April 26, 2023 @ 12:54 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-fifth YouTube video: Central Banks to Take Away $1 Trillion in Cash Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years:...
March 15, 2022 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and twelfth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Central banks tighten faster than expected” went up today. This week I’m looking at tightening by...
July 9, 2021 @ 7:14 pm | Breaking News |
Stocks rallied today and bond prices moved higher (sending bond yields lower) on news that China People’s Bank and the European Central Bank would both pursue monetary moves to bolster growth. The People’s bank reduced the amount of cash that banks have to...
February 6, 2020 @ 10:21 pm | Breaking News, GLD, GOLD |
Gold is supposed to go up when investors and traders are looking for safe havens and hedges against market volatility. So it makes sense the gold and gold mining stocks are gaining as coronavirus stalks through the land. Gold closed up 0.99% today to $1570.50 an...
February 16, 2018 @ 6:29 pm | Breaking News, Volatility |
Before this market rout and from the safety of the World Economic Forum in Davos, hedge fund legend Ray Dalio talked about the coming bear market in bonds and likelihood that we were near the end of this cycle of economic boom. Sometime in the next two years, he...
June 28, 2017 @ 6:01 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Yesterday the International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for U.S. economic growth to 2.1% for 2017 (from 2.3%) and to 2.1% in 2018 (from 2.5%.) The fund had included a likely infrastructure spending bill and a tax cut/tax reform package in its earlier forecast....
October 31, 2016 @ 7:14 pm | IEF, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Sell |
When I bought shares of the iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) back on June 28, 2016, it was in the belief that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates (as early as September or as late as December) while other central banks remained committed to their...
September 13, 2016 @ 6:55 pm | Breaking News |
Amidst the worry over global growth, interest rates, and central bank stimulus, it’s easy to lose track of the earnings picture for a third quarter that’s due to close in two-and-a-half weeks. Or maybe that’s because no one really wants to focus on...
September 9, 2016 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News |
I’ve been waiting seemingly forever for the financial markets to show some acknowledgement that central bank stimulus policies can’t go on until the sun turns into a dark cinder. For how long have I been waiting? More than a year certainly. But each time I...