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Trump and Xi express hope for trade deal in 'very good' call
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By Tata Elisa e Ziobarbero
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
If a doctor tells you that his patient's condition is swinging up and down wildly, is that a good sign or a bad sign? Of course the answer to that question is quite obvious.
And if a doctor tells you that his patient's condition is "stable", is that a good sign or a bad sign?
Just like in the medical world, instability is not something that is a desirable thing on Wall Street, and right now we are witnessing extreme volatility on an almost daily basis. On Thursday, the Dow was already down several hundred points when I went out to do some grocery shopping with my wife, and at the low point of the day it had fallen 611 points. But then a "miracle happened" and the Dow ended the day with an increase of 260 points. As I detailed yesterday, this is precisely the sort of behavior that you would expect during a chaotic bear market.
As Fox Business has noted, bear market rallies are typically "sharp, quick and usually short". I figured that the momentum from Wednesday would carry over ....
The US stock market experienced another wild roller coaster ride on December 28 after three massive buy orders roiled Wall Street in late-afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 23,062, down 76 points from the previous day's stunning 800-point spike. Finance blog ZeroHedge opined that institutional investors — specifically, pension funds executing year-end reallocation
The post 3 Massive Buy Orders Roil Stock Market Amid Rumored 'Pension Buying' Frenzy appeared first on CCN
«Il presidente degli Stati Uniti, Donald Trump, sta valutando l'adozione di un decreto emergenziale all'inizio del .....
l consigliere per la sicurezza internazionale Olle Fjordgren vede la Svezia come un treno merci che si sta per schiantare su una parete rocciosa.
"Abbiamo praticamente gettato la spugna e i criminali hanno preso il potere. In questo momento non abbiamo nulla contro cui opporci e non vedo come invertire questa tendenza ", ha detto al blog di notizie Ingrid & Maria.
Già nel 2013, la Svezia era in una guerra civile a bassa intensità che i ....
Today market veteran Rick Rule told King World News that it would not surprise him to see $1,500 gold in 2019.
The post Rick Rule – $1,500 Gold In 2019 Wouldn't Surprise Me appeared first on King World News.
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Un libro di dieci anni fa, e non certo di qualche libertario, lo diceva senza mezzi termini: l'Italia è un paese in costante declino.
Un decennio dopo, quel libro, continua ad essere utile per comprendere come quei dati sono peggiorati e come nessuno è in grado di riformare l'Italia.
Non credi? CLICCA E ASCOLTA
"L'agricoltura dovrebbe essere il primo problema dell'industria stessa" (Henri Bergson)
Ha perso il 25% dall'inizio dell'anno. Shenzhen il 33,2. Fra le cause: la guerra dei dazi Cina-Usa e la riduzione delle leve finanziarie. Colpiti tutti i settori degli scambi: industria, consumi, sanità. Tokyo spodesta Shanghai come seconda borsa al mondo.
«Generally speaking, a fallen angel is a bond that is downgraded to BB+ or below (junk) by at least two of the three major rating firms — Moody's Investors Services, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings — after being formally rated BBB- or higher (investment-grade).»
«Downgrades can happen when a company isn't creating enough revenue or generating enough cash to .....
No, non sarà questo governo a fare la prossima legge di bilancio, l'austerità continuerà a essere al cuore della politica europea e per la sinistra andrà peggio: un po' di certezze per l'anno che verrà, messe nero su bianco: così potrete dirci che non avevamo capito nulla, ma con cognizione di causa
Monte Paschi, la Popolare di Vicenza, Veneto Banca e ora l'istituto genovese: le piccole banche italiane sono cadute l'una sull'altra, ma a pagare per i loro errori è sempre stato qualcun altro. E adesso in Europa cominciano a essere davvero preoccupati
Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,
Those of us who closely follow the credit cycle should not be surprised by the current slide in equity markets. It was going to happen anyway. The timing had recently become apparent as well, and in early August I was able to write the following:
"The timing for the onset of the credit crisis looks like being any time from during the last quarter of 2018, only a few months away, to no later than mid-2019."
The crisis is arriving on cue and can be expected to evolve into something far nastier in the coming months. Corporate bond markets have seized up, giving us a signal it has indeed arrived. It is now time to consider how the credit crisis is likely to develop. It involves some guesswork, so we cannot do this with precision, but we can extrapolate from known basics to support some important conclusions.
If it was only down to America without further feed-back loops, we can now suggest the following developments are likely for the US economy. Warnings about an .....