Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It gets serious. Margin calls? No one knows what the total leverage in the stock market is. But we know it’s huge and has surged in past years, based on the limited data we have, and …
via visualcapitalist: For American retailers, Christmas comes a month earlier. Starting in late-November, the holiday shopping season officially kicks into high gear – and it’s the beginning of a month-long stretch that can either make or break retailers. Black Friday is …
Some investors have excellent timing. Most do not. But if you were on the inside and knew what would happen before it does, you would probably have good foresight. Whether or not Soros knew a crash was coming, seems like …
By Bob Shanahan The caravan is here. The invasion has begun. Unfortunately, the judicial branch continues to hamper President Trump’s duty to defend the citizens of the United States. A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from refusing asylum …
by howmuch If you are trying to save money, take a look at your electrical usage. That’s the message from a new report detailing average utility costs across five different categories for every state across the country. Researchers at move.org crunched the …
Chicks on the Right’s Ashley Kimber caught a gem this week spoting a tweet from Ryan Saavedra. She writes, “The Democrats spent the entire midterm election cycle promising a bunch of free stuff… And REFUSING to explain how they’ll pay …
via JG Martinez D: Editor’s Note: In this update, Jose talks about the worsening corruption, hunger, and crime in Venezuela. It’s hard to imagine, but things are still getting worse there. As we get together to feast with our families this …
Lists Of Stores That Will Be Open and Closed On Thanksgiving Day “As Thanksgiving approaches, some retailers are committing to closing their doors on the holiday, but many others are staying open hoping to stag eager holiday shoppers, according to …
From the Daily Wire: Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed this weekend that she has no idea what the three branches of the U.S. government are during a conference call with prospective far-left political candidates. “If we work our butts off to …
From Dr. David Eifrig and Health & Wealth Bulletin: Thanksgiving is the one day I spend thinking entirely about food… I remember growing up watching my dad spend all day making Thanksgiving dinner for our family. He did it all. The oyster …
via Lisa Egan: Finding unique and useful gifts for the people you care about can be challenging, but hopefully, we can help out a bit. Here’s a list of health and wellness gift ideas just about anyone would appreciate. 1. White …
Whoops…something is getting tense… spread between the USD LIBOR and Euribor hit the highest level in a couple of decades. pic.twitter.com/1rjo1hkDSl — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) November 21, 2018 “The S&P 500 has more room to fall on the back of …
If you are looking for slowdown signals in the US today is your day. Within the US' durable goods report the focus is on the non-defence capital goods orders ex aircraft – the "core" figure, which are a good lead …
via GPC Last week the markets rallied on hype and hope of a potential trade deal between the US and China… and the fact it was options expiration week. Wit those items out of the way, the markets will now …
by T2H Or better yet…ditch the smartphone and never look back. We live in a time where we are constantly bombarded with information. Distractions from social media notifications, emails, breaking news and pop up messages have become the norm. Has …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter So what’s going on here? In the third quarter, the “delinquency rate” on credit-card loan balances at commercial banks other than the largest 100 banks – so the delinquency rate at the 4,705 smaller banks in the US …
by Chris I’ve been waiting for the junk debt universe to signal “game on.” It’s doing that now. Along with the credit spreads blowing out (see above) the Credit Default Swap (CDS) market is blowing up and out for junk …
via slopeofhope: This is a cautionary tale. A tale of a fund of nearly 300 clients and nearly $80 million which blew up in the span of hours from a market move that was, in the grand scheme of things, not …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1064723223969959936 wow – credit markets about to blow up? send stocks lower? pic.twitter.com/nqVvCmtBwj — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 20, 2018 Number1 $AMZN…another Burst💥 -31%🔻@hks55 @OccupyWisdom Long way to run pic.twitter.com/8MgfCGxGbq — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) November 20, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1064879801830379521 Larry Kudlow said …
by Troy Here’s today’s big headline from Bloomberg, one that really caught my attention. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given …
by John Rubino If corporate earnings rise in 2019 like Wall Street analysts expect, stocks are a screaming buy at these bear-market levels. But earnings won’t rise and stocks are not a buy, says money manager Michael Pento: Earnings Recession of …
By Bob Shanahan Paradise, California has become hell on earth. My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of displaced families. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain and devastation they are currently experiencing. Only 80 miles north …
by Graham Summers via Gains, Pains & Capital Last week the markets rallied on hype and hope of a potential trade deal between the US and China… and the fact it was options expiration week. With those items out of the way, the …
by Jim Quinn Gold certainly hasn’t been a great investment for awhile, but since December of last year, it is only down 4.4%. Meanwhile, bitcoin, the darling of the millennials has dropped a mere 75%. Ouch. That’s gonna leave a …
SURVEY: DOW MAY DROP 2,000 POINTS… The Dow will drop to 23,000 before it ever reaches above 27,000 again, according to just over half of CFOs on the CNBC Global CFO Council in a recent survey. That would represent an …
by howmuch If you added up all the money of every billionaire in the world, you’d have about $8.9 trillion in wealth as of 2017. That represents the greatest total growth in wealth among billionaires ever. That’s according to a new …
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a controversial new copyright directive that could force tech giants to do much more to stop the spread of copyrighted material on their platforms. The European Union Directive on Copyright in the …
Homeland Security rushed to barricade part of the country’s busiest land border crossing Monday after learning that some of the thousands of migrants massed on the Mexican side were planning to attempt a kamikaze run to sneak in. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/19/caravan-forces-short-term-shutdown-us-border/ Washington …
by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following …
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 …