Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
By Michael Snyder, on July 22nd, 2015If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months […]
Submitted by Dana Lyons,When we posted yesterday’s piece on the stock market’s weak internals (If Beauty’s On The Inside, This Market Wins The Ugly Contest), we weren’t sure if things could get any worse – and by how much – with the major averages still able to hold near 52-week highs. Well, the answers were “yes” and “a lot”. In […]
2015 2nd Quarter Market CommentaryJuly 22, 2015 | Documents and Literature,Insight,News & Press | Editor | 0 CommentOverviewThe fireworks came out just in time for the Fourth of July. The second quarter was relatively sleepy until the end of June when the Greek debt crisis made headlines again. Greece rejected a cash-for-reform proposal by the EU and missed an IMF […]
PhotoInvestors following the ups and downs of the stock markets at a brokerage house in Beijing.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York TimesThe symptoms, medical experts say, appear suddenly and often linger for months: insomnia, irritability, depression and an obsession with tracking stock prices.Amid the recent turmoil in China’s stock markets, as values plummeted from all-time highs, doctors have reported […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermidTwitter CEO Dick Costolo, right, celebrates the Twitter IPO with Twitter founders, from left, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, November 7, 2013.The European Central Bank (ECB) just put out an interesting study looking at whether Twitter and Google can be used to predict stock market […]
In light of the Chinese, and also Japanese and US governments’ direct interference in their stock and bond markets, the following historical reminders may be in order:
On May 26, 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of a few companies at the time, was first published. Mr. Charles H. Dow, the driving force behind it, predicted that these companies, […]
The VAT rose from 13% to 23%, making some meats, cooking oils other than olive oil, cocoa, vinegar, salt, flowers, firewood, fertilizer, insecticides, sanitary towels and other basics all more expensive.Services hit by the new VAT increases include restaurants and cafes, funeral parlors, taxis, cramming and tutorial schools very popular with Greek students seeking to make up for the deficiencies […]
By PETER EGWUATUNearly two months after President Muhammadu Buhari took over the administration of Nigeria, investors in the nation’s stock market have lost over N1.032 trillion. Stakeholders have attributed the development to slow pace of governance, lack of policy direction, high political risk, feud in the federal legislature, no ministerial appointment, amongst others.MUHAMMADU BUHARIThe recent drop in the Nigerian stock market indicators […]
Just over a year ago, Janet Yellen did the unthinkable. In a moment of clarity, The Fed called out two darlings of the momentum-chasing euphoria-driven stock buying frenzy for ‘special’ treatment when Yellen uttered the Cramer-mind-blowing fact that “small cap social media and biotech stock valuations were substantially stretched.” It appears, judging by today’s market, that she was half right…The […]
The market staged another strong recovery this week as the SP500 regained its 20 WMA after briefly dipping below the last couple weeks. How quickly this market responds is a testament to why sticking to the long-term trends and keeping an open mind are so beneficial for proper money management. During this most recent “meltdown” (where the SP500 declined only […]
