Making a Crisis Your Friend
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Making a Crisis Your Friend
The invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russia into a commercial outcast as refiners balk at purchasing Russian energy products, and banks are refusing to finance shipments.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has completely changed the market dynamics. In his podcast, Peter talked about the impact the situation is having on the markets and the global economy. He also looked ahead, saying Russia can now serve as a convenient
Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner says his analysis shows the world is entering into a huge war cycle that could last for many years.
Bill Gross has been retired for a few years at this point, and sometimes, it seems almost as if people forget who he once was. Once known as Wall Street's "notorious" bond king, Gross was credited with many great plays and plenty of terrible ones as
While it is the Ukrainians who appear to be suffering most from kinetic warfare; Russians ...
It's almost difficult to remember now, but February started with a lingering focus on the Omicron wave of the virus and the expected business interruptions that COVID was again causing.
As the Western world still obsesses with how Russia's expulsion from SWIFT will impact the Russian economy, commodity prices and the global funding markets, a quick note on how forward looking markets are reacting.
VIXplosion is back VIX is +18%, trading at 32.5 as of writing, highest levels since January 2021. What most people tend to forget is that buying protection in panic is usually an expensive strategy. Unless this crashes imminently (and 1.5% down on S
--Suspends Stock Trading On Moscow Exchange With the ruble plunging overnight after the West imposed tough new sanctions over the war in Ukraine, crashing as low as 115 against the dollar with the USDRUB last seen just south of 100...
"The news flow on the conflict will dominate short-term market fluctuations"
Last off-ramp or ramp-up?
Two weeks ago, Twitter reported disappointing results including a miss on user growth and losing money in 2021, but the stock spiked nonetheless after the "growth" company announced it had approved a $4 billion stock buyback program.
Nomura's Charlie McElligott notes that equities 'short gamma, extreme short delta' just points to the regime shift with Fed in "Financial Conditions Tightening" mode...
Last week, Moderna's stock plunged 72% from an all-time closing high of $484 on August 9, 2021
While stocks and cryptocurrency markets have floundered during the last week, the price of the precious metal gold has increased in value by 3.85% during the last seven days.
(Update 12:30 ET): Russia's RIA is now reporting that the head of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic, when asked whether things are moving towards war, said "unfortunately, yes."
Back on November 7, just one day before the Russell, cryptos and most risk assets peaked for the year and perhaps this cycle, we asked a simple question yet one which the "expert punditry" immediately dismissed as it was - what else - just more consp
"Markets are continuing their move lower as investors grapple with a growing number of unknowns in the short term," said Marcus Morris-Eyton, a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors.
"Buy all the things" was the message from on-high today as bonds, stocks, gold, crude, copper, and crypto all rallied on JPM initiated rumors that tomorrow's CPI may come in light and the reassuring words of Cleveland Fed's Mester who said - with a s
Facebook angel investor Peter Thiel steps down from the social media giant's board after 17 years to back GOP candidates JD Vance and Blake Masters for US Senate: Follows disastrous day for Meta which saw stocks plunge by 26%
For the second time in weeks, China's "National Team" (the local plunge protection team) has intervened in equity markets amid a worsening rout.
This Is The Make Or Break Level In Treasury Yields
It's probably not the endorsement Biden's flailing administration wanted.
Jim Rogers is an investing legend. He and George Soros co-founded the Quantum Fund, one of the world's most successful hedge funds.
There reason why Amazon stock is surging today - and after the close yesterday - may not be entirely due to the company's earnings, which despite the solid AWC performance and Prime membership hike, were actually rather soggy: the company itself is a
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees to focus on video products and warned that he might cry from a scratched eye during a virtual company-wide meeting Thursday after the social media giant lost $237 billion - the biggest single-day loss e
Peter Schiff recently spoke at the January 2022 Virtual MoneyShow. He talked about the impacts of inflation and said stagflation is going to shock the markets.
We have a two-fer for Story Time this week. The first is a reminder to never buy a new 52-week low, a lesson we first learned watching a highly skilled investor try to bottom-tick Enron.
Will The Others Soon Follow?