Month: August 2019

The government typically uses three tools to help ward off a recession. But with these already in play to help prop up the economy, the Trump administration may have reason to worry. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains. Photo: AP This video originally appeared on WSJ Video

Doing light physical activity such as cooking or washing dishes each day is enough to substantially lower the risk of early death, a study suggests. Researchers say people can raise their chances of living a longer life by moving just a little bit more and sitting a little less. In the study, led by the Norwegian … Read more

by Michael Kahn My favorite meme following last week’s yield curve inversion was captioned, “I survived the yield curve inversion.” My favorite tweet (from @jfahmy) was, “The next Jobs Report should be very strong with the 50,000 “Yield Curve Experts” that were added this week.” Last Wednesday, the day the Dow dropped 800 points, the … Read more

by John Ward Having forcefully observed three years ago that Boris Johnson ran up the gangplank to board HMS Brexit just as it was upping anchor, I have been praying of late that the last three years had, if nothing else, made him a confirmed Leaver. But Boris the Spider is the same as ever. After … Read more

by caretcaked I saw the posts over the last 1-2 weeks from other Ally bank customers receiving sketchy phone calls and I think I would’ve caught on anyway, but as soon as I got a call from “Ally Bank” I was suspicious. Given that my suspicions were right, I thought I’d share since there were … Read more

by multicm Data Source: NCUA Quarterly Call Report Data https://www.ncua.gov/analysis/credit-union-corporate-call-report-data/quarterly-data Tool Used: Excel

by Kc_Ryback Last night there was a mega block of GE Stock traded at 15:10:00 with Price $8:16 equaling 6,297,443 shares bought. The total came out to $51,387,134.88 worth of GE, most likely by an institutional investor (possibly the hedge who was in on the short? That is not for certain.) Culp and his insider … Read more

by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not illegal for these people to buy or sell their own shares. In fact, since most … Read more

by SacredFireFly You heard it here first. Apple is sitting on the biggest mountain of offshore cash since Scrooge Mcduck divorced Minnie Mouse Orange Tariff Man and Tim Apple are discussing the preferential treatment they’ll get for bringing that money back Zero marketing or organic growth required, the customers already exist The next step in … Read more

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/record-stock-buybacks-fueled-debt-201001687.html In the first quarter, the buyback activity of the information technology, financials and health care sectors reached new highs. IT companies’ level of repurchases has nearly reached $300 billion, financials cumulatively spent nearly $160 billion and health care has spent $104 billion.

Bush 2008: We need to stimulate the economy with rebate checks and tax cuts. Trump 2019: We need to stimulate the economy with payroll tax cuts, quantitative easing, and 100bps rate cuts. (now you know the truth – this type of stimulation is in an attempt to avoid a recession). pic.twitter.com/tCikeEWbRS — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August … Read more

https://static.financialsense.com/audio/2019-08/financial-sense-20190822-kerkhoff-clip-2c502aca1.mp3 August 22 – Ten-year Treasury yields have been cut in half over the past 10 months with the steepest drop in recent weeks. Matthew Kerkhoff explains the two possible explanations for this—recession or a flood of capital into U.S. bonds—and why… https://www.financialsense.com/podcast/19268/us-government-spending-were-already-recession-says-matthew-kerkhoff