The 10 Companies That Dominate The Global Arms Trade
. The world puts $1.69 trillion towards military expenditures per year, and about $375 billion of that goes towards buying arms specifically. Whether it is guns, tanks, jets, missiles, or ships that are on your shopping list, in the international arms community, there is a supplier for any weapon your country desires. ARMS DEALERS, BY […]
Market Talk – Friday, January 12
We saw a strong response in the Hang Seng index today, taking it to yet another short-term record level. Shanghai also closed positively (+0.2%), but not the +1% performance recorded in the HSI. China’s Trade numbers failed to meet the widely expected 13% releasing at 4.5% which is probably why Shanghai lagged. The Nikkei still […]
Wall Street Warns Of ‘Supply Floodgate’ As Trump’s Tax Bill Balloons Deficit
Do you know what Wall Street did on Friday? Well, let me tell you. They set out to scapegoat Donald Trump for a projected increase in the U.S. deficit, that’s what they did. That’s according to some folks who swear to Christ that everything – everything, I tell you! – is a conspiracy designed to undermine the presidency. […]
Oil Market Update
In the last Oil Market update posted on the 2nd it was pointed out that while oil looked like it had further to run short-term, its COTs, Hedgers positions and sentiment indicators were already at wild extremes suggesting that a top was looming, and now, after targets were hit yesterday, it looks like an intermediate […]
Stocks Surge To Best Start In 30 Years; Bitcoin, Bonds & Dollar Battered
Just “buy” – everyone else is… what could go wrong? Video length: 00:00:59 It’s been an interesting year so far… equities are unstoppable, the dollar is tanking, gold is soaring, and bonds are tumbling… This is easy… US Equities have ‘suffered’ only one down day in 2018 so far (in fact Trannies haven’t seen one down […]
Comments On The USD, Gold, Silver, And PM Stocks
(Audio length 00:14:46) The USD breakdown hard today dropping just below the 91 level. This is helping gold and silver (to a lesser extent) with stocks also getting a buy. Doc shares his insights on the moves today and what looks like some strong weekly closes for metals and US equities.
Good Or Bad, But Surely Not Transitory
When Federal Reserve officials first started last year to mention wireless network data plans as a possible explanation for a fifth year of “transitory” factors holding back consumer price inflation, it seemed a bit transparent. One of the reasons for immediately doubting their sincerity was the history of that particular piece of the CPI (or […]
Blackout For Utilities
It’s really hard to imagine how a sector could be doing as bad as the Utilities sector in a tape that has been as strong as this one, but the reality is that when everyone expects rates to increase, they want nothing to do with interest rate sensitive sectors like Utilities. The following charts are […]
Xunlei Plummets After China Regulator Advises On ICO Risks
Xunlei (XNET) describes itself as a cloud-based acceleration technology company in China. In early October, the company announced their “Wanke coin mining” cryptocurrency project. More importantly, a company subsidiary, OneThing Technology, announced a new blockchain-based product, OneCoin, last year. Regulators quickly claimed that OneCoin constitutes a new version of banned Initial Coin Offering, or ICO, […]
