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3 Top Mid-Cap Growth Mutual Funds For Great Returns
Mid-cap growth funds focus on realizing an appreciable amount of capital growth by investing in stocks of firms, the value of which is projected to rise over the long term. However, a relatively higher tolerance to risk and the willingness to park funds for the longer term are necessary when investing in these securities. This […]
Bitcoin Invalidates Breakdown
Square, a payment company, is playing around with Bitcoin. In an article on CNBC, we read: Jack Dorsey’s company is testing support for bitcoin through its Cash payments app. “We’re exploring how Square can make this experience faster and easier, and have rolled out this feature to a small number of Cash app customers,” a Square […]
Gold Up Most In 3 Months, Spikes Above Key Technical Level
Gold continues to shine in the post-Saudi-coup world… And the precious metal just broke above its 50-day moving average, after bouncing off its 200-day on Tuesday. This is gold’s best day in 3 months… Gold is gaining as the dollar index slumps to near 1-month lows… Of course, it’s USD/JPY that really […]
November 2017 Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Remains Positive But Declines
Of the three regional manufacturing surveys released for November, all were in expansion. Analyst Opinion of Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Kansas City Fed manufacturing has been one of the more stable districts and their index declined. Key internals were in expansion but likewise declined. There market expectations from Bloomberg / Econoday were 20 to 24 […]
Next-Generation Crazy: The Fed Plans For The Coming Recession
Insanity, like criminality, usually starts small and expands with time. In the Fed’s case, the process began in the 1990s with a series of (in retrospect) relatively minor problems running from Mexico’s currency crisis thorough Russia’s bond default, the Asian Contagion financial crisis, the Long Term Capital Management collapse and finally the Y2K computer bug. […]
E No Housing Bubble In Canada: It Is All About Supply Constraints
By now, the surge in housing prices in Canada, and in particular, Toronto and Vancouver, have received a wide spread attention. International observers label the market as a bubble that has to burst. Observers point out that average house prices in these two cities have more than doubled in the past decade, a rate that […]
A TIC Look At Qualitative Contraction
The latest update of the Treasury Department’s Treasury International Capital (TIC) estimates clarified a few things. To begin with, for the month of September the Chinese sold UST’s again for the first time in seven months. Between the end of January and the end of August, the Chinese had added $149.4 billion in UST holdings. […]
Brexit: Still A Process, Not Yet A Destination
I happened to be in the United Kingdom on a long-planned family vacation on June 23, 2016, when the Brexit vote took place. At the time, I offered a stream-of-consciousness “Seven Reflections on Brexit” (June 26, 2016). But more than year has now passed, and Thomas Sampson sums up the research on what is known and what might […]
Exodus: U.S. Funds See 3rd Largest Junk Outflow On Record
Just how nervous did folks get during the junk bond rout that finally took a breather when spreads tightened materially on Thursday? Well, pretty damn nervous, according to the flows data. “Following the decline in high yield bond prices this month, high yield US funds and ETFs reported $4.43bn in outflows this past week,” BofAML […]
