No economy is as dependent on a trade surplus as Germany.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) named names and pointed fingers: Its Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany in October dropped by 14.1 points, to a level of negative -24.7, matching July 2018, both the lowest levels since August 2012, when the Eurozone was still trying to not dig itself deeper into … Read more

The BIGGEST Risk For the Stock Market Before 2019! Fed Cause the Financial Crisis Part 2?

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What is the BIGGEST RISK to the markets right now? If you see the daily fluctuations of the financial markets, they’re nonsensical. Highly erratic behaviour. But this is what the entire world is relying on in the financial industry and everything connected in with it. Markets need to consistently be growing and periods of slowness … Read more

BOOM! They Just Got CAUGHT HIDING Key Evidence From Trump! Top GOP Rep Blows Story WIDE OPEN!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYg361NHL4 Chuck Ross for the Western Journal reports, A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday that Fusion GPS co-founder is “in real legal jeopardy” over inconsistent testimony that he gave to Congress regarding his work on the infamous Steele dossier. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/fusion…

It seems possible that Khashoggi was murdered in order to embarrass Crown Prince bin Salman rather than to protect him

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HMM: What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi. The fate of Khashoggi has at least provoked global outrage, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. We are told he was a liberal, Saudi progressive voice fighting for freedom and democracy, and a martyr who paid the ultimate price for telling the truth to power. … Read more

BLUE WAVE? Polarization Seems to Be Helping Republicans in Run-Up to Midterms. “Energized voters on the right dim prospects for big Democratic gains in red districts and states.”

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Nate Cohn: The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems to have contributed to polarizing the electorate, helping Republicans gain in red states and districts even as Democrats cement their strong position elsewhere. The trend might fade, but if it holds it will be an abrupt change from earlier polls and last … Read more

New Caravan Masses Toward US Border; Doubles in size… Divides into groups

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Northbound migrant group doubles in size, enters Guatemala AGUA CALIENTE, Guatemala (Reuters) – Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward, after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally. The crowd more than … Read more

This is typical bear market rally – WAY WAY WAY too strong – gets people way too optimistic and in a fractal loop of raising of all their price expectations

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This is typical bear market rally – WAY WAY WAY too strong – gets people way too optimistic and in a fractal loop of raising of all their price expectations — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) October 16, 2018 2630s was main geometric target but when we held 2740s plus the x-Ticks became clear they try to get … Read more

Is A Year-End Rally Still Possible?

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For the last few months, we have repeatedly warned about the mounting risks which were being ignored by an increasingly overly complacent, overly exuberant market. Doug Kass had a good compilation of those concerns on Friday: The Fed Chairman seemed more hawkish in tone recently Rising interest rates provide … Read more

Anatomy Of A Global Rescue

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by Chris What does a rescue look like in a hyper-interconnected world of global “markets?” Well it looks like this…just for fun I’ve lined up the “markets” for Japan, the US, Europe generally and Germany specifically so that their times line up. Notice anything? Now the headlines this morning are all going to be about … Read more

Dissention in the markets

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Dissention in the markets pic.twitter.com/AfKUoiiV9L — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) October 16, 2018 Seller exhaustion is setting up at 2792 a top 40 percentile event over the last 20 years. Should find support there and bounce but failure at this price would set up further downside#ticktools — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) October 16, 2018 Future business conditions pic.twitter.com/hok3M0AJ3F — … Read more

Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue in Controversial Bargain With High-Speed Traders

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Article strongly comes off as a hit piece, but fwiw: “… The startup, valued at $5.6 billion, was bringing in more than 40 percent of its revenue earlier this year from selling its customers’ orders to high-frequency trading firms, or market makers, like Citadel Securities and Two Sigma Securities, according to three people with knowledge … Read more