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Expect Market Turbulence Ahead Due To Tightening Liquidity
Image Source: Pexels Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously said “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter”.True or not, running greater and greater federal budget deficits has become standard operating procedure for Washington DC.When Cheney uttered those words, the annual deficit was in the low hundreds of billions. It’s projected to be $2 trillion this year.At that […]
Gold Stocks And A War Cycle Finale
Image Source: Pixabay Gold finished last week strongly after the US jobs report was released. It’s soft again ahead of the key CPI and PPI inflation reports (scheduled for Thursday and Friday).Gold is the world’s greatest asset and currency. It’s not only stood the test of time, but it’s been around for so long that it’s […]
Softs Report – Tuesday, July 9
COTTON General Comments: Cotton was near unchanged yesterday as Hurricane Beryl moved into the Mexican and Texan coast and brought beneficial rains to important growing areas of Texas. USDA showed a decrease in production conditions for the crops in its reports this week that were the result of some extreme weather seen recently in Texas […]
Small Business Capex Tumble
Early this morning, the National Federation of Independent Businesses released its monthly Small Business Optimism Index. As shown below, that headline reading continues to recover from the more than-decade low setback in March. With a move up to 91.5 in June, the index has now risen in each of the past three months and is […]
If You Invested In These AI Stocks, Booking Profits Now Can Be A Smart Move
Image courtesy of 123rf.com Multiple signals are coming in to lock in AI-generated stock profits. Goldman Sachs’ Jim Covello, the head of global equity research, pointed out that AI’s cost-to-benefit ratio is greatly lopsided, to put it mildly. “AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, […]
Amazon Stock Rallies As Company Turns 30: Is Now The Right Time To Buy?
Image Source: Unsplash From humble beginnings as an online bookseller to one of the largest companies in the world, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) stock has come a long way in just 30 years.Amazon pretty much-invented e-commerce when it launched on July 5, 1994, and now it is by far the world leader in this sector, in addition to being […]
Bitcoin DeFi is far from failing, popularity is “not that far away”: Bitlayer co-founder
Key Takeaways BTCfi tokens are down 23.4% in 2024, but the ecosystem’s TVL has increased over 100%. Three main factors are slowing BTCfi adoption: market distractions, user experience issues, and overall crypto market conditions. The tokens from the Bitcoin decentralized finance (BTCfi) sector are down 23.4% on average in 2024, according to data from Artemis. […]
A Historical Look At Labor Force Participation Surges, Real GDP, And Unemployment
In my discussion yesterday of why the Sahm Rule might be giving a false signal at present, I noted that “in addition to the 1980-81 double-dip period, significantly the only other time [a big increase in new entrants into the labor force leading up to a recession] even came close was 1968-69, when the Baby […]
Xpeng Stock Price Found A Strong Support: Rebound Could Be Epic
Image Source: Pexels Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) stock price has collapsed in the past few years. It has retreated to a low of $7.4, down by over 68% from its highest point in 2023. This drop has brought its market cap from over $54 billion in 2021 to over $7.4 billion. Xpeng concerns remain Xpeng is one […]
Soft Jobs Strong Metals. Manic Metals Report
Image Source: Pixabay The metals outlook is starting to look more bullish. The bullish outlook comes as the London Metals Exchange (LME) stocks of both copper and aluminum both drop and expectations that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will have to acknowledge weaker private sector job growth and less threatening inflation in his testimony in front of […]
