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BREAKING: October PCE inflation, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, RISES to 2.3%, in-line with expectations of 2.3%. Core PCE inflation RISES, to 2.8%, in-line with expectations of 2.8%. Core CPI, PPI, and PCE are all back on the rise. What happened to the “Fed pivot?” BREAKING: October PCE inflation, the Fed's preferred inflation measure, RISES …
Yes it’s literally this bad out there for housing. Next up, price drops. No one can afford to buy at these prices with mortgage rates this high. There’s no demand because there’s no affordability. If prices dropped, inventory would eventually start moving again. https://t.co/pyAglXFk0B — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 27, 2024 Today’s new home sales …
This is concerning: Auto loan early delinquency rates jumped to 8.12% in Q3 2024, the highest in 13 years. Serious delinquency rates surged to 2.90%, also the highest in 14 years. 90+ day delinquencies are now just 58 basis points below the record levels seen in 2009. In 2024, auto loan delinquencies have risen at …
Just now on Bloomberg. ‘We are positioning our clients for 1929’ pic.twitter.com/hBjCQ6bsQY — Godzilla Trader 🦖 (@David_Tracey) November 26, 2024 https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1861597028020822103 🚨WARNING🚨 Crash alert! 2024 vs 2008 Keeping it simple. Musical chairs. No room for complacency. pic.twitter.com/vXGvJOSyaO — The Great Martis (@great_martis) November 26, 2024 Jim Cramer just said on CNBC to NOT lose faith …
Not that shocking, during 2020 when Amazon Web Services was taking down Parler and a bunch of other conservative companies, Democrats and their controlled banks were busy suspending and closing the accounts of conservatives and their businesses. Thank god we won this election — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 27, 2024 Censorship has many forms, …
by OpportunityNo2074 There are eery comparisions to the dot-com bubble, it is becoming increasingly hard to believe that a rising industry such as the AI one is worth what investors are betting its worth. Top 5 Positions in the S&P500 index as of as of 11/22/2024. Rank Company Weight Price 1 Apple Inc. 6.91% 232.15 …
MicroStrategy has acquired 55,500 BTC for ~$5.4 billion at ~$97,862 per #bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 35.2% QTD and 59.3% YTD. It's now been four weeks since $MSTR announced its three-year plan to spend $42 billion buying #Bitcoin. MSTR has already spent $10 billion. At this rate, the three-year plan will be completed …
Director Stephen X. Graham sold 75% (20,00) of his bags @ $451 on 11/21 for an ice cold $9m. sauce – https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/microstrategy-incorporated-nasdaqmstr-director-stephen-x-graham-sells-20000-shares-of-stock-2024-11-25/ h/t Useful-Valuable1435
by confoundedinterest17 The last gasp of the Biden/Harris reign of (economic) error! After existing home sales unexpectedly ticked up in October, analysts expected new home sales to slow after their recent resurgence (-1.8% MoM). They were right… BUT… the magnitude is mind-boggling! New Home Sales collapsed 17.3% MoM in October. That is the largest MoM …
by confoundedinterest17 Rolling into Cleveland to the lake. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 26, 2024: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the September 2024 results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The leading measure of U.S. home prices recorded a 3.9% annual gain in September 2024, a slight deceleration from the previous annual gains in 2024. …
Despite two volatile weeks, $3,000 gold in 2025 is starting to seem inevitable. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are finally starting to catch on to gold’s role in diversifying their savings. Then we investigate the increasingly popular opinion that leaving the gold standard was the worst decision our nation ever made. Could we go back? By Peter Reagan …
New Home Sales Sales of new single-family houses in October 2024 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 17.3 percent (±12.8 percent) below the revised September rate of 738,000 and is 9.4 …
Wait, this was weeks ago?! Why the media blackout?? Anyways, bizarre gruesome details emerge from 911 call: “In roughly 90 seconds of emergency call recordings released by the Daily Mail on Tuesday, a dispatcher tells peers about a request to respond to a female “locked in an oven in the bakery” at a Halifax, Nova …
Zambia and Orlando Pride forward Barbra Banda has been voted BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year. She received the most votes from readers of the BBC Sport website after a five-player shortlist was announced last month. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c8jypk4xz7xo Some background on it … ‘Africa Cup of Nations: Barbra Banda banned due to ‘gender eligibility’ https://onefootball.com/en/news/africa-cup-of-nations-barbra-banda-banned-due-to-gender-eligibility-issues-35400347 Here’s …
So far, almost nobody in the west fully comprehends the Oreshnik weapon system just demonstrated by Russia. Hat tip to Ted Postol, Scott Ritter and Brian Berletic, the only 3 people I’ve found so far who fully understand this. I’ve done the math on the kinetic energy of the submunitions (using estimates for mass), and …
