaround. There’s no faith in [...]
"UPS was just the icing on the cake. Capping off a week of gloomy commentary from American companies, the package-delivery giant — which arguably has a unique view into the global economy — said it too sees "head winds" in the second half of the year." Source: businessinsider.com
"Even though the Dow is at new highs today, it’s at a two- to three-year low if you price it to real money, which is gold. Stocks are not going up, the value of money is going down and gold proves that. What hurt gold up until this year was the widespread [...]