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While central banks worldwide race to slash interest rates, gold’s price is on the cusp of setting a new record. The old $3,000/oz price targets are now $3,300/oz – and demand from the central banks themselves have a lot to do with it… By Peter Reagan Your News to Know rounds up the most important stories …
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UK. Pound collapses. Bond yields soar. No one resigns. Britain's Bond Turmoil Invokes Memory of 1976 Debt Crisis.https://t.co/VUYnXhYiNB pic.twitter.com/eVCX6gaoXq — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) January 9, 2025 Britain’s Bond Turmoil Invokes Memory of 1976 Debt Crisis Soaring yields prompt some comparisons with Truss debacle But the economy’s woes may be more similar to IMF bailout era …
by confoundedinterest17 US home prices surged to the 17th consecutive all-time high. US home prices in the 20 largest cities rose 0.32% MoM in October (the latest data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller), considerably hotter than the 0.22% rise expected. However, despite the MoM beat, the pace of annual acceleration has declined to its slowest since Sept …
⚠️US HOUSEHOLDS STOCK ALLOCATION HIT A NEW RECORD⚠️ Americans' exposure to stocks as a % of financial assets rose to a record 43.4% in Q3 2024. The percentage has DOUBLED over the last 15 years. It has now surpassed the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble levels by 5 percentage points. pic.twitter.com/2cegQ67N3s — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December …
1. Stocks: all-time highs2. Home Prices: all-time highs3. Bitcoin: all-time highs4. National Debt: all-time highs5. Core CPI Inflation: >3% for 42 straight months, longest run of high inflation since early 1990s6. Fed: cutting rates again in 2 weekshttps://t.co/rQuXrxVpWs — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December 6, 2024 Let me be clear… The NFP numbers are BS! The …
An all-time high 43% of investors think there is a less than 10% chance of a stock market crash occurring in the next 6 months 🚨 pic.twitter.com/c46U09cdsC — Barchart (@Barchart) December 6, 2024 This is wild: The Euphoriameter, an indicator measuring investor sentiment, hit a record 1.1 points, according to Topdown Charts. This metric uses …
If it's worse than 2008 while markets are at all-time highs, how bad will it get when markets sell off 60% to 80%? 2008 is going to look like a fun field water park. https://t.co/Esen1DAGwf — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 4, 2024 WARNING: Housing defaults have just skyrocketed This is unlike anything we’ve seen …
BREAKING 🚨: China Chinese Equity Funds have seen an ALL-TIME HIGH $21 Billion withdrawn over the past 5 weeks pic.twitter.com/QoLyMF3TTf — Barchart (@Barchart) November 18, 2024 China’s 🇨🇳 population is expected to shrink by 51 million over the next decade By 2035, the population is expected to drop to 1.36B, down from a peak of …
Personally I view Bitcoin as a canary in the coal mine. Hopefully it will start to collapse slightly before stocks in the next major stockmarket crash, which I view as being sooner rather than later. Will large tariffs trigger it? Although I don’t know, that is a financial factor that may help accelerate our next …
GOLD spot hits a new all-time high, surging past $2,748/oz! Have you bought gold in recent years? pic.twitter.com/YYKrsOihhl — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 23, 2024 🚨Equal-weighted SPX has entered a BEAR MARKET versus gold🚨The #SPX, #NASDAQ100 and #StockMarket are expected to follow soon #CapitalRotation pic.twitter.com/RGR5EPZ78K — Northstar (@NorthstarCharts) October 23, 2024 #Bitcoin looking VERY vulnerable …
This is not Apple, Tesla or even Nvidia. This is interest payments on the US national debt of $36 trillion. We now pay nearly $1.2 trillion per year in interest on the debt, about 23% of all taxes, tariffs and fees collected by the US govt goes to paying interest on the debt. pic.twitter.com/UoMe8MbZKL — …
SEC approved options on Bitcoin etfs, both candidates support Bitcoin, talks of a US strategic bitcoin reserve. h/t YoloFortune
Gold has reached unprecedented levels in multiple currencies, signaling a growing trend in its appeal as a safe-haven asset amid global economic turbulence. As of October 2024, the price of gold has hit new all-time highs in several nations: Japanese Yen: In Japan, gold is now priced at approximately 393,376 JPY per ounce, showing a …
