from Zero Hedge The world is about to get a whole lot dirtier. On Monday, global cleaning giant Denmark’s ISS A/S, which is also one of the world’s largest private employers, pulled a page right out of the Fifth Element when it announced …
via John Rubino: A few years ago the Swiss National Bank (SNB) – which traditionally held “monetary assets” like government bonds, cash and gold to back up the Swiss franc – decided to branch out into common stocks. This was a …
Inverted $VIX is now in the largest consistent divergence with $SPX in over 25 years pic.twitter.com/cYIEp3Uhtg — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 5, 2018 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1070450691225866244
via marketwatch: A year ago, I wrote about the worrying increase in leverage among America’s blue chips caused by share repurchases (“Hollowed-out blue chips are the next subprime”). Today I want to return to the subject, because the travails of General …
General Electric stock has fallen to single digits and its investment grade bonds trade like high-yield debt, as the market bets it will continue to deteriorate and could end up with a junk rating. GE was a negative factor in …
by AlexPitti When you combine +20% earnings growth with a flat market, the multiple compresses. The problem is earnings fall in slowdowns. If those potential negative catalysts end up coming true, stocks will falter because they trade on future estimates, …
by Jesse Colombo MarketWatch published a piece today called “Here is the ‘true state’ of Americans’ financial lives,” which stated that 42% of Americans have no retirement savings at all and that only 28% of Americans are considered “financially healthy”: The …
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima…mals-news/ Off the coast of Monterey, California, and some two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists piloting a remotely-operated submersible saw something no one has ever seen before. Octopuses. Hundreds of them. Huddled on a rocky outcrop …
via Rodions_axe: Data: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ Tools: Matplotlib (python)
From Business Insider: Aurora Cannabis, one of the largest Canadian marijuana producers, is going public on the New York Stock Exchange. When Aurora’s shares start trading on Tuesday morning, the company will join a select list of cannabis producers that are …
Authored by Tuomas Malinen via GnSEconomics.com, Market liquidity is crucial for well-functioning capital markets. There has been a quite lot of talk about diminished market liquidity and the role of machines in it (see, e.g. Q-review 4/2017, this and this). These are worrying developments. …
via Bloomberg: While Wall Street and U.S. President Donald Trump tout news of a booming stock market and low unemployment, college students may be quick to roll their eyes. The improved economy has yet to mean higher wages for graduates already struggling …
by Michael Snyder If you don’t believe in “coincidences”, what are we supposed to make of this? On Wednesday, the 3rd most powerful hurricane to ever hit the United States made landfall in the Florida panhandle. Entire communities were absolutely shredded …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6jVWfSXtAM Canada, Plumes of smoke and explosions have been seen coming from Canada’s largest oil refinery as the owners of the Irving Oil site confirm that a ‘major incident’ is underway at their energy plant in New Brunswick. http://marygreeley.com/?p=76298
from Zero Hedge It has long been speculated that Mattress Firm, the US mattress retailing giant, was in a solvency crisis, largely as a result of an aggressive expansion strategy in recent years coupled with the spectacular collapse of its parent, Steinhoff International Holdings …
by NEE 48 percent of Americans speak a foreign language at home in America’s five largest cities One in Five American Residents Speak a Language Other than English in 2017 New US Census Bureau data finds that roughly half (48.2 percent) …
via CNN: General Electric, once America’s most valuable company, is now in sharp decline. In a year full of dubious landmarks, GE has encountered another: The storied conglomerate is now worth less than $100 billion. That hasn’t happened since March 2009 …
by howmuch Buying a home used to be part of the American dream. It lets you build equity over the years, gives you a significant financial asset, and provides a pride of ownership or investment in the surrounding community. The problem is …
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CALPERS, has offered the job of chief investment officer to Ben Meng, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Meng is an official of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, its foreign …
For More Information See: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLuq…
by Natura Naturans Hey, why not? Israel is bleeding the US for billions a year, why not China? Americans feel like they got cuckholded by Israel after spending $10 TRILLION to erase Israel’s enemies Iraq, Libya and Syria. But then Israel …
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWxoc9XcAAluHi.jpg By definition, the largest companies by market cap are the most valued by investors in absolute terms. Of course, these companies change all the time. Secular trends rise and fall, and economic cycles rinse …
via king world news Trouble is brewing underneath the stock market as last week saw the 3rd largest cluster of Hindenburg and Titanic warnings since 2009. Every day last week triggered a Hindenburg or Titanic technical warning signal. Similar clusters preceded consistent …
by Simon Black If your retirement plans consist entirely of that pension you’ve been promised, it’s time to start looking elsewhere. As you probably know, pensions are giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers. And …
by ssilBetulosbA Avaaz, a 47+ million member strong activist group that battles corruption, helps protect the environment and in general fights for human, animal and environmental rights across the globe, has been hit by a nasty subpoena after actively battling …
This is the largest systemic fraud of the century – dwarfing the mortgage crisis – the @federalreserve has deliberately induced it aswell as done nothing about it thanks to @OccupyWisdom and @LanceRoberts for focusing on it!!! pic.twitter.com/7dJXcNxiVk — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) …
China is attempting the largest artificial rain experiment in history, on an area about three times the size of Spain. via businessinsider: China’s ‘Sky River’ will be the largest artificial rain experiment in history, covering a land mass larger than Alaska …
by stockboardasset Pittsburgh’s last remaining daily newspaper, the 232-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, notified readers that it is discontinuing publication of its Tuesday and Saturday newspapers as it prepares for a digital transition, said The Hill. The Post-Gazette had announced plans in June to …
Since Donald Trump came into office, the shadow government has gone into panic mode, because the people are waking up, to all the lies and deceptions they have been told by the fake media news companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4uUcxXB0c
Obama 2008 campaign fined $375,000 President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned. The fine — …