Stock Market
Is the Stock Market Setting Investors Up for a Tech Bust Similar to the Dot.com Bust?
BanksterCrime, Nvidia Share Price Performance Year-to-Date (Green) Versus S&P 500 (Orange) and Russell 2000 (Blue) By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: On Tuesday, a stock most Americans had never heard of four years ago – Nvidia – closed with a market cap of $3.34 trillion. That makes it the most valuable company in the world, overtaking…
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Chasing Apple Shares Higher Here “Is Extremely Dangerous”
Greed is responsible for much sorrow. The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:10, “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” But is greed only about money? No. Greed goes much further than money… What is greed exactly then? What does God or the Bible have to say about it? Greed is a spiritual…
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China’s Stock Market Is in Free Fall 1/18/24
After a challenging couple of years for the Chinese economy, the country’s stock market appears to be in free fall, with officials urging institutional investors not to sell assets in an effort to keep share prices stable as foreigners withdraw. Chinese equities slumped on Monday as the central bank decided to hold its medium-term policy…
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Liquidation: Stocks, Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Puked
Well that really did escalate quickly… Today had the feeling of ‘liquidation’ (similar to March) as big-tech stocks (growth/value rotation), bitcoin, bonds, and bullion were all dumped unceremoniously. While Nasdaq futs were bid along with everything else on Putin’s vaccine headlines overnight, it didn’t take long for the growth/value rotation pressure to kick in and send…
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Morgan Stanley Sounds The Alarm On Record High Bond Duration, Is Starting To Buy Bond Volatility
You Have More Duration than You Think 2020 has seen a pandemic inflict enormous human and economic cost. In 2Q, the global economy contracted by the largest amount on record and, as autumn approaches, major questions around returning to school, work and other aspects of daily life remain. But for investors, 2020 has been something…
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Blain: Excess Liquidity Is “Blinding Idiots To Dangerous Reality”
Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt” “This time it’s different”, is one of the most dangerous beliefs in financial markets. This time, things are different – but for a reason. Global Central Banks have pumped liquidity into the financial system to support the global economy as it struggles with a…
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US Bankruptcies Busting Out to Match 2009 Peak Mean Trouble for Stock Market
The following article by David Haggith was published on The Great Recession Blog: Bloomberg reported this week that thirteen US companies (in the 50-million-plus size) filed for bankruptcy last week. That brought the total for the big boys and girls this year to 117, which matches the record peak for the first half of a year set in…
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Ronin Capital Blows Up, Unable To Meet CME Capital Requirements After VIX Trade Goes Wrong
We have certainly had our share of dismal fund returns in the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a market crash that is now worse than the Great Depression, so far one thing was missing: a big blow-up, where a fund is margined out and forced to liquidate Friday morning. Think “Duke & Duke.“ Well,…
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The Blood Bath Has Begun
Don’t forget, the Spanish Flu pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Fear of the coronavirus is causing shutdowns on a global scale like we have never seen before. Just about every major sporting event that you can think of has been either canceled or postponed, schools and universities are keeping students away,…
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Fear Of The Coronavirus Is Causing A Stock Market Apocalypse
This day is here– get ready, the virus WILL spreads throughout the US and Europe, governments will respond the same way China’s government has; martial law and full-blown concentration camp culture. This would lead to civil war in the US because we are armed and many people will shoot anyone trying to put us into…
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