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by visualcapitalist With a decade-long bull market and an ultra low interest rate environment globally, it’s not surprising to see capital flock to housing assets. For many investors, real estate is … Read more
by chartr All hail Taylor Swift who has topped the latest Forbes list of the World’s Highest Paid Celebrities. Overall, Musicians and Athletes dominated, making up more than 70% of … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Now there is this phenomenon: Orders for Class 8 trucks – the heavy trucks that move a big part of the goods across the US – have collapsed by … Read more
by howmuch 2018 in general was not a great year for stocks, with the S&P 500 down 6.2%. However, the CEO compensation of S&P CEOs continued to rise, reaching a median … Read more
via upfina: The May monthly construction spending report was very bad as it was down 0.8% monthly and 2.3% yearly. The weakness is in residential construction, specifically, in single family residential … Read more
Authored by John Butters of Factset Heading into the end of the second quarter, 113 S&P 500 companies have issued EPS guidance for the quarter. Of these 113 companies, 87 have … Read more
via Zerohedge: A common refrain among the bullish talking heads on CNBC in recent months has been that whether one includes the Fed’s invisible hand in “price discovery”, or excludes it … Read more
Federal debt held by the public is already sky high and it’s expected to soar during the next 30 years if current laws remain unchanged — dramatically escalating the risk … Read more
via @TaviCosta: You think the Fed is turning dovish? The PBOC has taken it to a whole new level. At the current policy rate differential, USDCNY should be well above 7 … Read more
Do you believe that the price of gold will go higher if there is additional turmoil? Tariffs, global slowdown, yield curve, etc. Is gold really a barbarous relic? Or is … Read more
US has 2nd-highest production share of global manufacturing, but not based on employment share @CreditSuisse @SoberLook @thomsonreuters pic.twitter.com/03Wrw60WQZ — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) June 3, 2019
Job cuts in the auto industry are now the highest since the recovery began, according to BofAML. (And has started to show up in monthly NFP data) pic.twitter.com/jNfuPmvXoo — Tracy … Read more
Americans now pay their banks an average 17% interest on credit cards — the highest level recorded by the Fed. The rising monthly cost for U.S. consumers may be one … Read more
