Do you think the current market is sustainable? Look at the figures. It’s absurd. It’s abnormal. Just a handful of stocks are rising. Those who hold those stocks have put the blinders on and believe that everything is just fine. …
Italian risk is larger than subprime. When the government talks of “redenomination” it is, in effect, a massive default. The “Synchronised Growth” Mirage Fades Away. Synchronised growth was just synchronised debt based on one single bet: Low rates and weak …
Do you think stock buybacks are responsible for most of the gains in 2018? How did we come this far? We’ve gone from a very low point in March 2009 to an exemplary level of gains. With one quick glance, …
History shows that a divergence between the DJIA and NASDAQ deserves your attention. This chart helps to tell the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ANL46WsOo
In your honest opinion, do you think it’s ok that only a very few amount of stocks are keeping this market afloat? Globally, stocks look weak. But look closer. U.S. stocks are weak as well. Just 4 stocks have made …
via gainspainscapital: Let’s cut through the market BS. The Fed is the single most important issue for the markets… not tariffs, not trade wars, not even the economy. Remember, from 2008-20015, the US markets were completely driven by Fed policy and …
by David Haggith Even the best day of the year for stocks in the United States struggled to pull this market into better shape. While summer is a down period overall for stocks, July 2nd holds the position of being historically the …
by Dana Lyons Back in January, we noted that one sector that had been on fire — housing stocks — was potentially at risk of cooling off. At least, that was our read on the group based on the chart of the …
by Bill Bonner Crypto Beating Somehow, the stock market made it through another month. But the primary trend still seems to be down. The stock market peaked out in January. So far, there is no sign that it intends to take …
via BBG Investors fretting over the recent drop in emerging-market stock indexes may find comfort by drilling down into the details. Since June 18 — the evening U.S. President Donald Trump seemed poised to escalate the trade war by pledging tariffs on …
How will China’s stock market stop the BEAR market from continuing? Natural growth or government intervention? Will Deutsche Bank fail? If there is to be a bailout, the question I have is specifically, HOW? What mechanism will they use? Bank …
via Zhang Shidong China’s intensified trade spat with the US is now about to send its US$6.7 trillion equity market into bear territory. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is now down 19 per cent from its January high, on the cusp …
by Graham Summers of Gains Pains & Capital If you need more evidence that the Fed screwed up during its latest FOMC meeting, take a look at the below chart. This chart shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a stock index comprised of …
Yield-seeking demand and resulting issuance of low-grade corporate debt in this cycle is what yield-seeking demand and resulting issuance of low-grade mortgage securities was in the last cycle. The lesson to learn is that people don’t see risk until it …
by stockboardasset The financial media are euphoric that stocks are up today. However, they’re all ignoring the fact that the issue that triggered the recent sell-off (the Fed’s colossal policy error regarding the $USD) has not been resolved. Put another way, …
The U.S.-China trade spat isn’t why stocks are stumbling (it's due to the unwinding of excessive optimism): https://t.co/Nnmr7BjKKz $QQQ $XLK pic.twitter.com/6o4lVwK8Zl — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) June 19, 2018 Do you really think the threat of a trade war is causing …
Jim Mellon talks the possibility of a trade war from CNBC. via CNBC: A market correction is inevitable even without trade war fears, billionaire investor Jim Mellon told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Tuesday. Mellon is not alone in suggesting …
https://twitter.com/PlanetPonzi/status/1008722994208890881 three consecutive repricing events at auction start $SPY, btfd hasn't worked in many of sessions pic.twitter.com/YqCGumBp7n — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 19, 2018 BTFD Crowd has been getting monkey hammered $SPX pic.twitter.com/Sp0HIVFNs9 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 19, 2018 According to …
by Kimble Charting CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE While trade tensions between China and the States are getting a good deal of attention of late, one might want to keep a close eye on the price action of the SSE Composite (Shanghai …
by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading As a Wall Street “Unicorn” it’s current market cap is $58.2 billion, even though there are losses as far as the eye can see. On June 12th the stock price surged 3.19% and is now up 40% …
by Daniel Carter About a month and a half ago, I wrote an article that predicted a strong rally in stock prices. I reminded readers again in this article once the setup became clearer. Since my initial prediction, the S&P 500 …
Do you think insiders have been selling because they know something we don’t? We need to follow what the insiders are doing. They have been known to sell in advance of a crash. They make it happen before we ever …
by Tom McClellan Since the early 1990s, there has been a pretty good correlation between the movements of the DJIA and the spread between the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield and the equivalent yield for German sovereign debt. The German bonds are …
by coloradoclimber878 Imagine the scenario in which Netflix reached the point it could not grow anymore, and simply decided to return all earnings to shareholders in the form of a dividend. As a studious investor, you know that you could …
To clarify, I’m not suggesting people should be day traders. It means we shouldn’t just buy something and wait for it to appreciate. We should be investing into things which give us passive income. If they appreciate along the way, …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics And just like that, the VIX index crashes right back to where it was before the late-January 10% drop in the stock market – a reflection that the remaining stock market speculators and hedge fund bots …
It’s the stock buybacks. Companies are expected to buy back 10% of their market cap this year. They are borrowing money to do it. Likely be a huge credit crisis and crash in the future from it, but enjoy the …
by Jesse “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest…A proud man is …
via silverdoctors: Harry Dent says he agrees with 50% of what the Gold Bugs say, but gold is still going much, much lower. Here’s why (plus a rebuttal)… Harry says he has predicted the moves in gold better than anybody. He says …
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains & Capital Let’s talk about inflation. Inflation enters the economy in stages. It’s not as though the Fed begins to print money and POOF! inflation appears. It takes time. The first stage occurs in the manufacturing/ production segment …