2016-01-27 14:00
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2016-01-26 23:06
By EconMattersWe had large 11 million plus build in oil inventories according to API, we will see if tomorrow`s EIA report confirms this large number. The shorts will be geared up for anothe… Read More
2016-01-26 20:32
By EconMattersThe oil market gave back some recent gains of the last two green days off the bottom on a short covering rally. This was expected on a sleepy Monday with equities selling off t… Read More
2016-01-26 17:14
Oil’s continued plunge is vying with China for the early financial headlines in 2016.Yet many U.S. investors are missing the most important aspect of oil’s collapse: the dramatic… Read More
2016-01-26 16:00
By Tom Dyson“Creepy.”That’s probably the best way to describe it…If you saw the James Bond movie Skyfall, perhaps you were struck by one image in particul… Read More
2016-01-26 14:00
By David StockmanAs of June 2008 no Wall Street banking house was predicting a recession, yet by then the Great Recession—–the worst economic downturn since the 19… Read More
2016-01-25 21:38
University students live in the lap of luxury By Elliott Wave InternationalThe U.S. housing market may be about to implode -- again.Before I get into the "why," know that the residential rea… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
PARIS – What do we know now?We consult the gods… and the dead.Yesterday, the Dow eked out a 52-point gain, to the relief of investors.But crude oil continued its historic slide… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersPeak Bull CrapThe oil market is the hot market right now from a news generation standpoint. But there are a lot of people writing and even trading in the oil market that frankl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters 9.2 Million BarrelsThe latest EIA report shows the US Production rate steady and holding at the 9.2 million barrels per day. And although there have been some anecdotal r… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters Pricing in Catastrophic Collapse We accurately predicted that the beginning of the New Year would bring in a bunch of new money into the oil market, and it is all from th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was often referred to as the Bureau of Livestock and Mining in the 19th century. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, CC BY-SA The… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThe bigger news in the cable industry is that the U.S. Justice Department's threat to block the purchase/merger of Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) did… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Saudi Arabia and OPEC Manipulate Oil PricesAbout eighteen months ago the international price of WTI Crude Oil, at the close of June 2014, was $105.93 per barrel. Flash-forward to t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yahoo tries to “quietly” dump its Holy Grail property.Yahoo has enough problems already. Hardly anything has gone right since its last big successful move, the strategic partners… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Unless we get a major crash, 2016 will be a year of rising dollar interest rates. And that means it will be a tough year for income investors. Of course, if we do end up witnessing a cr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By George Friedman at Stratfor Global IntelligenceDuring the Cold War, U.S. secretaries of state and Soviet foreign ministers routinely negotiated the outcome of crises and t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Robert Bensh of Oilprice.com There is only one certainty in Ukraine: The energy sector must and will be transformed, and how long this takes will depend on who ends up in the dr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge Yesterday when we reported that a "Furious Russia Will Retaliate Over "Illegal And Absurd" Payment Block By "Hostile" JPMorgan", in which we explained… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Gail TverbergQuiz:1. How much natural gas is the United States currently extracting?(a) Barely enough to meet its own needs(b) Enough to allow lots of exports(c) Enough to allow… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the early days of your business, being a master of DIY is very important. It takes a lot of different skills to make a business grow and thrive. But if you pay other people to do all of t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters Stock down 20%We wake up today to the latest carnage in the GoPro stock, down another 20% on weak earning`s, poor guidance, and a 7% cut in its workforce. There are sever… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters U.S. ProductionThe EIA report came out on Wednesday and the first thing that I look for, and really the only data point that matters for meaningful progress towards the m… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersOil finally turned green today, had an up day that is. It was a very interesting day in the oil markets.© EconMatters All Rights Reserved | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube |… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersTaiwan will elect a new president and parliament on January 16. The current President Ma Ying-jeou, from the Nationalist party (Kuomintang, KMT, led by Chiang kai-shek before h… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Shell Fires Another 10,000 As reflective of trends in the industry Shell Fires 10,000 WorkersAs its fortunes collapse due to falling oil prices, Royal Dutch Shell PLC will fire 10… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters Collusion on Wall StreetIf Michael Lewis thought Wall Street was rigged with his reveal in Flash Boys he would be stunned to know that he barely scratched the surface of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The “Great Credit Crisis” of 2007 led to “The Great Recession”, and yet the FED still repeated the same mistakes. The FED kept the “easy money” policy in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
LONDON – Whew!The Dow shot up yesterday morning and fell in the afternoon. Not a good sign.We have to be careful not to say anything controversial today. Otherwise, we won’t be a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In Saudi Arabia, the Tadawul All Share Index plunged 5.4% on Sunday and dropped further on Monday before ticking up a smidgen. It’s at the lowest level since March 2011. Soothsaye… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
