For those out there who are getting overly excited over the S&P 500, this one’s for you. Less than 3% of the index is at a new 52-week high. https://twitter.com/DavidInglesTV/status/1025185689090981888 Wage growth has been slowing. Construction has been slowing. Jobs …
Hey everyone! I have made an animated video of “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffett claims it is, “The best book ever written on investing.” Warren Buffett was a student of Graham’s, and that this book has amazing …
The confidence is being lost for three reasons: Crippling debt Stagnant wages High inflation U.S. consumers are feeling a bit less confident as they grow more concerned about trade wars. https://t.co/fIe9CNHtHT — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) July 13, 2018 Corporations are …
BY SRSROCCO The world is standing at the edge of the financial abyss while most investors are entirely in the dark. However, specific indicators suggest the market is one giant RED BLINKING LIGHT. One of these indicators is the amount …
Global Yield Curve Has Inverted for 1st Time Since 2007 Dow transports could soon be in ‘jeopardy,’ and it could spell trouble for stocks, says trader The Dow transports-tracking ETF (IYT) has fallen more than 3 percent in the last …
Jim Mellon talks the possibility of a trade war from CNBC. via CNBC: A market correction is inevitable even without trade war fears, billionaire investor Jim Mellon told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Tuesday. Mellon is not alone in suggesting …
From Dan Ferris, Editor, Extreme Value: Today’s video is a short introduction to the main ideas in the June 2018 issue of Extreme Value, published on Friday, June 8, 2018. Details are for subscribers only, but I think subscribers will agree the …
by Simon Black It’s typically pretty hard to find anything exciting to say about drywall. Yes, drywall… as in, the building material that’s used for interior construction. Drywall, also known as wallboard, is manufactured from rehydrated gypsum to produce a calcium …
It happened just weeks before the historic October 2007 stock market top: Investors had “become utterly unconcerned with risk,” as the September 2007 Elliott Wave Theorist remarked. With that in mind, this update on investor psychology should interest every market …
Image by iStock/Alphotographic From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Although not directly addressed in [the World War II movie] Darkest Hour, the U.K. ended up evacuating billions of dollars’ worth of gold bullion and other assets across the Atlantic, all to be …
Incredible when you see all these indicators and it still keeps going up and up. https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1003796795770585089 America quit saving. Households are getting squeeze by higher gas prices, recently pushing the savings rate below 3% pic.twitter.com/i1pWna5uSb — The Long View (@HayekAndKeynes) …
via @chengevelyn “I think a 30 percent correction in the [U.S.] markets is not unforeseen,” Mark Mobius, co-founder of Mobius Capital Partners, said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” “I think this is quite possible. I’m not predicting it tomorrow or next week, but …
by John Rubino Big companies report blow-out earnings. Home prices are soaring. North Korea promises to end its nuke program, possibly averting another Asian war. And stocks fall. Does the news no longer matter? No, it doesn’t. But it never …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A 39% plunge in three months. But it was spectacular while it lasted. Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, …
by John Rubino Facebook is an epic growth story. It now has an astounding 2 billion active users and a stock that – from an already richly-valued level – rose by 53% in the previous year. In February its market …
BY SRSROCCO As the U.S. and global oil industry continue to cannibalize itself just to stay alive, the market is totally clueless because investors are being misled by the fallacy that technology will solve our peak oil crisis. While technology has …
by BILL BONNER GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – We continue our exploration… …of why the stock market is a fraud… …why investors’ savings are not really funding U.S. business… … why instead, they are aiding and abetting a multitrillion-dollar rip-off… …and how …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It started before the sell-off. TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index – “designed to indicate the sentiment of retail investors” based on what they’re doing in their accounts and “how they are actually positioned in the markets” – plunged …
Michael Lebowitz: Central Banks Created The Inflation Monster & Can’t Stop It Now? The discussion centers around central bankers and in Lebowitz’s opinion the bond bull market is not over, The bankers have created exploding budget deficits and credit bubbles …
From Birch Gold Group We’ve been using the market like a casino. Except, “this casino is on steroids” according to billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Icahn thinks the stock market is getting dangerous for the average person. His reasoning? Over-leveraged ETFs (exchange …
When you look at the stock market you will see fraudulent manipulated prices, thanks to central banks. But we’ve seen corporations follow along and do the same using fake accounting in order to boost the confidence and of course, corporate …
Hes arguing the tech giants’ size and “monopolistic” behavior had made them a “menace” to society, damaged democracy, and encouraged “addiction” akin to gambling companies. http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-calls-facebook-google-menace-society-obstacles-innovation-2018-1 Speaking on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Hungarian businessman …
US/Foreign Real Estate Ratio signals warning for the United States pic.twitter.com/wpnb9GgJos — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 8, 2017 S&P500 50ma Spread = Overbought pic.twitter.com/y6LdJ2NWbg — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 8, 2017 You should probably pay attention to this chart pic.twitter.com/Uf8l2ThMuF — Alastair …
By Michael Snyder One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock market is going to crash by October, and if he is right he could potentially make up to 262 million dollars on the deal. Fortunes …
Hussman posted this chart in his latest blog. https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170717.htm Speaking of margin debt, Doug Short recently provided this look at investor credit balances and the equity market. The bars (green when positive, red when negative) show the sum of: cash …
By Michael Snyder If Jim Rogers is right, the worst stock market crash that any of us has ever seen is right around the corner. For the past 15 years, Rogers has been a frequent guest analyst on CNBC, Fox …
by Umar Farooq VIX futures and options are frequently being applied by investors as a hedge against volatility. If stocks tumble, some of the losses incurred can be offset against the profits generated from trading these options. When investors …
The real estate market in Australia is currently considered to be overvalued by many experts and some even believe that a decline in property price growth is to be expected in the coming 12-18 months, due to the oversupply of …