The RASI has breached two key technical indicators. The first was going below its down-trend line that started last February. Of even more import, the Index has gone below the critical 500 level that measures positive or negative market expectations. [more]

The last Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Patten, has written an article, dated September 30, 2019, for Project Syndicate discussing China’s ongoing problem with the Hong Kong protesters. He thinks that, if China’s leaders were more sophisticated, they would act differently. [more]

Most of the yield curve ratio combinations that we follow weakened this past week. However, the most important metric, the 10-year/2-year ratio, actually widened. We will continue to monitor closely U.S. interest rate developments and yield spreads. [more]

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported Q3/2019 global sales of 97,000 electric vehicles, which missed Factset’s estimate target of 99,000, with a 1.8% sales growth quarter-over-quarter compared with a 51% growth in Q2/2019. [more]

Kuuhubb, a Finnish mobile games company with a niche focus in developing or acquiring female-focused apps, recently announced expansion of its mobile games portfolio to include Match-3 and Casual Match-3 Esports platforms. [more]

Since the August low, the RASI Index showed good momentum, but it has now stalled, “rolled over”, and is heading lower. The DJIA shows the same trend. A new market catalyst is required to get both Indexes moving higher again. [more]

The summer doldrums are coming to an end and the market is looking forward to its annual period of positivity that runs from October through to May-June. However, October is traditionally a volatile month for stocks. So, resolving several geopolitical tensions would do wonders for getting the market “back on wheels”. [more]

Last week, NASA posted then quickly retracted a paper written by Google’s researchers outlining a claim that the tech company built the first quantum computer while citing the term “quantum supremacy”, which means the computing power has reached a point capable of carrying out calculations previously impossible or more specifically, too time exhaustive, to carry out. [more]