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Get Out Now: SocGen Predicts Market Crash, Bear Market For The S&P

Get Out Now: SocGen Predicts Market Crash, Bear Market For The S&P

While the charade of sellside analysts releasing optimistic, and in the case of Barclays and Goldman “rationally exuberant”previews of the year ahead… … is a familiar, long-running tradition on Wall Street, rarely has the intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance been quite so glaring: take Goldman, which while admitting that valuations have never been higher, and the upside […]
GSK, Innoviva Submit Data To FDA For Expanded Trelegy Ellipta Label

GSK, Innoviva Submit Data To FDA For Expanded Trelegy Ellipta Label

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Innoviva (INVA) announced the filing of a supplemental New Drug Application with the FDA for the use of Trelegy Ellipta for an expanded indication for the maintenance treatment of airflow obstruction and reduction of exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “Approval of this sNDA means FF/UMEC/VI could be used by […]
Silvercorp Announces Another Share Buy-Back

Silvercorp Announces Another Share Buy-Back

Today Silvercorp Metals announced that it wanted to acquire up to 8.4 million shares. So, once again, the company is announcing a share buy-back program.  To remind my readers, Silvercorp announced three such programs: in 2014, 2015 and now. The first two programs were very ambitious – the company wanted to repurchase around 16 million shares but […]
Is Fintech Select (FTEC.V) A Blockchain Stock To Buy?

Is Fintech Select (FTEC.V) A Blockchain Stock To Buy?

Fintech Select, symbol FTEC.V trading on the Toronto junior exchange, is one of those many blockchain stocks that became a multi-bagger once they announced they would be doing ‘something’ with blockchain technology. The company has always focused on payment processing and hardware (terminals as well as debit cards. Now they decided to enable their infrastructure to allow […]
Ethereum Soars To Record High After South Korea Regulator Confirms “No Plan” To Regulate Cryptos

Ethereum Soars To Record High After South Korea Regulator Confirms “No Plan” To Regulate Cryptos

In September, South Korea surpassed China in total crypto trading volumes, and as the world’s second largest Ethereum exchange market, South Korea is evolving into an Ethereum powerhouse with a rapidly growing number of active developments, domestic projects and communities. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph image courtesy of CoinTelegraph, the majority of traders in the South Korean Ethereum market are speculative […]
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                        Did The Bank Of Canada Error In Raising Rates?

E Did The Bank Of Canada Error In Raising Rates?

This past summer the Bank of Canada made an about face and embarked upon a tightening policy The Bank’s two rate hikes this summer erased the two cuts it implemented in 2015 in response to the oil-price shock.  The central bank noted that “recent economic data have been stronger than expected, supporting the Bank’s view […]
This Thanksgiving Goes To Corporations: Thanks For The Greatest Free Gift In History

This Thanksgiving Goes To Corporations: Thanks For The Greatest Free Gift In History

It’s no f’ing wonder!” I yelled to no one in particular the other day when my researcher, Dave Okenquist, shared with me a chart he’d just come across! “We’ve died and gone to heaven thanks to these guys! They’ve given us the greatest free gift in history!” The dog tucked its tail between its legs and […]
Deflation Must Be Embraced

Deflation Must Be Embraced

There are two problems with understanding deflation: it is ill defined, and it has a bad name. This article puts deflation into its proper context. This is an important topic for advocates of gold as money, who will be aware that sound money, in theory, leads to lower prices over time and is often criticised […]
The Digital Revolution Has Empowered Central Banks

The Digital Revolution Has Empowered Central Banks

We won’t know till the end of this cycle how much mal-investment has occurred under the great monetary inflation which started in 2010. We may already suspect, though, that much of this will be in “big tech” and related fields. Any final reckoning should also include wider political and socio-economic damage not included in a […]
Japan’s Comeback Is Just Getting Started?

Japan’s Comeback Is Just Getting Started?

Written by Peter Churchouse, Stansberry Churchouse It was one of the biggest stock market and asset price bubbles in modern history… I’m talking about the Japan economic bubble that burst in 1992. From 1986 to 1991, the country saw staggering valuation explosions, totally detached from reality, across equities and real estate assets. From its peak in […]