By Rikard Jozwiak at Radio Free Europe: BRUSSELS – NATO has launched its largest military exercise since the collapse of the Soviet Union, mustering tens of thousands of troops in what the head of the Western alliance called a “strong display” …
by DCG Don’t be surprised if the body count goes up by Monday morning… From MyFoxChicago: At least six people were killed and 12 others were wounded since 5 p.m. Friday in citywide shootings, spanning from a sidewalk next to River North’s nightclubs to …
by ReadMurrayBookchin An assortment of recent articles – feel free to post more in the comments! USA Housing stocks are having their worst year since 2008, and some see even more distress Fund managers haven’t been this bearish on global …
via Bloomberg: Renters finally have reason to rejoice: their housing costs dropped last month for the first time in six years. The median rent for apartments, single-family homes and other residences across the U.S. was $1,440 in September, down 0.2 …
via CNBC: Housing stocks are getting crushed. Two major homebuilder stock-tracking ETFs, the ITB and the XHB, are on track to post their worst years since 2008 — and some strategists see further downside. Lennar and KB Home fell more than 2 percent Wednesday after Credit …
via Filipe Pacheco and Netty Idayu Ismail Traders are running out of reasons to stay in Dubai’s stock market as it heads for its worst year since the 2008 debt crisis. Dubai’s main equities gauge has lost 19 percent this year, pressured mostly …
via Luke Kawa Pessimism on the global economy is piling up amid rising trade tensions and expectations the U.S. central bank will carry on tightening despite the tumult in equity markets. Fund managers surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch this …
Wow!For the first time since 2008, the Fed is unlikely to intervene significantly in the markets!The bank has published its forecast of expected Reinvestment in the coming month-only $ 300 million-completely negligible!#SPX #DXY @dlacalle_IA @mcm_ct @zerohedge @Sunchartist pic.twitter.com/a2Vh9rrYjy — Amit …
via Cormac Mullen A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. indicator designed to provide a “reasonable signal for future bear-market risk” has risen to the highest in almost 50 years. The firm’s Bull/Bear Index, which is based on measures of equity valuation, growth …
What do you think will happen the remainder of 2018? Stocks fall further? Same? Or higher? Just look passed the borders of the US and you will see countless examples of stock markets failing. $15 trillion in stimulus from central …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks appear to be taking a pause from their recent skid this AM with US stocks poised for the best day in more than 6-months as we enter the 3Q earnings season US stocks index futures …
via BBG Global bonds are hitting fresh milestones of misery. Strong U.S. data, a tighter-than-expected monetary trajectory, rising commodity prices and brewing wage pressures are conspiring to push Treasury yields to cycle-highs, hitting money managers of all stripes. The value …
John Podhoretz: Kavanaugh: The Surprise Ending Ford’s testimony was powerful, and had she been able to surface a piece of evidence as insubstantial as a piece of down—but one with any substance whatsoever—Kavanaugh would not have survived it. But she …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Central bank gold buying is at highest since 2012, U.S. Mint reports most gold and silver coins sold since …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhj3-XlBIQ Some 259 people worldwide have died while taking selfies, according to a study published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. Researchers scoured news reports on selfie deaths that occurred from October 2011 to November 2017. http://marygreeley.com/?p=76191
by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver We casually refer to “the stock market” all the time. And whatever the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq are doing is generally accepted as how “the market” is doing. But there are about …
via Bespoke The S&P 500 is currently trading down just over 1%, and if these declines hold through the closing bell, it would be the first decline of 1% or more for the index since late June. At 70 trading …
Do you think that rising interest rates will play a SMALL or BIG role in prices? When you look at home sales, this must be broken down by country, region, and all the way down to the neighbourhood of a …
via sacbee: MIAMI Janet Burke, 71, opens the door of her Hollywood apartment with a smile. That’s how she greets Britt Weatherhead every Friday when he delivers a box of food that will keep hunger away. Cheese, milk, bread and fruit …
From the American Conservative: This summer, a UN panel received reports of a human rights crisis unfolding in China’s far western Xinjiang province. The information showed that as many as two million people had been subjected to an intense political indoctrination and reeducation …
via @OccupyWisdom: https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595330131861504 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595336045826048 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595342790250496 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595349417271296 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595368841093120 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595385865785345 Bonus: Your Central Bank Can’t Save You Next Time Bloomberg–7 hours ago Unless there can be an adult conversation in America over negative interest rates — the counterintuitive idea of borrowers getting paid and savers …
by ShellOilNigeria https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html Bags of cash delivered to a Rome hotel for favored Italian candidates. Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia. …
Neil deGrasse Tyson sees nothin’ wrong with a little puff and high emitting from Elon Musk, ’cause he says the guy is this generation’s Thomas Edison.
by jackthebutholeripper Manapart IIPNG. He Tangoed with Hillary and Podesta in Ukraine from 2012-2014 so you know everythings cool, baby: One recent revelation regarding Manafort that seems very important is detailed in this piece from the Hill It looks like Obama …
A trip down memory lane featuring the last 17 years of the government incrementally usurping our freedom.
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1039811807643426816 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1039809283460882432 Leveraged loans are now being packaged into collateralized loan obligations and sold to investors. Sound familiar? And the CLO market has grown to match the size of the CDO market at its pre-crisis peak. https://t.co/Af7cLVvN8p pic.twitter.com/ZOVLXPu7Je — Jesse …
This is the mcm-smart-money study and its showing terrible participation since January with only an uptick since then on #SPX pic.twitter.com/BzEjOkD1jk — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) September 11, 2018 37 Hindenburg Omens have now triggered on the NYSE and Nasdaq over the …
via csis.org: The Issue Five years since it was announced, China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has yet to materialize on the ground as promised. According to Chinese officials, the BRI includes six economic corridors that will carry goods, people, …
via advisorperspectives: Quick take: At the end of August the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 index price was 121% above its long-term trend, up from 116% the previous month. About the only certainty in the stock market is that, over the long haul, over …