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Litecoin Price Action After Bitrefill, LitePay Announcements

Litecoin Price Action After Bitrefill, LitePay Announcements

Litecoin, the 4th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, continued to drop on Wednesday in the aftermath of LitePay shut down. LitePay, a payments based service, ceased its LiteCoin operation on Monday, March 26th, and the Litecoin Foundation issued an apology statement about it to the LTC community. The organization took responsibility for the incident, saying […]
The GOP’s Fiscal Surrender: Why A “Yield Shock” Is Baked Into The Cake

The GOP’s Fiscal Surrender: Why A “Yield Shock” Is Baked Into The Cake

The US Treasury is fixing to sell the staggering sum of $294 billion in bills, notes and bonds this week, and it’s a holiday-shortened week at that. So you’d think the bond market would be choking at least a tad on this tsunami of paper, but in fact yields on the 10-year UST have slid 20 basis points recently and are […]
A Look At The Rise In LIBOR And The Copper:Silver Ratio

A Look At The Rise In LIBOR And The Copper:Silver Ratio

Kevin Vecmanus, Founder of Vanaurum, shares some comments on the steady almost straight up rise in LIBOR. LIBOR has started to rise at the tail end of 2015 right when the metals sector started to get a buy. We also look at the copper:silver ratio that seems to be turning down from the higher part […]
Bitcoin Price Headed For A Death Cross: Here’s Why It’s Not All Bad

Bitcoin Price Headed For A Death Cross: Here’s Why It’s Not All Bad

The Bitcoin price continues to fall and could eventually test its last low around $7,240, which would likely confirm the appearance of the bearish chart pattern known as the death cross. So why is bitcoin refusing to rebound? Experts are quick to offer suggestions, including everything from Twitter’s recent crackdown on cryptocurrency ads to continuing jitters […]
Gold Outlook

Gold Outlook

What is happening in the commodity markets this week? Video Length: 00:20:45
Significance Of The US-Korea Agreement

Significance Of The US-Korea Agreement

The US and South Korea struck an important agreement this week. Many are recognizing it as the first success of President Trump’s trade strategy and a turning point in general. It is being offered as an innovative and visionary development. We are less sanguine. Far from new, we see the US trade thrust as a […]
Thursday’s Stock Picks: Netflix, Splunk, Paypal

Thursday’s Stock Picks: Netflix, Splunk, Paypal

Take a look at three trading ideas to prep you for the next trading session. Long Netflix (NFLX) Long Splunk (SPLK)   Short PayPal (PYPL)
Agriculture Markets Report – Wednesday, March 28

Agriculture Markets Report – Wednesday, March 28

Weekly Heating Oil Prices – Wednesday, March 28

Weekly Heating Oil Prices – Wednesday, March 28

We’ve used data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which publishes price data weekly on home heating oil in 38 states by dollar-per-gallon before taxes. Unlike natural gas and electricity, home heating oil is provided by independent retailers. The latest price of home heating oil nationwide is $3.10, up a nickel from last week and up 43 […]
Synchronized Global Growth No Longer Exists

Synchronized Global Growth No Longer Exists

Recent Tariff-Related Industry Performance The 3 charts below show three industries which are supposed to be the most affected by the tariffs. The steel industry is supposed to be helped, but it has been down over 10% in the recent weeks. Investors aren’t hopeful that the tariffs will stick without a retaliation. While the overall […]