Investment Watch Blog

by Michael Snyder We have a trade deal with China!  Well, except that nothing has actually been written down, nothing has actually been signed, the potential deal won’t really require any major concessions from China, but it did allow the Chinese to achieve a couple of key goals that they really wanted.  But other than … Read more

If American companies seem pathetic when it comes to China, it’s because they are After the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted out his support of protesters in Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party’s retribution was swift and came from all sides, including from parts of the NBA. It is yet another example of how the … Read more

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Sen. Cory Gardner Sees A ‘Very Political Process’ In The House’s Impeachment Inquiry. Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, who was in Denver to speak at a Colorado Chamber of Commerce event, would not say whether he felt it was appropriate for the President of the United States to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political … Read more

By Irina Slav If someone had reported that Angola was preparing its state oil company for privatization three years ago, many would have laughed refused to believe it. In 2016, Sonangol was in shamblesand rumor got around that the company couldn’t even afford to buy toilet paper for its offices. Now three years later, it is preparing for … Read more

By Nick Cunningham Halliburton announced that it would lay off 650 workers across four U.S. states due to the slowdown in shale drilling. The oilfield services giant blamed “local market conditions” for slashing payrolls. “Making this decision was not easy, nor taken lightly, but unfortunately it was necessary as we work to align our operations to reduced … Read more

THE SAME THING FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS. Update (1330ET): Bloomberg reports confirm US and China have reached a partial agreement that would broker a truce in the trade war and lay the groundwork for a broader deal that President Trump and Xi Jinping could sign later this year, according to people familiar with the … Read more

by DCG Henry Kyle Frese Twitter profile Good. Now he needs a serious punishment. From NY Post: The feds busted a Defense Intelligence Agency worker Wednesday for leaking classified national defense information to two journalists in 2018 and 2019 — one of whom he was shacking up with. Henry Kyle Frese, 30, a counterintelligence analyst from Alexandria, … Read more

By Zerohedge British entrepreneur legend, James Dyson, has officially abandoned his electric car project, according to multiple sources including The Verge. In an all staff email sent out on Thursday, Dyson said that he – along with his Board of Directors – decided to stop the effort after unsuccessfully trying to find a buyer for the … Read more

By Tsvetana Paraskova Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the production cut pact that OPEC and its Russia-led allies have been implementing for nearly three years now during his first visit in more than a decade to Saudi Arabia next week, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday. Russia and Saudi Arabia will sign … Read more

via UPFINA: Our readers are well aware that many important news events are coming out in October. There are trade negotiations with China and Europe, the Democratic primary debate, the Fed meeting, economic reports, and earnings season. October is the most volatile month historically. Usually, stocks are the most volatile in the first half of the president’s … Read more

by loveCars We’ve been watching the stock market swing back and forth for months, maybe even more than a year, as the promise of a trade deal comes and goes. There was I thought I had, back at the start, that became lost in the chaos. And I’ve only just remembered it. You see, the … Read more

DENVER — The largest one- and two-day temperature swings in October were recorded in Denver on Wednesday and Thursday. After reaching 83 degrees just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, the temperature plunged to a record-low 13 degrees just before midnight Thursday — a 70-degree swing. It ties for the second-largest temperature drop over two days in … Read more

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