POLITICAL VIEW . With CNBC making a big fuzz about the Dow selling off quickly on the news that Senator Barack Obama was the presumptive Democratic nominee for the November US presidential election, I have to comment. Actually I hate to talk politics, first ‘cause I detest politics, but secondly...
GLOBAL VIEW . Yep, when I started reading the Bloomberg newswire this morning, I found: (1) that European “retail sales declined -2.9% in April, more than three times as much as economists forecast,” (2) that March’s retail spending was revised downward from -1.6% to -2.3%, (3) that...