It’s well known that the Native Americans refer to different moons, such as the harvest moon, the blood moon and the hunters’ moon. What is less well known is that the financial markets also refer to moon phases such as the bear moon when the bottom falls out of the market . . .
The Princess Buttercup hoped her snow globe would be like the crystal ball she kept hearing that politicos from Washington DC used to project winning candidates, and hedge fund managers from Wall Street relied on to project stock picks. No matter how hard she concentrated or peered into the thing, the picture didn’t seem to change very much. Perhaps, she thought, her future lay elsewhere than the prognostication business . . . . . David, Sf.G.
