I'm waiting for the last gasp of the market before I call it a top. Tops don't often look like distribution. Usually, they look like a bull market...

Insiders are selling stock like it's 2007

Guys, regardless of your political leanings this situation is giving ample opportunity for you to profit in trading. Political instability reduces investment thereby weakening the underlying currency. As long as no one has any idea what will happen ...

EU may re-open withdrawal agreement following G7 talks - UK official

Ha! Exactly right. Most here are not looking at what a rate cut would achieve. They are looking to place a bet on whether one is going to happen or not.

Powell: Challenges for Monetary Policy

You can fight/troll someone else. I won't engage.

Your Last Minute Jackson Hole Preview: Powell In Turmoil

America already has massive problems... An increasingly small manufacturing sector and a large global trade deficit. This equals a loss of true wealth. The only support is the petrodollar which creates artificial demand for the dollar allowing ...

Your Last Minute Jackson Hole Preview: Powell In Turmoil

Gold has remained relatively cheap compared to other market assets in the last few years of currency printing. Since it is a 'safe haven' its value tends to increase during times of market stress. So when you see stocks and bonds underperforming you ...

No-deal Brexit has become central scenario: French Official

Where should the freshly printed money go, Mr. Ricchiuto? Should that money be loaned to banks that will simply put it into the highest yielding investments that will only benefit them? That has been the case for the last TEN YEARS and look where it ...

The Fed needs to radically change policy and start printing money

Why buy now? When you can just wait for a better price a little way down the road. The game is to buy low and sell high, no? In the meantime, the German Government must fund its budget somehow and will continue to have bond offerings whether they ...

Germany Sells World's First 30-Year Negative Yielding Bond... And It's A Failure

Sorry TT, but you gotta check out US budget numbers on Military Spending, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and how much sales of military hardware brings in. You will be astounded. THE two biggest reasons for budget deficits are the socialist ...

China will have to take countermeasures on US moves

They can't elect leadership properly if they can't tell the lies from the truth...

‘Negative’ Interest Rates Used to be Unthinkable in the U.S.—Not Anymore

Heh. How do you educate a populace that is only willing to read headlines and listens only to media that espouses Keynesian economics foolishness?

‘Negative’ Interest Rates Used to be Unthinkable in the U.S.—Not Anymore

C'mon guys this is not my plan! My point was that tariffs don't have zero effect on the targeted country and gave one possible reason for their use. I won't pretend to know what China will do next or for that matter President Trump, only hunches. ...

Markets Paring Exaggerated Response to US Blink

6.2 is very different than 10... That's why I said slowing... The largest factor is the reduction in credit in China! We will soon feel the same as we come to the limit of our own credit cycle. Who is lending the money to China btw? American banks, ...

Markets Paring Exaggerated Response to US Blink

Yes, this is a tax on Americans. The effect achieved though is a reduction in the total sales of those products which is directly felt by the Chinese. Hence, the rapid slowing of their economy. Though this is not the only factor in their slowdown it ...

Markets Paring Exaggerated Response to US Blink

Inflation has happened. Just look at the price of cars and gas and washing machines and all those goods they don't include in their inflation statistics. What we haven't seen are wage increases. If we saw those wage increases there would be major ...

Consumer Price Index – July 2019

For us Forex traders this means an instant vanishing of substantial amounts of Canadian currency. This is the opposite of QE and should produce a minor strengthening of the Canadian Dollar. I wonder if the Canadian Central Bank will respond with ...

'It's crazy': Chase Bank forgiving all debt owed by its Canadian credit card customers

America may be coming to the end of this credit cycle. The last of the large economies to do so. If that is true then we could be coming into the next recession...

U.S. Consumer Credit Increased Less Than Forecast in June

The flight to Gold is happening now. Watching for breakout prices.

Central banks around the world are surprising markets with aggressive rate cuts: Here’s why

You are right. They will eventually be forced to unpeg and float.

China's PBOC tells foreign firms yuan won't keep falling

The Chinese Government sets its exchange rate... If they would let their currency truly float who knows where it would go... Since Chinese bonds give better interest than US bonds it would stand to reason that their currency would strengthen versus ...

China's PBOC tells foreign firms yuan won't keep falling