Investment Watch Blog

via Josh Wolfe: First time since 08 buybacks exceeded CapEx —last time was 10yrs ago right before March 09 lows. As % of assets CapEx=low, Debt=high Fed says “OK” If stocks📈,boosts “confidence“        

Braced for the global downturn It’s the calm before the storm. Last week’s market volatility was ostensibly triggered by the US-China trade conflict turning into a full-blown currency war. But at heart, it’s about the inability of the Federal Reserve to convince us that its July rate cut was merely “insurance” to protect against a … Read more

by mhanrahan I retired from my job on June 14 of this year. Over the previous 3 years I had been preparing for my retirement by getting rid of everything I owned (selling what I could, donating the rest), selling my condo, and getting a retirement visa (jubilado) for Ecuador. The requirements were a little confusing, … Read more

by wolfesmc11 I’ve seen this time and time again on this sub and with my friends IRL. My friend recently interviewed at a job and they asked “What are your salary expectations?” To which he replied “I’m looking in the realm of $50-$60k”. Guess what they offered him? Ding. You guessed it. 50k. When asked … Read more

by raptorbluez I recently went to withdraw some cash in another country from an HSBC ATM. A screen popped up after I entered the amount and HSBC offered to do the currency exchange locally rather than let my bank make the conversion. The problem is that HSBC’s offered exchange rate was really terrible – nearly … Read more

Goldman, which is in charge of deciding who gets the Apple Card, is accepting some applications from users with less-than-stellar credit scores, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Apple wanted its bank partner to create a technology platform to approve as many of its 100 million-plus iPhone users in the U.S. as possible, … Read more

by justslightlyeducated Recently my bank card was somehow comprised and charged a penny in Oregon. I’m in central California. During the compromise I recieved 1 legitimate phone call from ally asking me to confirm that I didnt make the charge and that my card would be disabled and to call back to get a new … Read more

by Embiid4Prez Source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250471-Epstein-Docs.html Page 1264

by panish_guy https://es.investing.com/currencies/usd-ars https://www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/dolar-hoy-cotizacion-nid2276661 Piotr Janiszewski @ATAFIN Argentina Peso – New Circle of F/X Hell… USD/ARS 58.5000 +29.29% All Time High 62.00 that’s why even Dante didn’ t create Hell like Argentinian Inferno… The country is on the verge of default again. The right-wing president didn’t succeed in reversing the collapse of the economy and people … Read more

by MakeoverBelly   I’m looking at prospectuses of the big tech players when they entered the public markets. I see that most of the giants everyone wants to see being created again were actually profitable when going public. Apple, 1980, profit: 12M, revenue: 118M, S-1 link Microsoft, 1986, profit: 17M, revenue: 85M, S-1 link Google, 2004, profit: … Read more

by SeelyMatthew If you think a recession is imminent, you can increase the percentage of bonds in your portfolio, such as Vanguard’s BND. When a recession hits and the market drops 30-50% you can liquidate those bonds and buy the general stock market. Historically, the market always recovers so you can look at the recession as … Read more

by lahkbustuh Imagine this: if you were around in the early 1900’s, which car company would you have invested in? There were hundreds of them. Most of them looked pretty good. Even as late as the 1950’s Studebaker, Nash, and American Motors would have looked pretty great. You would have no way of knowing Ford, GM, … Read more

by stenlis I believe there are three ways companies strike it big: 1) They invent (or seriously flesh out) and market a new technology. Think Edison’s light bulb. This is the most risky type of investments. Most inventions turn out to be either impossible to create at the time (Theranos, HDSN – if we talk publicly … Read more

by 2_uber TLDR: SHORT JOHN DEERE Schmidt says sales at his dealership, in general, declined by as much as 15% in the first half of the year, led by a fall in the demand for large equipment. In a sign of things to come, early orders for planting equipment for next season’s soybean and corn … Read more

There’s no video of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide: sources There’s no surveillance video of the incident in which Jeffrey Epstein apparently hanged himself in a federal lockup in Lower Manhattan, law enforcement officials told The Post on Sunday. Although there are cameras in the 9 South wingwhere the convicted pedophile was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, … Read more

Barr issued a stark warning to Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators on Monday He also slammed the handling of Epstein by the Manhattan Correctional Center Barr said he is ‘appalled’ and ‘angry’ at the failure to ‘adequately secure’ Epstein While Epstein was the only person charged the Manhattan U.S. Attorney pledged to ‘stand for victims’ following his … Read more