Investment Watch Blog

by Troy The S&P 500 is now down approximately -15% Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given day, week, or month. *Probability ≠ certainty. Past performance ≠ … Read more

by Michael Snyder The Federal Reserve has decided not to come to the rescue this time.  All of the economic numbers tell us that the economy is slowing down, and on Wednesday Fed Chair Jerome Powell even admitted that economic conditions are “softening”, but the Federal Reserve raised interest rates anyway.  As one top economist put … Read more

by Michael Snyder Many conservatives are absolutely furious that President Trump has reversed course and has decided not to fight for funding for a border wall.  With the Democrats poised to take control of the House of Representatives in January, this was Trump’s last best chance to get border wall funding, and now the battle … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Existing home sales across the US drop 7% from a year ago, plunge 15.4% in the West. Sales of existing homes — including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops — in November, dropped 7.0% from November last year, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 5.32 million homes, according to … Read more

Silver Doctors, Released on 12/19/18 Real estate expert Ben Jones says the 2008 Housing Bubble is still going on. If it is, we could see prices fall even lower than last time. Speculation and over exuberance has reentered the real estate industry, he says and predicts a major correction ahead. “It’s popping right now.” “You’re … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Up some but the chart not looking so good: Highlights Mostly goods news finally greets the housing sector as both starts and permits are showing an uplift in November results that top Econoday’s consensus range. Starts jumped to a 1.256 million annualized rate for a 4-month high with permits at a 1.328 … Read more

Money manager Peter Schiff predicts, ““Americans are going to be impoverished on a national scale.” So, what is Schiff telling his clients to protect their wealth? Schiff says, “You’ve got to get money out of the U.S. dollar, out of U.S. bonds, out of U.S. stocks . . . which is what I am doing … Read more

via visualcapitalist: The real estate market is a location game. While forces like interest rates, demographics, and the economy help drive the housing market as a whole, the strength of your local market depends on other factors closer to home. When you zoom out to look at U.S. real estate from a bird’s eye view, you’ll … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Chris Vermeulen, the Gold and Oil Guy, joined us for a look at major markets. He says we’ll know very shortly whether we’re in a bear market. A couple more trading sessions should point the way. Gold is looking pretty good, but it’s not going to be straight up for it like … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Heather Wagenhals thinks this could be the merriest of Christmas for the online scammers. Their latest scheme is to redirect potential marks to sites that appear to be legitimate shopping sites. The unsuspecting victim believes they’re placing an actual order, but in reality they’re divulging their credit card info and personal information. It’s … Read more

by Kimble Charting Is the Banking sector sending a message that weaker economic times are ahead for the U.S. economy? Possible! click image to enlarge This chart looks at the Banking Index (BKX) over the past 25-years. It 2007 the index broke 11-year rising support and its 1-year moving average at (1). Once the index broke long-term support … Read more

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Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent attacks by the media on PewDiePie following another insignificant controversy. PewDiePie is the real deal. He started out a simple Swedish guy making strange noises on YouTube videos while playing video games. If you were his parents you would have rolled your eyes, but the joke would be on … Read more

by DCG Are they also going to ban belt loops? From US News: The Justice Department on Tuesday issued its final rule to ban bump stocks, making them illegal to own or sell. The reform, the first major gun-control action in recent years and the first of the Trump administration, comes after several recent mass shootings – … Read more