Anyone notice this? The last two minutes of S&P trading on Dec 31st were wild. Since the first day of the year is historically the most volatile, the last two minutes of 2018 might be a "preview" of what’s to …
via Money Metals: It’s amazing what passes as a market these days. Stocks rallied during the Christmas week, and the mainstream financial press would like you to believe bargain hunters swooped in after the weeks of heavy selling to grab some …
via Danielle Park “We are in a bear market, and a bear market is not just going to end in a couple of months considering the ten years of a bull market,” the chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group said …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078408848342429696 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078437730579873793 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078374017227198466 If we just look at months that have a higher percentage of days with -2.0% intraday draw downs than Dec 2018 so far, the list is a bit more ominous. None of these were at the end …
from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park notes that it’s been a long time coming, but at long last the stock markets are heading downward. What seemed like an impossibility just a few short months ago has now become a stark new reality. …
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Francis Tattegrain La ramasseuse d’épaves (The Beachcomber) 1880 I haven’t really written about finance since April of this year, and given recent fluctuations in what people persist in calling the markets, maybe it’s time. Then again, nothing has …
By Nick Cunningham If he thought it would inspire confidence in the markets, his bizarre announcement did just the opposite. Over the weekend, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin issued a statement saying that he “conducted a series of calls today with the …
by Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony via Streetwise Reports On Wednesday, the Fed raised the Fed Funds rate by a quarter point as expected. The FOMC statement was suitably “dovish” by reducing the consensus forward guidance on future rate hikes from three to two. The …
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The tech boom is here, and it’s heating up. Over the past decade, the tech industry has created more than 1 million jobs across the United States. Between …
by Chris Stocks are for show, but bonds are for dough. Always keep your eye firmly on the credit space. That Federal Reserve could give a rat’s ass about whether or not you are employed or your milk costs 2x …
via NYT: KADI, India — Vikram Singh is accustomed to life under the tyranny of elements he cannot control, from rains that do not fall to insects that tear at his crops. Lately one unchanging trouble is plaguing his family …
William Mount Published on Dec 19, 2018 We should pull our troops out of all the other countries were in. We should stop meddling in other countries affairs. We should stop policing the world. Yes the old system is breaking …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Existing home sales across the US drop 7% from a year ago, plunge 15.4% in the West. Sales of existing homes — including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops — in November, dropped 7.0% from November …
via Ryan Vlastelica U.S. stocks fell 2 percent on Friday, extending a recent decline that has threatened to push key sectors and segments of the equity market into bear-market territory as concerns mounted over the health of the global economy. The day’s losses …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpvxEbk9dkQ Forbes, Is the next recession on its way? https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2018/08/03/is-the-next-recession-on-its-way/#ff6951148376 Pound Sinks after no confidence report Sterling fell against the dollar to a new 20-month low on Tuesday. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46531893 Opinion: Here’s more evidence that stocks are now facing a bear …
via northmantrader: As markets are on the cusp again with only a few trading days remaining before year end it is time to revisit the most important chart in markets. I’ve shown this chart in various forms for the past year and it …
The global markets have suffered in 2018. Weakening all across the world. Central banks have taken unprecedented measures in order to backstop the losses which began in 2008. We are now a decade out from what nearly spiraled out of …
by Simon Black One of the most brilliant businessmen of our time decided to do nothing. In 1997, after being kicked out of his own company, Steve Jobs took back the reins of Apple. At the time, Apple had less than …
Markets are already positioned well below the #FOMC dots. via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/iweCWoToE9 — Taylor-Swift Yield Spread (@TayTayLLP) December 6, 2018 The futures market is now pricing in less than 20 basis points of rate hikes next year. https://t.co/5LoOrY5Tb3 via @SoberLook …
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-corporate-debt/?srnd=premium Masayoshi Son and Elon Musk leveraged their dreams to the hilt. Patrick Drahi stockpiled debt to build a global cable empire. Michael Dell loaded his computer company with risky loans to buy out activists threatening his control. And a …
by GoldCore – What are “Fake Markets” and will they lead to another global financial crisis? – What do fake markets mean for stock and bond market performance in the future? – Is this the right time to re-balance portfolios …
Market statisticians are falling over each other in 2018 to describe the pain being felt across asset classes. One venerable shop frames it this way: Things haven’t been this bad since Richard Nixon’s presidency. Ned Davis Research puts markets into …
by Chris The Huawei executive arrest is playing out very poorly in the “”markets””. After all of the efforts to stem the losses taken by the CME last night, the futures have drited lower and lower, and look to be …
via Sputnik News: On today’s episode of Double Down, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert talk to Nomi Prins, author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World. https://video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/20181204/2018_12_04_DOUBLEDOWN141041218_mnei0kek.cvh.mp3
The U.S and China have agreed to preliminary terms at the G20 meeting. There has been no concrete pact put in place to actually fix the issues which are still ongoing. But as long as the market sees that something …
by Thinker In 2011, Mike Maloney was lucky enough to interview Congressman Ron Paul, the politician who ran for president of the United States three times. On his third time around, the mainstream media treated him the way they did …
via moneymetals: Learn Why CNBC & Bloomberg Have Banned Our Special Guest Michael Pento… https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-181130-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 DOWNLOAD MP3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up Michael Pento of Pento …
via Christopher Anstey Morgan Stanley sees the U.S. economy in a sharp slowdown next year, along with a pick-up in global inflation that keeps monetary tightening intact. For investors, that means get out of credit, stock up on cash and head …
Credit market, stock markets, carry trades, blow up just on this little move….. pic.twitter.com/uslkej6c6e — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 22, 2018 When credit initially starts contracting it leads to more credit contracting NOT LESS until there is sufficient free credit …
