SII RETAIL – US CONSUMPTION EXHAUSTION Squeezed by weak income gains, higher healthcare and education costs, and the burdensome load of debt from years past, consumers simply have less money to spend and appear less inclined to spend what they do have on apparel and other department store goods. Further, they have little propensity to […]
TRIGGER$ October 2017
US CONSUMER COMFORT PLUNGES MOST IN 13 MONTHS AS “PERSONAL FINANCE” FEARS MOUNT
US CONSUMER COMFORT PLUNGES MOST IN 13 MONTHS AS “PERSONAL FINANCE” FEARS MOUNT READ THE FOLLOWING IN CONTEXT OF MATASII REPORTS: WATCH US$ & CONSUMER COMFORT AS ECB’S OCTOBER 26TH MEETING APPROACHES! SENTIMENT: CONSUMER COMFORT CORRELATES WITH FORWARD S&P 500 PE WHAT WE KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT MARKET EUPHORIA & GREED — SOURCE: 10-05-17 ZeroHedge – […]
A BULL MARKET IN COMPLACENCY – PART II
A BULL MARKET IN COMPLACENCY – PART II — SOURCE: 10-07-17 StockBoardAsset — As shown on the 24-year monthly ratio chart below, bulls have pushed the SPY:VIX price into uncharted territory this year. The REAL test for sustained market euphoria is now occurring, as the ratio probes a two decade ascending diagonal (red) line responsible for […]
A BULL MARKET IN COMPLACENCY – PART I
A BULL MARKET IN COMPLACENCY – PART I — SOURCE: 10-08-17 Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com – “Weekend Reading: Bull Market In Complacency” — With the market recently breaking above 2500, there seems to be nothing to dampen the bullish exuberance. The recent run, which has largely been focused on areas in the market with the most sensitivity to tax […]
LAST FINANCIAL CRISIS USHERED IN “CONSERVATORSHIPS” & “FACILITIES GUARANTEES” – WILL THE NEXT PROGRESSION BE “NATIONALIZATION”?
LAST FINANCIAL CRISIS USHERED IN “CONSERVATORSHIPS” & “FACILITIES GUARANTEES” – WILL THE NEXT PROGRESSION BE “NATIONALIZATION”? WHY A NEW FORM OF ‘NATIONALIZATION’ WILL OCCUR The extended period of Quantitative Easing (QE) and ZIRP have now left the major global central bankers in an untenable position because of the Era of Unlimited Leverage which it has […]
FAKE NEWS: WARREN BUFFETT SAYS STOCKS ARE FAIRLY VALUED??
FAKE NEWS: WARREN BUFFETT SAYS STOCKS ARE FAIRLY VALUED?? You know markets must be near a top when CNBC starts distorting its facts to increase viewership. CNBC viewership growth has been problematic for a few years now following two major market draw-downs since the Dotcom Bubble popped and investors lost interest in the markets. With […]
US DOLLAR LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FURTHER NEAR TERM WEAKNESS DUE TO GLOBAL STRENGTH
US DOLLAR LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FURTHER NEAR TERM WEAKNESS DUE TO GLOBAL STRENGTH — SOURCE: 10-04-17 Bloomberg — Dollar skeptics are dubious about whether the greenback’s rally has got legs. Amundi, which oversees more than $1.1 trillion, prefers to wager on European currencies, Schroder Investment Management is putting its money into emerging markets. Eaton Vance in […]
TRANSCRIPTION: IN-DEPTH – THE COMING ‘NATIONALIZATION’ OF MARKETS
THE COMING ‘NATIONALIZATION’ OF MARKETS ‘NATIONALIZATION’ DURING THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS The Choices in a Crisis By every measure the stock market is historically over-valued and long overdue for some sort of a correction. We have just experienced the third biggest and second longest central bank-sponsored bull market in history. Normally the more over extended markets become, the more serious the […]
BLOOMBERG INTELLIGENCE: 10Y UST FAIR VALUE: 2.39% – YE 2018 EXPECT 2.65% VERSUS ~3% CONSENSUS
BLOOMBERG INTELLIGENCE: 10Y UST FAIR VALUE: 2.39% – YE 2018 EXPECT 2.65% VERSUS ~3% CONSENSUS — SOURCE: 10-04-17 Bloomberg: By Ira F. Jersey is Bloomberg Intelligence chief U.S. rates strategist; Tony Park is a BI associate – “Too-Flat Curves But Fair-Value Yields” — The Bloomberg Intelligence fair-value models for yield and curve highlight that yields are […]