Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble. Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future — one that has possibly started now. Our reason for expecting a market crash is simple: Bubbles always burst. Bubbles arise when asset…
Last Thursday, January 28, there was a flash crash on the price chart for silver. Here is a graph of the price action. The Price of Silver, Jan 28 (All times GMT) If you read more about it, you will see that there was an irregularity around the silver fix. At the time, the spot price was…
When real household spending fell by 4.6% in April 2014 it was cause for concern. That was the first month after the tax hike hit and the decline in spending was much larger than anticipated (by economists, at least). Despite the heavy toll, Bank of Japan officials remained (outwardly) wholly unconcerned over what was believed…
The current moves in the US dollar seem to resemble a behavior in the not-so-distant past. What can we learn going forward? The team at Deutsche Bank explains: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: The bullets and charts below show how history is partly repeating itself in interesting ways. Figure 1 shows the current DXY…
Headlines continue to dominate the trading landscape, perpetuating a news-driven trader’s market rather than allowing a healthier valuation-driven investor’s market to return to favor. After all, that’s what stock market investing is supposed to be about. Narrow market breadth and daily stock price gyrations have been driven primarily by three headline generators — oil price,…
There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is finally unfolding. Let’s start with Deutsche Bank. The stock of the most important bank in the…
Japan 10-Year Yield Goes Negative First Time More, more, more scream the investors. Apparently the Bank of Japan is not doing enough to kill the Yen. That’s the message today as the Nikkei plunged 5% even though yield on the Japanese 10-year government bond went negative for the first time in history. Bloomberg reports Kuroda’s Three…
The dollar fell briefly to 114.22 against the yen during Tuesday’s Asian session before bouncing back above the 115 level. The pair hit its lowest point since November 2014 in a 1.10 percent drop before its slight reversal. The pair is down significantly from only last week when it hovered around the 120 mark. The…
The markets remained a bullish mode against the US Dollar yesterday with Gold testing the highs of $1200 yesterday while the USD/JPY fell to a 14-month low. EUR/USD managed to rally back to 1.12 region, the same levels where the currency was trading before the NFP. However, pullbacks are expected in the near term while…
Market volatility leads many investors to make a big mistake when planning their finances. Learn how to avoid the most common investing mistakes. How can you make time work to your advantage, both in your investment portfolio and life in general? In today’s interview, Jeff Sutherland, former fighter pilot and author of Scrum: The Art of…
