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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The deepest plunge since the Financial Crisis, but more persistent. Global chip sales plunged 16.8% in June from June last year, to $32.7 billion, on a … Read more
via Otavio (Tavi) Costa: Bond market clearly spelling trouble ahead for stocks. Can’t believe investors are still buying into this bullish insurance cut thesis.
via @TaviCosta: All previous declines from cyclical highs led to recessions. Confidence leads the way. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. via @Not_Jim_Cramer: ISM New Orders – Inventory Spread … Read more
via Zerohedge: Following President Trump’s upset election in 2016 followed by more than two years of constant ‘Russiagate’ coverage, there now appears to be a “Trump slump” across all forms … Read more
by Michael Snyder Not since 2008 have we seen so much bad economic data come rolling in all at the same time. Even without a war with Iran, which by … Read more
by John Rubino A few short weeks ago, the economy seemed to be growing, the trade war looked winnable and the Mueller Report appeared to take presidential impeachment off the … Read more
via Otavio (Tavi) Costa: – Global export volume growth contracting; – Asia exports plunging and significantly diverging from global stocks; – 85% of Hong Kong yield curve inverted;
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Leery investors? During the ugliest October in the stock market that anyone could remember, a nasty November, and a brutal pre-Christmas December, margin debt plunged by $94 … Read more
by Shaun Richards Today brings a development which will no doubt be trumpeted across the media and it is explained by this from Reuters yesterday, Greece will return to bond … Read more
by: Mike Adams (Natural News) You may recall it was barely two weeks ago that the New York Times published an op-ed applauding the extermination of the human race as a way … Read more
via Joanna Ossinger A key gauge of S&P 500 Index options activity has tumbled to multiyear lows, which some might see as a signal investors are underhedged. But JPMorgan Chase & … Read more
by Michael Snyder What goes up must eventually come down. For years, the California housing market was on the cutting edge of “Housing Bubble 2” as we witnessed home prices … Read more
Authorities found Changsheng Biotechnology’s subsidiary produced substandard vaccines and forged production data. Its shares have been suspended from trading.
by John Rubino Birth rates are plunging almost everywhere. The first chart below shows that even notoriously populous China and India have entered the same reproductive neighborhood as the US … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Note the bifurcation: weakest plunged 80% from peak, strongest “only” 30%. This is my now classic twice-a-year progress report on the decline of mall REITs. The … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Landlords are reading the memo, but it may be too late. Shares of Amazon multiplied by a factor of ten since 2009. Shares of Wal-Mart are … Read more