Month: February 2020
Is it a cold, the flu or coronavirus? How to tell the difference
Runny nose, cough, sore throat and fever: Symptoms are often similar when one starts to feel sick. That makes it difficult to tell if the illness is a virus or a bacterial infection. At first glance, symptoms for the new coronavirus, otherwise known as 2019-nCoV, are similar to those we know as a common cold … Read more
Schiff Caught RED HANDED In More Lies! This Footage PROVES His REAL Thoughts on John Bolton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELaebqeSTLY Jared Harris from The Western Journal reports, Former national security adviser John Bolton is now being heralded as a major corroborating witness for House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff for claims in an upcoming book, despite the Democratic lawmaker publicly shredding Bolton’s credibility years before. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/bolton…
Jerry Nadler Admits Real Goal of Impeachment Loud and Proud on the Senate Floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_SMeZpi7M 100% Fed Up reports, Jerry Nadler told everyone Thursday what the impeachment of President Trump is all about when he made the claim that the president must be “brought to heel”. The only danger to the country is the out of control Democrats who are trying to destroy our president. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://100percentfedup.com/jerry-nad…
I’m 44 pages in and I can’t find a single substantive story on TSLA in Bloomberg.
1/ Here's the last few days Tesla headlines from BBerg. It's a joke. We are in a battle over narrative management. Zero follow up from the manufactured earnings picture. Not a single substantive story. pic.twitter.com/N559BuVm0t — Peter DeCaprio (@cppinvest) February 3, 2020 3/ But let's talk about Grimes. . . pic.twitter.com/4wegmkyVnG — Peter DeCaprio (@cppinvest) … Read more
Sink The European Union! Deutsche Bank Crashes To Massive €5.7bn Loss
by confoundedinterest Sink The European Union (EU)! Deutsche Bank slipped to a larger than expected loss of €5.7bn (£4.8bn) last year, as the costs of its turnaround drive hit profits. The German banking giant has now posted losses for five consecutive years. Deutsche has struggled with misconduct scandals, failed US growth plans and an abortive merger … Read more
Frobes: Recession Signal Is Raising Its Ugly Head Again; Bloomberg: Yield Curve Inversion Is Sending a Message; Ralph Acampora: Stock Market Downturn Is Going to Get Worse
Recession Signal Is Raising Its Ugly Head Again: Forbes With the rapid decline in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield falling below the 3-month rate, a reliable recession indicator is coming into play again. One day does not make a trend but it is worthwhile to remember that this inversion ran for four and a half … Read more
How Effective Is Gold As a Hedge? History Has an Empirical Answer
by Jeff Clark, Senior Analyst, GoldSilver.com Gold has been a safe haven for literally thousands of years. But how effective is it as a “hedge”? A hedge is an asset that tends to rise when others fall. For example, an investor holding common stocks might find it advantageous to hold some gold too, since it has historically … Read more
FXI tracks HK, ASHR tracks Shanghai
by Gnarldalf Sell out your FXI puts. They track major Chinese companies listed in the HK exchange. Those companies have been slowly bleeding over the last 2 weeks. Buy ASHR puts. ASHR tracks Shanghai listed companies. The drops in the SSE and A50 Chinese indexes are better captured by ASHR than FXI. These are the … Read more
European Economic Growth Slows Almost to Zero
From NY Times: Unexpectedly bad data leaves Europe with little margin for error as Brexit takes effect and the coronavirus looms. From Reuters: French economy shrinks in fourth quarter as strikes bite. Italy’s economy has also been struggling. Additionally it could be a big issue if Trump turns his eyes to Europe. Currently the US has a 2.5% … Read more
China Oil Demand Has Plunged 20% Because of the Virus Lockdown
(Bloomberg) — Chinese oil demand has dropped by about three million barrels a day, or 20% of total consumption, as the coronavirus squeezes the economy, according to people with inside knowledge of the country’s energy industry. The drop is probably the largest demand shock the oil market has suffered since the global financial crisis of … Read more
Phase one deal turning into phase 0.5?
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1224349232175501312 China Seeking "Flexibility" On Phase 1 Trade Pledges As Its Economy Grinds To A Halt https://t.co/takNlMaS2d#coronavirus — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 3, 2020
This market was historically stretched three years ago valuation-wise. Recently, it became the most stupid ever.
