by stockboardasset The Treasury yield curve gets flatter every day, and some strategists expect it to invert, meaning short end yields, like that on the 2-year note, could rise above longer duration yields, like the 10-year. A flat curve is the …
via ndau Russell 2000 index -0.19% has been moving up in a sequence of five Elliott waves since 2009. This progress is coming to an end in a few months. It has completed four of the five major waves on a …
World stock market capitalization versus global central bank balance sheets.
by Jim Quinn “In many ways this is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America and the best time EVER to look for a job!” – Donald Trump – June 2018 This is the narrative being spun by Trump and his …
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by indianleo It has been a long time since the trade war talks began. At first, it was only a war of words between the world’s two largest economies. Slowly, it took a bigger form and is currently under effect. …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter 8 boots-on-the-ground findings about Sydney’s deflating housing bubble. Australia’s housing market is getting rattled. The mortgage industry is in turmoil. Banks are battered by incessant revelations of misconduct. Home prices in the Sydney and Melbourne metros, …
by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continuation of stock buybacks in the markets as an act of desperation. The problem with that is, despite vast amounts of massive stock …
From Rich Miller and Vince Golle at Bloomberg: A multi-colored graphic that’s made the rounds at the Federal Reserve hints at what Chairman Jerome Powell could face if President Donald Trump succeeds in throwing globalization into reverse: Higher prices for many …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter After the blistering spike earlier this year. In San Francisco, the median price of a single-family house (we’ll get to condos in a moment) soared by 11% in June compared to a year ago, or by …
Do you think the current market is sustainable? Look at the figures. It’s absurd. It’s abnormal. Just a handful of stocks are rising. Those who hold those stocks have put the blinders on and believe that everything is just fine. …
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/01/27/2017.01.27%20-%20Dow%20LT_0.jpg You don’t have to be expert to see how big the stock market bubble is. (1028). Stock market bubble (7/8/2018) Another big bubble is the stock market. I think it is manipulated by the rich people who rule this …
by cbus20122 I was looking at the moving average for the ‘max’ on Yahoo finance. No massive crash in 2018. Not even an indicator of what in the past looks like a correction. We already have gone through a “correction” based on most …
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via BI A “full-on bear market” could be coming within months, a team from Citi wrote this week. Markets are currently in the third of their four phases, the bank says, with the fourth phase bringing a bear market and a possible …
Do you think stock buybacks are responsible for most of the gains in 2018? How did we come this far? We’ve gone from a very low point in March 2009 to an exemplary level of gains. With one quick glance, …
via Financial Sense Over the past 30 years, the technocrats in Beijing have attained an almost mythical status. The decade after two decades of rapid double-digit growth has transformed China into the world’s second-biggest economy, slashing poverty at the same …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The XHB homebuilder ETF is decisively below three key moving averages after it knifed below its 50 dma last week. KB Homes reported a big earnings and revenue “beat” on Thursday after the market closed. The …
Money manager Michael Pento predicts, “The U.S. is not an island. The U.S. is not going to have 4% GDP growth while the rest of the world implodes. . . . I look at the data, and data says this …
BY SRSROCCO The world is standing at the edge of the financial abyss while most investors are entirely in the dark. However, specific indicators suggest the market is one giant RED BLINKING LIGHT. One of these indicators is the amount …
In your honest opinion, do you think it’s ok that only a very few amount of stocks are keeping this market afloat? Globally, stocks look weak. But look closer. U.S. stocks are weak as well. Just 4 stocks have made …
The article cites several reasons and none of them seem likely to go away in the short term. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/from-the-best-to-the-worst-torrid-q2-for-vietnam-stock-market-3771969.html Global tensions and investors selling stocks have seen Vietnamese exchanges swing from one extreme to the other. Vietnam’s stock market plunged …
If there is some sort of rescue of Deutsche Bank, will they do a bail-in, bailout, international bailout, IMF/World Bank, etc? The story continues for Deutsche Bank. Constantly sliding further down the hole as the real money moves out and …
by John Rubino One of the things giving “data-driven” central banks wiggle room on their pledge to tighten monetary policy is the fact there are several definitions of inflation. In the US the thing most people think of as inflation …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors We’re about nine years into the economic recovery following the Great Recession. It’s been an extraordinarily profitable period for the stock market—one of the best in U.S. history—and I hope you’ve participated. But …
When we like something, we easily get attracted to it. Similar, when traders like the Forex market they simply get attracted to the market. You may have to deal with a lot of issues to find a place in trading, …
via BBG Investors fretting over the recent drop in emerging-market stock indexes may find comfort by drilling down into the details. Since June 18 — the evening U.S. President Donald Trump seemed poised to escalate the trade war by pledging tariffs on …
How will China’s stock market stop the BEAR market from continuing? Natural growth or government intervention? Will Deutsche Bank fail? If there is to be a bailout, the question I have is specifically, HOW? What mechanism will they use? Bank …
by John Rubino Being huge, consequential and technologically advanced, China isn’t normally lumped into the “emerging” category with Brazil and Argentina. To most observers they’ve already left the kids table and are now seated with the developed-world adults. But that might …
Canada’s housing market goes from boom to bust (Link to article below) http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-…