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EU Session Bullet Report – Oil Slumps As Demand Cools, USD Leading The Way
Oil recovered slightly yesterday and is currently trading above $38 per barrel although the black gold remains under pressure. Soft trade numbers from China on Tuesday highlighted ... -
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When Does The Demographically-Related Pension Ponzi Scheme Blow Up?
Reader “GM”, an actuary student in Malaysia pinged me with an accurate observation on demographics, but missed the boat on a solution. GM writes …. I though... -
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EC Negative Interest Rates Are Due To Bad Theory
If something very strange happens and continues over an extended period, people get accustomed to it and come to view it as normal. That’s especially so when the strange set of c... -
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Euro/Dollar: Technical Picture Contradictory
Yesterday’s Trading: By the end of Tuesday, the euro was up against the dollar by 60 points to 1.0891. The Swiss franc was also stronger against the USD. The Aussie and the pound... -
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Corporate Loan Charge-Offs And Delinquencies Surge
Another Bump Higher In one of our recent updates on the weakness in the manufacturing sector we have mentioned the surge in the sum of charge-offs and delinquencies of commercial a... -
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The Latest Look At Long-Term Trends In Employment By Age Group
The Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is a simple computation: You take the Civilian Labor Force (people age 16 and over employed or seeking employment) and divide it by the Ci... -
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Behold The Deflationary Wave: How China Is Flooding The World With Its Unwanted Commodities
Between commodity-backed financing deals and the centrally-planned mal-investment boom-driven excess capacity, China has a lot of ‘liquidation’ to do to normalize from ... -
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What Assets Should You Have In Your Moderate Portfolio?
Ibbotson Associates provides asset allocation guidelines that span the risk spectrum from conservative to aggressive. The moderate portfolio consists of roughly 42% in U.S. Stock, ... -
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Guess What Happened The Last Time Junk Bonds Started Crashing Like This? Hint: Think 2008
The extreme carnage that we are witnessing in the junk bond market right now is one of the clearest signals yet that a major U.S. stock market crash is imminent. For those that are... -
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Can Google’s Recently Launched YouTube Red Take On Netflix?
YouTube Red is a disruptive product created to take on Netfix and Spotify. Rising Netflix and Spotify subscribers shows that there is certainly a market for YouTube Red. Google/Alp...
