After four straight months of m/m declines, homebuilder sentiment finally saw a bounce this month, rising from a six-month low of 68 last month to 70 in May. While homebuilder sentiment is still pretty well off its highs from December, the trend of higher highs and higher lows remains intact. The table below breaks down…
Most analysts in both the gold and mainstream investment communities seem to be in “summer doldrums” mode. They are nervous about stock markets because of rate hikes and the late stage of the business cycle. That’s understandable. Unfortunately, they also seem to be unaware of the fabulous uptrends developing in many gold stocks. In…
Italian asset markets continue to fare better than many expected. The political uncertainty following the March election has been followed by confidence that the Five Star Movement and the (Northern) League will be able to put together a government in the coming days. If so, Italy would have taken half the time Germany did to cobble a government…
The Keynesian Illuminati that run the world are now scrambling to find solutions to the rampant condition of income inequality that they themselves have created. After a decade of global fiscal and monetary policy madness, which were in effect Robin Hood in reverse, they are now seeking to repair the damage caused to the middle…
In the biggest quarterly shocker out of the Harvard Endowment, which one year ago surprised Wall Street when it revealed that its biggest investment was junk bonds, yesterday we showed that the investing fund representing the world’s most prestigious university had concluded there was no better investment than FAANG stocks, or specifically Apple, Microsoft, and Google, as just these…
US DOLLAR GAINS ON RETAIL SALES, YIELDS RUN HIGHER The US Dollar (via DXY Index) has rallied to its highest level of 2018 following this morning’s April US Advance Retail Sales report. The look at sales revealed a solid pace of buying by US consumers, underpinning what should be considered a stable growth environment. Even…
More than any other asset, gold invokes strongly-defended positions among both its proponents and detractors. Whether you believe gold is “historically the only true form of hard money” or “just a yellow rock with few industrial uses,” it still pays to keep an eye on the price action and evaluate the current trend. For more…
Billion Dollar Unicorn player GitHub was founded in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett to expand the open source operating system market that was developed by Linux. GitHub’s Offerings The founders of GitHub were inspired by the need to bridge a gap that they noticed in Linux. Linux’s developer Linus Torvalds had already…
The Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report for April was released this morning. Headline sales came in at 0.3% month-over-month to one decimal and was slightly below the Investing.com consensus of 0.4%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 0.35% MoM (to two decimals). February and March figures were revised. Here is the introduction from today’s report:…
BTC/USD Bitcoin fell against the US dollar initially during trading on Monday but found enough support near the 8300 level to turn around and form a hammer. This obviously is a very bullish sign, but we also have a significant amount of resistance built into the $9000 handle. If we can break above there, the…
