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Rail Week Ending Saturday, September 15: Economic Intuitive Portions Remain Strong
Week 37 of 2018 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) improved according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. Analyst Opinion of the Rail Data This was again a very strong week for rail. We review this data set to understand the economy. If coal and grain are removed […]
Micron Slides As Analysts Debate If Guidance A Sign Of Downturn
Shares of Micron (MU) are falling after the company reported “solid” fourth-quarter results, but missed expectations for its Q1 guidance and company executives said U.S. tariffs on China goods would impact its financial results for as much as one year. EARNINGS AND GUIDANCE: On Thursday after the market close, Micron reported Q4 earnings per share […]
Central Bank Gold Purchases Now Control 10% Of The Total Market
Central Banks have become big players in the gold market and now control 10% of the total market demand. Now, this wasn’t always the case. Just ten years ago, the Central Banks were main suppliers via their policy of dumping gold into the market. However, the Central Bank strategy to sell gold into the market […]
Weekly Technical Perspective On The US Dollar (DXY) Ahead Of FOMC
In this series, we scale-back and take a look at the broader technical picture to gain a bit more perspective on where we are in trend. The US Dollar Index is down more than 3% from the yearly highs with the greenback now testing the first major support hurdle in price. Here are the key targets & invalidation levels that […]
A Strong PM Abe Poised To Deliver Positive Pro-Growth Policies
On Thursday, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader, winning by a very solid 70-30 margin against his one internal competitor. Abe thus has a very strong internal party mandate and will continue to be Japan’s prime minister for another three years. This bodes well for Japan’s […]
Top-Ranked ETFs That Have Crushed The Market
After a tumultuous ride at the start of the month, Wall Street has regained momentum and extended its longest bull run in history with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones hitting new highs. Notably, the Dow Jones soared to its first record high since late January. This suggests that the stock market is showing strong […]
Synchronized Again?
Last year around this time, the tropics provided some unintentional basis for what would become hysteria. Hurricane Harvey by soaking a major metropolitan area with a biblical amount of rainfall delighted Keynesians everywhere. So much destruction, so much economic growth potential on the rebuild. Then Irma flirted with the Gulf Coast spine of Florida for […]
The Burden Of The American Worker
There’s great elation flowing from the various economic bureaus down through President Trump. They bring a message of good news. If you haven’t heard, here in the USA, we live, work, and play in the dazzle and delight of an economy where GDP growth exceeds the unemployment rate. The last time we drank of elation […]
When Does This Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Finally End?
We all know the Status Quo’s response to the global financial meltdown of 2008 has been a travesty of a mockery of a sham–smoke and mirrors, flimsy facades of “recovery,” simulacrum “reforms,” serial bubble-blowing and politically expedient can-kicking, all based on borrowing and printing trillions of dollars, yen, euros and yuan, quatloos, etc. So when […]
