A series of unsettling trends from soaring debt to falling spending suggest a U.S. stock market crash in 2015 looks increasingly likely.Lately the six-year bull market has been looking tired. Despite a lot of volatility, stocks overall are flat on the year.Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 are both within 3% of their all-time […]
The “Good Friday” Jobs Report may be one of the most anticlimactic in memory as the sharp slowdown in the jobs growth rate ran smack into a market closed for the holiday weekend and while it truly was a good Friday for anyone still long the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP), what sort of situation will investors […]
For years, satirical late-night TV host Stephen Colbert has been running a series on his show called “Better Know a District,” which highlights one of the 435 U.S. congressional districts and its representative. While I am no Stephen Colbert, I ;am ;brutally inquisitive when it comes to the 5,000-plus listed companies on the U.S. stock exchanges.That’s why I’ve made it […]
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall. By any objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble territory. Anyone should be able to see this – all you have to do is look at the charts. Sadly, most of us never seem to learn from history. Most of […]
Here’s a quick, executive summary of stories from this past abbreviated trading week, with a link to the full articles online. Markets were closed Friday.
Martin Weiss visits a small farming community of Japanese immigrants in Brazil.
Cyber Security LeadersAs promised, Martin Weiss gives you additional insights into cyber security companies, including some new analysis and the names of specific companies to […]
Submitted by Frank Shostak via The Cobden Centre blog,In a market economy a major service that money provides is that of the medium of exchange. Producers exchange their goods for money and then exchange money for other goods.As production of goods and services increases this results in a greater demand for the services of the medium of exchange (the service […]
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Cramer questions the market’s intelligence
Mad Money host Jim Cramer shares his final thoughts of the day on the latest moves taking the tape, including Micron; Procter & Gamble; Kimberley-Clark and PVH.
Sometimes even Jim Cramer has to admit—the stock market is dumber than a bag of hammers.This is exactly what he was thinking on Wednesday night when Micron reported an upside […]
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors looking for early warnings signs of a shift in U.S. market sentiment would do well to watch tech and biotech stocks.That is because a selloff in those sectors is likely to signal that investors’ confidence in U.S. equities is deteriorating, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Hartnett“U.S. bear view requires [a] tech-wreck,” he writes […]
Recognized as the world’s single biggest attraction for high rollers at the gambling tables, Macau is the only location in the People’s Republic of China where betting on the roll of the dice is legal. Macau is just a short ferry ride from Hong Kong, through which many mainlanders travel to get to the casinos. As such, the former Portuguese […]
