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Super Bowl Indicator: The Secret History

Super Bowl Indicator: The Secret History

Posted by on Jan 31, 2011 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

By Jason Zweig |  Jan. 28, 2011 4:11 pm ETT Image credit: “Super Bowl XXXIX,” CTLiotta (2005), Wikimedia Commons As MarketBeat reported somewhat tongue-in-cheek last week, “it appears that the only thing that can keep the stock market from rising in 2011 is if the [New York] Jets win on Sunday.” That’s based on the Super Bowl Indicator, which...

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Will Small Investors Ever Warm Up to Stocks Again?

Will Small Investors Ever Warm Up to Stocks Again?

Posted by on Jan 25, 2011 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured, Video |

Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet   By Jason Zweig |  Jan. 22, 2011 12:01 a.m. ET Here come the sheep, just in time to be shorn. That has been the refrain on Wall Street this week, as the latest figures showed that retail investors put $3.8 billion more into U.S. stock mutual funds than they took out in the week of Jan. 12. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones...

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Structured Serendipity

Structured Serendipity

Posted by on Jan 18, 2011 in Uncategorized |

By Jason Zweig  |  Jan. 18, 2011 4:17 p.m. ET Image credit: Clara Peeters, “Still Life” (1611), The Prado   Here’s a guest contribution I wrote for Edge.org, the website run by intellectual impresario John Brockman, as one  answer to the question: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? It was also...

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