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China’s Belt And Road Initiative: Grand Or Grandiose?
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was first announced five years ago in 2013. Broadly speaking, the grand plans is for a grand set of transportation connections from China across Asia, and reaching to Africa and Europe. Some of the connections would be overland (the “belt”) and others would be overseas (the “belt”). Chinese banks and […]
Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular And Premium Up A Penny – Monday, Sept.10
It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium are up a penny each from last week. According to GasBuddy.com, Hawaii has the highest average price for Regular at $3.73 and Santa Francisco, CA is the most expensive city, averaging $3.74. Alabama […]
The Flight To Dollar And Treasury Safety Has Already Begun
In the following video, I profile the world’s major stock indexes to show that most of the rest of the world is sliding down. Two major manufacturing centers, China and Germany, are leading the way and are early warning indicators of a wave of slowing economies everywhere else. Currencies around the world are slumping against […]
Kneeling For Nike
Nike, Inc., based near Beaverton, Oregon, is the world’s leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Wholly-owned NIKE, Inc. subsidiary brands include Converse, which designs, markets and distributes athletic lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories; and Hurley, which designs, markets and […]
Do Value And Growth Stocks Exist?
In Warren Buffett’s 1992 letter, he wrote about value and growth investing. More importantly, it’s how he defined that is often ignored. Investors classify stocks as either value or growth. As per Buffett’s 1992 letter: … most analysts feel they must choose between two approaches customarily thought to be in opposition: ‘value’ and ‘growth.’ Indeed, many investment professionals […]
A Long Dollar Story: China’s Short Profits, Prices, And Producers
For the first half of the Great “Recession”, China and the rest of the EM world seemed immune. It was American subprime mortgages that we were told was causing all the problems, and if European banks had somehow gotten themselves entangled in the rotten real estate mess so much the better for where growth was […]
These Trades Are In Play Right Now
Stocks explode higher all week ending above the expected move. In this crucial weekend video update we focus on how you can determine how much risk you’re comfortable with. Video Length: 00:12:54
5 Top-Ranked Financial Stocks To Buy In Spooky September
Of late, the finance sector has been putting up an impressive performance, with some monthly volatility. The United States’ economic health, on which this sector is largely dependent, has been displaying steady improvement with increasing real GDP numbers, declining unemployment rate, improving consumer spending and stabilizing the housing market. Further, the likelihood of another rate […]
Nasdaq Continues To Tread Lower, Yet US ETFs See Robust Inflows
US equities did not fare well in the shortened holiday week to open September with the Nasdaq posting its largest weekly loss in over 5-months. The tech-heavy index took a beating after trading resumed Tuesday, September 4th. The discourse between US Senators and officials of Twitter and Facebook generated some early losses for tech on […]
