China Is Importing Record Amounts Of Agricultural Commodities, Pork, Cattle & Chicken

Over the last month or so the US Department of Agriculture is getting more data about how much China is now importing from US farmers. Some of the orders are indeed a record: 1) China Books Record Weekly U.S. Beef Purchases, Also Buys U.S. Corn https://www.agweb.com/article/china-b… 2) China buys 664,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans, biggest … Read more

Big Banks Have Knowingly Laundered Trillions For Criminals For Decades

by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St About a week ago BuzzFeed News supposedly broke a story about how large banks like HSBC Bank and Deutsche Bank have been knowingly laundering potentially trillions for drug cartels, organized crime and terrorist organizations for decades. However, this has been well known for well over a decade by anyone … Read more

P/E Ratio of the US Market Is Still Very High, Even Despite Others Have Better EPS Over Time

by Peter Smith European and Asian markets offer better EPS over time, but investors sticks with the US. Image Source: Twitter @leadlagreport US Market Is Still Trade at a Premium Apparently, investors prefer the relative stability of the US market to large potential returns from European and Asian exchanges. According to Michael A. Gayed, US stocks … Read more

Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGLE) Combined Market Cap Is Now Equal to 42% of Nasdaq 100 (NDX)

by Usman Salis Tech giants continue their expansion into the Nasdaq 100 Index, and six companies altogether account for almost 50% of the capitalization. Tech stocks have always been strong in the index, but in 2020 this imbalance has reached unprecedented proportions. According to Jeroen Blokland, the head of the Robeco multi-asset fund, only four technology companies … Read more

The Volume of Short Positions in the Shanghai Composite Index (SHA:000001) Hits All-Time High at ¥80 Billion Following the S&P 500 (SPX)

by Saad Ullah Throughout 2020, the number of short sellers on the Chinese market has been growing and has now reached its peak. More and more investors are betting on the imminent fall of the Chinese market. Shanghai Composite Index short positions exceeded 80 billion yuan, according to Michael A. Gayed. The Chinese index has not yet seen … Read more