via visualcapitalist: In 2018, the re-emergence of volatility took many market participants by surprise. After all, aside from a few smaller, intermittent spikes over the course of the current bull market, volatility has largely been in a long-term downtrend since the …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1095279587406299136 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1095123331089645569 commodities fade, when macro backdrop is deteriorating, it is kind of hard to hold a cheerful narrative pic.twitter.com/a388Rrdmaa — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 12, 2019 Investors with $515 billion surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch aren’t convinced by …
By Harry Dent I hate to be so cynical, but the markets love to fool as many people as possible, bulls and bears alike. This is especially true at key turning points and even more so in extreme bubbles like the one …
by JanssenReportHost Bread & games are presented to us in the incredibly awkward presidential elections right now. But does it really matter who becomes president? Isn’t it the big business interests that run the show anyway (see clip of George …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the selloff in December, the BOJ shed $31 billion, but in January it piled on. Total assets on the Bank of Japan’s mammoth balance sheet, after a drop of ¥3.4 trillion ($31 billion) in December, rose by ¥4.8 trillion …
Since Powell backtracked and the PBOC stepped up liquidity injections, global money supply has roundtripped to March 18 levels. Forget earnings or macro. This is why markets have rallied. pic.twitter.com/ANxj0EcdD1 — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) February 5, 2019 https://twitter.com/BrentCarlileFX/status/1092754783402905605 global euphoria …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks US stocks index futures are advancing with front-month Dow Jones minis +0.29%, S&P 500 minis +0.15% and Nasdaq 100 minis +0.21% US President Donald Trump is scheduled to give his State of the Union address to the …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The largest three-months fall “since at least the 80’s”: CoreLogic “Can we still describe this as an orderly slowdown in housing conditions?” mused CoreLogic Asia Pacific’s head of research Tim Lawless about the Australian housing market today. Over …
by Martin Armstrong The rally in gold and the stock market together is demonstrating that eventually, we will see the alignment as it transforms from Public to Private assets. The most deranged reaction to the Federal Reserve saying they will …
TradersChoice.net, Released on 1/30/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Last year was admittedly a tough one for emerging markets. A number of currencies were under considerable pressure, with some of them falling to record or near-record lows against the strong U.S. dollar. …
The Fed meeting was a true embarrassment. A complete joke. They basically admitted that they broke the markets. It’s destroyed. But Jim “Bear Sterns” Cramer and the 7 Shares of Amazon investor doesn’t see passed this. Central banks are the …
by northmantrader The bull case is now obvious, easy Fed and a prospective China deal. What about the bear case? After all $SPX remains below the 200MA, and below the monthly 15MAand is reaching overbought readings now. I maintain: As long as markets remain below the …
Road To Roota, Released on 1/29/19 With $60B-$80B in potential claims against PG&E in their Chapter 11 filing why isn’t anybody talking about the $600B-$800B in notional DERIVATIVES that were just triggered? Who’s the BIG LOSER? Bix Weir has 30 …
via @joefriday_714: This week is BIG and could set the tone for the Mkts going forward for the next month or so. There’s the Co. earnings below; various Econ. Data; FOMC; China trade talks, & $40B QT. A perfect cocktail for …
Economist John Williams warns the Federal Reserve has painted itself into a very tight no win corner. No matter what the Fed does with rates it’s going to be a disaster. Williams explains, “You had some very heavy selling towards …
via @MacroTechnicals: wk4 1/n • RiskON continued • hope on FED total pause, PBoC, remain dovish ECB/BoJ • 76%/24% indices breadth • FX 81% vs USD, 71% vs JPY • most of EM bonds rallied • creditspreads tighter • VIX lower …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But for the markets: “No Data is Good Data” “NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding this website is not being updated,” it says in big lettering against a bright red background at the top …
In a time where central banks said they would accelerate quantitative tightening, China decided to ramp up the printing presses. A massive decline in the stock market, a slowing of the real estate market, and the economy becoming sluggish has …
by Lance Roberts Mark Hulbert recently wrote a piece suggesting “Retirees Should Not Fear A Bear Market.” To Wit: “Don’t give up hope. I’m referring to what many retirees are most afraid of: Running out of money before they die. An Allianz Life survey …
by Bix Weir of Road To Roota The United States of America is on the FAST TRACK to Socialism…unless we FIGHT for our FREEDOM! Capitalism has not been part of our system since the Free Markets turned to Rigged Markets in the 1960’s …
BY SRSROCCO Investors should prepare for crazy and turbulent markets in 2019. As the correction in the broader markets picks up speed and heads much lower, investor worry will start to turn into fear. At this point, the precious metals …
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning Fed Chair Jay Powell just sent the most powerful signal from the Fed since March 2015. He has pretty much taken a March 2019 rate hike off the table until further notice. At a forum hosted by …
via sputniknews: https://video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/20190109/2019_01_09_DOUBLEDOWN146080119_nezkf5p0.j3o.mp3 As financial markets begin the year with huge volatile swings and job numbers surprise to the upside, Double Down talks to Mish Shedlock of MishTalk.com about what the Federal Reserve will do now that investors had priced in a rate cut in March: can the Fed …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXylS5OvETA The Fed is not behind the curve, they are the curve this is all designed to transfer wealth to the very rich if people can’t see the manipulation by now I doubt if there is hope for them …
from Financial Survival Network Chris Martenson returns… If the purpose of a market is price discovery then clearly there’s something major wrong with what passes for markets today. Numerous times throughout the day, questionable series of transactions take place which leads markets …
Jason talks about how President Trump is talking about stocks going back up almost daily now in his press briefings and press conferences. But why does he care so much? 1) Trump says there was a stock market ‘glitch’ in …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Investors are waking up after years of somnolent money-making. Markets are in a tizzy. They’re finally reacting to the Fed’s rate-hike cycle, the slowest rate-hike cycle in history. It took three years to nudge up …
Asia markets fall again as Tokyo gets 2019 off to nightmare start There was no respite for Asian investors Friday as most regional markets suffered more losses, with Tokyo tanking three percent and technology firms taking another hiding after Apple’s …
