Friday – 5 New Trade Ideas That Can Make 500% If The Market Falls
Up and up the markets go, where they stop…. Stop?  Markets don’t stop going up, do they?  Certainly not when the Fed can toss $2.7Bn onto the bonfire to keep things …
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Bank Runs Begin In Ukraine As Russia’s Largest Bank Halts Lending
Six months ago a “glitch” halted all ATM withdrawals, and Credit and Debit card transactions for Russia’s largest bank but today, the CEO of the huge bank has no such “glitch” to …
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Daily Market Commentary: Quick Update
Bears found no joy after the first real day of selling for February failed to lead to anything. The Nasdaq maintained its breakout, and even managed to register an accumulation …
Read More The Gold Market Becomes Slightly Less Opaque
A Veil Is Lifted In Zürich According to a recent report by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), the Swiss government has decided to finally publish Switzerland’s gold trading data, which have been …
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Groupon Enters Bear Market On “Lack Of Growth” Scare
While deciphering the adjustments, compulsory one-off charges, promises, ranges, and hopes, dreams, and unicorn tears is hard, the market saw headline beats in EPS and Revenues and surged GRPN above …
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Rail Week Ending 15 February 2014: Rail Now Contracting Year-To-Date
Econintersect: Week 7 of 2014 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) contracted according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. The rolling averages are …
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Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – The Reivers
“And so we were three, three reivers high-tailing it for Memphis. Oh, ‘reivers’. That’s an old-fashioned word from my childhood. In plain English, I’m afraid it meant ‘thieves’.” William Faulkner, The …
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“The Pig In The Python Is About To Be Expelled”: A Walk Thru Of China’s Hard Landing, And The Upcoming Global Harder Reset
By now everyone knows that the Chinese credit bubble has hit unprecedented proportions. If they don’t, we remind them with the following chart of total bank “assets” (read debt) added …
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Eurozone: Recovery Weakens, Maybe
Econintersect: The preliminary (“flash”) PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) for manufacturing in the Eurozone fell a full point from January to February, coming in at 53.0. The service sector PMI barely …
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January 2014 Sea Container Counts Mixed
Export and Import container counts were mixed in January 2014. However, rolling averages were accelerating despite this mixed data. For the month of January 2014: the economically intuitive imports growth accelerated 1.0% …
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