Why Geopolitical Sabre-Rattling will be Good for the Gold Price
Why Geopolitical Sabre-Rattling will be Good for the Gold PriceGold hits 12-week highUSD Gold price up 4.85% in last monthSabre-rattling from Trump administration set-to benefit goldIran upset and...
View ArticleTrump To Sign Executive Orders Undoing Dodd-Frank, "Fiduciary Rule"
On Friday, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive action to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, in a sweeping plan to dismantle much of the regulatory system put in place...
View ArticleCarlson Capital: Border Adjustment Tax Would Lead To "Global Depression"
In their latest quarterly letter, Carlson Capital's Black Diamond Thematic Fund (which was up 9.27% in Q4 and up net 19% in 2016) portfolio managers Richard Maraviglia and Matt Barkoff, who unlike Carl...
View Article10 Years Ago Today, The Financial Crisis Started With An Announcement By HSBC
10 years ago today, HSBC Holdings, the world's third-largest bank at the time (and one of the most aggressive players in the U.S. market for low-quality mortgages), sent a chill through the financial...
View ArticleHere Are The 7 Rules Bank Of America Uses To Decide When It Is Time To Sell...
With the Trumflation rally fizzling with every passing day, the only question asked by traders is "Is it time to sell the market?" According to Bank of America, the answer, at least for now, is...
View ArticleTime to Take the Other Side of the Trump Trade?
The Trump Trade hit again on Friday when the White House announced that Trumps’ proposed tax reform is coming in the next few weeks.The markets took the new to ramp to new all-time highs.I’m not buying...
View ArticleMeet China's Hedge Fund Capital
China has often found itself in trouble over the past couple of decades for its attempts to replicate technology from other developed countries. But technological advances aren't the only things being...
View ArticleGold Is Undervalued Say Leading Fund Managers
Gold Is Undervalued Say Leading Fund ManagersGold is undervalued according to a record number of fund managersLast time gold was considered undervalued, the price surgedBAML surveyed 175 money managers...
View ArticleCanary In A Contained Coalmine? HSBC Crashes Most Since Crisis On 'Surprise'...
Just over 10 years ago, HSBC was the first canary in the world's financial crisis coalmine to signal trouble ahead. Today's 7% bloodbath in the banking behemoth is the biggest drop since the financial...
View ArticleBlind Faith Everywhere
Submitted by Jeffrey Miller via StockResearch.com,Miller's Market Musings: Gotta Have FaithBabyI know you're asking me to staySay please, please, please, don't go awayYou say I'm giving you the...
View ArticleWhen Speculators Prosper Through Ignorance
Excerpted from John Hussman's Weekly Market Comment,“No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the State of the Union, has met with a more pleasant prospect than that which appears...
View ArticleSEC Freezes Accounts Of "Highly Suspicious" Traders Who Made $3.6 Million On...
First, it was the leak of the massive Heinz-Unilever deal that may have scuttled the Warren Buffett-inspired transaction, now it appears that another recent megamerger was leaked 4 days ahead of the...
View ArticleIs the Euro About to Rally to 120?
The currency markets are signalling that a massive shift might be about to happen.According to a Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, the US Dollar ($USD) is the single most crowded...
View ArticleAll Eyes On Yellen After US Futures, Euro Stocks Rebound On Latest French Polls
World stocks pulled back from all time highs, and European bourses initially followed U.S. futures and Asian shares lower, however both European risk sentiment as well as E-Minis rebounded after an...
View ArticleAs Retail Investors Flood Into Stocks, Professionals Are Dumping Speculative...
"Fear of missing out" is quickly becoming the go to phrase for what's left of America's stock market investors. As The Wall Street Journal reports, investors have poured money into stocks through...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Wall Street, Preet Bharara Is No Hero
Authored by Jesse Eisinger via ProPublica.org,The prominent U.S. attorney fired by Donald Trump this weekend has been justly acclaimed for his pursuit of political corruption. But his treatment of the...
View ArticleWhy Robert Shiller Is Worried About The Market
The last time Robert Shiller heard stock-market investors talk like this in 2000, it didn’t end well for the bulls.As Bloomberg reports, Shiller says when markets are as buoyant as they are now,...
View ArticleTesla Announces $250MM Common Stock, $750MM Convertible Offering, Musk Buying...
In what will hardly come as a surprise, Tesla - which burned half a billion dollars in the fourth quarter - just announced it is raising capital in the form of a $250 million common stock and $750...
View ArticlePreet Bharara Explains Why He Let Wall Street Bank Executives Avoid Prison
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Recently dismissed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, is suddenly being celebrated as an aggressive warrior in the...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 30
Trump’s Border Wall: A Tall Order (WSJ)Trump’s Hope for Rapid Reset With Russia Fades (WSJ)China's Xi to meet Trump in Florida next week (Reuters)U.S. Softens Call for Shift on Nafta (WSJ)ESPN Has Seen...
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