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
Even the upper middle class loses share of household wealth to the 1%. The bottom half gets screwed.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 de...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
If Warren becomes president, our operation will leave the United States and I will have to seriously consider resigning my American citizenship. Continue...Read More
Technically Gold cracked last week and the downside momentum coupled with the relatively high net spec position argues thatContinue...Read More
Chinese steelmaker Hebei Jingye Group has agreed to acquire British Steel, including its Scunthorpe steelworks and other assets, the UK government's Official Receiver and the company's administrator, EY, said on Monday November 11. The sale will also include British Steel's shares in TSP Engineering and Redcar Bulk Terminal in the UK, along with FN Steel in the Netherlands and Briti...Read More
China is looking to take on the world's top steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, with a share transfer between Shougang and Baowu Steel.Northern China's Shougang Group is transferring 15% of its share in the listed unit of the same name to Baowu Steel without any charge, according to a company notice last Friday November 8. This takes Baowu Steel - China's biggest mill and second globally only to ArcelorMit...Read More
Boeing stock surged midday on 737 MAX newsU.S. stocks spent the first half of the day trading in the red on President Donald Trump's pessimistic comments about a trade deal with China, but the major indexes were able to pare most of these losses by the close. A sudden rally from Boeing (BA) on news the company expects its 737 MAX to return to commercial service in January sparked a major reversal...Read More
The auto parts retailer will report earnings tomorrow morningAdvance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) is slated to report third-quarter earnings before the market opens tomorrow, Nov. 12. Put volume is running fast ahead of the event, with nearly 6,200 contracts traded so far -- 30 times what's typically seen at this point, and more than double the number of calls on the tape.Most active are the Novemb...Read More
CHK lost over 37% last week, following a dismal earnings report The already suffering shares of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) have taken a turn for the worse during the past week, following the firm's dismal third-quarter earnings report and warning note over its ability to continue as a "going concern." The stock lost a whopping 37.5% last week, and is looking at even more downside to...Read More
Tupperware suspended its quarterly common dividend last weekThe U.S. stock market is struggling to claw its way back into positive territory, as Wall Street digests a slew of trade-related headlines. Among the stocks making notable moves today are blue chip Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA), plastic maker Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE:TUP), and drug stock Dare Bioscience Inc (NASDAQ...Read More
One trader sold to open a major position on HumanaHumana Inc (NYSE:HUM) shares have been skyrocketing since skimming the $250 level early last month, last seen at $316.70 -- a roughly 27% rise. One options trader is looking to make a quick buck by betting on HUM stock holding these gains through the end of this week, since data from today's trading seems to suggest one speculator sold to open 3,81...Read More
There's room for upgrades to the GPS stockTo close out October, GPS concern Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) gapped higher in the wake of a well-received corporate report. GRMN continued to climb into November, and nabbed a nearly 12-year high of $97.59 earlier today. There's reason to believe the stock still has more room to run too, after flashing this bullish signal. More specifically, GRMN's new hi...Read More
The 120-day moving average has had bearish implications for the equity in the past Since posting a third-quarter report that missed analysts' estimates last week, resulting in a three-week low of $9.12, the shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE:AMC) have been struggling on the charts. While the stock briefly popped north of its 30-day moving average, the trendline has served as stiff resi...Read More
Global central banks have been pumping the liquidity spigots 24/7 and the US Fed is starting to go that way as well. This during a time of supposed economic splendor and fruitfulness (it is these contradictions that are the windows into a ginned up, leveraged economy dependent on monetary policy) while the S&P 500 breaks through the bull turnstile to blue sky. A real economy and real stock mar...Read More
The S&P and Nasdaq are sharply lower at midday, tooStocks are starting the week on a negative note, as Wall Street weighs mixed messages on U.S.-China trade relations coming from President Donald Trump. Following last Friday's reports that he had not agreed to roll back U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, Trump told reporters over the weekend that the "level of tariff lift is incorrect," and suggested...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its daily index for steel billet exports, fob Black Sea, which was published incorrectly on Monday November 11 due to a reporter error.The daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was wrongly published as $380 per tonne on Monday. It should have been $373 per tonne.Fastmarkets' price book and database have been updated to reflect this correction.For more info...Read More
SPWR has found support at its 320-day trendlineThe shares of SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) are up 10.2% to trade at $9.22 today, after the solar name announced it would split into two separate publicly traded companies. The new company, Maxeon Solar Technologies, will be independent, complementary, and strategically aligned with SunPower, and will rely on a $298 million investment from partn...Read More