A Happy New Year? U.S. Job Growth Slows While Markets Soar
Video Length: 00:05:04 U.S. December jobs report: Weaker than expected During the month of December, the U.S. added 148,000 jobs, Eibel said, coming up a little short of consensus expectations. However, he stressed that investors probably shouldn’t read too much into the numbers, as winter months like December tend to see more volatility in job […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Name Of The Rose
The Non-Farm Payrolls number came in quite a bit light this morning. Stocks finished up the week with a surge higher on very light volumes. The ruling class rejoices, and points to this of a clear sign of God’s favor on our undertaking.Or whatever gods they happen to be following these days. Abandonment of principle […]
Twin Deficits May Doom Stock Market Boom
A discussion on investing in gold, silver, dollar, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, stock market. Also Trump tax cuts, economy, recession, & depression. Video Length: 00:26:09
The Reluctant Labor Force Is Reluctant For A Reason (And It’s Not Booming Growth)
In 2017, the BLS estimates that just 861k Americans were added to the official labor force, the denominator, of course, for the unemployment rate. That’s out of an increase of 1.4 million in the Civilian Non-Institutional Population, the overall prospective pool of workers. Both of those rises were about half the rate experienced in 2016. […]
Huge Start To 2018 – But Can It Last?
I’ve really been impressed by the start that we have seen here in 2018. Really an amazing start, and the best opening week that I can remember having to a new year, in a very, very long time. In fact it is the best opening week for the stock market since 2006. Following December where the […]
Rates May Not Need To Move Higher
Wow. Could this be true? The DJW is up 10% since the break out in September-2017. Should we start taking profits, or should we instead throw more money into stocks? I have no idea. I haven’t read the news today, but I did see the headline that job growth came in a bit weak. I […]
Skyline Medical Announces Pricing Of Firm Commitment Public Offering Of Common Stock And Warrants
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Skyline Medical Inc. (Nasdaq:SKLN) (“Skyline” or “the Company”), producer of the FDA-approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain medical fluid disposal, today announced the pricing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 2,900,000 Units at an offering price of $0.95 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of one share of […]
Market Talk – Friday, January 5
It has been a pretty impressive start to the New Year as we close firmer on all core markets and across all core regions. Asia followed US sentiment and added another 1% for the Nikkei, 0.75% for Australia and +0.25% for both Shanghai and Hang Seng. The KOPSI added 1.3% after news that North and […]
December 2017 FOMC Minutes
On Wednesday, the Fed released the minutes of the FOMC’s December meeting.As usual, the minutes followed the standard format, mirroring the way presentations and discussions proceed at FOMC meetings.It began with a brief summary report by the manager of the Open Market Desk in New York.There were only two notable pieces of information in that […]
You Must Be Long These Metals In 2018
In 2017, the S&P 500 had a “perfect year,” in which it rose nearly 20%. It was the first year since 1990 that the S&P 500 rose 12 months in a row. However, three unloved and overlooked metals beat that performance soundly. Lead, zinc and copper all had outstanding years in 2017. They returned 26%, 30% and 30%, respectively. However, most […]
