by Charles Hugh Smith | May 9, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, The Daily Reckoning
The increasing concentration of the ownership of wealth/assets in the top 10% has an under-appreciated consequence: when only the top 10% can afford to buy assets, that unleashes an almost karmic payback for the narrowing of ownership, a.k.a. soaring wealth and income...
by Lance Roberts | May 9, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
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by Michael Markowski | May 8, 2020 | alerts, Crash of 2020, Crashes, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The Bull & Bear Tracker’s (BBT) core or automated signals to trade S&P 500’s SPY and SH ETFs outperformed the S&P 500 and also the BBT’s managed signals for the eight months ended February 29, 2020. The risk for BBT’s automated and its managed signals was...
by John Mauldin | May 8, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
We live in truly historic times. “There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen,” says a quote usually attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It certainly fits now. For thousands of years, people who lived through what we call “history” didn’t realize...
by Michael Markowski | May 7, 2020 | alerts, Crash of 2020, Crashes, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The Bear Trader, a trend trading algorithm that primarily trades inverse or short market index ETFs, enabled conservative and aggressive traders to make gains of 13.62% and 40.60% respectively from March 3, 2020, to April 30, 2020. The Bear Trader, which will soon be...
by Lance Roberts | May 4, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
Will the market retest lows this summer? In this past weekend’s commentary, I discussed the end of the seasonally strong period for the market. “Despite the sell-off on the last day of April, the Best Six Months has ended on a positive note, registering the best...