This market was historically stretched three years ago valuation-wise. Recently, it became the most stupid ever. January 17, 2020 was the likely peak of an idiotic speculative mania. My bet: Dip buyers today will get slaughtered. Selling panic ahead! https://t.co/CJS4NQTt9d — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) February 3, 2020 A viewer writes in: "If Apple … Read more
Feb 03 update on timelapse of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus infections in Mainland China and its adaption to fit
by tipfom View post on imgur.com The animation shows the (total) number of confirmer infections in Mainland Chinese with the nCoV-2019 and how fits to an exponential and sigmoidal growth function. TLDR: Do NOT panic, this plot is meant to be beautiful and maybe increase interest and no one should use it to predict the … Read more
Price Change of a 30 Second Super Bowl Ad
by BringingBackTheLudes Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/super-bowl-53-commercials-how-much-do-ads-cost-in-2019/l9ghpuv7kwwq1uhwy9xd35rhm Tools: Excel. MS Paint to export. I realized that Wikipedia Listed the average cost of a 30 second Super Bowl Ad and was curious how that number has changed over time.
Meanwhile, the decline sets in
https://twitter.com/anilvohra69/status/1224364446513975296 Quite the coincidence. The ISM manages to surprise with a 50.9 print, but with only 44% of industries reporting any growth. Exact same metrics (headline print and share of industries reporting growth) as in January 2008… the first month of the recession that so few saw coming. — David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) February 3, 2020 … Read more
Under reported statistics from China
Read the following last week, from what seems to be a reliable source. https://humanevents.com/2020/01/29/wuhan-a-human-catastrophe/ “Our hospital is already the first-rated (medical level) in the country,” he said in the chat. “If a nurse, or a doctor is infected, just like SARS, it is unavoidable that people in the whole section are potentially infected too. You … Read more
Possible Explanation for China Being Hit Harder
by Chris We all have genetic variations. In particular, different enzymes and proteins in our bodies have slightly varying configurations and many of these are more heavily or lightly expressed depending on your race. These variants can be quite useful for predicting certain disease outcomes, or tracing genetic routes. In fact, when you do a … Read more
Another reason you will need to wash your hands frequently
Coronavirus detected on doorknob in S. China’s Guangzhou Scientists in south China’s Guangzhou on Sunday detected the nucleic acid of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on a doorknob at the house of a patient diagnosed with the disease, according to an official for the Disease Control and Prevention Center in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province. In addition, other … Read more
DOW, S&P 500 printing most bearish monthly candle since 2009 bottom
The DOW and the S&P 500 stock indices are in the process of printing classic shooting star candles for the month of January. There haven’t been more doomy candlesticks on these two indices for a decade, and they portend a major, major top. The NASDAQ doesn’t quite share this pattern so it might be worth … Read more
Jennifer Zeng on Twitter: “No one is allowed to sell when the market resume on Feb. 3. Biding price to be controlled before opening, no net sell before Feb. 7. Needs special permission for sales over 10M yuan. #CCP fearing market crash”.
Notice about stock market in #China. No one is allowed to sell when the market resume on Feb. 3. Biding price to be controlled before opening, no net sell before Feb. 7. Needs special permission for sales over 10M yuan. #CCP fearing market crash #Coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak pic.twitter.com/lnGIdQJCe2 — Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) February … Read more
Maximize your China profits
by Gnarldalf China opened up their market and their SSE and A50 indeces dropped 8%. Hard drop. Won’t drop further down cause the gov wont let them sell, and it sure as hell aint gonna go up cause nobody in their right mind will buy shit when they’ll stay quarantined till the 10th. I hope … Read more
Wuhan corona death rate of 200ish…math calls BS
by kashflowz So wuhan has a population of about 11 million. And it was said that a crematorium had run out of body bags due to so many people dying. BUT china claims only 200ish people have died so far…Math says untrue. Here I explain. The average mortality rate is ~8 people per 1000 in … Read more
10 Biggest Price Target Changes For Monday
by oranguthang87 SunTrust Robinson Humphrey boosted Biogen Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB) price target from $337 to $360. Biogen closed at $268.85 on Friday. Raymond James raised the price target for Charter Communications Inc (NASDAQ: CHTR) from $525 to $600. Charter Communications shares closed at $517.46 on Friday. Deutsche Bank boosted the price target for Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) from $60 to … Read more