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Market Shorts: Cryptocurrency index fund follows Warren Buffett’s playbook, but with a $1 million bet against the S&P
Source: CNBC “A cryptocurrency asset manager is mimicking the playbook of one of the industry's most notable critics: Warren Buffett. Morgan Creek Digital is recreating Buffett's famous $1 million wager pitting the performance of the S&P 500 against a group of...
Market Shorts: As Fed Rethinks Path for Rates, Gold’s Poised to Jump in 2019
Source: Bloomberg "Gold may be poised to rally as speculation mounts that the Federal Reserve will hit the pause button on interest rate hikes in 2019. After lift-off in late 2015 followed by a rise a year later, the central bank has since steadily raised benchmark...
Spotting and Trading a Pullback
Spotting and buying a pullback is one of the oldest and most basic principles in investing or trading. It’s not easy to do, as you can never predict whether a decline is a short-term pullback or the beginning of a larger downturn. But there are a few principles you...
Amidst Stock Bloodbath, Might Bitcoin Be a Good Long-Term Bet?
Posted by Halifax America - Source: CCN Student loans, credit card debt, mortgage, corporate loans, and all kinds of debt are placing huge pressure on the U.S. stock market. Over the long-term, Mark Yusko believes emerging markets and Bitcoin are viable...
Putin: “We Aren’t Aiming To Ditch The Dollar, The Dollar Is Ditching Us”
Source: Zero Hedge "With a number of volatile trends in multiple conflict theaters and geopolitical hot spots now coming to a head this week (Ukraine-Russia, China-US, Iran-US, Turkey-Syria-Russia, Saudi Arabia-Europe), and with Presidents Putin and Trump set...
Fed Chairman Powell Sees Current Interest Rate ‘Just Below’ Neutral Rate
Posted by Halifax America - Authored by Jeff Cox via CNBC Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday he considers the central bank's benchmark interest rate to be near a neutral level, an important distinction from remarks he made less than two...
Crypto Owners, the Worst is Yet to Come
Posted by Halifax America - Authored by Aaron Hankin via MarketWatch Crypto owners got a much-needed reprieve on Wednesday with bitcoin and major digital currencies posting double-digit gains, breathing life into their portfolios that have been shredded to...
Oil Prices Are Dragging Down the Economy
Posted by Halifax America Source: MarketWatch President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted falling oil prices as a “tax cut for America and the world,” but economists say the shale revolution, which has turned the U.S. back into a major oil producer, means that...
Stock Market Gains for 2018 Vanish
Posted by Halifax America Source: Marketwatch "U.S. stocks fell sharply at the start of trade Tuesday, extending a pre-Thanksgiving rout that has been fueled mostly by a selling in shares of technology and internet-related companies. Sharp declines in Target and...
$9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bubbling in the Economy
Posted by Halifax America Source: CNBC At first glance, it looks like a $9 trillion time bomb is ready to detonate, a corporate debt load that has escalated thanks to easy borrowing terms and a seemingly endless thirst from investors. On Wall Street,...
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