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Investors Are Betting Against Inflation And For Recovery
Image Source: Pexels We were treated to an unexpectedly strong second-quarter GDP print today – 2.8% on an annualized basis. That’s almost double last quarter’s performance.So you might think we’re firmly in “growth” mode out here in the wider economy, but today’s sector-by-sector price action looked more like a recovery or early growth phase.But you’ve got […]
The Market May Have Reached Its Breaking Point
Image Source: Pixabay The Nasdaq 100 and the Japanese Yen have reached critical inflection points.Video Length: 00:12:37More By This Author:Stocks Tank As The Japanese Yen Sees A Massive Move Stocks Tank As Yen Trade Unwinds Stocks Slump As Risk-Off Sentiment Tightens Its Grip
Stocks Have Ventured Into Choppier Waters
Image Source: Pexels Investors have just received the latest quarterly GDP update, and it’s a win for the U.S. economy, showing it’s still in the fast lane. Growth jumped to a 2.8% rate, easily surpassing the 2.1% forecast that economists were expecting. But, as with any GDP figure, it’s like reading yesterday’s newspaper—more historical record than […]
Small Crap Or Small Cap?
Image Source: Pexels Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun explains why bad index construction gives small-cap stocks a bad name.Video Length: 00:07:06More By This Author:Aging Populations Are Inflationary Trump, Trade, And The Dollar Goldilocks Economy
Market Talk – Thursday, July 25
Image Source: Pixabay ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 1,285.34 points or -3.28% to 37,869.51 Shanghai decreased 15.21 points or -0.52% to 2,886.74 Hang Seng decreased 289.14 points or -1.67% to 17,021.91 ASX 200 decreased 102.50 points or -1.29% to 7,861.20 KOSPI decreased 48.06 points or -1.74% to 2,710.65 […]
Indexes Finish Mixed As Dow Pares Early Gains
Stocks finished mixed after yesterday’s steep losses, digesting what’s left of the tech selloff. The Dow finished the day a modest winner, paring an early jump of over 500 points, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq moved slightly lower, the latter extending Wednesday’s 654-point drop with its third-straight daily loss. This morning’s GDP data had […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – NFP Next Week
Stocks tried to rally today but fell off into the close to set new lows.Gold and silver were hit overnight with selling in the futures, and this continued into the day.As one might expect for an option expiration on the Comex.Like clockwork.FOMC and Non-Farm Payrolls next week, as indicated on the economic calendar below.Gold has […]
African Countries Are Turning To Gold
A growing number of African countries are turning to gold to hedge geopolitical risk and protect against currency losses.Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, and several other African nations have made moves to increase gold reserves, bring their gold home, and even back their currencies with the yellow metal. South Sudan is the latest country to turn to […]
The U.S. Small Cap Rally Has Been Fast And Furious. But Is It Here To Stay?
Image Source: Pexels Well, that was fast.A month ago, we wrote about why allocating to small cap equities was still a good idea. And in what feels like the blink of an eye, investors have piled into U.S. small cap stocks in droves the past two weeks—after months of mostly underweighting the asset class in favor of mega cap […]
Still Strong After All These Years
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 2.8% annual rate in the first quarter. That’s close to the long-run historical average of 3.1%, and continues what has now become a fairly impressive record of an economy that continues to chug along despite constant predictions of its imminent demise. […]
