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Trigger-Free Trick-Or-Treat Guide To Halloween Costumes
I will say that you will be hard pressed to find a collection of more beautiful, healthier, sexier, hotter, sweatier, and scantily clad men and women
Frontrunning: February 11
- Theranos' main retail partner Walgreens threatened to terminate its relationship with the blood-testing company unless it quickly fixes the problems found by federal inspectors at a laboratory in California, people familiar with the matter said.
How The Fed Unwittingly Confirmed A Recession And A Default Cycle Are Now Inevitable
While everyone was focused on the "front end" of central bank announcements in the form of Draghi jawboning, Yellen hemming and Kuroda panicking, something more troubling took place on Monday afternoon on the "back end", when the FED released its latest quarterly senior loan officers survey. What it showed was that in Q4, lending standards tightened for the second consecutive quarter.
Hillary Unveils New Campaign Logo
If equities sell off another 20% like 2008, gold would not follow them down in a "dollar short squeeze or flight to quality". There is now a very different real interest rate and energy price...
This Is The Dow's Worst Start To The Year... Ever
Sure Oil can go a dollar below this low, but for all intents and purposes this is the bottom in the oil selloff that was predicted for the start of the year.
Crude Crashes To $36 Handle - Down 15% Since OPEC
How many times were we told that an OPEC decision was "priced in" - well it wasn't. WTI is now down 15% from pre-OPEC and has crashed through the $37 level for the first time since Feb 2009... time to catch a falling knife (again), or fold on all those 'recovery' bets?
And The Biggest "Contributor" To Q3 GDP Was...
If you said "the Supreme Court-approved tax that is Obamacare", then give yourself a pat on the back. As we broke down earlier, Q1 GDP rose at a disappointing 1.5% CAGR, rising to $16.394 trillion in chained dollars, an increase of $61 billion, and a modest annual increase of just 2% compared to Q3 2014, the lowest Y/Y increase since the 1.7% recorded in Q1 2014. Yet with most components disappointing, growth had to come from somewhere. So where did it come from?
Here Beginneth The Lesson...
There is a salutary lesson being given right now to anybody who invests in Western markets but few are paying attention. If the penny drops, things could get very ugly indeed.
If Beauty's On The Inside, This Market Wins The Ugly Contest
We talk often about the importance we place on solid internals when gauging the health of the stock market. The more stocks that are advancing versus declining, the stronger the foundation – and the more adversity the market is able to withstand. This is especially valid on a longer-term, cumulative basis. However, short-term readings can signal a red flag in the near-term as well.
It Has Begun: Greek Businesses Now Listing Prices In Drachma
Earlier today, Kathimerini reported that the Greek government, facing an acute cash crunch and staring down the possibility that the country will soon face a shortage of critical imported goods, is making preparations for the introduction of an alternative currency. “According to reports, the … parallel currency design process has begun. By today's standards, government funds [will] fail to service the obligation to pay wages and pensions at the end of the month,” the Greek daily said.
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