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The Financial SUN

Stock markets are so exciting for the Financial Times Deutschland. Either its all bullish or altogether bearish. Every day anew. Nothing for investors with cardiac insufficiency who happen to miss their glasses.

Financial Times Germany, 2008-01-10, 1st page

This is the same level as for the regional newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten. They have two angles only, too.

For sensitive souls like me an arrow signals a trend. The steeper the more. A trend is easy to calculate and visualize:

Index quotes with sparklines

* nt = “no trend”

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm and is filed under Musings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “The Financial SUN”

  1. Stephen Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Interesting that they show the Nikkei up, when the trend is clearly down.

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