Investment Watch Blog

by Chris There’s no way to disconnect the system of banking at this point.  That’s how I see it and understand it. It’s a gigantic daisy chain of owing.  Every asset in on every bank balance sheet is somebody else’s liability.  Thus, it’s not possible for the major Italian banks to go down without affecting … Read more

For more than fifteen years, members of Pueblo Sin Fronteras have been reaching out to the most vulnerable immigrants in the United States and to migrants and refugees on the move. We are a collective of friends who decided to be in permanent solidarity with displaced peoples. We accompany migrants and refugees in their journey of hope, … Read more

via knowledgeleaderscapital: Today, economy watchers were treated to more of the same from the housing market. That is, more weak numbers suggesting we may have seen the peak in housing activity for the cycle. This fits with our earlier analysis that higher lending rates – a function of both long-term government bond yields and short-term funding costs for … Read more

Late season Hurricane Willa expected to make landfall in Mexico at a Category 4. Along the same coast Cascadia range shakes with 3 6.5 mag+ quakes in the same few hours, but rest assured as the authorities tell us, nothing in the plate changed. Lastly, Halloween blizzard on tap for N.E USA, explain to your … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXeFzZlp0OE Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, President Trump said on Saturday he will reveal new tax cuts for the middle class before November. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

Do you think that credit scores rising from these two actions is a good thing?   Although your credit score doesn’t make or break your future, it has a major impact on your finances. If you want to rent a home, buy a home, get a credit card, and so many other instances, your credit … Read more

by Chris Yep, the futures are down very hard.  A crash is not unthinkable from here.  What do I mean by “crash”? I’m not talking about some -5% decline in the headline US equity indexes.  I am referring to an “out of parameter” event that causes the computer algos to pack up and go away … Read more

by Michael Snyder Global stocks are falling precipitously once again, and banking stocks are leading the way.  If this reminds you of 2008, it should, because that is precisely what we witnessed back then.  Banking stocks collapsed as fear gripped the marketplace, and ultimately many large global banks had to be bailed out either directly … Read more

by Michael Snyder Even though the midterm elections are about two weeks away, it is the massive caravan of migrants currently headed toward the U.S. border that is garnering most of the top headlines.  President Trump had been hoping that this caravan would be stopped at Mexico’s southern border, but that did not happen, and now … Read more

via confoundedinterest: The Smart Money Flow Index is a sentiment index attempting to measure “skittishness” in the markets.  Particularly at stock market opening in the US for the Dow. We saw a collapse in the Smart Money Flow index in 1999 as the Dot.com bubble exploded. Then we saw a slower decline starting in 2004 in front of … Read more

AMERICA’S CAMP OF THE SAINTS PROBLEM: A vast caravan of unarmed poor migrants are walking* north towards the frontier. A far-right dystopian novel from 1973 foresaw the challenge. Plus a related question and answer: Did a Univision reporter prove Donald Trump right about the migrant caravan? Twitchy.com observes that earlier today, Trump tweeted: Naturally, as Twitchy goes on to note, the … Read more

Originally posted at Breifing.com According to FactSet, the five-year average for the forward 12-month P/E multiple for the S&P 500 is 16.3. Today, the forward 12-month P/E multiple is 15.9 versus 16.8 at the start of the fourth quarter. On the surface, the S&P 500 appears to be undervalued. Why, then, hasn’t there been a rush to buy … Read more