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Is The End Of The Value Trade Near?

Is The End Of The Value Trade Near? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The end of the value trade may be near as investors push prices beyond economic growth expectations. Interestingly, it was just last year that I wrote: “The Rotation To Value Is Inevitable.” The critical point of that article was this: “The market’s surge […]

It’s Not Whites Spreading COVID in Miami: Black Spring Breakers Defy Curfew in Miami Beach, Black Leaders Bemoan Authorities Denying Total Black Autonomy Against Spreading Coronavirus

Earlier: The Racial Reckoning Goes On Spring Break In Miami Beach As the civilization white people c […]

Asian Woman Leaving Asian-Black Solidarity Rally Gets Punched by a Black Man

Earlier: NBC: Is Black-On-Asian Violence A Hate Crime Or Just Blacks Acting Black? From CBS News in N […]

Kiwi Crumbles As New Zealand Targets Speculators To Burst “Dangerous” Housing Bubble

Kiwi Crumbles As New Zealand Targets Speculators To Burst “Dangerous” Housing Bubble One month after the New Zealand government took the historic step of adding a fresh mandate to its central bank, tasking it with considering the impact its monetary and financial policy decisions have on housing prices, a move to help calm the country’s […]

Scandal-Plagued Not-for-Profit SPLC Has Very Profitable 2020

From the Washington Free Beacon: Southern Poverty Law Center Maintains $160 Million in Offshore Acc […]

Watch Live: Powell, Yellen Tell Congress Economic Recovery Has A Long Way To Go

Watch Live: Powell, Yellen Tell Congress Economic Recovery Has A Long Way To Go Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s whirlwind week of public appearances and monetary policy pronouncements continues at noon on Tuesday as JPow will sit for yet another round of Congressional testimony, this time joined by his predecessor (and now Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen). […]

Is Boulder Muslim Gunman Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa An Immigrant Muslim Mass Murderer Or A Homegrown Muslim Mass Murderer?

Earlier: How Many “Home-Grown” Muslim Attacks Before A Muslim Immigration Moratorium—And Expulsions? […]

Russia Blasts Twitter For Being “Too Slow” In Deleting Content “Harmful For Children”

Russia Blasts Twitter For Being “Too Slow” In Deleting Content “Harmful For Children” The Kremlin has continued lashing out at Twitter after earlier this month threatening to ban the major US-based social media platform from the country altogether. Its communications watchdog known as Roscomnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) […]

Biden’s Solar Energy Plan Has A Major Space Problem

Biden’s Solar Energy Plan Has A Major Space Problem Via Rystad Energy, US President Joe Biden clinched the top role last November on the back of a campaign promise to launch the Clean Energy Revolution in the country, with a chief aim of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Rystad Energy estimates that the significant utility […]

“It’s A Very Good Vaccine” – Dr. Fauci Tries To Rationalize AstraZeneca’s Latest “Unforced Error”

“It’s A Very Good Vaccine” – Dr. Fauci Tries To Rationalize AstraZeneca’s Latest “Unforced Error” During an interview where the good doctor also reassured the public that the troubled AstraZeneca COVID jab is still “a very good vaccine”, Dr. Anthony Fauci, senior advisor to President Biden, head of the NIAID, and head of the US […]

SIX YEARS OF YEMENI PAIN

UK Medical Official Says Lockdown Has “Improved Life” For Some

While acknowledging the mental health impact of lockdown, England’s chief medical officer asserted that the pandemic restrictions, which have been in place on and off for a year, have “improved life” for some people. Professor Chris Whitty made the comments while addressing the Public Health Conference 2021. While recognizing that people were exercising less and […]

Month-End Set For Epic Clash Between Forced Pension Selling And Quant Buying

Month-End Set For Epic Clash Between Forced Pension Selling And Quant Buying It’s time to talk month/quarter-end rebalancing again. As a reminder two weeks ago JPMorgan caused some serious indigestion across Wall Street, when the bank predicted that just among balanced mutual funds (such as 60:40 funds, US defined benefit pension plans, Norges Bank, i.e. […]

France Summons Chinese Ambassador After “Small-Time Thug” Insult & Threats

France Summons Chinese Ambassador After “Small-Time Thug” Insult & Threats Following closely on the heels of joint sanctions slapped on Chinese officials over widespread human rights abuses targeting the county’s Uighur Muslim minority by the US, EU, UK and Canada on Monday, France’s foreign ministry summoned China’s ambassador over “repeated insults and threats aimed at French lawmakers […]

