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LFIN Crashes After-Hours When CEO Admits “We Don’t Deserve This Market Cap”

By silveristhenew | Published December 18, 2017

Update: Much to his credit, Venkat Meenavalli, the CEO of LongFin ventured onto CNBC's FastMoney tonight to explain the exponential rise and somewhat shady acquisition strategy of his company. Amid an increasingly rapid eruption of words and rising volume, Meenavalli seemed to struggle to convince the Fast Money skeptics that what he did was above-board, […]

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Axel Merk’s 2018 Outlook: “What Can Possibly Go Wrong?”

By silveristhenew | Published December 7, 2017

Authored by Axel Merk via MerkInvestments.com, With the stock market and Bitcoin reaching all-time highs, what can possibly go wrong? In offering my thoughts on 2018, I see my role in reminding investors to stress test their portfolios. Is your portfolio built of straw, sticks or brick? First, let me allege many investors have portfolios […]

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JPMorgan’s Outlook For 2018: “Eat, Drink And Be Merry, For In 2019…”

By silveristhenew | Published November 28, 2017

While the prevailing outlook by the big banks for 2018 and onward has been predominantly optimsitic and in a few euphoric cases, “rationally exuberant“, with most banks forecasting year-end S&P price targets around 2800 or higher, and a P/E of roughly 20x as follows… Bank of Montreal, Brian Belski, 2,950, EPS $145.00, P/E 20.3x UBS, […]

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Citi’s Shocking Admission: “There Is A Growing Fear Among Central Bankers They’ve Lost Control”

By silveristhenew | Published November 25, 2017

Earlier we showed a variation on a VIX chart from Citi’s Hans Lorenzen which, if it doesn’t impress, or scare you, then nothing probably will. However, leaving readers unimpressed – and unscared – will not satisfy Lorenzen, which is why the credit strategist who works together with the godfather of rational doom, Matt King, and […]

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Survey shows UK and US Pensions Crisis is Imminent

By silveristhenew | Published October 7, 2017

Survey shows UK and US Pensions Crisis is Imminent Both UK and US drop in Global Retirement Security Rankings US falls due to sharp income inequality and reduced workforce to support retirees UK is two spots away from being in the bottom 10 for government indebtedness FCA’s Andrew Bailey says “clear risk” that savings rate for […]

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Doc Copper helping materials ETF’s breakout again

By silveristhenew | Published October 5, 2017

Many are of the opinion that what Doc Copper does, can send an important price message about the strength or of lack of in the overall economy. Doc Copper is important to keep a close eye and how Basic Materials stocks are performing can be important to keep aware of. Below looks at Basic Materials ETF (XLB) over the […]

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Better A Year Early Than A Day Too Late

By silveristhenew | Published August 22, 2017

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, He who hesitates is lost. ~proverb Change, especially a collapse scenario, often happens quite fast. So fast that there's little to no time to react in the short frenzy between "before" and "after". This is true throughout nature. Glaciers that took millennia to form calve off into the sea […]

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Our Brave New ‘Markets’ – How HFT Algos Risk A Sudden Massive Sell-Off

By silveristhenew | Published July 29, 2017

Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, One thing is clear: These aren’t your daddy’s markets anymore. Why?  Because about 10 years ago the Rise of the Machines (aka high frequency trading algorithms) completely altered the terrain of what we call the ‘capital markets.’  Let’s look at this as a before and after story. Before the machines, […]

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There Is Only One Empire: Finance

By silveristhenew | Published July 25, 2017

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Any nation-state that meets these four requirements is fully exposed to a global loss of faith in its economy, debt, balance of payments and currency. There's an entire sub-industry in journalism devoted to the idea that China is poised to replace the U.S. as the "global empire" […]

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“The Swarm Effect”: Every Trader Today Has Just Two Choices

By silveristhenew | Published July 21, 2017

Few have dedicated as much time and effort into explaining the behavioral aspects of trading in a time of central planning (or “metastability“) as Deutsche Bank’s whimsical derivatives-philosopher, Aleksandar Kocic. Three weeks after becoming the first Wall Street strategist to quantify (and qualify) the concept of market “complacency“, and one week after explaining that the […]

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