If you’re looking for the best place to invest in 2018, one of your best bets is to put on your investment banker’s hat and bet on “M&As” — mergers and acquisitions. The biggest of 2017 — the proposed Disney-Twenty-First Century Fox tie-up for $52 billion — is just the beginning. Tax reform is one piece of the puzzle….
That line was only recently penned by the great Irish poet and philosopher, Paul Hewson. It no doubt applies here to our daily struggle against The Banks and their paper derivative pricing scheme. “It is what it is but it’s not what it seems.” Yep, that’s a deft description on Comex Digital Gold and the pricing…
A discussion about the expectations for markets, the economy, tax reform, interest rates, earnings, and crypto in 2018. Audio Length: 00:53:40
There wasn’t a whole lot to say about today. Profit takers tool advantage of yesterday’s gap higher to take some profits.The Russell 2000 enjoyed the best of the gains yesterday and suffered the worst of the selling today. The selling didn’t take out the MACD trigger ‘buy’ or the ‘buy’ trigger in ADX.Support at 1,520…
Natural gas prices gave back some of their gains yesterday, but as is often the case losses were not uniform along the natural gas strip. We see that generally trading today was range-bound for the prompt month contract. Yet today it was the February 2018 contract (G8) that saw the largest losses on the day,…
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for November new residential housing starts. The latest reading of 1.296M was above the Investing.com forecast of 1.250M and an increase from the previous month’s 1.256M. Here is the opening of this morning’s monthly report: Housing Starts Privately-owned housing starts…
The Chart of the Day belongs to Federated Investors (FII). I found the investment management stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy n 11/28…
Financials Do Well When The 10 Year Yield Rises We’ve discussed which sectors do well when the yield curve flattens. Now let’s look at which sectors do well when the 10 year bond yield goes up. The 10 year bond has gone up 45% of the time since 2010. I think inflation will increase in…
Are government, central banks, and fiat money the three biggest bubbles in the history of the world? I would suggest they are. The rise of private money (bitcoin) combined with the rise of China and India as economic empires is popping these bubbles. Against bitcoin, fiat is now burning like an out of control wildfire….
Are government, central banks, and fiat money the three biggest bubbles in the history of the world? I would suggest they are. The rise of private money (bitcoin) combined with the rise of China and India as economic empires is popping these bubbles. Against bitcoin, fiat is now burning like an out of control wildfire….