Something doesn’t add up here: Downward economic data revisions have become the new normal. So far, US industrial production data has been revised down in 9 out of the last 10 months. Meanwhile, Job openings have been revised downward in 15 out of the last 20 months. As for the labor market, monthly jobs reports …
Scott Jennings Schools CNN By Pointing Out News Reported by CNN. Note carefully the dates on these two tweets: Surrounded by people bemoaning Elon Musk’s very existence and the fact that he owns Twitter/X, Jennings pointed out that Twitter/X is the most ideologically diverse source of news available. Both Democrats and Republicans rely on Twitter …
https://www.news10.com/news/national/bird-flu-detected-in-raw-milk-from-california-state-officials-warn They don’t want you doing anything for your health and they do want you scared of another virus and they do want you to associate that fear with things that are actually good for you… h/t FreedomVegan
2/ In Nov 1928, Herbert Hoover won the US presidential election Amid one of the strongest stock market rallies ever seen The euphoria carried on for a few months post-election But eventually gave way to Black Tuesday and the Great Depression Leading to nearly a decade of… pic.twitter.com/INJJ0m5pcB — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) November 26, 2024 …
It's basically over. pic.twitter.com/ykHSQsPhjU — Thorsten Polleit (@ThorstenPolleit) November 25, 2024 https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1861281131443720352
🩸JUST IN: $680 MILLION leveraged crypto-positions liquidated in 24hrs. ooof! 😅 pic.twitter.com/uadnYSbLMe — Radar 𝘸 Archie🚨 (@RadarHits) November 26, 2024 Overnight, Crypto has come back down to the $3t market cap level. Deja vu of 2021: pic.twitter.com/8hpNRl9Hwo — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) November 26, 2024 Lets see if Saylor gives a net benefit next year when bitcoin …
The group shared on X, “We are ready to get to work.” We are ready to get to work.ICE group praises Trump for Homan, Noem picks to lead immigration team: ‘Fired up’ https://t.co/DELT7nAlOh — National ICE Officers Association (@ICEOfficersNIOA) November 25, 2024 Congratulations to the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. We …
Nvidia Update Its considered a bad omen when the golden child refuses to follow the bourses. Money flow and momentum descending. Guess what happens next ? https://t.co/BDKPgL5IJd pic.twitter.com/sbZNR1wSyg — The Great Martis (@great_martis) November 22, 2024 S&P500 No room for complacency. pic.twitter.com/YWVMKZ2wgb — The Great Martis (@great_martis) November 26, 2024 This is the next bubble …
by Michael If you live in a warm home and you have plenty of food to eat, you should consider yourself to be extremely blessed, because millions of others are deeply suffering right now. Most of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the number of homeless Americans is higher than ever, demand at food …
by Michael Anyone that thinks that it is going to be easy to end the war in Ukraine is just being delusional. The Russians do not want to end the war right now because they are winning and they don’t want to stop until they have achieved their goals. The Ukrainian leadership in Kyiv does …
Several critical financial measures continue to drop, reaching rather obscene comparisons. At first, that doesn’t seem to make any sense; how would today be seen as similar to February 2009, for example. However difficult the economy is now, it certainly isn’t that bad. What these measures are indicating go beyond specific moments, instead providing clues …
by James Hickman Andrew Jackson was never supposed to be President. When he entered the presidential race in 1828, most of the ‘experts’ viewed him as a joke candidate with no chance of victory. Party insiders assumed that, at most, Jackson might steal a few votes from opposition candidates… but that he was no real …
by Jesse Felder Corporate insider trading activity has never been more bearish than it is right now. This should be especially concerning given the fact that aggregate insider activity is one of the best predictors of future earnings trends and earnings quality has deteriorated significantly of late. With equity valuations at record extremes… …driven at …
Without invoking messy anti-trust laws. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/is-elon-musk-about-buy-msnbc/ “As reports of mainstream media outlet viewership ratings are tanking, MSNBC’s situation continues to worsen everyday. Ratings have tanked since Donald Trump’s historic victory and since the Morning Joe duo traveled to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Trump and kiss the ring. Now, as reports circulate MSNBC might be sold …
https://twitter.com/MelaniaTrumpX/status/1861109545767932050 This is GOLD. Yes our “blue check mark” makes us a reporter ..We take your mockingbird drivel and give it context so that consumers of it can read through the bias and undertake why it’s being JAMMED down their throat. You ceased being reporters when you started copy/pasting CIA… https://t.co/roqEZQWiUD — Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) …