Archives for October 2017

In what can be seen as a mainstream financial world’s embrace of Bitcoin, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) are all set to publish data on prices of … [Read more...]

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr, On an equal-weight basis, the Nasdaq 100 just dropped to a relative all-time low. There are many ways to measure the level of participation, i.e., the number of stocks that … [Read more...]

A couple of days ago we noted the efforts of "wacky and totally unhinged Tom Steyer" (Trump's description, not ours) to impeach President Trump. The effort revolved around the launch of a $10 million … [Read more...]

US national home prices are up 6.07% YoY in August - the fastest rate since June 2014. We note this data is for August - before the hurricanes. Seattle (up 13.2 percent), Las Vegas (up 8.6 percent), … [Read more...]

Iran has started work on two $10 billion nuclear reactors in the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Monday citing Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Atomic Energy … [Read more...]

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders delivered the administration’s official response to yesterday’s developments in Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s probe into collusion between the Trump campaign … [Read more...]

Stumbling UK Economy Shows Importance of Gold - UK economy outlook bleak amid Brexit, debt woes and rising inflation - Confidence in UK housing market at five-year low - UK high street sales crash at … [Read more...]

North Korean nuclear scientists apparently ignored warnings from a group of Chinese colleaugues who briefed them back in September that the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site was slowly imploding … [Read more...]

It's strange how the Muller probe of "Russian collusion" mutated: half a year into the special prosecutor's investigation whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to defeat Hillary Clinton … [Read more...]