Stockmarkets

9th March 2018 Bill Bonner

Are Stocks for Suckers?

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – Stormy Daniels has gone public… No big deal. Gary Cohn has left the White House… No big deal. The big deal is that the Fed is raising interest rates.

1st March 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Your stock portfolio in ten years will be…

It’s going to be a miserable ten years for US stocks. That’s what Michael Lebowitz CFA claims on realinvestmentadvice.com. And he’s got plenty of data and analysis to back him up. Of course, the world’s stockmarkets take their lead from…

15th February 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Stocks are down. Property is next.

Last year, Capital & Conflict sent you an inflation alert. Yes, ten months is a bit of an early warning. But there’s some vindication playing out at last. Inflation has gone from being persistently low to persistently high in the…

12th February 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Simple chart explains crash

Sometimes things are simple. Perhaps this is one of those times. Stocks are crashing, bonds are stumbling, and investors are worrying. When will it stop? Last week we tried to take stock of what happened so far. And how it…

9th February 2018 Boaz Shoshan

The curse of 14

Across the world in East Asia, the number 4 holds a grim meaning. Across the many different languages in the region, the pronunciation of the number is very similar to the pronunciation of the word for “death”. The number is…

6th February 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The anatomy of a stockmarket crash

Well, that escalated quickly. The biggest one-day drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, in terms of points not per cent, was all over the news this morning. The drop wiped out the impressive gains for 2018 so far. And…

5th February 2018 Bill Bonner

Bond Panic Spreads

CORK, IRELAND – “U.S. Stocks Drop as Treasury Sell-Off Gains Steam,” was headline news at Bloomberg last Thursday. Meanwhile, bitcoin tumbled toward $8,000, wiping about $100 billion off its market value in just 24 hours. And the price of the…

31st January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Stockmarket crash in 2018

Two stockmarket crashes in ten years utterly crushed the hopes of British investors. It’s taken the FTSE 100 17 years to reach new highs since the tech wreck of 2000. Not since the Great Depression has the power of crashes…

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