by UPFINA The long term trend has been towards online shopping, but brick and mortar stores are still prevalent for many types of goods and services. It might be a great time to invest in brick and mortar stores because competition …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION #1: It has become impossible to buy houses between $300-$500,000 in the Orlando area. From a realtor, he said that Blackrock is buying everything and they rely on a famous forecaster who said real estate is the …
Where we look at short- and intermediate- and long-term price and momentum indicators along with volume profile to determine if the charts are bullish or bearish across the board equity and bond market to help prepare you for the trading …
by Chris Kimble US government bonds have come under pressure over the past year. And that decline has come to an important inflection point. Time to bounce higher? Or will government bonds continue to sink lower? That is the theme …
And stocks flip-flop again as Small Caps lag (after leading yesterday) and Nasdaq outperforming (after lagging yesterday), even though late-day ugliness took everything red… A late day surge of selling hit the entire market around 1525ET.. Source: Bloomberg https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bonds-big-tech-bitcoin-bounce-back-complacency-reaches-20-year-high?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
by Michael Lebowitz Taper Is Coming: Got Bonds? The solid economic recovery and easing of COVID restrictions lead us to believe a tapering of QE may not be far off. Further supporting our opinion, inflation has fully recovered to pre-pandemic …
by Michael Lebowitz The Battle Royale: Stocks vs. Bonds. The S&P 500 is at valuations higher than those in 1929 and rival those of 1999. Despite a recession, the index is 25% above where it was trading before the pandemic. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOkNjCgD5ig Real estate, bond, and stock markets are now in massive bubbles and all signs are pointing to a reckoning in all overly inflated assets. Homebuyers, investors, and the Federal Reserve have been fueling an unprecedented market mania, pouring more …
(Bloomberg) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. sold $13 billion of bonds Thursday, the largest deal ever by a bank, taking advantage of some of the cheapest borrowing costs in years to boost its capital after the Federal Reserve let pandemic …
by Kaawumba Robert Shiller has discovered a backward looking metric, which he calls Excess CAPE Yield (ECY), that shows a correlation with future returns. He discusses it in a blog post (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/making-sense-of-soaring-stock-prices-by-robert-j-shiller-et-al-2020-11), but doesn’t go into that much detail. He does …
by td0000001 I have noticed that a lot of here can’t read so of course I decided to write up about Bonds. Who cares nobody is going to read it anyways. A bond is a loan. When you buy a …
This could get ugly fast. Ten year yield just hit 1.75% This could be the end of a 40 year bull market in bonds/40 year bear market in rates. View post on imgur.com https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=BONDS&p=d1 Philly Fed Explodes To Highest Since …
by turtleman182 So basically I think there is a good probability that we are at the edge of an economic disaster. I have been talking about the bond market, and looking into what is going on there and it is …
via FT: In the autumn of last year, US bond investors fully expected Cloud Peak Energy to pay back the money it had borrowed. A bruising fourth-quarter sell-off across commodities has since put that in doubt, as the Wyoming-based miner …
by confoundedinterest17 To listen to some talking heads, everything is beautiful. But according to the bond market, everything is not beautiful. In fact, there is concern about global economic growth and financial fragility. There is now $10 trillion in negative yielding bonds …
By Charles Kennedy The Saudi plan to use their state-run oil giant, Aramco, as a piggy bank panned out fabulously for the Kingdom on Tuesday, with international investor demand topping $100 billion in Aramco’s first-ever foray into international debt markets. …
the world is burning again pic.twitter.com/qxH4eO9znW — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 22, 2019 https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1109483329638858752 IHS Markit said Friday that manufacturing activity in Germany dropped to its lowest level in more than six years in March. In France, manufacturing and services slowed …
by Kimble Charting Junk Bonds and the S&P 500 are both facing key breakout tests at the same time. What each does at these key price points could well determine if the S&P 500 will have the strength to retest last …
Risk is back on the table. Junk bonds are gaining massive attention and of course, that’s not a good thing. Do you think junk is good? Risk is back on the table. The appetite for extremely risky assets has expanding …
via Bloomberg: Online lender Enova issued unrated consumer-loan ABS last year New CFPB proposal would loosen standards for subprime lending Online subprime lender Enova International Inc. bundled consumer loans with eye-popping interest rates — some topping 99 percent annually — into bonds last …
by John Rubino The key insight of the Austrian School of Economics (maybe the key insight of ALL economics) is that the amount you borrow matters, but so does the use to which you put the money. A case in …
via Bloomberg: The Vanguard Group holds about $415 million of municipal bonds issued on behalf of PG&E Corp., about half of the $920 million state and local debt sold for the California utility that’s edging toward bankruptcy because of the fallout from …
Monster rally in U.S. junk-bonds currently underway. pic.twitter.com/W11bqrupdm — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) January 8, 2019 Gundlach: "By historic standards 62% of Triple B rated bonds should be considered junk status right now BUT are not" — John Caruso 🌐 (@JCarusoRJO) …
BY ROBERT ROSS The S&P 500 is down 14% since October. When the market drops, conventional investing wisdom says buy bonds. And this is what investors did. Many have shifted money out of stocks into bonds. Much of that money has …
via Bloomberg: U.S. investment-grade credit spreads are at the highest level in more than two years as the market nears the end of 2018 with the worst returns in a decade. High-grade bonds are returning -2.75 percent this year as …
Investors rush into bonds in record numbers as global economic outlook falls to worst in 10 years “This month’s survey [found] the biggest ever one-month rotation into the asset class” of bonds, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says. The monthly …
via GPC Too many investors are focusing on what the Fed is doing today. The REAL issue that matters is what the Fed did from 2008-2016. When the Fed created a bubble in US government bonds, also called Treasuries, it …
Investors Pulled $29 Billion in October, Most in Three Years From Funds Investors pulled more money out of stock and bond funds in October than in any month in more than three years. Mutual and exchange-traded funds had net redemptions …
by Kimble Charting This chart looks at Junk Bond Fund (PHDAX) and the S&P 500 over the past 25-years. Junk bonds sent bearish messages “before stocks peaked in 2000 & 2007.” Bearish divergences took place for 24-months in 2000 and 7-months in 2007, …
