Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Apr. 16, 2019 – 8:09 – Center for Security Policy President Fred Fleitz on the U.S.-China trade talks and how the Pentagon is looking to reduce Russian, Chinese and Cuban influence inside Venezuela. https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6026903327001/#sp=show-clips …
via Zerohedge: The recent collapse in world trade volume is the worst since the financial crisis and as dangerous as during the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s, according to The Telegraph. Data from the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy …
China pork production down 35% and USA pork exports to China all time record. Swine flu numbers across China and one million pounds of seized pork from China in New Jersey was contaminated. Delays in spring planting across USA and …
Alasdair Macleod interviewed on Reluctant Preppers Are you being told there’s a perfect storm converging on our financial lives from all sides? Just at the credit cycle is peaking, the real economy from housing to retail and beyond is creaking and straining, …
via @dlacalle_IA: Now we start to see the late-cycle economies weakening faster (Spain).
TradersChoice.net, Released on 4/9/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several …
By Patrick Watson If you follow daily market action, you can tell investors don’t like tariffs or other trade restrictions. Stock prices rise when it looks like US and Chinese negotiators are making progress. They fall when President Trump makes new …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The world’s worst negotiating strategy is to make a crazy tulip-bubble stock market rally dependent on a trade deal that harms the interests of the U.S. The world’s worst negotiating tactics, the equivalent of handing the other …
World trade unlikely to grow much in 2019, regardless of any US-China deal. And risks lie to the downside – producers of electronics might reduce output further to reverse record stockbuilding in these highly-traded goods. See our Global Economics Update: …
By Harry Dent The markets continued to creep up on Friday morning, anticipating the finalization of the U.S.-China trade deal and the end to the trade war. But what we really need here, to get a final confirmation of my Dark Window scenario, is …
by visualcapitalist A united African continent working towards common goals would be a major force on the global economic stage. To this end, nations in the region have been working towards an ambitious plan to create the world’s largest trade area. …
By Harry Dent Since last November I’ve been forecasting that we are likely moving into another Dark Window of spectacular gains before a big crash in early 2020. It didn’t look that way into December when stocks were down 20% or more, …
via Zerohedge: According to the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), world trade plunged to its weakest levels not seen since the financial crisis. The report published last week shows world trade expanded by 2.3% in January after the index tumbled …
via @Trinhnomics: We know: a) Asian trade were gang-buster up until Nov 2018 b/c of US demand & front-loading; b) But Asian trade & IP started to lose steam rapidly in 2019 As the US is the largest economy in the …
buy bonds, sell stocks, recession fears still linger pic.twitter.com/HnkQHlTkfz — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 26, 2019 Consumer Confidence Crashes Most Since Oct 2008 After a hope-filled rebound in February, Conference Board Consumer Confidence tumbled in March with Present Situation plunging to 11-month …
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. They also forecasted the end of its “QT” (quantitative tightening) …
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, a top performing hedge fund in 2018 is betting big …
Oh, who could’ve seen that coming. 🙃 https://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 trade negotiations. Bloomberg News initially reported, citing people familiar with the …
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 up to show output falling 0.5 percent instead of slumping …
Investment case „forced mergers“?Not sure. As a trade, Eurozone banks do look interesting… pic.twitter.com/ajMCk0YqxY — David Schrottenbaum (@David_Schro) March 19, 2019 https://twitter.com/RVAnalysis/status/1107775765263704064
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. Trump’s Current Account and Trade Deficit Problem in One Picture …
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? (12 minutes)
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: https://www.crescat.net/wp-content/uploads/Macro-Trade-of-The-Century.pdf …
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 dip. Econoday’s consensus was looking for 102.5 with the low …
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, etc with respect to the stock market validates that assertion. …
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 this gap widened in spite of “$250 billion in trade tariffs” …
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. and other players. They’re embracing the short-term pain to win …
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 (@StockBoardAsset) March 7, 2019 $TRAN $RUT $MID $AMZN GETTING CRUSHED! pic.twitter.com/2zbE0wCF6r — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) March 7, 2019 …
by WARREN MOSLER Downward revisions for q4 GDP. And not how both imports and exports are down for the last 6 months or so as global trade decelerates: Highlights Revision estimates for fourth-quarter GDP will be coming down following an …
by Paul Brandus The law finally seems to have caught up with President Trump. Not lawmen like special counsel Robert Mueller, or the G-men of the Southern District of New York—though they may soon catch up with him, for all I …