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Sensex Slumps Over 500 Points; Consumer Durables And Banking Stocks Witness Selling

Sensex Slumps Over 500 Points; Consumer Durables And Banking Stocks Witness Selling

After opening the day on a negative note, share markets in India continued their downtrend throughout the day and ended the day in the red. All sectoral indices traded in the red, with stocks in the consumer durables sector, banking sector and FMCG sector leading the losses. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood lower by 505 points (down 1.3%) and the NSE […]
Morning Call For Monday, Sept. 17

Morning Call For Monday, Sept. 17

Overnight Markets And News Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ18 -0.11%) this morning are down -0.13% and European stocks are down -0.01% as U.S./China trade concerns linger. The WSJ reported that China may turn down a U.S. offer of trade talks if the U.S. imposes tariffs on an extra $200 billion of Chinese goods. President Trump tweeted early […]
Spare Capacity Constraints

Spare Capacity Constraints

Oil prices are breaking with the bearish narrative that Hurricane Florence would be bearish for oil, as it becomes clear that the world’s global oil production capacity is thin as a blade. As we get closer to Iranian sanctions, we are already seeing Iranian exports fall and the years of underinvestment in the energy space […]
We Still Haven’t Learned The Right Lessons From The 2008 Crash

We Still Haven’t Learned The Right Lessons From The 2008 Crash

Financial media-administered history lessons — whether by commentaries or interviews — on the Great Crash that occurred 10 years ago are frightening. The would-be history teachers are in total denial (or ignorance) of the key fact that 2008 was a monetary-made disaster. This climate of denial continues to foster ever greater danger in the future […]
How We Earned The Retirement Savings Crisis

How We Earned The Retirement Savings Crisis

This video segment discusses the $1 trillion+ deficit in corporate pension plans and how the average fund today is missing 20% of the capital needed to pay benefits promised. It is critical to note that this capital hole persists even at the end of the longest financially engineered rise in asset markets and corporate profits […]
EUR/USD Quietly Recovering But Trump’s Tariffs Are Feared

EUR/USD Quietly Recovering But Trump’s Tariffs Are Feared

The EUR/USD kicked off the week by consolidating Friday’s slide from the highs. Developments on the trade front are eyed. The technical picture remains positive, but the momentum is lost. The EUR/USD is trading in the mid 1.1600s; slightly higher in the wake of the new week. The pair lost ground on Friday due to several reasons. […]
Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking

Over the weekend I managed to re-watch one of my favourite movies about the financial crisis of 2008 and couldn’t help but wonder, what’s happening in the world right now that everyone might be missing? The words of Gordon Brown that we highlighted last week still echo strongly into my head… For the sake of the world, I do hope […]
Post-Lehman: $250 Trillion In Debt And Counting

Post-Lehman: $250 Trillion In Debt And Counting

In many ways, all the talk about global central banks beginning a “great unwind” of their extraordinary monetary stimulus is positively quaint. After all, how can officials from the Federal Reserve to the Bank of Japan even pretend to know how to reverse what they’ve done over the past decade? Video Length: 00:11:14
Bears Had Excellent Opportunity, But Latest Bull-Bear Tug Of War Likely Going Bulls’ Way

Bears Had Excellent Opportunity, But Latest Bull-Bear Tug Of War Likely Going Bulls’ Way

US equity bears had an excellent opportunity to push prices lower. Indices did come under pressure. But it looks like once again bulls managed to put their foot down on time. The S&P 500 large cap index made a new all-time high of 2916.50 on August 29, before coming under pressure. By then, it had […]
BTC/USD Forex Signal – Monday, Sept. 17

BTC/USD Forex Signal – Monday, Sept. 17

Today’s BTC/USD Signals Risk 0.75% per trade. Trades may only be entered before 5pm Tokyo time, during the next 24-hour period. Long Trades Long entry after a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame following the next touch of $6,416 or $6,171. Put the stop loss 1 pip below the local swing low. […]