Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The two-year yield, now surging, is a leading indicator. The Financial Stress Index, released weekly by the St. Louis Fed, is designed to track financial conditions that companies face in the markets. It reached record lows …
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death c1562 This is turning into a comedy. A black comedy, for sure, but still. As both the Skripal novichok ‘poisoning’ case in Britain and the ‘chemical attack’ in Douma, Syria fall …
China believes only in one way trade with all its trade partners, it consistently generates trade surplus against all its trade partners whether they are rich countries or poor countries by flooding their markets with cheap low standard products, another …
via ZH: Two days ago, when we commented on the early morning plunge in stocks (which was subsequently fully reversed by the close in a historic 800 point Dow reversal), we said that a long-standing question – will Trump pick plunging stocks or …
BY JOHN MAULDIN Just like the weather, financial markets go through cycles. Most years, weather doesn’t change suddenly. We get some transition time between the colder and warmer seasons. I fear we may be in an economic transition right now. And it may …
by Lance Roberts “Technically Speaking” is a regular Tuesday commentary updating current market trends and highlighting shorter-term investment strategies, risks, and potential opportunities. Please send any comments or questions directly to me via Email, Facebook or Twitter. The big question for investors at the moment is whether …
by Chris …this is already ugly. Stocks are down pretty solidly across the board, and bonds are rallying very weakly. On the other side of the ledger, and which muddies the evaporating liquidity story, is that the Junk Bond ETF, JNK, …
by Chris Well, that escalated quickly! After a long weekend to think things through, it looks like the market correction is back with a vengeance. The S&P 500 has busted its 200 dma today, and that’s big deal (assuming it’s …
by Dana Lyons If you follow us on Twitter or StockTwits, you know that we do a regular chartstorm feature called #TrendlineWednesday (though, it is often published sometime later in the week, time permitting). The feature is meant to highlight some of the more …
by Brandon Smith Public sentiment on the economy is generally influenced by to two false indicators — the national unemployment rate and stock markets. This is not to say the average person tracks either of these numbers very vigorously; they …
Despite what the media is projecting, it is my first belief that markets are in a state of fear that central banks are going to reverse course on their easy money policies and that’s why the markets are falling. What’s …
via John Murphy U.S. STOCK INDEXES BREAK SUPPORT LINES … Major U.S. stock indexes are under heavy selling today and are breaking some important support lines. Chart 1 shows the Dow Industrials falling below a trendline extending back to early February. That signals a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMQOpS5tbs Near the top of the list of things Wall Street can’t stand is rising interest rates. That’s even more true now, with the Federal Reserve once again expected to hike rates after cutting them to zero in 2008, then …
by FS The following is a summary of our recent FS Insider podcast, “Danielle DiMartino Booth: Problems at the Fed, More Volatility for the Markets,” which can be accessed on our site here or on iTunes here. Danielle DiMartino Booth, founder of Money Strong and …
President Trump is having much economic success, but he also has an ongoing war with the so-called “Deep State.” Gold and silver expert David Morgan contends, “If the “Deep State” gets pushed into a corner much further, they can basically …
BY JOHN MAULDIN In the course of inventing new tools, sometimes you find that the old tools weren’t so bad. Sometimes they might even be better than your “improved” versions. And that might be the case with our key inflation measure. My …
Overvalued $SPX. This won’t end well… Libor Rate surging as US & EU Financials Stall out Could >3% on UST10Y be nearing? h/t @StockBoardAsset https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/971543249671413761 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/971540412598013953 Are Subprime Debt Slaves, a Leading Indicator, Worrying the Fed?: https://t.co/fRjEqOEuNt by @wolfofwolfst $COF $AXP …
Markets vs Centrally Planned economies – It is all about the incentives (Link to Antony’s Book Procrastination Annihilation below) https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/e…
by Graham Summers of Gains Pains & Capital The Fed officially has a new Fed Chair, Jerome Powell. And ever since he took office, it is clear that “something” has changed at the Fed. That something is the famed “Fed put” or the …
by Brian Maher via Daily Reckoning The emerging mainstream narrative runs to sweet music… At 4.1%, unemployment scarcely exists. Wages are rising… and wage-driven inflation is on the jump. Retail sales are roaring. So is consumer confidence. Corporate profits are ringing …
by stockboardasset All monthly charts of major Euro area stock markets indicate a brick wall has been hit. Can the ECB save the day?
Is the Federal Reserve losing control of the markets? Trader Gregory Mannarino contends, “It’s worse than that. They have already lost control. If they were in control, would they still be buying bonds like they are? Would they still be …
Nikkei 225 Japan -542.83 -2.50% Hang Seng Hong Kong -485.37 -1.56% DAX Germany -257.79 -2.11% CAC 40 France -91.52 -1.74% Euronext 100 Europe -14.38 -1.41% DOW (Premarket) Dow -186.00 / -0.76% http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/americas/ Traders are hitting the sell button after President Trump tweeted Friday that “trade wars are …
Stocks sold off sharply and investors moved into the safety of bonds, after President Donald Trump said he would put tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. Analysts said the tariffs were not in themselves signs of a ‘trade war’ …
Jim Rickards interviewed by Alex Stanczyk on The Gold Chronicles In this February edition of The Gold Chronicles, Alex and Jim take a deep dive into the economy, geo-politics, and of course, gold. There is extra care and attention paid to what …
Financial writer Charles Hugh Smith sees one very big problem coming at us, and that is a dramatic loss in buying power of the U.S. dollar, but it’s not just the dollar. According to Smith, “All these currencies, there is …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Fed’s monetary policy shift is finally taking hold. It just took a while. The weekly St. Louis Fed Financial Stress index, released today, just spiked beautifully. It had been at historic lows back in November, an …
by Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and Michael Hudson via PaulCraigRoberts.org For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) …