via Mike Shedlock: As traders cheer the longest bull market in history, they ought to be wondering “what’s next?” The bulls are cheering loudly today as the S&P Hits Record, Equals Longest Bull-Run The benchmark S&P 500 hit an all-time intraday high …
by FS Copper, European banks, and emerging markets all entered into bear market territory last week and the trillion dollar question strategists are asking is whether US markets are likely to get pulled down as well, especially with fears that …
by Dana Lyons Will this volatility divergence have the same disastrous effects as it has on its other 3 occurrences over the past 2 decades? Our Chart Of The Day on Twitter today is a sample of the Premium content we share with …
by Michael Snyder Have you ever heard of the “Sound Advice Risk Indicator”? Every single time in our history when it has gone above 2.0 the stock market has crashed, and now it has just surged above that threshold for the …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The uncomfortable reality is all Bull Markets, no matter how lengthy or robust, all expire. As you have undoubtedly heard, the current Bull Market in U.S. stocks (S&P 500) is the longest in recent history–though some historians …
Looks like lower end retail store sales are picking up, and the MSM is spinning this as a “strong consumer.” Well I suppose that is one perspective. The other perspective is the consumer is so weak, that they are forced …
massive gap between stock market & real estate prices — the last time this occured it was Dot Com Bust pic.twitter.com/q9fpLQp6qa — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 22, 2018 $TSLA debt structure is horrendous — Snap! Crackle! Pop! = Bankrupt pic.twitter.com/PRq8JZtQRS — …
The Case for a 50-Year Bull Market https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-case-for-a-50-year-bull-market-1534550401?mod=trending_now_4 Here are a couple of historic magazine covers. https://www.financialsense.com/sites/default/files/users/u163/images/2012/0504/01-dow.jpg https://www.financialsense.com/sites/default/files/users/u163/images/2012/0504/02-businessweek.jpg h/t MakeTotalDestr0i
Country Weight Return Contribution China 30.27 -8.28 -2.55 South Korea 14.05 -1.72 -0.24 Taiwan 11.85 -1.69 -0.2 India 9.05 1.65 0.14 Brazil 6.39 -8.52 -0.54 South Africa 6.37 -12.85 -0.83 Russia 3.42 -7.8 -0.27 Mexico 3.13 -4.16 -0.13 Malaysia 2.43 …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the many coming storms heading our way and what we can do to avoid them. Recently, news came out that as of the 21st of August, 2018, we will be in the longest bull run in …
via Ellen Milligan and Alex Longley Time spreads, oil products, currencies are potential indicators Concerns are growing due to warning signs in emerging markets This is supposed to be a year of bumper oil demand, but economic warning signs are flashing across the …
by Brian Maher of Daily Reckoning The Dow Jones was up nearly 400 points today, led by blue chips Walmart and Boeing. Walmart soared after posting its best sales in over a decade. Boeing jumped on hopeful reports that U.S.-Chinese trade …
from Financial Survival Network Rick Ackerman joined us today for a quick look at the market and the economy. Are we in a new Trumpian Paradigm where markets keep going higher and higher and commodities keep going lower and lower? The recent …
Via Business Insider In late 2017, the investing legend Jeremy Grantham was officially on bubble watch. He said as much in a quarterly letter he coauthored for his firm, Grantham, Mayo, & van Otterloo (GMO), back in December. It wasn’t an extremely pressing concern …
From Birch Gold Group From August 7th to August 13th, the DOW dropped 475 points close to close. On Monday alone, the DOW dropped 125 points before recovering losses. The week-long losing streak was linked to Turkey’s currency crumbling and a trade war …
https://youtu.be/aDWDwpehLvY In just a few days’ time, we will officially reach the 10-year anniversary of the bull market. With the S&P 500 up 340%, you’re probably not alone in wondering how close the party is to being over. That’s why, …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030568223522140161 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030569737435144195 Trump admin is absolutely terrified about this chart — if tech goes — the market goes — so now we should expect a whole lot of intervention though comments to save tech — kind of like we saw …
Caught this one on the nightly business report. More proof that the housing market is softening. Could hurt consumer spending. Sydney, London, Stockholm, Bejing and a few more. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/are-house-prices-falling-from-sydney-to-new-york h/t Throwawayacct449393
via wallstreetonparade: Spasms in big Wall Street bank stocks have been happening on a serial basis over the past three years. (See here and here.) Yesterday offered another one of those bank warning signs to a Congress intent on further deregulation of an already …
via CNBC: Approximately 14 percent of all listings in June had undergone a price cut, that’s up from a recent low of 11.7 percent at the end of 2016, according to a new report from Zillow. Home price growth is …
by John Rubino Emerging market currencies are collapsing pretty much everywhere these days. But it’s safe to assume that most people don’t understand exactly what’s causing this outbreak, why it’s happening now, or what “external dollar debt” has to do …
by Nomi Prins via Daily Reckoning Global debt has ballooned since the financial crisis as central banks have distorted markets and fueled debt bubbles in particular. A lot of the increase in global debt has come from emerging market (EM) economies, especially China. …
by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen carnage like this in the global financial marketplace in quite some time. On Wednesday, U.S. stocks were down some, but things were much, much worse around the rest of the world. Global banking stocks are …
Copper futures for September delivery fall to as low as $2.552 per pound, their lowest level since June 2017. Disappointing Chinese data and a strong dollar are among the factors pressuring the industrial metal. Tom Essaye, founder of the Sevens …
via Kevin Muir Wild day in the markets. Emerging markets are getting crushed like a 1980s teenage nerd asking the head cheerleader to prom. As I write this, the EEM ETF is down roughly 3% on the day, and down more …
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkhnNycUwAAPNIh.jpg:large Don’t look now, but on August 22, 2018, this current bull market will top the 1990s bull market as the longest ever. However, be aware that the 1990s bull market saw the S&P 500 …
by visualcapitalist Almost all assets see fluctuations in value over time. But while price swings are a common phenomenon in most asset classes that exist, they are the most famous in the stock market. These upward and downward movements in price …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A vicious cycle, kicked off by cheap debt that’s suddenly not cheap, after 8 years of experimental monetary policies. The dollar has risen nearly 2% since Thursday last week. Since April 17, when this move started, …
via TheDaily Reckoning When I say the fix is in for FXI that’s not meant to be mysterious. FXI is the ticker symbol for a U.S. exchange-traded fund (ETF) composed of the largest Chinese stocks. The phrase “the fix is in” …
by John Rubino Marc Faber: Now is the time for bear market preparations … Gerald Celente: Currencies are crashing around the world … Mike Maloney: Trade war could become a shooting war … Alasdair Macleod: Valuing gold in a world …