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The Bank Of Japan Just Contradicted Itself
Yen. Image Source: Pixabay On one hand, the Bank of Japan says that it wants long-term interest rates to be dictated by market forces. On the other hand, the BoJ has been spending 6 trillion yen per month buying bonds to prop up its currency. In other words, it’s doing everything in the world to control short-term interest rates […]
Investments For The Coming Power Grid Expansion
Image Source: Unsplash We continue with our discussion of investment ideas that could benefit from upgrading and expanding the power grid to accommodate surging demand from AI data centers and EVs.This third and final part of this series focuses on alternative energy sources, utility companies, and other companies related to the power grid infrastructure.If you haven’t […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – ‘Risk On’ It Was
And so ‘risk on’ it was.Stocks were rising and went out on the highs.Gold and silver rallied.The Dollar rose slightly.VIX fell.Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday.FOMC next week.Have a pleasant evening. More By This Author:Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Unchanged Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Uncommitted In Babylon Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – FOMC […]
3 High Dividend Growth Stocks To Build Future Wealth
Image Source: Pixabay Investing in dividend growth stocks is a slow and steady way to build wealth. Stocks characterized by this investing style will raise the dividend annually but also typically experience a rising share price. This makes for a powerful combination that adds to wealth annually.We highlight three companies with high dividend growth rates over […]
Market Talk – Wednesday, June 5
Image Source: Unsplash ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 347.29 points or -0.89% to 38,490.17 Shanghai decreased 25.80 points or -0.83% to 3,065.40 Hang Seng decreased 19.15 points or -0.10% to 18,424.96 ASX 200 increased 31.90 points or 0.41% to 7,769.00 Kospi increased 27.40 points or 1.03% to 2,689.50 […]
US employment data reinforces rate cuts, boosting crypto: Nansen analyst
The US ADP National Employment Report increased by 152,000 in May, below the expected number of 175,000 and the smallest increase since January. The ADP measures the monthly change in non-farm and private employment and a result below the expected signals that employment growth and wage growth are slowing down.Aurelie Barthere, Principal Research Analyst at […]
Rebound In U.S. Service Sector May Overstate The Story
The jump in May services activity follows a steep plunge into contraction territory in April. So, we prefer to look at a two-month average, which paints a picture of solid but slowing service sector growth. With employment in contraction territory for a fourth consecutive month, businesses appear wary about the future.Image source: Pixabay The May US ISM […]
No, The Saving Rate Is Not Near A Record Low
Image source: Pixabay It has been popular for people commenting on the state of the economy to say that consumers have to pull back on consumption because they have exhausted their savings. A big part of this story is that the saving rate is supposedly near a record low.The reported saving rate, at 3.8 percent in the first […]
Monthly GDP For April, And Other Indicators
Monthly GDP recovers. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (bold blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), consumption in Ch.2017$ (light blue), and monthly GDP in Ch.2017$ (pink), GDP (blue bars), all log normalized to 2021M11=0. Source: BLS […]
Sings Of Economy Slowing
Image Source: Pexels Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun answers the questions: Is the economy slowing? Are odds rising of interest rate cuts? Changes in economic environment / DARP?Video Length: 00:06:32More By This Author:Stagflation Risk RisingQuestion Time: AI Stock Market Hype Or Reality7 Keys For Investing Success
