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From The Economist: Last year 12m people in the world had $1m or more in investible assets. That is 1m more “high-net-worth individuals” than in 2011. Source: Economist

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361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…

The end of the QE Infinity Rally that began on Thanksgiving is now officially over. Stephen Suttmeier (BofA Merrill’s technician) weighs in on the S&P’s broken uptrend and lays out some important support and resistance levels to be aware of in the short- to intermediate-term… The bulls made a stand early last week, but the…

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So far, the Apple insiders who have seen and heard stuff about this project are not giving it their blessing. They seem to have problem with the way things are played up a bit. Wozniak, in particular, has been publicly critical. That’s too bad, Woz – it’s not a documentary and people expect to be…

Josh here – my friend and CNBC Fast Money co-host Stephen Weiss has written a very insightful take on the market’s reaction to all this wonderful Fed Transparency. Weiss’s take is that we might have been better off had the Fed just done the taper and then told us about it after the fact –…