These are the conditions that make flashy crashy things possible

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https://twitter.com/TheBigMunchkin/status/1090613526065041408 #ticktools volume/flow adjusted $VIX is painting an increasingly bullish picture for Volatility products which implies a signficant risk for #equities pic.twitter.com/L5qHlfxnmk — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) January 30, 2019 Liquidity is a Coward, it only exists when you don’t need it… https://t.co/iEXqJWuzix — Mark W. Yusko – Two Point One Quadrillion (@MarkYusko) January 29, 2019 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1090298983749246976 … Read more

Baltic Dry Index In A Cliff Dive, Pending Home Sales Drop Despite Much Lower Interest Rates, Recession Is Looming

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Look at this chart: ratio of “present situation” to “expectations” from the Conference Board confidence report. Cut-and-dry sign of a tapped-out consumer. A great leading indicator at turning points because it either coincides with the recession or occurs a few months prior pic.twitter.com/qEf1a8ekVn — David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) January 29, 2019 https://twitter.com/ercorbeil/status/1090446815785373696 "We are getting more … Read more

Pros and Cons of Apple’s Earnings Call

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by JesusCItsJasonB https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-q1-2019-earnings.html Pros: -Gross margin if 38% across all businesses, 34.3% gross margin for iPhone, and 68% gross margin for services (Apple Pay, Apple Music, iCloud, …). Gross margin = The higher the percentage, the more the company retains on each dollar of sales, to service its other costs and debt obligations. -19% growth … Read more

EBay to Pay Its First-Ever Dividend

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebay-to-pay-its-first-ever-dividend-11548800151 EBay Inc. EBAY -0.97% said Tuesday it would pay a 14-cent dividend in March, its first ever, as the company faces pressure from hedge-fund investors to improve shareholder returns. The dividend, which is set to be paid on March 20, is part of a broader capital-return plan the company announced. It also added $4 … Read more

Even the big boys screwed up. Credit Suisse said to take loss of $60 million on Canada Goose.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/credit-suisse-said-to-lose-60-million-after-canada-goose-trade Sold the stock at a $60 million loss after Canada arrested Huiwei ceo. Credit Suisse acted as an underwriter on the sale of 10 million shares by Canada Goose Holdings Inc. stockholders in late November. The offering was priced at $65.15 a share, a 1.85 percent discount to the previous close, a person familiar … Read more

Bloomberg uses entire news article for advertisement

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by Altruistic_Camel Today Bloomberg has a news story about Equinox opening a new gym in New York City. (non-paywall) On the terminal this was under “Featured Stories” in TOP. It is under “Businessweek” on their website. Not their lifestyle section, not their Pursuits magazine, just smack in the middle like any other regular news story. The article has needless details like … Read more

CHICAGO’S DEEPEST FREEZE COLDEST IN LIFETIME! HEAT OFF IN BUILDING WARNING: DON’T TALK MIDWEST FEELS LIKE -60° CHILL MAP

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CHICAGO (CBS) — It will be so cold outside that you shouldn’t talk. That’s the warning from the National Weather Service as potentially record-breaking cold slams Chicago and the Midwest. In addition to the usual dress in layers and cover your mouth warnings, the NWS in Des Moines said, “to protect your lungs from severely … Read more

U.S.-China War May Be “Just A Shot Away”

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by GoldCore – “World’s most dangerous hotspot” is in the South China Sea – Currency and trade wars can lead to shooting wars warns Rickards – Chinese buildup in South China Sea like ‘preparing for World War III’ says US senator (see news) – U.S.-China shooting war could be, as Mick Jagger put it, “just a shot … Read more

Walls Across America: Celebrity Edition

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LA is home to some of President Trump’s biggest critics. Hollywood’s elites have gone so far as to say a wall would be ‘ineffective,’ ‘unjust,’ and even ‘racist.’ Well, The DC’s Benny Johnson paid a visit to some of their West Coast mansions, which tell a completely different story!     h/t C.K. Dexter Haven

PREPARING FOR 2020: Microsoft Partners With Liberal Disinformation Company NewsGuard To Blacklist Stories That Support A Conservative Viewpoint

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by Geoffrey Grider NewsGuard, which is the establishment media’s latest effort to blacklist alternative media sites, is giving its sign of approval to proven hoaxes, even to stories that have been retracted. This story is personal for me, let me tell you why. Back on January 6th of this year, I was contacted by a woman … Read more

American engineer working for Huawei who said he was being asked to compromise US security then died of “suicide” in Singapore in 2012 may have been murdered

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by Jack_Addlebrained Dr. Shane Todd was an American engineer who died under disputed circumstances in Singapore in June 2012. Local authorities said Dr. Todd had committed suicide, though his family insists that he was murdered,[2] possibly in connection with the work he had been doing at the Institute for Micro Electronics (“IME”), part of the … Read more

$840M in GOLD BARS prepared for loading onto RUSSIAN jet at VENEZUELAN airport

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com About 20 tons of gold from Venezuela’s central bank was ready to be hauled away Tuesday on a Russian airline’s Boeing 777 that landed in Caracas a day earlier, a Venezuelan lawmaker wrote on Twitter. The destination of the $840 million in gold bars was unknown, but a source told Bloomberg News that … Read more