From Birch Gold Group The U.S. has enough bumps on the road with mortgages following a similar script to 2008, the unwinding of QE, and the slowly rising “Goldilocks Economy” that’s about to have a hangover. Well strap in, because housing sales in key markets …
by David Haggith Just ten days ago, your Lone Ranger here laid out why one should see the barely beginning downturn of the housing market in Seattle as the bellwether for a national housing market bust. Naturally a snowflake or two of …
Housing market is showing signs of cracking: ‘Anything-goes list-price strategy is no longer working’ Housing market shows signs of cracking. Here’s why from CNBC. Even in the hottest markets, there is an affordability limit, and that limit is clearly now …
Am I missing something? Perhaps it’s a mix of personal paranoia (was looking to buy a house) and media hysteria, but this looks pretty bad. Dodd-Frank Act has already been partially rolled back, with plans to roll it back further. …
Keep that in perspective. This stock can fall much harder. 90 days ago the analyst still thought we were going to get 40% growth for the next year. And 35% in 2019. Now it looks like Facebook would be lucky …
by Kimble Charting We participated in a webinar with our friends from Investor Inspiration last Thursday and wanted to get this timely info in your hands asap. click here if you want to see assets testing breakout levels Opportunities in this flat …
David Rosenberg: Strip out the 17% ($4 tln of market cap!) of the market that is Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet, and the market has barely budged this year. This is the most concentrated market since the dotcoms; …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent drop in investor confidence following the exposure of Blackstone’s credit default swaps. Blackstone’s credit default swaps had an engineered default and the CFTC slapped them on the …
by ForwardInstance Has someone done good research around P2P/Consumer lending companies in China. I have done some preliminary research and below are my observations – Observations – P2P lending market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 35% to around …
COPPER: down -17.5% in 2018, the Chinese have not been able to centrally plan this market price higher = Bearish TREND @Hedgeye #reiterated China Not Messing Around: Serious QE Means Serious Currency Devaluation “They. Drew. First. Blood.” So said John …
Goldman Warns of Liquidity-Fueled Sell-off After ‘Volmageddon’ Remember humans? Back when those glitchy, overemotional, unreliable windbags served as market makers, they could make human decisions in real time, stepping into a drastically oversold market, on their own, to buy cheap …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0yOD40BKu0 Sadly, the majority of the population live from paycheck to paycheck and has no option, no matter how much economic advise you give. JN
We are now in month 110. What happens next? Chart via @NorthmanTrader h/t @OccupyWisdom
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Gold continued its trek lower last week, the price steadying around $1,220 an ounce on Tuesday following Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony. Powell commented that he thought the U.S. was on course for …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Over the past 4+ months, we’ve been working away trying to keep our readers aware of the risks and concerns that were originating out of some foreign markets and how that might relate to the US …
via Elena Popina and Lu Wang Rarely does a day go by in the U.S. stock market without someone decrying its addiction to gains in the FANG bloc of tech megacaps. Now, in the middle of earnings season, their support has gone missing, and the result …
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DicAwRmVsAAd97J.jpg This chart shows that the five largest S&P 500 stocks have a market capitalization equal to the bottom 282 S&P 500 stocks. This turned out to be something of a Rorschach test, which was …
Do you believe the next ten years will be the same? Chart via @TommyThornton NO CORRELATION WHATSOEVER #NASDAQ VS FED TOTAL ASSETS h/t @OccupyWisdom
LoL, the WH intervention this week to boost stock market has completely failed. Now we know why Trump admin wanted stocks higher b/c EOW tariff comments Friday Russell 2000 hitting resistance you probably should not look at this chart Interesting… …
by WSBsh*tposter Since Google got fined is Amazon next? I think Jeff Bezos is very smart, it’s hard to pin down an extremely obvious anti-trust issue for Amazon because it doesn’t make that much a profit unlike Google, but rest …
by northmantrader The $NDX keeps moving from new highs to new highs driven by a narrow group of stocks. Nothing new about that as this trend has been ongoing for some time and headlines of new record prices for such stocks …
by David Haggith A summer storm is gathering against the housing market all across the US. More than a year ago, I predicted the collapse of Housing Bubble 2.0 and then predicted as soon as the housing market collapse had begun that it …
Don’t worry about the recent weakness in gold and silver because renowned financial cycle expert Charles Nenner thinks they both will rise in price soon, but not until after a bit more pain for holders of precious metals. Nenner says, …
by Adam Taggart Shutterstock Our good friend John Rubino over at DollarCollapse.com just released an analysis titled US Housing Bubble Enters Stage Two: Suddenly Motivated Sellers. He reminds us that housing bubbles follow a predictable progression: Stage One: Mania — Prices rise …
While regulators have been slow to update the rules governing marijuana, investors have been caught up by reefer madness as money has continued to flow into the $14.5 billion market. This growth has also attracted a number of disruptors including …
by Eric Dubin and Dave Kranzler via Investment Research Dynamics Every month Government, corporate and household debt hits a new all-time high. The entire financial system is heading down an unsustainable path of debt issuance. The delinquency rate for auto and credit card debt is …
by Martin Armstrong During the 1980s, I was called in to create a hedge for a bank against the Turkish lira which nobody made a market on. I had to create a synthetic hedge for the currency was moving into …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It’s called “Housing Crisis” for a reason. When we discuss the insane San Francisco housing market, it’s usually in terms of median asking rents ($4,680 a month for a 2-bedroom), the median single-family house price ($1.7 …
