https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1059860505723056128 WTI Crude Enters Bear Market – Plunges To 7-Month Lows WTI Crude futures are down 20% from their early October highs, with the front-month contract back to a $61 handle at its lowest level since April. As more details emerged …
China’s official doctrine is to take Taiwan by diplomacy or force, any means necessary, by 2021 (the 100th anniversary of their Communist Party). This has been openly stated by Xi Jinping, so the short-fuse countdown is set, lest China’s Govt, …
by McShillin The newest batch of ACT scores shows troubling long-term declines in performance, with students’ math achievement reaching a 20-year low, according to results released Wednesday. The average math score for the graduating class of 2018 was 20.5, marking a …
By Bob Shanahan Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight puts the chances of the Democrats winning back the House of Representatives today at 88 percent. RealClearPolitics calculates that the Democrats will pick up 27 House seats. The Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman said …
by Troy Midterm elections are here. Lots of trader and investors are talking about “if the Republicans/Democrats win/lose, the stock market will (insert random guess here). This “analysis” is no better than a coin toss. Nobody knows how the election will …
by Chris Here’s a fun Tweet: David Rosenberg @EconguyRosie Word to the wise. We have endured two 10% corrections in the same year for all three major averages. This has only happened in 1973, 1974, 1987, 2000, 2001, 2002 and …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, It takes 23.6% of median income to make the monthly payment on the average-priced home. In it’s latest report, the Black Knight Mortgage Monitor confuses affordability with payment stress and fails to make an apples-to-apples comparison …
by howmuch The U.S. economy is booming. Republicans think President Trump deserves much of the credit for cutting business and individual tax rates combined with a deregulation agenda. And Democrats believe former President Obama rightfully deserves ownership for America’s recovery. Regardless of who gets credit, …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I have not had a chance to scour the 10-Q, which was finally filed this morning. GM and Ford are 7-8x larger than Tesla in terms of revenues and 40-50x larger in terms of number of …
By John W. Whitehead “For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. In the …
by John Mauldin But, like Cinderella at the ball, you must heed one warning or everything will turn into pumpkins and mice: Mr. Market is there to serve you, not to guide you. It is his pocketbook, not his wisdom, that …
Theresa May is coming up with a secret deal and the people don’t know what its all about, the question is why is it secret. Home sales are imploding in California, it starting to look like the entire housing market …
by Thinker I don’t have a crystal ball. Nor can I say with certainty what will happen on Nov 6th. However, what I can tell you is the statistics so far do not match up with the liberal media’s polling. …
by Kimble Charting CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Junk Bonds have sent an important message to stocks at important tops and bottoms over the past 20-years! Junk bonds sent bullish messages to stocks as they created bullish divergences at the lows in …
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by Shaun Richards The world is more fragile today than it was in 2007. That’s the opinion of former derivatives trader Nassim Taleb, whose bestseller, The Black Swan, is about how people make sense of unexpected events, especially in financial markets. …
When Democrats’ Tactics Backfire. Some leading Democrats haven’t seemed to figure out that the harder they’ve worked to expose, silence, scream at, attack and bully those with whom they disagree, the more they’ve invigorated the other side. Radical “Antifa” protests covered …
by NaturalHedgehog Each day I go through the top rising and falling stocks today, and look for (a) what the company actually does, and (b) why the stock is moving so much. Hopefully this saves you some digging! Below are …
by SP ConsortiumNews.com has been very critical of the NYT assertion that Russian operatives using facebook ads, “stole the election” “handing it to Trump.” (and here) Here is another ConsortiumNews piece by Gareth Porter that profoundly undermines this narrative. The reason …
Bold move, gonna shave off quite a bit of Walmart’s top line this quarter since a big appeal of their eCommerce business is offering Free Shipping to customers without the need to buy a membership. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/11/05/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season/1889512002/ Target …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Time for some hefty share buybacks. Apple suppliers are talking and filling in some details on demand for iPhones. And shares of Apple dropped another 4% mid-morning, after having dropped 6.6% on Friday, after it had …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: U.S. dollar weakness to drive gold and silver prices in 2019, silver is a promising investment in 2019, and …
By Bob Shanahan Photo courtesy of Antiwar.com While the country is obsessing over the midterm elections on Tuesday, the military industrial complex rife with neoconservative nation builders has completed its hijacking of President Trump’s foreign policy. Instead of navigating a …
by Lance Roberts Last week, General Electric (GE) did something that many never thought would happen. They slashed their dividend to just $0.01 per share. We are talking about GE. A company which has been bringing “good things to life” for well …
via slopeofhope: In the middle of last month, I offered up the post Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in an effort to lay out what I thought were some possible paths for the market. Out of an infinity of possibilities, I described fourpossible pathways, and …
Shot: ‘SNL’ Mocks ‘Gross’ GOP Candidate Who Lost His Eye to an IED Blast: The vile attack came during the SNL’s faux news segment “Weekend Update” where Davidson was mocking multiple Republican politicians for their looks. The comedian stated he’d “realized …
via Force2Reckon: So this is crazy, and I feel crazy for posting it, but that’s why I figured I’d post it to a conspiracy thread. As many know Diablo had a main stage announcement this year at Blizzcon. Front and center! …
via Bill McBride A few brief excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note today: The Housing Slowdown The most likely drivers of the slowdown are higher interest rates and tax reform. CR Note: We discussed these two key headwinds at the …
by Dana Lyons Big down months off of highs have led to bear markets in the past. Everything was going just fine for investors at the end of September (well, maybe not under the surface). The major averages closed right near all-time …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiYSEF6Cgo A RED WAVE [& TRIBUNALS] IS COMING — Dr. Dave Janda Politico: Democrats traumatized by 2016 are having pre-midterms nightmares On the eve of the midterms, President Donald Trump’s approval is falling, young voters are energized, and Republicans look …