Weight watchers

Oprah bought 10% of WW plus options to buy anothet 5%. 

The stock went up 85%.

This is rediculous  :-D

America's playground

Wal-mart dropped 10% after a bad outlook was released for next year.

Sounds like retailers will be hit hard in this selloff. No mercy.

Meanwhile im checking couch cushions for anything I can include in my next futures trade.  Hopefully I can borrow 5-20k to add to my own money.  That way I can get my account close to $70k within a few years, even after paying generous interest. 

Wtf was going on with finance in medeival italy?

Italy was the most advanced of europe, far behind iraq. 
The Catholic church surpressed a lot, especially by not allowing their people to charge interest on loans.  Venice had jews who were forced to live in an out of sight gheto but were allowed to charge interest to the catholics.  The jews at the time were only supposed to charge interest to gentiles so it worked out, but wtf?  It sounds so silly today.

But then the ruthless Medici crime family created the first bank, then they got super rich trading currencies and were more legitamit from then on.

T rowe price

My 401k provider sent me an email about a live broadcast which will be about the status and health of the stock market.  There would be a group of guys speaking.  They were financial planners and market strategists, including a few CFA's.  No traders.  Noone who earned money directly from making accurate bets on markets.  Boring.  I dont care to hear more about spending less/diversifying.  They make money by giving advice to people who cant count.

Government is ready but clueless

Current and former government officials at a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conference agreed that US financial regulators can't be expected to prevent another financial crisis like the one that hit in 2008, because they don't know yet what they need to do.

I guess they will never know what to do.  Proactivity Is still a guessing game in my age.  But that might be what gives me opportunity.

African exchanges

At the moment there are 29 stock exchanges in Africa.  20 of them were started in the 1990's or later. only 3 have over 100 listings and several have less than 20 listings.  Better extremely slow, non-lucrative and late than never.

There is financial news in africa, mostly with egypt, nigeria and south africa but noone cares.