by jessefelder The following is an excerpt from a recent Market Comment featured on The Felder Report PREMIUM. As most readers should be well aware, one of the things I monitor most closely is insider buying and selling. Nobody knows more …
“Two-thousand-zero-zero party over, Oops out of time. So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.” More money moving into the stock market. Value stocks have seen more inflows and tech stocks and other growth stocks are also performing well. More …
by jessefelder The following is an excerpt from a recent Market Comment featured on The Felder Report PREMIUM. As most readers should be well aware, one of the things I monitor most closely is insider buying and selling. Nobody knows more …
by Dana Lyons Does the return to new highs in the NYSE Advance-Decline Line mean new highs in the S&P 500 are on the way as well? We have mentioned plenty of times in the past that we are strong proponents …
From Birch Gold Group When it’s time to retire, you enter into a “realm of the unknown.” You won’t have a job, you’ll likely collect Social Security, and hopefully you’ll have a plan. With all that comes some natural concerns. For example, …
via CNBC: Consumer confidence at present remains strong, but future expectations are plummeting, according to the Conference Board’s latest readings. Such wide gaps often portend significant economic slowdowns ahead. “The most recessionary signal at present is consumer future expectations relative …
BY JOHN MAULDIN There’s no end in sight to the trade war between the US and China. Beijing has many tricks up its sleeve. But China’s labor market has its own dynamic. The first signs of Chinese economic weakness are showing …
via Andres Cardenal, CFA Summary Nobody can predict bull and bear markets, but some indicators do a sound job at providing capital protection during bear markets. The stock and bond markets are interconnected, and we can learn a lot about the …
Hopped in my @Tesla this morning and was delighted to find “romance mode” and a drop-down list of juicy, on demand fart noises, that can be triggered with a wheel click or turn signal. The best keeps getting better. Thanks …
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 & Co. doesn’t think so. The plunge in the S&P 500 …
by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA Chairman Bill Murphy yesterday was interviewed by GoldSeek Radio’s Chris Waltzek, discussing what seems to be the Bank of England’s expropriation of Venezuela’s gold, perhaps because supply in London …
China has been front-loading exports to the US ahead of a looming rise in tariffs in January. Chinese stocks tumbled today on trade war fears and worries about a slowing Chinese economy. Experts are pessimistic about the outcome of a …
New post, "Weekly Update" on https://t.co/5LxCifz6tv This signal on the S&P 500 breadth oscillator is relatively weak. pic.twitter.com/RNbbcMfMF8 — Chris Carolan $=1/∞ (@spiralcal) September 23, 2018 Since there is an important addition to this chart posted this morning…added global central …
From Birch Gold Group It’s been 10 years since Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, and other financial institutions went bust. When that happened, thousands lost their jobs. The real estate market dried up, and the mortgage industry’s exotic loan products put subprime …
This is not a signal of global reflation, or synchronised growth, but the evidence of secular stagnation caused by constant demand-side policies. pic.twitter.com/nhcBfnrCED — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) September 17, 2018 terrible miss NY FED MFG — US SLOW DOWN COMING? …
via Erin Swenlin There were some new developments on the 20-year Bond ETF (TLT) that are tipping the scales bearish. We were already noticing some problems for Bonds in general, but volatile trading had made it difficult to decipher. Today there is …
by Lance Roberts I have been, and remain, bearish on emerging markets for three reasons: As discussed yesterday, the U.S. is closer to the next economic downturn than not. When the U.S. enters a recession, emerging markets are hurt considerably more given …
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Michael Lebowitz previously penned an article entitled “Face Off” discussing the message from the bond market as it relates to the stock market and the economy. To wit: “There is a healthy debate between those who work …
by stockboardasset Both the Bloomberg Commodity Index <BCOM> and the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity Index <CRB> (monthly) have rejected the 50sma. This could mean another deflationary period in commodities is ahead.
by Geoffrey Grider Coming off a contentious NATO summit and a trip to the U.K. in which he seemed to undercut the government of America’s closest ally, President Trump took aim at another Western institution just days before his high-stakes meeting with …
Interesting chart from Citi’s Matt King. Looks like a small Chinese credit crunch after the gargantuan post-crisis borrowing binge. probably not good EM FX crush to signal spillover in 2H18?
via ECRI ECRI’s U.S. Weekly Leading Index (WLI) decreased to 147.4 from 148.1, while the WLI growth rate edged down to 2.2% from 2.8%. For more on the cyclical outlook, please see below for other forward-looking ECRI data shared publicly: …
From Birch Gold Group When you’re on a ship that you know is going to take a hit from the equivalent of an “air-to-sea” missile, you don’t wait to try and protect yourself. The EU may be that ship, and could it take …
Ronald-Peter Stöferle discusses why recessions can be good for precious metals. They are monitoring various leading inflation indicators which they say have reached a maximum. They document this in their report which you can find here. https://ingoldwetrust.report There is massive inflation …
by SvenTropics I’ve been growing in concern over the massive stock buyback bubble we are experiencing over the last few years. This year alone, companies are on track to buy back $800 billion dollars of themselves (a 51% increase from …
Could the next recession be upon us? In his latest video, Mike Maloney shows five startling pieces of evidence that add up to bad news for the US economy…
by Dana Lyons The following post was initially issued to TLS members on May 11, 2018. The VIX may struggle to move much lower than current levels — and may signal limitations to further stock market gains. Some folks argue that technical analysis cannot …
"Very Negative Signal for Earnings Estimates (a few short term charts are circulating, but the relationship goes back at least 40 years and the correlation is rising)," h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer $SPX $VIX pic.twitter.com/66eynO9xtG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 9, 2018 will households …
From Birch Gold Group Just like a car with a bad cooling system, the U.S. economy may be overheating, and could break down soon. Why? Aside from trade wars, geopolitical tension, and debt, inflation might stand center-stage as the final nail in the U.S. economic “coffin”. …
Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports (4/17/18) Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the energy sector. $OSX is on a major sell signal. Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. OIH is on a buy signal. XLE is on a buy …