LONDON, 30 December 2018 - Comment from BullionVault today leads a tip to consider investing in gold from The Observer, Sunday newspaper of the UK's Guardian group."In the last four months the FTSE All-Share index has lost 12% of its value and the gold price has jumped 10%," writes economics editor Philip Inman, saying that these two figures "really show how nervous traders have become about" New...Read More
Goldman Sachs shaved its growth forecast for the first half of next year, from 2.4 percent to 2 percent, and said growth would slow to a virtual crawl below 2 percent in the second half.Nevertheless, the bank declared it was "still not particularly worried about a recession."Javier E. David| @TeflonGeekPublished 11:35AM ET Sat, 29 Dec 2018CNBC.com Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA JetBlue A...Read More
I have never met anyone who likes losing money. And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money.But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime-investing, that is.The fear of losing money is real.Everyone has it. Even the rich.But it's not the fear that is the problem. It's how you handle fear. It's how you handle losing. The primary difference between a...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesDec 28, 2018 Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in US history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold inv...Read More
Max interviews Professor Steve Keen, author of "Debunking Economics", about the great unraveling of the Australian property market. Is it real this time? And what sort of government and central bank measures will be thrown at it to reflate the bubble?Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about fi...Read More
The entire problem of lowering interest rates to "stimulate" the economy demonstrates that central banks cannot really manage anything. This theory is based upon the idea that ifContinue...Read More
"Just had a long and very good call with President Xi of China. Deal is moving along very well. If made, it will be very comprehensive, covering all subjects, areas and points of dispute. Big progress being made!Continue...Read More
Continue...Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His company has built a national reputation on taking advantage of global opportunities in the oil and gas, mining, alternative energy, agr...Read More
Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More
Host of the popular radio show "Operation Freedom" Dr. Dave Janda warns about the massive debt problems the world is facing and the coming economic reset. Dr. Janda says Trump is correct when he says, "The real problem is the Fed and not China." Janda says the Deep State "rigged the economy to implode" with massive amounts of debt. Dr. Janda says, "Trump has been buying time" to put the American p...Read More
A BMO Capital Markets report discussed the ways this global firm might use the new funds. In a Dec. 21 research note, BMO Capital Markets analyst Edward Sterck reported that Rio Tinto Plc (RIO:NYSE; RIO:ASX; RIO:LSE; RTPPF:OTCPK) closed on the sale of its 40% interest in Grasberg for $3.5 billion through a series of transactions with the Indonesian government and Freeport McMoRan, and that the sa...Read More
Continue...Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall S...Read More
Akihiko Kondo received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Chemical Engineering (1988). He was appointed as full professor of Kobe University in 2003 and also appointed as a Continue...Read More
*This interview was recorded on 12/29/18Jaime tends to be more contrarian than the average investor. He assumes that markets are manipulated through excess money printing and suppression of some like gold and silver. Investors would likely be less interested in markets if the price of gold were much higher. Precious metals reveal the underlying market risks and the year ahead will probably bring a...Read More
During the shutdown of the federal government, the Commitments of Traders report will not be published. When the federal government operations return to normal, CFTC will resume publication of the Commitments of Traders report.Read More
Oil and gold both gained today, while stocks ended a weekly losing streakIt was a whipsaw session for stocks today, reflecting the volatile price action seen throughout the week. After trading on both sides of breakeven and exploring a 400-point range throughout the day, the Dow ultimately turned lower in the final hour of trading. The S&P joined the Dow in the red, while the Nasdaq eked out its t...Read More
Piper Jaffray discussed two stocks to target if a recession hitsStocks are volatile again, but the Dow remains on pace for a weekly win. Three individual names making notable moves today are health insurer Centene Corp (NYSE:CNC), weed stock Aphria Inc (NYSE:APHA), and cellular therapy issue Vericel Corp (NASDAQ:VCEL). Here's what's happening with shares of CNC, APHA, and VCEL. CNC Stock Gets Big...Read More
Vancouver-based juniors Defiance Silver Corp. (TSXV: DEF) and ValOro Resources Inc. (TSXV: VRO) stocks soared today, following yesterday's friendly merger announcement.The merger will be completed effective 11:59 pm on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 and will create an advanced portfolio of Mexico-based silver and gold projects, the companies said in a joint release.The combined company will continue under...Read More
It's easy to prepare your retirement savings for the New Year.It's that time of year again.Yes, the holiday season is filled with shopping and Christmas parties, but we still have to squeeze in a little time for end-of-year portfolio housekeeping. Because let's face it, life isn't exactly going to slow down once we hit the first of the yearIt's particularly important to take a good look at your 40...Read More
Wednesday was the Dow's biggest gain everIt was a wild ride on Wall Street this week, as volatility reared its ugly head once again. In addition to the worst Christmas Eve sell-off of all time, the Dow racked up its biggest one-day point gain ever on Wednesday. That was followed by a dramatic pivot higher in the final hour of trading on Thursday. Amid all this whipsaw price action, the Dow, S&P...Read More