by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open Global stocks and US futures are mixed this morning after yesterday’s record close of US stocks, in early trading with front-month Dow Jones minis +0.10%, S&P 500 minis -0.02% and Nasdaq 100 minis -0.03% The US …
Americans getting more inactive, computers partly to blame Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found. Over almost a decade, average daily …
US stocks near record levels just as the rest of the world continues to form lower highs! Momentum is fading. Hard to find reasons to buy US stocks at these historically extreme valuations. pic.twitter.com/AtxQKiRm9M — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April …
A record number of homeless people are dying across Los Angeles County — on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks. Last year alone, 918 people died. And in the last five years, deaths have jumped 76%, outpacing the growth …
– US stock market at truly record valuations while profit growth has peaked. – China is in a historic credit bubble & its currency likely to enter a full-blown crisis. – Gold is an extremely undervalued haven currency today. https://youtu.be/Z9OkWG0R_4Y …
by Mike Shedlock The amount owed to retirees accelerated faster than assets on hand despite a record bull market. The Wall Street Journal reports the Long Bull Market Has Failed to Fix Public Pensions. “Some of the states allowed themselves to …
Wow! Psycho market builds up a near record short $VIX position in about 3 months when the previous record took 1.5 YEARS to reach the same level. What could go wrong? https://t.co/ff7lM9CLYK — Premature Accumulation Pajama Investooor (@MoMoBagholder) April 13, …
by Playaguy Turns out that data manipulation corresponds much better to CO2 than the actual temperature record
by NineteenEighty9 https://www.ft.com/content/6c4d38c0-5ada-11e9-939a-341f5ada9d40 Saudi Aramco’s debut international bond sale drew $100bn of investor orders for the initial $10bn available to buy, smashing records for an emerging-market bond sale. How does that imbalance between orders and allocations happen, and what does …
Here we are again. More investors are SELLING and stocks continue to rise higher. The last time we saw this was 2008. The majority of people really don’t care. All they care about is their 7 shares of Amazon. Understandably. …
Stock market keeps rising without actual fundamentals supporting. But hey, who cares about fundamentals when we have the Fed who loves us, right? In mainstream finance, we’re always looking at the same handful of indicators. It’s actually quite an embarrassment. …
via americanthinker: Here’s the breakdown of his personal pronoun use (based on a rush transcript of the event): “I” — 312 “Me” — 33 “My” — 43 “I’d” — 9 “I’m” — 61 “Myself” — 9 The former president’s comments began …
via CNBC: U.S. $100 bills in circulation hit an all-time high last year, according to new data from the Federal Reserve out this week. Meanwhile, overall global demand for cash is slowing down. Some say the surge in $100 bills …
NY Times on Virginia’s unresolved scandals: ‘It just went poof.’ The NY Times published a piece today about the trio of scandals that overwhelmed Virginia in February. It’s a curious fact that after numerous Democrats called for the resignation of Gov. …
via nationalmortgagenews: Independent mortgage bankers lost the largest amount for originating a loan in the fourth quarter since this data has been tracked, as costs rose and volume dropped, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Independent mortgage bankers continued to struggle …
by Dennis Miller Former Fed Chairs, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke took great credit for steering the world recovery from the great recession. When something good happens, it’s a result of their masterful strategic planning. Why are they totally surprised when …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter E-commerce sales in the fourth quarter soared 12.1% from a year ago to a new record of $132.8 billion (seasonally adjusted), the Commerce Department reported this morning. For the whole year 2018, e-commerce sales blew through the $500-billion …
Money manager Peter Schiff says, “I think when they start to try to reflate the assets in stocks, real estate and in bonds, they are just going to prick the dollar bubble, and that’s when we have a real crisis. …
“Take this one seriously” – S Dakota Newspaper CHEYENNE WEATHERMAN WARNS OF APPROACHING WINTER STORM DANGER https://bit.ly/2HdLvqy Powerful late winter storm to impact travel https://bit.ly/2u50DxU State officials warning public to State officials warning public to take incoming winter storm …
From Birch Gold Group The overall U.S. trade deficit ballooned to a record level of $59.8 billion by the end of 2018, reaching the largest deficit since October 2008. TradingEconomics.com explained that this gap widened in spite of “$250 billion in trade tariffs” …
via Yahoo: A rising number American households are grappling with rising borrowing costs and consumer loan delinquencies — a worrying trend that could indicate an economic slowdown is at hand, Deutsche Bank warned on Wednesday. As U.S. consumers rack up a record …
Store closures are looking to be a record high. So far in 2019, there have already been over 4000 stores closing. There’s no way to deny the economic slowdown. No, the economy is not doing well. Another wave of retail …
via trueeconomics: As raging buybacks of shares and M&As have dropped the free float available in the markets over the recent years, Earnings per Share (EPS) continued to tank. Yet, S&P 500 valuations kept climbing: Source: Factset As noted by the …
BY SRSROCCO The insanity continues in the United States second largest shale oil field as the fundamental economics go from bad to worse. While it is true that the shale industry doesn’t look as dire as it did back in …
James White of NorthWestLibertyNews.com and David DuByne creator of the ADAPT 2030 channel on YouTube discuss societal changes as our Earth shifts to a cooler climate and the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies. A repeating 400-year cycle in our Sun …
from Zero Hedge Two weeks ago, the NY Fed made waves in the finance community when it reported that a record 7 million Americans are delinquent on their auto loans. Of course, to regular readers, none of this was new as we covered …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The unemployment rate has been a perfect forecaster of a recession in the past 70 years, and it appears to be edging closer to triggering that signal. “It’s never been wrong. It’s something to watch,” said Joseph Lavorgna, chief …
Is it possible that people have found a new way to go into debt? They created the mortgage. That’s one product. Then they took from a home they probably haven’t paid off yet and the bank lends them money based …
Snow over the last day in Los Angeles, the last time snow was seen 1962, with new cold record in Santa Barbara. Flagstaff, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada break their all time snow fall records. Sao Paula, Brazil atmospheric compression …
by Martin Armstrong The entire AUSTERITY policy of Germany is really oppressing its people to the point that their assets rank nearly the lowest in Europe and below that of even Italy. A German earning just $75,000 annually ends up in the …