by Michael Snyder We continue to see extremely wild swings on Wall Street. On Monday, at one point the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 352 points, and then later it was down 566 points. At the closing bell the …
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 …
US EQUITY VOL EXPLODING pic.twitter.com/uhJrNfT0VO — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 29, 2018 Quarterly View of MSCI ALL WORLD — Turning Point seems to be here, but I do not think the big crash is yet. There needs to be a "last …
by WARREN MOSLER Income less than expected, spending ok, so savings fell: Highlights Income growth proved very slight in September with inflation steady and moderate and right on the Federal Reserve’s target. Personal income inched only 0.2 percent higher in …
by Geoffrey Grider Several hundred black youth leaders met in Washington DC for the inaugural conference this weekend. The group was invited Friday to the Trump White House where President Trump spoke to the gathering The Left’s worst case scenario …
via confoundedinterest: How long will Italy last if and when the ECB stops buying their sovereign debt? Well, we know it isn’t the Italian banks and other Italian financial entites buying Italian sovereign debt. Mostly it is the ECB buying Italian …
#BREAKING: #Venezuela closes its border with #Colombia stating the reason as emergency closure over a mouth-and-foot disease. pic.twitter.com/VnN5C4SVfF — srb news (@srbnews0) October 29, 2018 Police halt 2nd migrant group trying to enter Mexico Several hundred migrants tried to …
God bless you, Brandon. This brought tears to my eyes. I am so happy to see so many Americans waking up and realizing how anti-American and anti-freedom the Democrat party truly is. For far too long, many blindly voted for …
by DCG If the homeless wanted to be part of the solution wouldn’t they voluntarily pick up after themselves? From SF Gate: San Jose is launching a new program to clean up the streets while also helping get people off them. The …
by DennisC Who needs “foreign” agents when .gov employees are seemingly just as effective. Must need more projects at this agency (or less .gov employees). Now, there’s a radical idea, IMO. https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2018/10/porn-watching-employee-infe… An Interior Department watchdog recommended the U.S. Geological Survey …
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the weekend, I was reviewing some old commentary and stumbled across a piece from 2012 which contained an excerpt from Jeremy Grantham who is the famed investor at GMO. I have spoken, and …
What do you think is happening with real estate right now in the major cities? Mortgage rates continue to climb putting further pressure on homebuyers. Their salvation is always to be able to rent. However, today in most major U.S. …
From Reason: By the time a child born in 2018 is settling into retirement, the national debt could be six times the size of the American economy. Without making any changes to current policy—in other words, even without the glut of new entitlement …
From Gallup: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A majority of Americans, 57%, say there is a need for a third, major political party, while 38% of Americans believe the current two party system does an adequate job of representing the people. These views …
By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The results are finally in from one of the most controversial voting exercises ever held in Mexico. The people — albeit a tiny fraction of the whole electorate — have voted …
by Michael Snyder Could it be possible that the U.S. is heading for a major war? If you ask most Americans that question, they will look at you like you are crazy. For most people in this country, war with …
by Robert Kiyosaki of Daily Reckoning This is a very emotional subject, pensions. Politicians and unions promised pensions they had no way to fund for the last 40 years and the bill has come due. It’s not just bad for taxpayers, it’s bad …
via ASIA TIMES STAFF A mid tightening financial conditions, the US is facing headwinds going into next year and could see a significant slowdown in economic growth, according to Goldman Sachs. “At this point, our central expectation is that financial conditions …
by Shaun Richards A feature of bond market and debt crises is not only how far the market falls but how long it lasts. This is because as the majority and sometimes vast majority of debt issued has a coupon …
via Rob Isbitts I have been tracking the parallels between 2018’s S&P 500 price movement and that of 1987 since early this summer. I keep trying to ignore it, but to quote that famous Seinfeld scene with a painting called “The Kramer”… “He …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are dropping this morning following disappointing results from Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG.L) and negative earnings guidance from European large-cap stocks US stocks index futures are declining and are pointing to a sharp decline to the start of …
by Chris They are accounted for using a “net” position. Example: Imagine that DB has sold a credit default swap to party A, but then also bought a credit default swap from party B on the same underlying position. Let’s …
by Michael Snyder As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle …
by Michael Snyder The modern tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween can be traced back more than 2000 years to the Celts of ancient Britain. During a Druidic festival known as Samhain, which is still celebrated by Wiccans and other modern pagans, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “People are concerned about all that capital chasing limited opportunities.” After a decade of “emergency” measures such as QE and zero-interest-rate policy designed to pump up asset prices – now ended – we get this: “Everyone …
https://twitter.com/greg_ip/status/1055529416028250115 tightened financial conditions pic.twitter.com/I6PKXqEocg — Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo) October 25, 2018 Rising Rates Fan Equity Fears Over $14 Trillion of Company Debt Bloomberg–3 hours ago Over the past decade, non-financial corporate debt worldwide has swelled 68 percent to $14 trillion, according to Sanford C. …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the stunning level of spending by the Canadian government as the number breaches $300B pushing up Canada’s debt ratio. The deficit has been ranked at $19B. The overall spending …
by Kimble Charting Many savvy investors look at the NYSE Composite to gauge the health of the broader market. With the markets in correction mode, we will look at this broad-based stock index for clues about the stock market correction. In the chart …
It only just begun…and already "Markets in Turmoil" specials. You can't put a $20T plug under markets (supply & demand) and expect it won't have opposite effects removing it. We also have no idea how much QE was levered up …