by Michael Snyder Is this going to be another October to remember for Wall Street? As I have explained previously, the month of October has historically been the worst month by far for the U.S. stock market, and it has also been …
Online activities all come with risk. This is especially true in recent years – it seems there’s a high-profile hack, data breach, malware attack, or other negative events in the cyber security sphere every few days. The effects can range …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are declining this morning as investors continue to digest the impact of higher interest rates on stocks US stocks index futures are pointing to a drop in US stocks on the open in NY with …
via visualcapitalist: In many areas of life, we are often our own worst enemies. The realm of personal finance is no different. What’s the biggest threat to achieving financial independence? Unfortunately, it’s your own brain. You can invest in all …
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Get ready, gold bulls: The precious metal could be close to finding a bottom. The price of gold fell back below $1,200 an ounce again last week as the U.S. dollar advanced following another federal …
by Simon Black Howard Marks is one of the greatest investors in history. Marks is the founder of the credit investment firm Oaktree Capital Management. And he’s been sharing his insights with the public in his Chairman memos since 1990 (which …
via marketwatch: The popular narrative says earnings could be permanently spectacular NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate) — The U.S. stock market , as measured by the monthly real (inflation-adjusted) S&P Composite Index, or S&P 500SPX, +0.00% , has increased 3.3-fold since its bottom …
Investors are now earning the smallest earnings yield on the S&P 500 relative to 2-year Treasury yields since 2007. pic.twitter.com/DHhOqOBq2G — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) September 20, 2018 So, companies are more leveraged than ever. According to Bloomberg, “The average debt-to-capital …
via visualcapitalist: In the mining industry, location is paramount. Invest your capital in a jurisdiction that doesn’t respect that investment, or in a place with little geological potential, and it’s possible that it will end up going to waste. That’s why, …
by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver Did you know you can blow a bubble within a bubble? It’s a fun thing for kids. What’s not so fun is that the stock market is doing it right now. And when …
via mises.org: In his speech on April 7 2010 at the Economic Club of New York the President of the New York Fed, William Dudley argued that asset bubbles pose a serious threat to real economic activity. The New York Fed …
via Zerohedge: Having revolutionized investing for both ordinary retail investors and institutions, and increasingly crowding out traditional asset managers, ETFs have set their sights on yet another market to disrupt and dominate: the trillion-dollar market in credit derivatives. Ten years …
Whenever discussions turn towards a finance industry topic such as the stock market, you oftentimes hear the terms “investing” and “trading” erroneously used to mean the same thing. Most people cannot differentiate between the two. The reality is that there’s …
via Interest.co.nz: The warnings from the bond market are getting serious. Today, the US 2-10 yield curve dropped below +20 bps for the first time in more than a decade. In fact they didn’t just drop, they fell sharply. The 2 …
BY JOHN MAULDIN If you read mainstream financial news, you don’t need me to tell you how bad our economy is. Skepticism abounds in the punditry. But sometimes we get so busy worrying about negative things that we ignore positive things …
HMM: Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target. Of the 5,000 Model 3s that contributed to Tesla’s end of June manufacturing target, about 4,300 of them required rework, according to internal documents viewed by Business …
via visualcapitalist: It’s not often that a multi-billion dollar industry appears out of nowhere. Despite the fact that the first-recorded cannabis use by humans was from as far back as 6,000 years ago, the emerging cannabis market remains a challenging enigma …
by Chris Kimble Commodities are becoming a hot topic… and an important investing theme. With the US Dollar coming back to life, commodities have pulled back. And that pullback now has the “equal weight” complex in trouble. Below is a chart of …
Do you think it’s wise to hold onto exclusively FANG+ stocks at this point? Investors around the world are looking for increased corporate profits, better returns, and lower risk. But unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have …
h/t @MI_Investments Investors haven’t been this bullish on U.S. stocks since 2015 Overweight positioning is sign returns may have peaked: BofA America most popular equity region for first time in 5 years All of the monetary aggregates have slowed substantially, …
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Elon Musk is no stranger to making controversial and outlandish comments, and his tweet last week is no exception. As you probably know by now, the perennial entrepreneur announced to his more than 22 million Twitter followers …
Traders have sold more than $1 billion through the first two weeks of August via Jenny Yu and Cindy Wang Chinese investors have lost their taste for Hong Kong stocks after a bump in demand in July. Mainland traders have been selling …
via John Engle Summary Despite missing on earnings, the market reacted favorably to Tesla’s Q2 earnings report thanks to a beat on revenue and apparent reduction in cash burn. Tesla claims it can service its debts with internally generated cash flow, …
The cryptocurrency industry offers a world of exiting opportunities because it promises exponential levels of profitability that traditional assets such as stocks can’t match. However, the cryptocurrency industry is not one large bed of roses—you’ll be bedeviled by gut-wrenching volatility …
BY JOHN MAULDIN Over the last two months, I wrote a series of letters making the case for a worldwide debt default in the next decade. This is what I call “The Great Reset,” and it will rearrange much of the world’s wealth. …
by Daniel Carter There isn’t much better advice than that of a successful investor. It’s hard to imagine a professional with more skin in the game than an investor. When they are wrong about their analysis of this crazy and complicated …
via etf trends Shares of Apple crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization mark on Thursday, causing investors to board the tech giant’s titanic boat party to rejoice, but Canadian businessman and “Shark Tank” television personality Kevin O’Leary shouted down the celebration with …
by Tom McClellan We saw a really high degree of bullishness back in January 2018, when the U.S. stock market was making a big blowoff top. Since then, the major averages have struggled to move higher, and so has bullish …
by jessefelder With the FANG stocks faltering lately investors are starting to become concerned about their impact on the broader market. And there is certainly something to this. Statistically speaking, these market generals have become increasingly important to the broad market indexes recently …
Facebook investors are suing the social network, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CFO David Wehner after a poor earnings report wiped out nearly $160 billion of shareholder wealth. The lawsuit, filed by shareholder James Kacouris in a Manhattan federal court, …