Archive for July, 2009

E book launched

Over the past 26 weeks we have been students of John Thornhills Mastercalss course on how the make money on the internet. Today we received approval from clickbank for our product, “Beat The Medical Odds”, so we are now live on the net.  The next stage is to create traffic to our web site and [...]

A Puse, or have we reached the top of this rally?

It has been almost two weeks since my last post.  Life has been exceedingly busy, what with the day job and launching Harriet’s  ebook on the market. So now I can take a breath and think about the markets. Since Friday the 17th the DJIA has risen 350 points, the S&P500 38 and the FTSE 157.  [...]

A Week of Mixed Messages

The rally that failed to appear after the Independence Day holiday came this week. All markets made gains, The DJIA gained 612 ponts, The S&P500 62.6 and the FTSE 261 ponits.  It seemed to be another week when and good news was exaggerated and any bad news ignored.  Mind you the fact that the July [...]

No Patriotic Rally

It is often the case that after Presidents Day, Independence Day and Thanksgiving, the market resumes with a “patriotic” rally.  Not so this time. The DJIA lost 156, the S&P500 lost 19 points and the FTSE lost 95.5 points. All points mentioned were on the September futures. Last week I mentioned that the FTSE was [...]

Independence Day – for whom?

Today the US celebrates Independence Day.  However fewer and fewer citizens are truly independent.  Yesterday the markets took a turn down after the non farm payrolls came in worse than expected. Initial unemployed still remains above 600,000 and the unemoloyment rate hit 9.5%.  This is the official figure which does not count those unfortunate people [...]