by Dennis Miller The market is bouncing up and down like Marqeus Haynesdribbled a basketball. Are stop losses necessary? Investors are edgy. Money and Markets reports – “Alarming Survey: Record Number of Fund Managers More Bearish than 08 Crisis”. “…. Bank of America’s monthly …
This should be interesting. Every aspect of the economic system was/is being manipulated to prop up the ponzie scheme central bank. Finally some accountability may actually happen. NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of large institutional investors including BlackRock …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Lured by the siren song of a “buying opportunity” and a fat yield. GE shares plunged another 10% this morning to a low of $8.15 before recovering a little. They’re now a big step closer to …
From the reuters source: The banks being sued are: Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Japan’s MUFG Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, Societe Generale, Standard …
by streetsofrageTWO Sounds crazy at first but think about it. The #1 goal with no longer reporting unit sales is so Apple investors no longer view Apple as a 100% hardware company. Apple wants to be know as a Software/Services …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Hedge fund managers sit at the top of the financial world’s food chain. They’re generally seen as the smartest money managers, and their companies have the most flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The result is supposed …
by Richard Rosso Passive, In Reality Is Active, Sometimes RADIOactive. The ‘passive’ revolution we’re witnessing is to provide a portfolio solution which is based on the demand for the products, regardless of how expensive the products may be. To be …
by KillingTime56 The 10% correction, that has taken place in October 2018, is the forth largest stock market monthly drop since the year 2000. Here are the other monthly drops since 2000 that were over 10%: September 2002– 10.10% loss …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1056823984807927808 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1056770220331855872 How quickly years worth of gains can be lost in bubble markets….if it wasn't for the US blowing out it's deficit and global QE of $15T and 0% rates for so long, these would have become permanent. At …
via Zero Hedge With hedge fund redemption pressures – as a result of what has been largely abysmal performance by the 2 and 20 crowd in both Q3 and 2018 – frequently cited as one of the potential culprits for …
via @JeffCoxCNBCcom As the stock market, and homebuilders in particular, experience difficulty, it could put pressure on the Fed to ease its pace of interest rate hikes. Homebuilder shares plunged 40 percent from their mid-January high, a move reminiscent of their …
by Michael Lebowitz There is an old saying that proclaims, “it’s not the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean.” Since this is a family-friendly publication, we will leave it at that. However, the saying has a …
by jakewins The Treasury Department on Friday outlined rules for investors seeking to finance development in under-served regions in exchange for significant tax breaks. The opportunity zones come with several tax advantages. Capital gains placed in a certified opportunity zone …
Jason talks about how US stocks are being sold off for reasons that the mainstream financial media is not mentioning! This includes: more volatility making institutional investors skittish, the US Dollar rally continuing, President Trump continuing to want to escalate …
by Dennis Miller A friend asked why I have an offshore account. I countered, “Do you REALLY trust the government?” He felt the Fed saved us in 2008 with their Quantitative Easing (QE). The economy is great, and employment is rising. …
via Luke Kawa Pessimism on the global economy is piling up amid rising trade tensions and expectations the U.S. central bank will carry on tightening despite the tumult in equity markets. Fund managers surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch this …
What Jan/Feb Vixmageddon and this October mini crash are telling big investors is that the door to get out is ~TINY~ so in as much as they think we're at peak earnings or about to get there, they will likely …
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 …