The Fall Of The French Government Means Less Growth And No Budget In 2025
Image Source: Pexels There is no longer a government in France As expected, French MPs decided on Wednesday evening to vote a motion of no confidence in the government led by Michel Barnier. 331 MPs from the left and far right voted in unison, and the government fell, less than three months after it was set […]
Major Indices Lighting Up Like Wall Street’s Christmas Tree
Image Source: PexelsMARKETSIn a dizzying turn of events, South Korea, the world’s 12th-largest economy, was thrust into the global spotlight with a brief imposition of martial law. But as the dust settles and a fragile calm returns to the Korean markets, Asia braces for a bouncy Thursday. The mood is buoyed further by a fresh wave […]
3 Ways AI Is Revolutionizing Metals And Mining Energy Transition: AI, Mining and Groundbreaking Potential
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Last year, the world spent $1.8 trillion on the energy transition – yet we’re just scratching the surface.According to BlackRock, by the end of the next decade, $4 trillion will be spent annually on the energy transition. That includes money flowing into all aspects of the energy supply chain, from resource mining to […]
Want To Cut Federal Workers? Just Cut Spending.
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been making a lot of noise about all the federal employees it plans to fire. The DOGE people have framed total federal employment as something of a proxy for the total size of the federal government. Cutting the federal workforce is all well and good, but […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Rate Cuts Will Be Slower And Shallower
Stocks rallied to new all time highs.The Fed is signaling that rate cuts will be slower and shallower because the economy and inflation are resisting their latest mechanisms.Gold and silver edged higher, as the Dollar chopped sideways.VIX moved higher even as stocks hit a crescendo.Have a pleasant evening. More By This Author:Stocks And Precious Metals […]
3 Stocks Trading At A Steep Discount In December 2024
Image courtesy of 123rf.com Across thousands of stocks and peculiarities of each industry sector, it is a daunting task to pick the right equity exposure at the right time. For investors with medium to long time preference, these stocks have solid potential to return substantial profits. Unlike penny stocks, they are on a more secure track, limiting possible risk. […]
Long Bonds TLT: Agony And Ecstasy
Today, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell spoke.Some highlights U.S. BUDGET IS ON AN UNSUSTAINABLE PATH; REVENUE AND SPENDING NEED TO BE BETTER ALIGNED CENTRAL BANK CANNOT TAKE DEBT AND DEFICITS INTO ACCOUNT IN SETTING RATES; NEEDS TO FOCUS ON INFLATION THE FED IS FAR FROM A SITUATION OF FISCAL DOMINANCE, USES ITS […]
Bitcoin Nears Record High As Trump Nominates Crypto-Friendly Paul Atkins To Replace Gensler As SEC Chair
With the departure of the most corrupt and incompetent – not to mention most hacked – SEC chair in history, Gary Gensler, is finally out. And, as we predicted, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated pro-crypto Paul Atkins to replace Gensler as the new chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)… and BTC exploded higher on the news… As CoinTelegraph’s Vince Quill reports, […]
Marvell Stock Analysis: Overvalued Or Undervalued?
↵Image Source: Pixabay Marvell Technology Inc (Nasdaq: MRVL) says continued strength in its custom AI chips business helped it beat Street estimates in its third financial quarter.Shares of the semiconductor behemoth have more than doubled since early August – but Wall Street remains convinced that they still haven’t gotten ahead of themselves.Analysts expect Marvell stock to extend its […]
3 Dividend Kings You’ve Never Heard Of
Image Source: Pixabay Dividend Kings are stocks that have grown their dividends for at least 50 consecutive years.Many of the stocks that comprise the Dividend Kings are global conglomerates. These industry giants are also mega-cap stocks with market caps above $200 billion.But there are many smaller Dividend Kings that fly under the radar for most investors, […]
