(Audio length 00:14:59) Chris Temple joins me today to address the 10-year opening up over 3% (albeit it pulled back pretty quickly after the open). The fact is yields have been trending higher and there are a number of reasons
September 17, 2018
The American economy has been on a faster growth trajectory as depicted by rounds of encouraging data in recent months. The latest upbeat industrial production data bolstered the upbeat mood amid the US-China trade tariff chaos. This is especially true
Learning the right lessons from financial crises is tough. The 1929 stock market crash was blamed for all the ills of the Great Depression that succeeded it and led to two decades of regulation and socialism. In 1720, the British
For Tesla competitor Lucid Motors, “funding” is definitely “confirmed”… Confirming rumors from mid-August, the Saudi Public Investment Fund has confirmed an investment of over $1 billion in Tesla competitor Lucid Motors to enable the commercial launch of their first electric vehicle, Lucid Air, in
The Junior Miners/Senior Miners Ratio (GDXJ/GDX) can often signal when key turning points are about to take place for Gold & Silver Miners. Above looks at this ratio, which highlights that a multi-year narrowing pennant pattern has been forming (higher
2017 was one of the least volatile years ever for the US equity market. The S&P 500 averaged an absolute daily change of just 0.30% last year. Due to a pick-up in volatility during the S&P’s correction in the first
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have
Shares of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY) continued their plunge on Monday after a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that the company will seek approval for an up to 1-for-500 reverse stock split. The filing
Image by Arek Socha sourced from pixabay It’s no secret that emerging markets (EM) are in a bit of a rough patch. While the unfortunate events in Turkey garnered most of the attention initially, nearly anything related to EM has
Industrial production increased for the third successive month in August, per data from the Federal Reserve. A jump in utility output and robust motor vehicle production were the primary catalysts to the month’s gains. Following this report, industrial production seems
