Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now For the week the S&P lost 2.04%, the Dow tanked 3.05% and the Nasdaq declined 1.08%.At one point during Friday's session, the Dow was down 391 points.The Dow remains 2,078 points below its all-time high on Jan. 26. Wall Street Overview Stocks turned mixed on Friday, March 2, as investors reacted to President Donald Trump's...Read More

S&P 500 shrugs off early losses, small cap shares lead rallyGold and silver rally, industrials lead European shares lowerPlurimi CIO Favors Cyclical Stocks Despite Tariffs ThreatU.S. stocks ended a volatile session higher, paring a weekly decline, as investors speculated that President Donald Trump’s tough tariff talk won’t translate into the most severe protectionist policies. Treas...Read More

Trump Says 'Trade Wars Are Good, and Easy to Win'President Donald Trump is touting the virtues of a trade war. In the $5.1 trillion-a-day currency market, the yen has emerged as a clear winner from the escalating rhetoric.The latest move pushes forward the administration’s trade agenda, after it took similar actions on other goods this year and jawboned the dollar lower. The potential...Read More

U.S. stock futures extended declines Friday after President Donald Trump said that trade wars were "easy to win", suggesting his plan to impose stiff import tariffs on steel could ignite harsher reaction from around the world. U.S. equity futures, which had attempted to stabilize in European early trading following yesterday's sharp declines that loped more than 400 points from the Dow Jones Ind...Read More

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said cryptocurrencies were "failing" and urged a global crackdown on the $450 market in order to align them with the broader financial system. Carney, a long-time critic of digital currencies, addressed the question of their ability to replace traditional money during a speech in Edinburgh, Scotland, arguing they were proving to be a poor way to store value a...Read More

A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. Both history and analysis support this thesis.Currency wars do not exist all the time; they arise under certain conditions and persist until there is either systemic reform or systemic collapse. The conditions that give rise to currency wars are too much debt and too little grow...Read More

"Trump Proposes Tax Hike for Millions of Americans. Markets Plunge."Did you catch this headline this morning?You did not, of course.We spun it from the whole cloth.But it may as well be authentic.Details to follow.First the news...The Trump administration proposed a weighty 25% tariff on steel imports yesterday.Aluminum imports must pay a 10% entry fee.The tariff could potentially apply to all nat...Read More

That's not necessarily a bad thing.While we've seen a few big declines across indexes, they've almost all been immediately offset by big rallies the next day.The five-day chart for the North American pot index highlights this perfectly.There's volatility, but it's not favoring one direction over another.That flux is being mirrored in Washington, where the National Governors Association descended t...Read More

Today we're going to look at an under-utilized, but hugely advantageous dollar-stretching opportunity - buying used instead of new.When you buy a new car, it loses 10% of its value the first mile you drive it off the lot. A year later, it's gone down 20%."New" has a value, so the first step to successfully buying used is to subtract the "cost of new."3 Rules for Buying UsedRule #1: Start in a rang...Read More

The swamp is leaking into the stock market this week.President Trump announced that the US would begin to implement steel and aluminum tariffs as soon as early as next week. The surprise announcement came as a shock to the markets with the major averages trickling lower on the news. By the end of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had shed 420 points, or 1.7%.The fake news is now hyping up...Read More

Precious metals and the SPDR Gold Trust security came under pressure this week alongside U.S. equities, failing as a hedge against such risk.The catalyst was fear of the Fed and a steeper monetary policy tightening trajectory, which work against both risk assets and gold today.The outlook for the GLD security will depend on the development of multiple factors, but I have a base expectation and a l...Read More

Latin AmericaGuatemala Mines a Mother Lode of TroubleA bitter fight over a silver mine points to the pitfalls of Latin America's new resource nationalism.by Mac Margolis@macmargolisMore stories by Mac MargolisRead More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold gained $5.60 to $1,322.60 on Friday. The TSX Venture Exchange lost 3.30 points to 826.02 while the TSX Gold Index rose 0.31 point to 181.41. Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX), down 18 cents yesterday, led Canadian gold miners...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested two Florida men accused of arranging a pump-and-dump with HD View 360 Inc., a purported surveillance systems provider. The government claims that the men were plotting a $2-million scheme, and that some of the related or...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange lost 3.30 points to 826.02 Friday. Damian Kettlewell's Blissco Cannabis Corp. (BLIS) has completed its qualifying transaction. The stock, which is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, began trading today...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery lost 65 cents to $60.99 on the New York Merc, while Brent for May lost $1.95 to $63.83 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $28 to WTI ($32.9...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested two Florida men accused of arranging a pump-and-dump with HD View 360 Inc., a purported surveillance systems provider. The government claims that the men were plotting a $2-million scheme, and that some of the related or...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested two Florida men accused of arranging a pump-and-dump with HD View 360 Inc., a purported surveillance systems provider. The government claims that the men were plotting a $2-million scheme, and that some of the related or...Read More

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts sent me an article by Catherine Austin Fitts and asked if I had read it. The article is titled, "The State of America's Pension Funds." The article is worth reading, though I believe Ms. Fitts underestimates significantly the degree to which political and Wall Street criminality - along with money management incompetence - has infected and destroyed the U.S. pension system...Read More

Lithium Chile (LITH.V) is now in the final stages of raising C$4M in a private placement priced at C$1 per unit which each unit consisting of one share and half a share purchase warrant. Each full warrant authorizes the warrant owner to acquire an additional share of Lithium Chile at C$1.50 within 24 months after the placement closes.Lithium Chile is also moving ahead with the creation of Kairos M...Read More