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by Martin Armstrong Over 6,481 retailers have closed their doors since the beginning of the new year, according to data from Coresight Research in November, but that figure is expected to reach 7,327, marking a 57.8% increase in closures since 2023. During the pandemic, closures exceeded openings by 180 stores in 2020, with the gap …
Job cuts remain elevated to end the year at 71,894 – up year/year and highlighting firms desire to continue shedding jobs into 2025. Expect job cuts to surge in January as firms rightsize & continue outsourcing – especially in white collar areas. Final # avail 1/5.… pic.twitter.com/skKNRNj0gX — MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) December 30, 2024 Las Vegas’ …
Reverse repo surges $72BN to $268.7BN for year-end window dressing. Funding market spreads already had blown out to 3 month highs amid spike in repo tightness pic.twitter.com/wyBoMBEPN8 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 27, 2024 The Federal Reserve's emergency Bank Term Funding Program dropped to $5 billion this week. It'll be $0 in January. pic.twitter.com/md8wCxDkVv — Financelot …
🚨UNEMPLOYMENT IN CALIFORNIA IS SKYROCKETING🚨 The number of unemployed persons in California reached a whopping 1.05 MILLION, the highest in 3 years. Unemployment has jumped by 322,000 over the last 2 years. At the same time, the unemployment rate spiked to 5.3%. Recession? pic.twitter.com/gNpLH6z0ZH — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December 26, 2024 Don't say you …
Option skew has only hit 180 once in history. That was today. The next highest level was 174 in early December. Eight out of the top ten skew readings in history are now in December. Every reading above 170 is in 2024 (blue rectangle). Wow. pic.twitter.com/MtnwoJxtI4 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 27, 2024 Last week's rate …
As retail investors flock to stocks with record inflows, yesterday 20 day skew hit a new all time high, as Wall Street quietly liquidates. pic.twitter.com/f5f9vfWUgy — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 24, 2024 A big Christmas vol crusher to round-trip VIX back to the lows of last week as if the hawkish FOMC had never happened. However, …
Breaking! Elon Musk Has Declared War On The Deep State As We Learn Over Ten Government Agencies Funneled Billions To Reuters To Manufacture Hit Pieces Against The Space X Leader. I was the test case for this type of Deep State / Main Stream Media Collusion Psyop. Live Reports… pic.twitter.com/O3ZVIsJ84l — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December …
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter) has achieved a record-breaking net worth of $500 billion, making him the first person in history ever to amass such massive wealth. On Tuesday, Elon Musk net worth reached a record high of $500 billion, becoming the first …
Why are they mad at the gas station when he was robbing the place? pic.twitter.com/vXHdONrEdh — Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) December 16, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1868625808203698253 Simply Put; pic.twitter.com/dw3fDNZzgU — KnightForce (@bob_geno29707) December 16, 2024 UPDATE This is backwards 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/j3OKcmDca5 — Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) December 17, 2024 AC
We've never seen the S&P 500 at all time highs with breadth this negative. Let's do this. pic.twitter.com/3GuAVcn1l7 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 13, 2024 Linkhttps://t.co/A9JxrqvurY pic.twitter.com/8qaDVxDPM3 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 13, 2024 ⚠️CENTRAL BANKS ARE CUTTING RATES AS IF GLOBAL RECESSION IS HERE⚠️ Bank of Canada cut rates by 0.50% on Wednesday for the …
There were more declining than advancing stocks in the S&P 500 every day this week. Yet the index hit a record high four times. Since 1928, this is the first time that's ever happened. pic.twitter.com/gvGhruZ1cw — Jason Goepfert (@jasongoepfert) December 6, 2024 US Stocks are now trading at over 22x forward earnings versus 14x for …
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 …
US JOB CUT ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE SKYROCKETING⚠️ US-based firms announced 57,727 job cuts in November, the third-highest number since the 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS. Year-to-date there have been 722,566 job cuts, the largest amount since 2009 (Financial Crisis), excluding 2020 Crisis. ⚠️US JOB CUT ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE SKYROCKETING⚠️ US-based firms announced 57,727 job cuts in November, the third-highest …
"These numbers look terrible. It's like the Eurozone’s manufacturing recession is never going to end. As new orders fell fast and at an accelerated pace, there’s no sign of a recovery anytime soon," HCOB Chief Economist Cyrus de la Rubia said. — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) December 2, 2024 Good Morning from Germany where another …
Oh, look mummy! Bubbles!🫧📌 pic.twitter.com/sMe3tN9RTk — The Great Martis (@great_martis) November 29, 2024 INSIDERS AND INSTITUTIONS KNOW A CRASH IS IMMINENT VERY SOON… 🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 THE RATIO OF INSIDER SELLING TO BUYING HAS JUST HIT A NEW 20+ YEAR HIGH WHILE STOCKS ARE AT ALL TIMEHIGHS THE INSIDERS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE SELLING WHILE …
The CEO of British Telecom giant BT is reportedly firing some 1,100 employees in overwhelmingly white rural East Anglia with the intention of replacing them with non-whites from major cities in order to “boost diversity” and potentially pocket a £220,000 bonus for hitting “diversity targets.” https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63986 https://twitter.com/_/status/1705861726699196658 2005: We need immigrants to do the jobs …
Nudity and private information – like social security and credit card numbers –were redacted from the photos A trove of photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop has been made available to the public through a new website that launched Thursday. The website – BidenLaptopMedia.com – will house almost 10,000 photos spanning from 2008 to 2019 and took months to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJo-iqhgNQ 90% of Americans say that owning a home is a key part of the American dream. But today, more than half of them believe they will never own their dream home, and about 70% of U.S. households can’t afford the average-priced home, especially when considering that mortgage rates have more than doubled since 2020. …
Egg prices are exploding in the United States as the food supply chain crisis spirals out of control. A new Bloomberg report exposed that food costs are rising uncontrollably all across America, reaching the highest level since May 1979.A few years back, American consumers could actually fill up an entire shopping cart full of food …
