Investment Watch Blog

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 my notes from 7 November 2018 as of mid-morning. (This list is limited to companies … Read more

by Thinker The FDA has been on a campaign to ban a natural plant called kratom, that many say is a wonderful pain reliever. People use kratom for opiate withdrawal, cough, depression, anxiety, and many others, but there is no scientific evidence (not a money maker)to support these uses. How does it work? Kratom contains … Read more

via CybergothiChe: There is a housing crisis in Australia’s apple isle, Tasmania. It is part of a greater plan to use Australia as a lifeboat for humanity when society in the rest of the world fails due to nuclear war. But the rich will escape to Antarctica. Tasmania is rapidly becoming the ‘to go’ place, and … Read more

by axolotl_peyotl The brief and manufactured outrage against Saudi Arabia that was recently peddled by the Mockingbird MSM has apparently run its course. After distracting the masses with “domestic terror” events and a sham of an election, the collective amnesia of the brainwashed population has set in with a vengeance. Meanwhile, the US figureheads of the … Read more

by axolotl_peyotl This article offers some high octane speculation for the recent Lion air tragedy, which killed nearly 200 people. Another article on the event notes: At least 23 government officials, four employees of state tin miner PT Timah and three employees of a Timah subsidiary, were on the plane. At this point, this author … Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bitter and expensive clash between Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson remains too close to call, despite Scott’s declaration of victory. Nelson has not conceded. His campaign says it’s preparing for a recount and will have observers in every one of the state’s 67 counties to … Read more

San Francisco voters Tuesday gave a solid thumbs-up to Proposition C, which is designed to inject the most money ever directed at city homeless programs by taxing big businesses to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. With 99 percent of the vote counted, the measure won 60 percent to 40 percent — a solid majority, … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com According to Fox News: Motel 6 has reportedly agreed to pay up to $7.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after the chain was accused of sharing Hispanic guests’ personal information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Earlier this year, the chain was sued by former guests who alleged … Read more

BY JOHN MAULDIN The US Treasury has closed the books on Fiscal Year 2018, which was another debt-financed failure. The federal government spent above $4.1 trillion in FY 2018. It had to borrow $779 billion on budget and a few hundred billion more off-budget. And over 40% of the on-budget deficit went simply to pay $325 … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Startups spend almost 40 cents of every VC dollar on Google, Facebook, and Amazon.” Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Palo Alto-based Social Capital – a “technology holding company” – and an early Facebook executive responsible for increasing its userbase (he left in 2011 to found Social Capital), has been accused of being outspoken before. … Read more

BY JOHN MAULDIN There’s very real possibility the global economy breaks down in the next six months. Anything could trigger a crisis, and it could well be something no one now foresees. But here are my three candidates. Corporate Credit Crisis US companies are way more leveraged now than they were ahead of the 2008 crisis. … Read more

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I’m already fatigued and disgusted with Christmas promotions. They’re everywhere now, including every other ad on television.   I’ve come to loathe the holiday season because of the extreme materialism and consumerism into which it has degenerated. That said, Wall Street has overlooked or ignored an interesting aspect reflected in Amazon.com’s Q3 … Read more

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Travel experts are already predicting the busiest Thanksgiving season at the airport on record. This year’s holiday is also expected to last longer than normal, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Tuesday. The lineups at LaGuardia Airport are still calm, but in just over a week it will be mobbed. The Transportation Security Administration … Read more

by streetsofrageTWO Sounds crazy at first but think about it. The #1 goal with no longer reporting unit sales is so Apple investors no longer view Apple as a 100% hardware company. Apple wants to be know as a Software/Services company that also sells great hardware. Apple announces the end of Unit sales reporting. And … Read more