Economy Slowing Down We got quite a bit of economic data that was released today, pretty much all of it confirming what everybody seems to be denying, and that is that the U.S. economy is, in fact, slowing down, at least the way we like to measure it. We will get more data later in […]
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Biggest Move in Crude Oil Not much action today in the stock markets on this Friday before a 3-day Memorial Day holiday weekend. The action was really in the oil markets, the bond markets and the foreign exchange markets. The biggest move happening in crude oil. Crude was down just over $3/barrel today; one of
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Ep. 356: Oil, Bonds, Currencies, Tariffs & Guns Read More »
By: Peter Schiff, President and CEO Euro Pacific Capital Earlier this year when President Trump began beating the drums loudly, causing fear of a trade war (and assuring us that such a conflict could be easily won), I cautioned that he had no idea the trouble he was courting . Based on his spectacular misunderstanding
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Markets Rallied on Fed Minutes Interpreted as Dovish Earlier today we got the release of the latest Federal Open Market Committee minutes and before the minutes came out (they come out at 2pm Eastern Time). Prior to the release, all the stock markets were down; the Dow was down maybe about 150 points or so,
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FOMC Is Far More Dovish Than the Minutes Imply – Ep. 355 Read More »
Solid Gains Today in the Major Stock Market Averages We had solid gains today in the major stock market averages; the DJIA putting in the largest percentage gain, just over 1.2% or 298 points. I think at the highs, the Dow was up 370 and change, so a strong day, S&P, NASDAQ also up not
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Trade War Ends Before It Begins – Ep. 354 Read More »
Las Vegas to Vancouver to Las Vegas I’m recording today’s podcast from my hotel room in Vancouver, Canada. I’m up here for a couple of days at the 2018 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference and actually I left Las Vegas to come here; I am at the Las Vegas Money Show, I was there yesterday and I will be
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Bond Breakdown Gathers Momentum – Ep. 353 Read More »
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Currency Traders Have It Backwards Ep. 352 Read More »
Fed is Willing to Tolerate Higher Inflation Today is the first Friday in May and that means we got the April Jobs Report released today, and before I actually get into the details of the jobs report, I want to talk about what happened with the Fed this week. I think that is the most
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Consumers Won’t Be Comfortable with Higher Inflation – Ep. 351 Read More »
Market Tends to Produce Better Returns in the First 4 Months of the Year There is an old Wall Street adage: “Sell in May and Go Away”. The reason for that saying is that seasonally, the market tends to produce better returns in the first 4 months of the year, January through April, and then,
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