How much higher do you think the stock markets will go? 10%? 20%? 100%? Infinite? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bM459UGB54 In any bull market, there are always 3 stages. First it’s ignored, then there are people getting on board as time moves on, but …
by Anthony B Sanders Are markets out of control due to The Federal Reserve keeping rates so low for so long? The VIX (Chicago Board Options Exchange SPX Volatility Index) has fallen below 10 and the S&P500 index has soared …
Dow up more than 100 pts. NASDAQ breaks above 7,000. New record closes every day. Looking weirdly vertical. All data http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickch…w=&time=20 Close up stuck under 25K http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickch…ow=&time=8 AC
I found this to be very interesting. I hope you do as well. Do you also think that stock buybacks and central bank back door purchases are taking place? Let me know. Money is leaving equities. It’s gone. But the …
via Carl Swenlin Last week we were looking at a rising wedge formation, which we said normally resolves downward. This week price moved through the bottom of the wedge sideways, but that doesn’t really qualify as a downward resolution, which would …
Look for more of the same craziness in 2018 as long as the printing presses continue. What do you think? We have thousands of indicators to watch out for. But there are two that stand out in front of the …
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One The Fed and Debt Bubbles The Federal Reserve raised rates three times this year. With trepidation that more or larger hikes would cause a market meltdown (because cheap money has …
NoBubbleNoBubbleNoBubble And most of it is (again) speculation. This is QE money that was supposed to go to small businesses & homeowners as loans. Major US Indexes starting to deteriorate Internals of the stock market are weak …
@NorthmanTrader There’s overwhelming evidence that the U.S. stock market is heading for disaster The economy is more leveraged than ever First up is Grant Williams, who sent me a monumental slide deck. Here’s an example of craziness: Grant Williams …
The stock market’s record-breaking run keeps going, but for how long? John Templeton, the late investing guru, once said bull markets in stocks “mature on optimism” before they eventually “die on euphoria.” Chalk up 2017 as another year of maturity …
"Sell The News": Investors Unexpectedly React To Tax Reform With Near-Record Redemptions https://t.co/Gzcp4L5v3F — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 22, 2017 Ron Paul On Bitcoin: “Our Problems Are Gigantic, People Are Desperate And Looking Everywhere” The former Republican presidential candidate, argues that …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Market Minute: There’s a cop car parked next to a stop sign at the bottom of a hill in my neighborhood. Nobody is in the car. It’s just parked there – with its red and blue lights …
By Michael Snyder We have never seen a better year for stocks in all of U.S. history. Just five days after Donald Trump entered the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit the 20,000 mark for the first time …
There are cycles that occur which make it possible for us to track in order to predict the movement of the stock market. As time goes on, we see the markets entering levels that are unsustainable. Every indicator is off …
Exuberant stock market, disappearing middle class, history repeats itself [ A 32-year-old mother of 7 children called Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California. February 1936.] One in five American households have ‘zero or negative’ wealth U.S. homes have regained value since …
by moneymetals https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-171208-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 DOWNLOAD MP3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear a truly explosive interview with Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Michael describes for …
Don't be alarmed, but last time this happened stocks corrected -30%… pic.twitter.com/4e5g0eBkTn — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 8, 2017 Market Remains Overvalued The chart below differs from the one above in that the two valuation ratios (P/E and Q) are adjusted …
by Dana Lyons The percentage households’ financial assets currently invested in stocks has jumped to levels exceeded only by the 2000 bubble. Updating one of our favorite data series from the Federal Reserve’s latest Z.1 Release, we see that in the …
Venezuela is the perfect example of what a central bank can do to a currency. Completely destroy it. This is what happens to fiat currencies with central bank control. They expand it until it devalues entirely. Central planning is a …
by John Ward The media’s macro portrait of ‘everything’s alright really’ looks like the daubings of an infant when you get closer to the canvas. Nowhere is this more apparent than than in the micromadness of the US Car sector. …
People fall into the same patterns in their daily lives. Habits form very easily. As habitual creatures, we look for patterns which we can align with and feel comfortable. In the stock market, investors, and algorithms, trading on investors behalf, …
By Michael Snyder The absurdity that we are witnessing in the financial markets is absolutely breathtaking. Just recently, a good friend reminded me that the Dow peaked at just above 14,000 before the last stock market crash, and stock prices …
From Birch Gold Group A market never crashes without giving some warning signs that danger is ahead. And when it comes to protecting your wealth, ignorance is never bliss. Here are 5 red flags occurring in the market right now that …
Does this mean that you should sell everything and go to “cash?” Of course not. However, it does mean that as an investor you should critically analyze your past personal behavior during market advances AND declines. If you are like MOST investors, it is likely …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Pointing at “excesses,” “distortions,” and “imbalances.” Margin debt in the stock market hit another record, $561 billion at the end of October, up 16% from a year ago, the New York Stock Exchange reported on Tuesday. …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Delta Report: The junk bond market is selling off hard. The less-than-investment-grade sector of the corporate bond market peaked about one month ago. The decline started slowly enough. But it picked up steam last week. And now, …
Shiller on Stock Investors: ‘People Don’t Expect the Moon Anymore’ Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, discusses investor sentiment, valuations and more with Eric Chemi. Robert Shiller on investor sentiment & the market: ‘People don’t expect the moon …
There’s something weird going on that’s worrying the markets Stocks close lower as GE drops to lowest level since 2011 from CNBC. Markets are showing signs of nervousness, which analysts say is not necessarily the dire warning some fear. There …
The MARKET BREADTH is one of many indicators but it does prove my point that central banks are buying up select stocks and those are performing really well. Their PE ratios are out of control. However, look at the whole …
By Michael Snyder One year ago we witnessed the greatest miracle in political history, and since that time we have also witnessed one of the greatest miracles in financial history. On November 8th, 2016 the Dow closed at 18,332.74. On Wednesday, …