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, …
What do you think will happen to the stock market this week? Tech stocks have been rattled recently but their performance throughout 2017 and most of 2018 has been gravity defying to say the least. Up until recently it seemed …
#Facebook just lost the equivalent of: The entire #Bitcoin market cap 🥇 Almost the entire NYS 2018 budget (168B) 🗽 More than the entire market cap of #Nike (126B)👟 More than the entire #GDP of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (129B) h/t @OccupyWisdom …
U.S. high-yield bond sales are on track to be the lowest for a year since 2009. Another recent shift in performance away from #SmallCaps could start to reverse #FundFlows @WSJ @soberlook @MorningstarInc Stock Outflows Swell as Investors Seek Refuge in …
via ROBIN WIGGLESWORTH Next summer the current US economic expansion will become the longest in history, but it will still pale next to the runs of some other major countries. What nurtures long bouts of growth, and could the US enjoy …
by Michael Snyder Is this the beginning of the fall of Facebook? After announcing disappointing numbers for the second quarter on Wednesday, Facebook’s stock price plunged more than 20 percent in after-hours trading. If that decline holds on Thursday, it will be …
by visualcapitalist Investing can be extremely psychologically demanding. Not only are you up against the world’s best investors, but you’re also up against yourself. It’s easy to get caught making irrational decisions based on your own personal blindspots or cognitive biases, …
via CNBC Some money managers are increasingly nervous about an upcoming recession amid higher interest rates and tighter credit availability. “It’s a classical late cycle story. So, when I was here last time, I said we were long and nervous. …
by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen anything like this since the financial crisis of 2008. Investors are taking money out of global stock funds at a pace that we haven’t seen in 10 years, and many believe that this is …
Global stocks see biggest loss of investor cash since the financial crisis Investors pulled $12.4 billion from global stock-focused funds in June, the highest level since October 2008 amid the worst of the financial crisis. A slowing global economy is …
According to a recent report from Business Insider, that discussion amongst board members may have taken place. Scott Stringer, New York City’s comptroller, who is responsible for overseeing the investment of approximately $895 million worth of Facebook shares through city …
via palisade-research: Yesterday – bank stocks recorded their longest losing streak – ever. The S&P 500 Financial Index is down for the 12th straight day. The irony of this is that for the last year we’ve seen stocks rally on the expectations that the banking …
via @GinaVSanchez Financial stocks have been a bit of a puzzle. Investors may think that with a central bank on a firm tightening path, industry deregulation efforts in play and high expectations for banks’ growth heading into this year, financial firms …