Rabobank: There Are Only Two Logical End-Points We Travel Towards

Rabobank: There Are Only Two Logical End-Points We Travel Towards By Michael Every of Rabobank Can You See the Light Speed? Things are in flux at the moment on multiple fronts. However, as long flagged here, there are only two logical future end-points we travel towards. Either: ‘Star Trek’, where we live as one united […]

Iran decries Saudi-led war on Yemen, calls for real peace initiative

Iran decries the Saudi-led aggression and blockade against Yemen, and says there is “no military solution” to the ongoing crisis in the impoverished country.

New Home Sales Collapse In February Amid Higher Rates, Weather

New Home Sales Collapse In February Amid Higher Rates, Weather Following the unexpected tumble in existing home sales, new home sales have crashed in February. Against expectations of a 5.7% MoM drop, sales collapsed 18.2% – worse than at the peak of the crisis last year and the worst MoM drop since 2013  Sales dropped […]

Goldman CEO Says He’ll Try Harder To Make Sure Junior Bankers Have Saturdays Off

Goldman CEO Says He’ll Try Harder To Make Sure Junior Bankers Have Saturdays Off Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon reportedly said this week that the investment banking giant was going to “try harder” to make sure that its junior bankers – traditionally used on Wall Street to work long, arduous hours – would have their […]

The Collapse Of Greensill: ‘Unwise Enablers’ & A Dearth Of Due Diligence

The Collapse Of Greensill: ‘Unwise Enablers’ & A Dearth Of Due Diligence Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, All That Glitters Is Not Gold “If I take that bet I am sure I will end up with an ear-full of cider…” The collapse of Greensill involved a predicable cast of unwise enablers, but it should […]

“Get Ready For Some Serious Sticker Shock Very Soon: This Jump In Inflation Won’t Be Transient”

“Get Ready For Some Serious Sticker Shock Very Soon: This Jump In Inflation Won’t Be Transient” By Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and commentator Vincent Cignarella Semiconductor Costs Could Lead to a Shock This Fall Consumer confidence is key to how people plan to spend. You can see it in the chart below. And as the […]

WTI Tumbles Back Below $60 As Contango Returns

WTI Tumbles Back Below $60 As Contango Returns Amid concerns about European demand (as increasingly restrictive lockdowns are reintroduced) and the beginnings of anxiety about US demand (as case counts rise), over-supply fears are rising again as consultant Energy Aspects notes in a report that the last commercially available 150m-200m bbl of storage built up […]

All Hell Breaks Loose In Turkey: Stocks Halted, Overnight Lira Implied Rate Hits 10,000%

All Hell Breaks Loose In Turkey: Stocks Halted, Overnight Lira Implied Rate Hits 10,000% Chaos has broken out across Turkey’s capital markets with bank shares crashing and marketwide stop-loss halts activated after President Tayyip Erdogan shocked investors by sacking the central bank governor. Turkey’s stock market logged its worst two days since the global financial […]

Germany Orders Most Restrictive COVID Lockdown Yet Over Easter Weekend

Germany Orders Most Restrictive COVID Lockdown Yet Over Easter Weekend We noted yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel had succeeded in persuading the leaders of Germany’s 16 states to agree to another extension of the federal lockdown. And while initial reports about Merkel’s proposal noted that Germans would receive a reprieve allowing them to spend the […]

Futures Slide, Dollar Surges Ahead Of Powell-Yellen Doubleheader On Fresh Virus Fears

Futures Slide, Dollar Surges Ahead Of Powell-Yellen Doubleheader On Fresh Virus Fears Lockdown fears are back, and so are concerns that disinflation may be making a return. Global markets and US index futures slumped alongside shares in Europe, where a resurgence of virus cases and a planned lockdown in Germany cast doubt on the region’s […]

American Health Regulators Slam AstraZeneca For Releasing “Incomplete” Trial Data

American Health Regulators Slam AstraZeneca For Releasing “Incomplete” Trial Data Pretty soon, maybe AstraZeneca can stop blaming European governments for stoking skepticism about the company’s COVID jab, and start blaming the US (or maybe the drugmaking giant might consider accepting some responsibility, considering the reaction to rare blood clots isn’t the first safety issue to […]