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by Chris Marcus via Arcadia Economics Last week the Department of Justice not only charged several JP Morgan traders with manipulating the market, but even invoked the RICO act, which is traditionally reserved … Read more
Interestingly this is the longest decline from the cycle peak in the aggregate profit margin. 4 and a half years of almost linear drop but been falling for 7 years! … Read more
by alchemicboss Someone wrote 20 puts on SPY at 296 at some unknown time in the past. They collected a premium for this action. Because the strike price is … Read more
via pjmedia: Recent polling on the presidential race of 2020 seems to show President Trump in a very poor position to win reelection. A Fox News national poll and battleground surveys … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Australia’s center-right government won a surprise victory over the left. Voters backed the center-right government in a slowing economy for another three years and rejecting the opposition’s … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Leery investors? During the ugliest October in the stock market that anyone could remember, a nasty November, and a brutal pre-Christmas December, margin debt plunged by $94 … Read more
by Themaskedotaku Data was obtained from each states wikipedia page for each presidential election from 2000-2016. Consolidated data can be found here. Map was created using mapchart.net/.
via advisorperspectives: The New York Stock Exchange previously published end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYX data website, including historical data going back to 1959. Because of NYSE’s suspension of publication, … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Wow, that was fast. Margin calls. During the ugly stock-market December, whose ugliness bottomed out on Christmas Eve, a nasty November, and the ugliest October anyone … Read more
Talk Digital Network, Released on 1/3/19 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling … Read more
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That’s Nature’s way of saying the country has … Read more
by Bill Holter of JS Mineset People continually ask “when” will it happen? For the last 6 months we have responded “it is happening right before your very eyes”! In fact, as of … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Employment growth had been decelerating with the collapse in oil capex in Dec. 2014, but had started to accelerate with the initial impact of the year-end tax … Read more
by Lance Roberts This past week, Mark Hulbert wrote an article discussing the recent drop in margin debt. To wit: “Plunging margin debt may not doom the bull market after all, reports to … Read more
via Jill Mislinski, Let’s examine the numbers and study the relationship between margin debt and the market, using the S&P 500 as the surrogate for the latter. The first chart shows … Read more
