Continued uncertainty over the lingering Beijing-Washington trade standoff are pressuring stocks this morningStock futures are set to retreat from last week's record wins, as growing concerns over U.S.-China trade plague Wall Street. This souring sentiment comes afterPresident Donald Trump on Friday tempered expectations for a mutual tariff rollback. An upsurge of violence in Hong Kong protests ov...Read More
However, the VIX's 20-day call/put ratio suggests any potential slide in stocks could be limited"Nervous investors have socked $3.4 trillion away in cash. But stocks are rising and their nerves are calming, leading bulls to view the huge cash pile as a sign that markets have room to go higher.Assets in money-market funds have grown by $1 trillion over the past three years to their highest level in...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesNov 11, 2019People who throw tennis rackets are a lot like wife beaters and liars. No one does it just once. So if ever you are on a court and one of the players throws their racket, just gather up your things and leave because as sure as god makes little green apples it will happen again and again until it gets boring. Liars and wife beaters do the same.My job requires that I...Read More
I will start this expose of what is really going on in Chile by pointing out that as I have lived there for the last 14 years, I am well placed to talk about it. I am aware that the truths that I am going to set out here may upset more than a few people, but if things are ever going to get better you have to begin by accepting reality, and the reality of the situation in Chile, which has seeming...Read More
RambusA line chart can give you a different perspective vs a bar chart which is why I like to use them both to help uncover a potential pattern. Line charts can often times give you a quicker heads when a stock is breaking out.Below is a weekly line chart for GLD which shows you why I'm so concerned about the PM complex right now. As you can see this weekly line chart shows a triple top with the...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold wanting to breakdown but the gold market does not have a trend but bias and momentum down. Below the 18-week moving average. $1,440-$1,450 support. $1,485 challenge area..Read More
Although some notable long-term bond bulls are close to throwing in the towel as U.S. Treasury yields continue to climb, the chart suggests the bull market begun nearly 40 years ago still has farther to go. Yields on the long bond settled Friday at 2.41%, up from 1.90% in August, while T-Notes have gone from 1.43% to 1.93% over the same time. The rallies have been impressive if not to say sc...Read More
Technical RecessionFreight Volumes Plummet"An Ugly Battle"Philadelphia, Dallas, and ???If you are a computer (other than the newest experimental quantum ones), your world is entirely binary. Everything is some combination of zeroes and ones. The machines can do marvelous things with those two digits but they have limits.We humans don't have to think in either/or terms, yet we often do. I see it...Read More
I will start this expose of what is really going on in Chile by pointing out that as I have lived there for the last 14 years, I am well placed to talk about it. I am aware that the truths that I am going to set out here may upset more than a few people, but if things are ever going to get better you have to begin by accepting reality, and the reality of the situation in Chile, which has seeming...Read More
RambusA line chart can give you a different perspective vs a bar chart which is why I like to use them both to help uncover a potential pattern. Line charts can often times give you a quicker heads when a stock is breaking out.Below is a weekly line chart for GLD which shows you why I'm so concerned about the PM complex right now. As you can see this weekly line chart shows a triple top with the...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold wanting to breakdown but the gold market does not have a trend but bias and momentum down. Below the 18-week moving average. $1,440-$1,450 support. $1,485 challenge area..Read More
Although some notable long-term bond bulls are close to throwing in the towel as U.S. Treasury yields continue to climb, the chart suggests the bull market begun nearly 40 years ago still has farther to go. Yields on the long bond settled Friday at 2.41%, up from 1.90% in August, while T-Notes have gone from 1.43% to 1.93% over the same time. The rallies have been impressive if not to say sc...Read More
Technical RecessionFreight Volumes Plummet"An Ugly Battle"Philadelphia, Dallas, and ???If you are a computer (other than the newest experimental quantum ones), your world is entirely binary. Everything is some combination of zeroes and ones. The machines can do marvelous things with those two digits but they have limits.We humans don't have to think in either/or terms, yet we often do. I see it...Read More
By: Avi GilburtWhile reading of the title of this article may cause you to make certain assumptions about what you are about to read, I can assure you that this is not a politically motivated article. In fact, politics has absolutely nothing to do with the analysis and conclusions presented herein.I want to start with the assumption that we have spoken about so often, and that it is social moo...Read More
Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, a global leader in gold and silver sales/storage and one of the world's most highly regarded investment education companies. He is author of the highest selling precious metals investment book of all time, Rich Dad's Advisors: Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver. In addition, Mr....Read More
From Serbia to Syria to Nikki Haley's explosive new book, the war party is still firmly in control in Washington. Wars and threats of wars keep increasing, ensuring a steady of wounded and broken veterans to "thank" for their "service."Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Tim...Read More
Filmed at the New Orleans Investment Conference on Nov. 2, 2019.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 opportunitie...Read More
Filmed at the New Orleans Investment Conference on Nov. 2, 2019.Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America...Read More
When the New York Federal Reserve began pumping billions of dollars a day into the repurchasing (repo) markets (the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other) in September, they said this would only be necessary for a few weeks. Yet, last Wednesday, almost two months after the Fed's initial intervention, the New York Federal Reserve pumped 62.5 billion dollars into the repo market.Th...Read More
"The reality for @ewarren is that this is as much to divert attention from her income and net worth as anything else. Other than steyer she is the wealthiest of all the Dem Candidates. By far."Continue...Read More