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A Boomerang Bounce For U.S. Stocks

A Boomerang Bounce For U.S. Stocks

It has been a great week for the US stock market with the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) up 5.9%. Unfortunately, that only gets the market back to where it was trading just over two weeks ago on October 17th! That’s because SPY fell 5.9% from 10/17 through last Friday (10/27).Right now SPY is stuck in a short-term […]
NIO Stock Forecast: NIO Gains Despite Announcing 10% Cut To Workforce

NIO Stock Forecast: NIO Gains Despite Announcing 10% Cut To Workforce

Image Source: Pexels Nio (NIO) stock has gained as much as 5% on Friday morning after reporting that increased competition in the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) market had forced the Shanghai-based company to lay off 10% of its workforce and trim some of its investments.NIO stock has broken above its 21-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) as the […]
Bank Of America Shows U.S. Financial System On Brink Of Catastrophe

Bank Of America Shows U.S. Financial System On Brink Of Catastrophe

Image Source: Pexels Another week on the edge of war, another week on the brink of the financial abyss. Gold and silver continue to struggle as the rush for dollar liquidity heads towards a climax, with very weak megabank stocks exposing fatal flaws in the US banking system about to revealed in all their glory. Bank […]
Did Sam Bankman-Fried Kill Crypto?

Did Sam Bankman-Fried Kill Crypto?

Sam Bankman-Fried, once a crypto wunderkind, now faces a reckoning that could see him behind bars for 115 years. Convicted on seven counts of fraud, his trial showcased a classic tale of deception, with a modern twist: the misuse of cryptocurrency.The prosecution painted Bankman-Fried as a mastermind of one of the most significant financial frauds […]
Gold Stands Tall Despite Its Shortcomings

Gold Stands Tall Despite Its Shortcomings

Image Source: Pixabay While the yellow metal remains uplifted, silver and mining stocks’ relative weakness highlights the ominous fundamental backdrop.Gold has basked in the glory, as geopolitical conflict increases its appeal. However, silver and mining stocks have not been as fortunate, and the latter’s underperformance continues to support our short position. Moreover, with the domestic fundamental […]
Power Up Your Dividends With This Utility Stock

Power Up Your Dividends With This Utility Stock

Image Source: Unsplash Investors tend to take one particular U.K.-based electric utility for granted. Its history of predictable and defensive returns has long made it a no-brainer for income investors. Its dividend, which grows in line with inflation, has not been cut since 1996.Let’s take a look to see if it’s worth your time…The company I’m […]
Treasuries Continue To Fall, Gold Rises Amid General Indifference

Treasuries Continue To Fall, Gold Rises Amid General Indifference

In Japan, the price of gold re-entered its parabolic uptrend channel, breaking through the 300,000 yen per ounce : Since 2019, the duration of consolidation phases has been steadily decreasing, while the intensity of upward movements from successive bullish flags has become increasingly intense.Gold reacts to the ongoing collapse of the Japanese currency.The USD/YEN chart has just […]
AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Nov. 3

AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Nov. 3

Image Source: Pexels Projections for the next week. review of the previous in today’s episode of the askSlim Market Week.Video Length: 00:47:47More By This Author:AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Oct. 20AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Oct. 13AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Oct. 6
Markets Reconsider The Peak Rates Outlook

Markets Reconsider The Peak Rates Outlook

We’ve been here before, but after Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates unchanged, along with comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, investors are wondering anew if the policy tightening regime has peaked.By some accounts, the latest slide in the 10-year US Treasury yield is helping tip the scale in favor of […]
U.S. Weekly FundFlows: Equity ETFs Attract $7.8 Billion In Inflows

U.S. Weekly FundFlows: Equity ETFs Attract $7.8 Billion In Inflows

Image Source: Pixabay During LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended November 1, 2023, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in a row, adding a net $53.3 billion.Money market funds (+$56.4 billion, +0.10%) and equity funds (+$983 million, +1.14%) attracted new capital. Tax-exempt bond funds […]