Italy: Restarting from the 4th of May

by simo1996TO Starting from the 4th of May: -construction and manufacturing sector reopen (not retail). -Restaurants and Pubs ONLY take away allowed. -Inability to move to other regions (only for health problems or job necessities) -Inability to party (even at …

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Markets are engaged in a key battle between the worst evolving fundamental picture in our lifetimes on the one hand, and the largest set of liquidity injections in history.

by northmantrader New bull market? No. Unproven. New lows to come or a retest? No. Unproven. Markets are engaged in a key battle between the worst evolving fundamental picture in our lifetimes on the one hand, and the largest set of …

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Equities have major headwinds now

https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1254165889076903936 Cycles Matter. https://t.co/vZZjhhuQ0r — Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) April 25, 2020 Dollar shortage warning. New lows for EM currencies with $BRL being decimated. Blood in the streets?Not even close. Wall Street still estimates a 20+% appreciation in $BRL and further …

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“Bankruptcy” search term rising slowly

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=Bankruptcy This is a different kind of f*cked up from previous f*cked up we have witnessed, not directly associated to extreme speculation, (people buying tech not knowing what it is, people buying multiple houses to flip them) and the house …

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Only 3% of Fidelity 401k participants stopped buying stocks, and only 0.6% of Vanguard investors moved to all cash from Feb to April

by cefpodoxime Many of Fidelity’s retirement savers continued to contribute steadily with an average contribution of 8.9%, and 15% of savers even upped their contributions. Just 3% of 401(k) participants stopped buying stocks with their contributions. Vanguard told Yahoo Finance …

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Stay defensive

by pkkiller69 Yo, I came across a very interesting read: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1813987?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents It talks about interest rates during the Civil War and WW1. To summarize, the market rate of interest should generally follow the below formula: Interest Rates = Pure Interest + …

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