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Anatomy Of Hyperinflation
Two drones filled with explosives were recently deployed in a failed assassination attempt to take out Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Chaos filled the streets as the military ran for their lives. But this sort of pandemonium is commonplace in Venezuela today: Where citizens have run out of basic necessities such as toilet paper and have begun […]
The Pool Of Publicly Traded Stocks Is Shrinking. Here’s What Investors Can Do
Elon Musk is no stranger to making controversial and outlandish comments, and his tweet earlier last week is no exception. As you probably know by now, the perennial entrepreneur announced to his more than 22 million Twitter followers that he is “considering taking Tesla private at $420.” Despite the Herculean challenge—such a move would be the largest […]
E What Makes Apple A Buffet Style Investment?
Most people with even the tiniest of interest in finances or investing recognize that Warren Buffet is likely the world’s greatest investor ever.Buffet likes to buy stock in businesses that have a wide moat. A moat is generally defined as “a company’s ability to maintain competitive advantages over its competitors in order to protect its long-term […]
Best And Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks On Earnings
Below is a look at the 30 best and 30 worst performing S&P 500 stocks on their earnings reaction days this season. DISH Network (DISH) posted a one-day gain of 14.53% on August 3rd following earnings, and that has held up as the best performer in the S&P 500 this season. Advanced Micro (AMD) ranks […]
Market Talk – Monday, August 13
Asia suffered from the Friday hangover with most core indices falling over -1.5%. All eyes and ears continued to focus on Turkey again today and especially seeing the Lira opened with a 7 handle. It has been scrambling to recover opening losses and did manage a 6.45 print early European trading but has been struggling […]
3 Strong Buy Semiconductor Stocks To Consider Now – August 2018
Semiconductor stocks were battered by market volatility earlier this year, but tech has made a strong recovery, and with several interesting trends like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence on the rise, it is still an exciting time to be investing in chip-making corner of the technology sector. While tech behemoths like Microsoft (MSFT – Free […]
Unwelcome August
There is just something about August. It is irresistible, apparently, in all the wrong ways. For starters, there are big ones and small ones but somehow they all line up against liquidity and plentiful eurodollar money. In the former class, there was, of course, August 9, 2007, August 9, 2011, and August 10, 2015. Even […]
World Markets Update – Monday, August 13
Three of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, August 13, 2018. The top performer this year is India’s BSE Sensex with a gain of 11.33%. In second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 5.55%. In third is France’s CAC 40 with a gain of 1.88%. Coming […]
Late August Cooler Trends Hit Natural Gas
The September natural gas contract settled down around a cent and a half on the day after prices sold off more heavily early this morning and bounced through the trading session to minimize losses. Later contracts were certainly more firm on the day too compared to the September contract, which was the weakest. Expectations that […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Rulers Of The Darkness Of This World – Riders On The Storm
What is going on with Turkey? Personally, I think that Erdogan is being ‘put in his place’. But that’s just my opinion and I could be wrong. I was out most of the day taking the Ohio contingent of visitors around seeing the sights. Gold and silver were spanked today, out of proportion to the […]
