“With stress breaking out from Turkey to Russia, equities in China bouncing around to the tune of $100 billion a day and talk of contagion everywhere, U.S. shares are turning into the safest bet. The S&P 500 is up 6 …
Do you see the potential danger when the central banks control liquidity, and that we just look back in history and see that they keep drying up liquidity over and over? They keep doing it but I guess we shouldn’t …
According to Michael Howell, chief executive officer at global research group Crossborder Capital, as monetary policy tightening takes place, there could be strong consequences for credit markets. While the yield curve is signalling upcoming problems, credit market spreads aren’t remaining …
by Adam Taggart Here are a few headlines from the past 24 hours: Manhattan is now a buyers market at all price points Southern California home sales crash, a warning sign to the nation New Home Sales Tumble To 8-Month Lows …
Authored by Thorstein Polleit via The Mises Institute, It seems to be a hard time for those expressing concern about the build-up of risks in the economic and financial system: the major economies in the world are expanding at a …
TRADE WAR: China devalues yuan after Trump threatens tariffs in HUGE threat to US https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/992344/trade-war-usa-china-donald-trump-tariffs-yuan-devalue-currency-manipulation and even greg mannarino says we are going to see a drop this week. and he has been right so far… Disclaimer: Consult your financial …
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-16/what-game-theory-says-about-trump-s-trade-strategy On the one hand, the escalating tit-for-tat tariffs still affect only a relatively small part of the two countries’ economies. The consensus baseline remains that the measures should not have a significant and lasting downward impact on the economy …
h/t @StockBoardAsset Mind The Gap (it’s a big one)… Search Phrase “How to Prepare for a Recession” Surges to 10YR High there needs to be an intervention to keep the short cover alive — if that is CB comments, WH comments, …
If you compare the graphs of the markets from 07-08, you can see the irrational exuberance that drove them higher and higher to their peaks. After each peak were modest declines, followed by a more horizontal level which have way …
BY SRSROCCO The markets are in serious trouble as the extreme oil price volatility continues to devastate the global economy. Investors and analysts today are totally clueless because they have become the frogs burnt to a crisp in the frying …
by BR-Technicals Keeping an Eye on China Key Points China is the world’s second largest economy after they had their own industrial revolution. The economy is run by the government through their “5-Year Plans.” Chinese stocks may be signaling …
“We don’t see any bubbles (’00, ’07,’18)…It will all trickle down…. QE1 is working, no QE2 is working…no, surely QE3 will work…the Fed is not the cause of inequality….we don’t manipulate markets ($15T glbl QE+0% rates)…inflation is too low!” H/T: …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Recently, quite a bit of news has been originating from Malaysia, China and other areas of South East Asia. Much of it is concerns with multi-billion dollar projects and excessive corruption and graft. Malaysia is taking …
When rates start to go up, look out below. Mannarino explains, “You are going to have central banks do whatever they can to attempt to stop the bleeding. That means they are going to be the buyer of last resort. …
via mishtalk: byMike Mish Shedlock 10 hrs–edited Alpine Macro put together an interesting set of charts with commentary. Let’s take a look. I am doing this in a guest post format, without blockquotes. You can download the entire article here as …
by Michael Snyder Up until now, the U.S. trade war with China has simply been a bunch of threats and counter-threats, but now things are about to get very real. On Friday, the first round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods …
The Justice Potter Stewart Bubble: Wilshire 5000 To GDP Ratio At All-time High US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once stated that with regard to obscenity, “I know it when I see it.” The same goes for asset bubbles. I know …
What do you think the TRIGGER EVENT will be for the next financial crisis? Let’s look at what’s really going on. Globally, in 2018, markets have shown their true weakness. As soon as central banks made it known that QE …
Authored by Richard Murphy via Tax Research UK blog, The FT has reported this morning that: Debt at UK listed companies has soared to hit a record high of £390bn as companies have scrambled to maintain dividend payouts in response to shareholder …
by FS During this in depth 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Jim questions about: 1) As someone who has professionally managed money for decades, do you find that the performance of general stock market index funds and ETFs from passive …
by Dana Lyons A slew of global equity markets are testing key bull market Up trendlines. After a few slow weeks, our #TrendlineWednesday feature on Twitter today was more prolific. Much of that can be attributed to a wide array of equity indices …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1011768375415107584 The US is overvalued and has yet to enter reality. Most of the rest of the world is in a bear market with negative gains. Have to love those stock buybacks. Brace yourselves. The one-month implied volatility of the …
via palisade-research: Yesterday – bank stocks recorded their longest losing streak – ever. The S&P 500 Financial Index is down for the 12th straight day. The irony of this is that for the last year we’ve seen stocks rally on the expectations that the banking …
Central Banks will never get the blame for liquidity gaps in markets, as the QT turmoil will be shifted to Trump's TRADE WARS. It is such a perfect scapegoat for CBs pic.twitter.com/GKv3UlZOPG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 26, 2018 Couldn't disagree …
via GPC Thus far in his tenure as Fed Chair, Jerome Powell has emphasized that he is more concerned with the real economy than the financial markets. Put another way, the Powell Fed, unlike the Bernanke or Yellen Feds before …
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 …
by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe today by clicking here. Things are likely to get bumpy and a “time of reckoning” is coming for global markets and economies, David Marsh, co-founder and chairman of the …
via The Phoenix Last week the Fed announced it intends to hike rates another two times this year, with three more hikes next year. The Fed also announced that it will continue to increase its QT program with the goal of …
https://www.google.com/search?q=nasdaq%3Aemb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://heisenbergreport.com/2018/06/15/theres-a-big-problem-in-emerging-market-liquidity-and-here-it-is/ Near-term liquidity in EM is a big problem. Several factors are having an adverse impact, but some of that is improving. EM EXD technicals are better now, long-term fundamentals are good, spreads have risen far more in EM …
by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. During the longest bull market in modern history, the S&P 500 surged a whopping 418% over the 9.5 years between November 1990 and March 2000. This was during …