Welcome To the (Tech) Jungle: Cisco’s Reaching Up to Skype?

By Econmatters  Merger mania is definitely back in the Tech sector. HP (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) are still seriously locking horns over 3PAR (...

Tech Sector Watch: Is Mega Merger the Inevitable Solution?

By EconMatters While the fierce 3PAR bidding war is becoming even more exciting than a live Sotheby auction, the most active market sector...

Faber and Schiff: The American Bond Bubble

By Dian L. Chu As I've been saying for some time that the bond market is screaming for an imminent burst, now Dr. Marc Faber and Mr. P...

Self Fulfilling Prophecy: The Bond Trade

By Dian L. Chu The 10 year T-Note is currently yielding 2.5%, and the Fed`s latest quantitative easing initiative is becoming counterprodu...

Hindenburg Omen Redux, How Dire Is It Anyway?

By Dian L. Chu The Hindenburg Omen was triggered again last week, as reported by the WSJ MarketBeat . This is the second time this month s...

China: Investing In The US After Unocal

Dian L. Chu After state-owned CNOOC was blocked from the Unocal acquisition in 2005, China has instead turned toward other countries such ...

Transportation, Emissions, Biofuels and Whiskey

By Dian L. Chu A new report released by the Carbon Disclosure Project notes that globally, 98% of transportation runs on fuel made from o...

Tech Sector: HP`s Outlook for 4th Quarter Much Better than Cisco`s Chambers

Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions I listened to the HP earning`s call, and it was really solid. It appears that HP is integr...

Microsoft & IBM: Potential Suitors for HP

By Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions The longer HP languishes at the $41 a share level, the more likely the company will beco...

Yield: Dow 30 vs. 10-year U.S. Treasury

Dian L. Chu Government bonds across the globe are benefiting from concern about anemic economic growth, the risk of deflation in the US, a...

HP’s Hurd Crisis Creates A Value Play

By EconMatters Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) has had a bad week since the announcement that Mark Hurd was resigning. HPQ stock is currentl...

Straddling 3D Super Bus for a Greener China

Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions With its rapidly growing rural-to-urban population, China is in the midst of a massive tra...

U.S. Distillate Demand Falling off a Cliff

By Dian L. Chu Crude Oil had a breakout this week as the risk trade was put on, it benefitted from the short the dollar, and go long commo...

Rating Agency Feud: S&P vs. Dagong…For Now

Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions It all started almost a month ago when Dagong, the largest credit rating agency in China, ...

IMF: U.S. Real Estate Sectors Could Bring Banking Crisis 2.0

By Dian L. Chu The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stress tested 53 large banking holding companies and published its findings  in July ...

Macro Blues Overshadow Crude Oil

By Dian L. Chu Crude oil has been trading within the range of $75-$80 for the fourth consecutive week with investors now focusing on a sl...