https://www.kitco.com/ While everyone is focused on the meaningless, Trump-inspired #Bitcoin pump, they're missing the significance of #gold hitting another record high, above $2,680. Bitcoin may be up more, but it's remained range-bound for seven months, as gold sets one record high after another. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) October 16, 2024 #Gold – It doesn't get …
Global money supply has hit an all-time high of $107 trillion!@dailychartbook pic.twitter.com/6cOITl9Gt0 — Longview Economics (@Lvieweconomics) October 10, 2024
by confoundedinterest17 More evidence of how destructive Biden/Harris economic policies have been. The NAR data show existing home sales down 2.5 percent in August to a 3.86 million unit seasonally adjusted annual rate after a small upward revision to 3.96 million units in July. US existing home sales fell in August to near 14-year lows. …
Gold hits yet another all-time high price, leaving analysts scrambling to explain why. Central bank buying? An imminent interest rate cut? Today, we cut through the noise and reveal the only two forces that really drive gold’s price… From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top …
2/ Oct 2007: Gold made a new ATH aftr 1.5 years Soon after, the unemployment rate began rising rapidly And economic growth slowed down This ended in the 2008 Financial Crisis pic.twitter.com/Wybfid9wfx — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) September 13, 2024 4/ Today, Gold has once again made a new ATH And Silver has also been moving …
Some other conspiratorial points about Gold strength have to do with its continued usage as neutral reserve asset for trade settlement in BRICS and away from US$/UST. This week, China leadership is in Saudi talking to MBS about various things but including pricing oil in RMB.… — Craig Shapiro (@ces921) September 12, 2024 Gold just …
Household allocation to stocks hits an all-time high of 42.2% pic.twitter.com/0OBGnOi6FW — Barchart (@Barchart) September 3, 2024 Americans are historically bullish on stocks.
by confoundedinterest17 Big bubbles! US home pricest hit an all-time high as The Fed keeps its foot on the monetary gas pedal following the Covid economic shutdown in 2020. Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 16th straight month in June (according to the latest data from S&P CoreLogic – Case Shiller – data …
https://twitter.com/AgPacifica/status/1825882905127825554 Ladies and gentlemen, This is it. pic.twitter.com/cV2wb2m7r8 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) August 19, 2024 Gold Bars Are Worth a Million Dollars for the First Time The milestone was reached Friday, when the precious metal’s spot price surpassed $2,500 per troy ounce, an all-time high. With gold bars typically weighing about 400 ounces, that …
by confoundedinterest17 Harris has released her “vision” for the US economy, but it is what you would expect. $25k subsidy for first-time homebuyers which will make housing even MORE expensive. According the University of Michigan consumer survey, buying conditions for housing has already plummeted to 21, the lowest in history. Cause? Already high housing prices …
by confoundedinterest17 Cacklenomics strikes again! The University of Michigan consumer survey revealed that buying conditions for housing just hit an all-time low. High house prices and high mortgage rates aren’t helping. Purchase loan demand keeps dropping.
by confoundedinterest17 We’re going down! After May’s MoM deflationary impulse (thanks to a plunge in energy costs), June was expected to see a modest 0.1% rise (and we have seen energy prices starting to rise again). Sure enough, headline PPI printed HOT at +0.2% MoM (and May was revised higher), pushing the YoY print up …
Wholesale auto inventories continue to climb at a brisk pace and to new all-time highs pic.twitter.com/jFaLjMYGmi — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) July 11, 2024
Speculative positioning in US equity index futures is at all-time highs 🚨 https://t.co/TanGdixabv pic.twitter.com/VUXve06IL3 — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) July 8, 2024 Asset Managers’ exposure to US equity futures hits a record high. https://twitter.com/Barchart/status/1810467469879857513 Concentration concern: the 3-month correlation between the S&P 500 and the # of stocks advancing has fallen below the dot-com bubble …
