https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGBLZVTh10 There’s no substitute for technical indicators when analyzing the stock market. At the same time, observing social trends can also be useful, given that many of these trends correlate with the market. Here’s a case in point …
via Forbes In my opinion, JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM) is the most important stock if you are worried about all the crosscurrents facing the global economy. JPMorgan is the biggest of the “too big to fail” U.S. money center banks and …
via Zhang Shidong China’s intensified trade spat with the US is now about to send its US$6.7 trillion equity market into bear territory. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is now down 19 per cent from its January high, on the cusp …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter One of the biggest such deals ever, happening now: How investors allow a group of PE firms to extract $3.75 billion from a company after they’d already extracted billions. Junk-rated Asurion – which is based in Nashville, …
by Graham Summers of Gains Pains & Capital If you need more evidence that the Fed screwed up during its latest FOMC meeting, take a look at the below chart. This chart shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a stock index comprised of …
When will the stock market peak? 2018? 2019? Or January was this just a small bump in the road and we will hit new highs? Just look at the economic indicators that have piled up. More statistics have shown that …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1009963698763509762 The problem is the riskiest assets are paying the best returns right now. People are favoring that risk to get the return cause there are few options with rates so low. Nobody will get out in time. They’ll be …
by Dana Lyons The story in the stock market over the past week has been about the bears’ attempts to push prices down – and the bulls’ ability to prop them back up. As a matter of fact, in some ways, …
If Deutsche Bank stock price hits in the SINGLE digits on the US market, it will be game over. as of now it is below 11.00, $10.90 to be exact https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/db If $db price goes below $10 many funds have rules that …
by cbus20122 Please be skeptical, as I do the same. I’m not even fully on board with a lot of technical analysis, especially bad technical analysis. I like fundamentals more than anything else, but enjoy the idea of backing up fundamentals …
via Jill Mislinski The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price …
by stockboardasset The financial media are euphoric that stocks are up today. However, they’re all ignoring the fact that the issue that triggered the recent sell-off (the Fed’s colossal policy error regarding the $USD) has not been resolved. Put another way, …
from Zero Hedge A quick glance at the stock market – particularly big-tech – and once can quickly discern that “something’s up.” Every dip is met by a wall of buying, ramping the market ever higher, and ever more ignorant of …
by mryackerz It is easy to be “all in” the stock market when it is doing well, but is the next 2008 on the horizon? Well, I feel it may be, but who really knows? Anyhow, I have been researching …
Image by iStock/guirong hao From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Besides lifting rates, the Fed has also signaled that we can expect two more hikes in 2018, suggesting it sees less and less need to accommodate a booming U.S. economy. Since the …
U.S. stock market has begun a divergence from investment grade spreads. The last time this happened was 20 years ago, 1998 Via @bullmarketsco https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1008686062309380096 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1008693978458480640 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1008659309071339523 h/t @VisualCap pic.twitter.com/XSagnkk3RF — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 18, 2018 China auto sales pic.twitter.com/Z8bqrSPXr4 …
via Zero Hedge: In one of the grosser and most direct examples of market manipulation, central banks have quite directly prohibited stock markets from correcting to any serious degree. QE buying and buying and buying has propped up these ugly-fundamentals …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Rising wedges tend to lead to declines, so ignore them. At long last, we have reached the Nirvana of consensus: the stock market is heading to new all-time highs. Even the perma-Bear camp seems to have accepted the …
by John Rubino Oil prices are up over the past year, which is bad if you’re, say, a developing country that imports a lot of oil. But the US dollar (aka the petrodollar) is also up, which compounds the problem …
via nakedcapitalism: I find it hard to get excited about stock market risks unless defaults on the borrowings can damage the banking/payments system, as they did in the Great Crash. This is one reason the China perma-bears have a point: even …
Gregory Weldon, Released on 6/15/18 Today’s WeldonLIVE Briefing discusses the intensifying turbulence in Emerging Markets, with focus on yesterday’s MASSIVE depreciation, to a new RECORD LOW, in Argentina’s Peso … as the South of the Border Gang is ready to …
by elliottwave Financial legislation might mean something different than most investors believes it means A stock market warning has just developed for those who are bullish. Here’s what I’m talking about (CNBC, May 22): The House voted May 22 to pass …
Guest post by otalp Summary of Tesla’s situation: Tesla currently has 2.67 billion in cash. About 1.1 billion of this is in loans that need to be returned early next year Around 40% of their cash in hand is from …
via Real Investment Advice: That’s a bold headline. And it’s true, unless “It’s all different this time.” Which it never has been, ever, in the history of the stock market. One of the great Achilles Heels of blind buy and …
via Phoenix The Fed’s plan of withdrawing $1 trillion in liquidity this year via QT has slammed into a BRIC wall. Year to date, the Fed has shrunken its balance sheet by $116 billion. This sounds like a lot of money …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan Dr. John Hussman, whose Ph.D. is in economics, says that the economic Ponzi scheme we are forced to live under will be the cause of the next market crash. Our “dysfunctional economic system provides the illusion of prosperity …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A study by the SEC of 385 recent share-buyback announcements — this is when companies announce how much money they will spend in the future on buying back their own shares, but before they actually begin buying them — found: Share-buyback …
From Kitco: Equity markets are overvalued and overleveraged, and a crash on the scale of the last recession could be on the horizon, said Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends Journal. Celente told Kitco News that one possible trigger for such …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the ill fate of the Chicago, Illinois housing market as Chicago leads the United States in underwater homes. A recent report from Zillow shows Chicago leading the country with …
via Business Insider: Attempting to read the tea leaves and anticipate near-term market movement is nearly irresistible. Bold proclamations of just-around-the-corner seismic price movements reliably get a lot of attention, regardless of whether or not those making said predictions have …