Could This Be A Brutal Earnings Season? If So, How Should One Be Positioned?

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Authored by Steven Vannelli via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, Yesterday BASF, the largest chemical company in the world, announced its earnings would fall well short of analyst estimates in the second quarter. Earnings season in the US begins imminently; so, we ran through our charts to harvest any insights about how corporate earnings may play … Read more

CBS News: “Appeals court appears ready to rule Obamacare unconstitutional”

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via CBS News: The Affordable Care Act, and the health coverage of millions of Americans, could face a major threat to its future.  A federal appeals court in New Orleans appears ready to rule that a core provision of Obamacare is unconstitutional. It’s unclear exactly when the appeals court will rule, but whichever side loses at this … Read more

5 Strange Things about Jeffery Epstein

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtnxY5SGDs The history of where Jeffery Epstein got his money is largely a mystery. Some researchers are of the opinion that Jeffery Epstein is running what is known as a Brownstone operation – or blackmail operation. This theory was further bolstered by the testimony of Virginia Roberts, who was one of “Epstein’s girls”, and stated … Read more

Buckle Up, the Trade War is About to EXPLODE

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By The Phoenix And when it does, smart investors will lock in TRIPLE DIGIT… and possibly even QUADRUPLE DIGIT RETURNS. Stocks performed a backtest of the broken rising wedge formation (red lines in the chart below) yesterday. The driver was the announcement from the Fed that multiple officials were open to cutting interest rates.  The … Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law State Bill 104, which now extends health care benefits to illegal immigrants between the ages of 19-25, in addition to the law that already had guaranteed coverage to illegal immigrants under the age of 19. – They are setting a precedent!

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California: We are bankrupt and not able to fund the public education system. Also California: Lets give all illegals free healthcare and education   This is key to how they run this scam. It’s actually ILLEGAL to use federal funds to pay for Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens, except for emergency services and labor and … Read more

SAD, BUT BELIEVABLE: More than half of people wear headphones just to avoid talking to other people, researchers say.

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via wbir: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — We’ve all been there, whether you’re trying to get in that much-needed workout or simply want to finish a task at work, you decide to pop in your ear buds. It’s the universal sign for do not disturb, right? Apparently, we’re not really as busy as we pretend to be. According … Read more

UNDOING THE SPIN: Trump and the Sex Offender: Guess why the press makes a villain out of Jeffrey Epstein’s only successful prosecutor?

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via WSJ: Mr. Epstein is back in a holding cell, under indictment by a U.S. attorney in New York. He will have his day in court. Presumably we will find out whether the evidence against the hedge-fund impresario for sexually abusing numerous underage girls in the early 2000s is as strong as it seems. But … Read more

Journalists Are Seldom Heroes, Except In Their Own Stories

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Maybe Journalists Aren’t the Real Heroes of the Epstein Case: 11 years later, firefighters arrive at the scene. As you might have noticed, there is a common thread among the examples of investigative journalism’s resurgence: The election of Donald Trump. The Epstein case is no different. More than a decade after his conviction, the presumably … Read more

BOJ Trapped – How will the Nightmare End?

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by Martin Armstrong Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda publicly stated that it may maintain ultra-low rates for a further period of well over a year. However, he also warned against the idea of propping up the economy through unlimited money printing to finance government spending. That may sound nice, but the Bank of … Read more

What will an earnings recession do to stocks?

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by Troy Earnings season is just around the quarter, and earnings growth is expected to be negative. Many traders have attributed the stock market’s rally over the past few months to a dovish Fed. Today’s headlines: Earnings growth Goldman Sachs Bull/Bear Indicator Large caps outperforming small caps Industrials underperformance Fed’s dovishness Go here to understand our … Read more

Rand Paul: The Democratic Party’s race to turn America into a “socialist utopia” will have DEVASTATING effects if they are successful.

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The Democratic Party's race to turn America into a "socialist utopia" will have DEVASTATING effects if they are successful.@RandPaul joins @ericbolling to discuss the horrific consequences of socialism. Watch more BlazeTV FREE for 30 days ===> https://t.co/i7H0MRcrBp pic.twitter.com/bzwq5y9mEQ — BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) June 30, 2019

Tommy Robinson sentenced to 6 months in jail plus 3 months on old suspended sentence

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The British activist and former English Defence League (EDL) leader was earlier found guilty of contempt of court after he livestreamed information about defendants in a case involving the sexual exploitation of underage English girls in 2017. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, has been sentenced to 9 months in jail over contempt of … Read more

Not Bullish: S&P500’s Q2 earnings expectations continue to slide, Manhattan home prices falling at fastest rate since GFC

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S&P500's Q2 #earnings expectations continue to slide via @biancoresearch @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/G8gnVes5sg — Gregory Daco (@GregDaco) July 10, 2019 Chart suggests earnings are going negative Chart suggests earnings are going negative from CNBC. Manhattan home prices falling at fastest rate since GFC@DeutscheBank @SoberLook @streeteasy pic.twitter.com/AbT2XepB8O — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) July 10, 2019 Equities pricing in … Read more