by Lance Roberts In retail investing, do the “blind lead the blind?” Such was a question I asked recently about young investors who are “Long Confidence And Short Experience.” However, a recent survey by MagnifyMoney dug much deeper into the subject. Our previous article’s …
How Goldman sucks sold 10B of stonks to the retail investors https://t.co/Fm7l1lH5qM — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) March 28, 2021 Hedge Fund liquidation triggers record crash in Discovery, ViacomCBS. Goldman liquidated $10.5bn worth of stocks in block trades, part of extraordinary spree …
by Lance Roberts The fleecing of retail investors continues as “payment for order flow” expands. Payment for order flow (PFOF) is not new. Previously, in a less connected world of instantaneous data flows, PFOF was minimal and non-invasive. Today, with high-frequency trading, dark pools, and …
AMC is now worth 2x what it was before COVID — Michael Lebowitz, CFA (@michaellebowitz) March 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1371558661231943684 Dow Jones: U can smell the turning point its so close pic.twitter.com/7y3YjyqYeV — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 15, 2021 Next …
by WARREN MOSLE Headline number looks strong, but details show weakness, particularly personal consumption expenditures which continue to decelerate: Highlights The consumer isn’t on fire but still contributed to a very solid 3.2 percent growth rate for first-quarter GDP. Net exports …
A “bust out” is a fraud tactic used in the organized crime world wherein a business’s assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of bankruptcy — Wikipedia. By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners, for The …
by Mike for Silver Doctors Thanks for watching this Silver Doctors New update. The articles mentioned in this news update can be found here: 1. (Wikipedia) Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special… 2. Mueller Report: Team Couldn’t Rule Out Obstruction … Or Firmly …
by WARREN MOSLER Not looking good: German Factory Activity Continues to Contract in April The IHS Markit Germany Manufacturing PMI rose to 44.5 in April 2019 from the previous month’s near seven-year low of 44.1, but below market expectations of …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan As the retail apocalypse continues to accelerate as we inch toward the middle of 2019, many in the mainstream media seem content to ignore the major problem: debt. The companies closing stores did have the disadvantage of keeping …
Clothing retailers, consumer electronics companies and home furnishing businesses will need to close more stores across the U.S. as e-commerce sales proliferate, according to UBS. In a note to clients this week, the investment firm said “store rationalization needs to …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How the Brick & Mortar Meltdown works for Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities after America’s largest mall landlord defaults on a mortgage and walks away from the mall. The dust has settled and the numbers have emerged: A …
Don’t believe what the Democrats and the mainstream media are telling you when they say there is no crisis on the Southern U.S. border. That’s a huge lie, and the numbers speak for themselves. There was more than 100,000 apprehensions …
by WARREN MOSLER Not looking good: Not looking good: In contraction: South Korea March exports contract for fourth month (Reuters) Overseas sales slid 8.2 percent in annual terms in March. Imports shrank by 6.7 percent in March from a year …
Globally, manufacturing dropping, retail dropping, auto sales dropping, housing dropping, revenues/guidance dropping. It's all going lower and accelerating. Trade deals and Brexit are a sham. There is no economic miracle. Reality about to hit big time. — Puff Dragon (@PuffDragon11) …
via CNBC: The weak report from the Commerce Department on Monday joined a raft of other soft data, including housing starts and manufacturing production that have left economists anticipating a sharp slowdown in growth in the first quarter. Retail sales …
by Michael Snyder Just like we witnessed during the last recession, major retailers are laying off tens of thousands of workers, and it looks like this will be the worst year for store closings in all of U.S. history. Many are …
by David Haggith For brick and mortar stores, the Retail Apocalypse is closing stores down like a slow-motion video of the asteroid event that took out dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While it may seem to drag on as we watch …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9Bq9Vv1y4 Walmart is quietly closing stores Walmart is closing 11 stores in the US. The closing stores include one Walmart Supercenter in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Walmart Neighborhood Market stores in Arizona, California, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. Walmart is closing at …
by John Adams and Martin North from Adams Economics John Adams and Martin North expose the Australian establishment propaganda about bank bail-ins of retail and institutional deposits which they have claimed can never occur in Australia. (A bank bail-in of retail deposits occurred in Cyprus …
by WARREN MOSLER A bit of an uptic from a very low number, with last month’s data revised still lower and the outlook still looking very soft: Highlights For retail sales, no period has more seasonal extremes than the busy …
by Mish Shedlock Challenger reports a huge jump in layoff announcements. The retail sector is very hard hit. The Challenger Report shows employers announced 76,835 job cuts in February. The shortest month of the year saw the highest number of job cuts in …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan Just two months into 2019, many more retail stores have announced their closures amid a slowing in consumer spending. The retail apocalypse is worsening and there are some major stores on “deathwatch;” which would mean going out of …
via businessinsider: More than 5,300 stores are expected to close in 2019. Family Dollar, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Chico’s announced nearly 800 store closures on Wednesday. Gap, JCPenney, and Victoria’s Secret announced more than 300 store closures over the course of 24 hours last week. …
via visualcapitalist: Imagine being an investor in Microsoft at the time of the company’s IPO in 1986. Or better yet, buying Amazon shares while it was still just an aspiring online book store in the late 1990s. Chances to be an …
Store closures are continuing throughout 2019. Companies are being wiped out and industries are changing. Ultimately the goal is to replace humans with automated processes. This has been mentioned by just about every big business leader and has been implemented …
via businessinsider: Gap, JCPenney, and Victoria’s Secret announced more than 300 store closures over the course of 24 hours this week. All three companies reported declining same-store sales during the critical holiday period. Tesla also announced it would shutter many of its 378 stores, with …
Like 2007/08 retail investors raising cash. Chart from TheDailyShot pic.twitter.com/vih4pQ5bI2 — Stephen Blumenthal (@SBlumenthalCMG) February 27, 2019 Most share buybacks are done at the top of the market. Perhaps we should view CEO resignations in the same light. Chief executives …
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via upfina: The December retail sales report was so terrible that it implies a recession is coming soon if the data is accurate. There’s always a chance the data is incorrect because these results are revised. This time there is a …
by David Haggith We now know that the Retail Apocalypse took another trip downhill during the all-important holiday season. December reports show retail sales declined more in one month than they have since … the Great Recession. Notice what a common …