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buy bonds, sell stocks, recession fears still linger pic.twitter.com/HnkQHlTkfz — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) March 26, 2019 Consumer Confidence Crashes Most Since Oct 2008 After a hope-filled rebound in February, Conference Board … Read more
From Birch Gold Group Only two and a half months ago, the Fed signaled two rate hikes for 2019. But the Powell-led Fed appears confused because they’ve just adjusted that forecast to zero. … Read more
via silverdoctors: It is no longer just a few big name, legendary investors like Ray Dalio who are buying gold. Lesser known hedge funds are also making a move into gold. In fact, … Read more
Oh, who could’ve seen that coming. 🙃 t.co/AiqObkipDU — Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) March 19, 2019 Stocks gyrated on Tuesday as investors puzzled over conflicting reports over the progress of U.S.-China … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Decelerating global trade hitting home: U.S. manufacturing sector slowing as economy loses steam (Reuters) The Fed said manufacturing production dropped 0.4 percent last month. January was revised … Read more
Investment case „forced mergers“?Not sure. As a trade, Eurozone banks do look interesting… pic.twitter.com/ajMCk0YqxY — D.Schrottenbaum, CFA (@David_Schro) March 19, 2019 10 year Bund yields. The H&S still in play … Read more
via mishtalk: Trump is on an impossible mission. Tariffs will not reduce the trade deficit and will likely make matters worse. To fully understand Trump’s trade dilemma, consider the following chart. … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Ultimately, the issue is not China, Germany, Japan, or Mexico. The issue is much closer to home. And where are the efforts to tame it headed? … Read more
via @TaviCosta: Long gold in CNY; short global equities. Remarkable how well this trade performed in all Chinese and global economic downturns of the last 40 years. In-depth analysis follows below: … Read more
via scmp: China and the United States have made “concrete progress” on the text of their trade agreement, Chinese state media reported on Friday. Xinhua reported that Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Trumped up expectations largely reversed: Highlights At 101.7, the small business optimism index fell short of expectations in February, recovering only 5 tenths of January’s 3.2 point … Read more
from Zero Hedge As markets sink further into the red during what will likely become their worst week of the year, more skeptical reports about the likelihood of a deal have … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Someone last week suggested that Trump sees the stock market as the barometer measuring the success of his Presidency. I think his behavior, tweets, press comments, … Read more
From Birch Gold Group The overall U.S. trade deficit ballooned to a record level of $59.8 billion by the end of 2018, reaching the largest deficit since October 2008. TradingEconomics.com explained that … Read more
By Harry Dent China’s been playing hardball with the U.S. over trade talks. There’s good reason: they’re gunning for the title of Top Global Economic Power, above the U.S. … Read more
Feels like G-20 again, remember when trump pumped a trade deal back then, and it never materialized. Markets then sold. pic.twitter.com/qC5GPtcO22 — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) March 7, 2019 $TRAN $RUT … Read more