IT’S COMPLICATED: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MILLENNIALS AND CREDITMillennials have made their mark on mainstream culture, but what about when it comes to personal finance? See what effe… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Since mid-2014, the US stock market has been showing signs of the underlying market weakening. During the last quarter of 2015, the stock market had its first major bout of distribution sell… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Winning the lottery or otherwise suddenly coming into a large sum of money creates a set of challenges from a financial and estate planning standpoint. While it’s a problem many of us… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sprott Money NewsJanet Yellen and the Federal Reserve think that now is finally the time to normalize U.S. interest rates. As was already explained in a recent commentary , this co… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThe winter weather in the Northeast gave a boost to heating oil demand, which lifted the oil markets into the weekend. We will need some follow through next week to scare some… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
January has always been a popular time for new investors to enter into the rewarding world of Forex trading. These markets boast liquidity, an around-the-clock availability and the potential… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“Consumers just don’t seem to be showing up….”As much as we would have liked to, the Dow Transportation Average wasn’t kidding. It has plunged 27% since its hi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThis has not been a good year for emerging markets. Since many of the emerging economies are commodity-reliant (mainly crude oil), the oil price plunge has also crashed t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There were some big changes to the technology in 2015, and these are going to make their impact on the year ahead for many businesses. Take a look at the top three tech trends to watch out f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Among the asset classes seen as vulnerable to rising rates are high-yielding mortgage real estate investment trusts, or mREITs, including those held by exchange-traded funds such as the iSha… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Ashraf LaidiJanuary 15, 2016 16:29One notable reason the VIX is trading at only half the level seen in August (53.0), a time when equity indices plunged near today's levels is relate… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Technical Evidence Indicates Major Price Movement Just Getting Started!Stocks around the globe were pummeled again last week.This is no surprise to our subscribers as our predictive trend an… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThe Federal Reserve doesn`t raise interest rates in a Global Financial Markets Vacuum. It will be interesting if they walk back some of their projected hawkish rate hikes sched… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
China Drops Dollar PegIf China was really serious about doing what every major country in the world does, it would float the yuan. On Thursday, I saw this MarketWatch headline… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The back-and-forth escalation quickly turned the simmering ten… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters Natural Gas Prices BottomedEveryone is trying to figure when the oil markets will bottom. Well lost in all the crazy action in markets globally is the nice resurgence off… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMatters Clear Out Weak Hands in the MarketOn Wednesday the oil market sold off to $33.77 on large product`s builds, China`s devaluation of its currency, and a substantial… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Once upon a time there was a cute, if amusing and terribly disingenuous debate among those who have never actually traded but pretend to know finance, about what QE and "unconventional polic… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Oil prices jumped on the first trading day of 2016 as Middle East tension outweighed a selloff in financial markets around the world. Oil markets remain oversupplied and depressed, but… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersNext week the FOMC Meeting should dominate discussion for financial markets, and we look back at the EIA Energy report for last week.© EconMatters All Rights Reserved | Fa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersOccasionally, EconMatters share personal experience to provide certain on-the-ground insight of a company. For example, I wrote one piece on Home… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Matt Thalman, INO.comBuy! Buy! Buy! We have all heard the saying, buy low, sell high, which is an easier to understand saying than Warren Buffett's famous quote, "Be fearful when others a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last time around it was subprime mortgages, but this time it is oil that is playing a starring role in a global financial crisis. Since the start of 2015, 42 North American oil co… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThe February WTI contract expired today, does this constitute a bottom in the oil market? Watch the video by EconMatters.© EconMatters All Rights Reserved | Facebook… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Can Stock Values Simply "Disappear"? Yes. And it's happened before, too -- just think back to the 2007-2009 financial crisis By Elliott Wave InternationalOn Wednesday (Jan. 13) CNBC reported… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersInventory ReportToday we had another bad inventory report, and this is to be expected as we are in the weak period for the oil market, from a seasonal demand and refining deman… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Making Heads or Tails of This Market We don't have all the answers. But we do have 30-plus years of market experience on our side. By Elliott Wave InternationalAs the books were closed on 20… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Confirming API data overnight, DOE reports that while total inventories of crude rose less than expected (+234k vs +2.1mm exp.) Gasoline and Distillates saw a massive build once again. Gasol… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersI happened to tune into CNBC while grabbing a bite to eat and CNBC welcomed Adam Longson, Morgan Stanley Head of Energy Commodity Research. Adam`s analysis of the oil market is… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was often referred to as the Bureau of Livestock and Mining in the 19th century. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, CC BY-SA The seizure of a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By EconMattersThe Mining Industry ApproachI hate always being the smartest person in the room, because I end up doing my job and everyone else`s as well. But here is a giant freebie for all… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2016 certainly came in storming. Right off the bat, investors were met with a major selloff.The U.S. stock market was, at one point, suffering through its worst opening day of a ne… Read More
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