Chinese companies’ insiders continue to dump shares amid market rally

via yuantalks: The strong rally in China’s equity market has attracted retail investors to buy stocks. So far this year, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has surged more than 30 per cent. In March, 2.99 million new investors opened accounts to make stock investment, surging 109 per cent from the previous month. While retail investors are … Read more

Why is JPM hedging against a downturn in the economy? Is rate cut & qe-4 statements from trump admin panic?

why is jpm hedging against a downturn in the "greatest economy ever"? pic.twitter.com/7t4pztmYHB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 4, 2019 Job Layoffs Surge 35% to Highest Level to Start a Year in a Decade The worst first quarter since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Job layoffs hit 190,410 in the first quarter, a 35.6 … Read more

Banks’ Unrealized Losses Soon to Be Realized

via mises: The timing of Jerome Powell’s appearance on “60 Minutes,” along with Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, is curious. Scott Pelley asked no penetrating questions, so nothing was learned. Fed Chairs aren’t known to hit the interview circuit. Bernanke appeared during the crisis to reassure the nation that the central bank can and will fix … Read more

Fed Risks Stoking Financial Bubble in Drive to Lift Inflation

by confoundedinterest17 Fed Chair Jerome Powell is singing “Take it easy.’ The Federal Reserve risks stoking the same sort of asset bubbles that Chairman Jerome Powell has linked to the last two recessions with its new-found eagerness to fan inflation. The Fed’s surprise pivot away from any interest rate increases this year has boosted prices of stocks, … Read more

Constellation Brands Q4 2019 Earnings Breakdown

by hyousef333   Beer Business Delivers Double-Digit Net Sales and Operating Income Growth for FY19 Company Generates Record Operating Cash Flow Signs Agreement to Sell Portion of Wine & Spirits Business to E. & J. Gallo Winery Achieves fiscal 2019 reported basis EPS of $17.57 and comparable basis EPS of $9.28, an increase of 53% … Read more

Draft Law to Bring Gold Reserves Back to Romania Passes in the Senate

via business-review.eu: Romanian senators adopted a draft law introduced by PSD leader Liviu Dragnea and senator Serban Nicolae to force Romania’s National Bank (BNR) to bring almost all of Romania’s gold back from reserves being held at the Bank of England in London, according to profit.ro. The supporters of this project say that the BNR should no … Read more

William Barr Notified Mueller Team Engaged in Criminal Conduct During Trump Russia Probe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV7xPQePP2E GOP senators alert Barr to allegations that Mueller team misrepresented emails https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-… Shortly before Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed his report on the Russia investigationlast month, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., alerted Attorney General Bill Barr to what they described as the “selective” use of emails in Mueller court filings — as … Read more

The World’s Cheapest Natural Gas

By Nick Cunningham Natural gas prices fell into record negative territory in the Permian basin, dragged down by booming oil production and a limited ability to move gas out of the region. Unlike in other places, such as the Marcellus and Utica shales, natural gas in West Texas is produced as a byproduct. This “associated … Read more

The Left can dominate US politics for the next generation. They have built the coalition. Obama showed them how to rule. They only need a leader.

by Fabius Maximus The Left has assembled a cohesive bloc of voters: people of color, immigrants, gays, hard-core leftists, radical feminists, single mothers, and fragments of their long-ago core (e.g., union workers and their families). These people have passion about their politics, giving them power greater than the other elements of the Democratic Party’s coalition of … Read more