If I understand right, this is basically merging s&p 500 [1] and dollar value index [2]. The value of the dollar has been dropping all year, at a higher rate than the value of the s&p 500 has been going up.
Basically, the market's dollar denominated value is going up, but dollars are becoming less valuable. This combines to mean that market value has actually down this year, not up.
Perhaps op can correct me on anything I got wrong.
Yes, and as a European, this is very visible in my portfolio. S&P 500 ETF is the worst performing part of my savings portfolio, when nominated in euros. China, Nordics, rest of the Europe & emerging markets are all doing fine.
Of course, the falling dollar price benefits US exports in the future, so it could be a good time to invest in US, now that it has been performing less stellar compared to the rest of the world.
Being in the UK, witnessing the pound devalue massively, my S&P investments have done stupidly well. As have my Japanese index investments. And my European index investments. Global index investments. If I thought the UK was going to sort itself out, I might sell off some of those and put them back into pounds.
That I blew most of last month's pay on European indices suggests I think the Maybot and chums are not done wrecking the UK yet :)
Well I'm just going on what the governor of the Bank of England says, but what do I know eh?
'In the clearest indication yet that there could be a rate rise as early as November, Mark Carney suggested that it was time for the bank to "ease its foot off the accelerator".'
But you would certainly like to have some kind of explanation on why the dollar is so weak before calling this a good time to invest? Like - what exactly is going on over there?
The US economy seems to be less dependent on exports as other countries, and the fortunes of US (tech) companies seem to hinge on other things than exchange rates.
OTOH, the US economy is very dependent on one special "export": dollars, which for now the rest of the world accepts to sell goods on credit (see negative trade balance). If the dollar continues to devalue, this mechanism could break at some point.
That is very true. And in general, contrary to what Wall Street at least used to think, I think Trump administration will cause damage in the long run for the US economy, especially if he is re-elected.
Do you have a better alternative that we should put our faith in? At least the government has a somewhat transparent and, at least in theory, non-profit motivated process for creating these guidelines. Virtually any other source, other than doing the research yourself, is going to be about selling you something. And the fact of the matter is, the government probably has the most incentive of any organisation to keep people healthy.
I actually find that this increases my confidence in government recommendations. The fact that the old guidelines are being updated given new research over the past decades is a wonderful thing to see.
We live on a big planet with many different countries populated by the same species of human. Perhaps you could start by reading what other countries' governments recommend in terms of nutrition?
Well then why don't you enlighten us on the result of such a reading? For the impatient, I'll spill the beans - because the guidelines are quite similar across the board! They're all based on the same research and scientific majority opinion at the time! Who would've thought?
That's a good question. I've been involved with some research, outside of Google, on this exact topic. Because we don't have the same data sets that Google has, we have a slightly different methodology for gathering data and we found that hotmail (or any Microsoft mail provider) never even has the option to encrypt if you want to. We always though it was strange that they didn't, and this new data seems to suggest that there may be something else going on.
One possibility that was already pointed out is heterogeneous architectures. It's possible that different systems in hotmail, maybe in different geographic regions or across national borders, use encryption.
Because these days, most users spend 95% of their time in the browser. And most of the time spent outside could still be spent inside (using Word, playing games, etc). ChromeOS is not just something designed for cheap hardware, it's a new user paradigm that recognizes the current and future trends of the way people use computers.
I'm sure this has been talked about before, but I think the ideal of what a scroll bar should try to impress on the user is that it is a shading, representing the area they currently see, over the entire bar, representing the entire length of the page. Basically similar to what Sublime does, showing you a zoomed out view of the text with a shading over the section you currently see. http://i.stack.imgur.com/UeGnE.png
Obviously, this is pretty much how the size of the bar is calculated already, but few designs actually translate it very well. That's what really struck me about the iOS and OS X Lion scroll bars over the others he showed. They really do a much better job at actually conveying this to the user, or at least, they did for me. Ubuntu's terminal scrollbar is also similar in this regard. It would be awesome to see default designs start to focus on this in the future.
Basically, the market's dollar denominated value is going up, but dollars are becoming less valuable. This combines to mean that market value has actually down this year, not up.
Perhaps op can correct me on anything I got wrong.
[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx [2] http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy