Brace for a very busy week on the financial markets! The Fed will decide about the U.S. monetary policy and the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its usually important monthly figures. Will quarterly corporate earnings push stock prices to new record highs? Let&Clos...
Paul Rejczak
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October 28, 2019
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In 1917, the United States created the federal debt limit (or ceiling) to make it easier to finance World War One, essentially allowing Congress to borrow money to pay for the war effort by issuing bonds. By 1939 with World War Two looming, Congress passed the first aggre...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 8, 2019
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Whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican installed in the White House this November, you can count on fiscal discipline going out the window. Neither the incumbent, President Donald J. Trump, nor the leading Democratic contender to replace him, Bernie Sanders,...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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February 26, 2020
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The financial markets have been fluctuating for most of the last week. Then on Friday we got worse-than-expected PMI numbers release, and corona virus fears reappeared ahead of the weekend. So markets went risk-off again. This week we will have some important economic data rel...
Paul Rejczak
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February 24, 2020
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The company's revised estimates, the reasons for and repercussions of them are addressed in a CIBC report. In an Aug. 26 research note, analyst Dave Popowich reported that his firm CIBC reduced its price target on Whitecap Resources Inc. (WCP:TSX) to CA$7.25 per sha...
Streetwise Reports
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September 3, 2019
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Germans, like Indians and Chinese, love their gold - although their reasons for buying and keeping bullion are somewhat different. In China and India, gold jewelry is a status symbol - a sign of wealth and success. In Germany, owning gold bars and coins, maybe a 24-karat ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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January 24, 2020
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With my indicators on a sell signal for bonds since August 16, I have been warning about bonds being overbought and in danger of rolling over into a serious correction for several months. And indeed, the 20-year U.S. Treasury bond has already lost 11% of its value just since...
Sy Harding
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January 7, 2013
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Continuing our earlier multi-part research post related to our extensive number crunching and predictive modeling systems expectations going forward many years, (Part I ) this second part will highlight some existing data points and start to discuss the concepts of what t...
Chris Vermeulen
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March 17, 2020
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In the first quarter of 2019, global debt hit $246.5 trillion. Encouraged by lower interest rates, governments went on a borrowing binge as they ramped up spending, adding $3 trillion to world debt in Q1 alone. It reverses a trend that started in the beginning of 2018, of ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 21, 2019
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One of the worst weeks on Wall Street mercifully ended on Friday. S&P 500 DJIA Nasdaq After multiple sessions of panic selling, the markets caught an up-draft after US President Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus, thus freeing u...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 16, 2020
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