Friday, March 27, 2015

The Market On Friday

  Good morning. It is 37 degrees and cloudy here in the Upper Hudson Valley. Finally we may be into a warming trend as we head towards April. The ground snow coverage is down to a mere minimum and the ground itself is a little mushy and soft. Hey, is anyone else noticing that websites, especially major websites, are stuffing their pages with more and more advertising and junk. My computer is starting to react slowly to it, and we are right back to the start of the web when computers would seize up and freeze, we rebooted all the time. Computer technology is the perfect fit for the overall marketing profit need for planned obsolescence.

  At 8:40 a.m. ET futures are modestly lower while the price of light crude per barrel is hovering close to $51. The market is poised to open lower.

  The market has trended lower almost the entire week. Two hot spots on the globe, Yemen and Greece, are causing concerns in the investment world. The US government has revised or rather unrevised the fourth quarter GDP to the same 2.2% growth. The weekend is at hand and hooray for that.

CNN: Stocks: 4 things to know before the open
"Geopolitical risk [is] set to remain over the weekend with the situation in Yemen tense and Greece needing to deliver serious and useful economic reforms by Monday if it is to receive the funds it needs so badly..."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, is anyone else noticing that websites, especially major websites, are stuffing their pages with more and more advertising and junk. My computer is starting to react slowly to it, and we are right back to the start of the web when computers would seize up, we rebooted all the time.

I keep my computer updated and I still have this problem. It isn't the websites' content that causes it. You're right, it's the stupid ads. The dumb, egotistical advertising managers are constantly updating their software to create their annoying animated banners and pop-up crap. So if you don't have the absolute latest version of Flash or whatever running, they'll freeze your browser.

Lately I keep my volume turned off because the advertising assholes love loud auto-play videos that launch and start blasting immediately.

I agree with the late, great Bill Hicks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VWXMFGsTo

Jim Sande said...

That's good, very funny.