An investor sits in front of a chart showing China’s Shenzhen stock market index on Monday. David Lom
On Monday, the People’s Daily — essentially the Communist Party’s mouthpiece — declared that “rainbows always appear after the rains” in an attempt to reassure investors.
These words did not halt the overall decline, however, and on Tuesday Chinese stocks fell again, with […]
One of the most popular and well-known names in the biotech world is definitely Biogen (BIIB-Analyst Report). This large cap stock has been a staple of investor portfolios in the biotechnology space for some time, while it is also one of the behemoths of the sector, closing in on $100 billion in market cap.BIIB might be due for a breather […]
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not yet percolated through the markets just yet: the possibility of economic cracks in China, the largest oil importer […]
On May 10, China cut its benchmark lending rate for the third time since November. The move came just a few days after several brokerages tightened margin requirements, which triggered a 4% decline in Chinese stocks.At the time, we noted that the PBoC had done something similar not even a month prior, when in April, the central bank slashed the […]
@MarkBartonTVChina’s stock market got wrecked on Friday with the Shanghai Composite index crashing by 7.4%.The red-hot market is now down 19% from its high, which it set on June 12.Some folks may see this as a buying opportunity, but not the analysts at Morgan Stanley.”[T]his is probably not a dip to buy,” Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner said. “In fact, we […]
History shows rather clearly that the stock market is prone to extreme events, aka crashes. The challenge is deciding when the risk for a repeat performance is unusually high. The literature offers endless possibilities, which is a reminder that the market can crumble for any number of reasons. The leading factor, of course, is the business cycle. But internal market […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market.The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.While the switch is […]
“On the Verge of a Massive Collapse”: Ron Paul Says Stock Market Headed for a Day of Reckoning
Mac Slavo
June 20th, 2015SHTFplan.comComments (9)Read by 1,197 people
We all know it is only a matter of time until the music stops.But Dr. Ron Paul, the former Congressman often celebrated for his outspoken views and opposition to the funny money economic system, says […]
Legendary investor Howard Marks likes to quote Albert Einstein: “I never think about the future — it comes soon enough.”But as Marks writes in his recent memo to clients of Oaktree Capital Management: “We can’t take that approach as investors, however. We have to think about the future. We just shouldn’t accord too much significance to our opinions.”Yet the pressure […]
As it stands, Fitbit is the current leader in the wearables market, although it appears that Xiaomi could be catching up, but in the meantime the company has recently made their debut on the stock market in the US where they held an IPO where their stocks were offered at $20 per share, giving them a valuation of about $4.1 […]
