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BREAKING 🚨: Japan Japanese Stocks just saw a weekly outflow of almost $12 Billion, the largest in history pic.twitter.com/Rv2av1qG3G — Barchart (@Barchart) May 31, 2025 BREAKING: Japan has officially lost its status as the world’s top creditor for the first time in 34 years, Japan’s Finance Ministry has announced. pic.twitter.com/zQexvCXj7a — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) …
$HKD went from $12 to $2,555.$RGC went from $3 to $950. The crash is inevitable. Only a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/T9P3Q6B3h7 — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) May 30, 2025
The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index fell for a second straight month to its lowest level in four months. The index sank to 40.5 this month from 44.6 in April, falling short of the 45.1 forecast. The latest reading marks the 18th consecutive month the index has contracted. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 30, 2025 Hedge …
2/ The S&P 500 just broke above its 200-day moving average – one of the market’s most important resistance levels Investors are celebrating a temporary trade deal between the US and China, hoping it leads to a broader agreement But consumer sentiment is telling a different… pic.twitter.com/VEzmH0Wuyy — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) May 28, 2025 4/ …
Leading is down, cyclical is turning, aggregate is when most people will feel it
The 20-year U.S. Treasury bond auction took place today, May 21, 2025, and the results were troubling. Investors showed weak demand, forcing yields higher and triggering a broad selloff in financial markets. The 20-year yield surged to 5.047%, up from 4.810% in the previous auction, signaling growing concerns about the government’s ability to finance its …
by Mike Maharrey Those golden bulls have grabbed some attention. According to the latest Gallup poll, gold has overtaken stocks and is now viewed as the second-best long-term investment in America, trailing only real estate. In the latest survey, 23 percent of the respondents chose gold as the best long-term investment. That was up five points …
The S&P 500 is now up more than 14% since 🇺🇸 President Trump said it was a great time to buy stocks on April 9th – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/2OCbiEjNwc — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) May 12, 2025 Sentiment check: The last time US tariffs on China were this high, the S&P 500 was ~200 points lower, 4 Fed …
U.S. Companies are buying back stock at the fastest pace in history 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/ftNXyp6RTW — Barchart (@Barchart) May 7, 2025 🚨This has NEVER happened before: Retail investors have been buying US equities for 21 weeks STRAIGHT, the longest streak EVER. This significantly beats the previous record of 10 consecutive weeks before the 2022 BEAR MARKET. …
Retail buying the dip with record flows into triple leveraged ETFs while Buffett dumps more stocks and builds a record cash pile… wonder who’s on the right side of the trade here? https://t.co/1Cd2Sl9eCP — Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) May 3, 2025 This is the clue you need to discern where we are in the business cycle. …
Oil saying the economy is dying. Stocks saying the economy is just fine. Which one is right? pic.twitter.com/bWyhd4JwXA — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 1, 2025 “CEOs are leaving their posts at a record clip. Last year 373 public-company chiefs exited, 24% more than in 2023. Among U.S. businesses with at least 25 employees, 2,221 CEOs …
⚠️BREAKING: *U.S. Q1 GDP FALLS -0.3%, EST. 0.2%; PREV. 2.4% 🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mahT0YOWbX — Investing.com (@Investingcom) April 30, 2025 Breaking Q1 GDP first look. -.3% vs -.2% exp. Recession? Pricing index 3.7% vs 3.2% expectations Stagflation? Oof 🤦♂️ — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April 30, 2025 Yields up. Stocks getting REKT pic.twitter.com/ZVvzwrx8hX — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April …
Goldman Sachs just sent up the flare. CTAs are primed to inject a jaw-dropping $90 billion into global stocks, with nearly half of it coming straight to U.S. equities. This isn’t some distant forecast. This isn’t a “maybe” situation. This is happening right now, regardless of what the market does. Let’s be clear: Commodity Trading …
By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The #1 mandate for the Fed is to maintain financial stability. That is literally the Fed’s job. It’s supposedly why the Fed was created in 1913. The stock market just experienced one of its worst collapses in history. It was literally the 5th fastest 10% decline in …
Mark Spitznagel, founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, warned in commentary to MarketWatch that a historic collapse may be looming. “I expect an 80% crash when this is over. I just don’t think this is it. This is a trap,” he said on April 7, days before Trump announced a 90-day pause on …
🚨🇺🇸245% TRUMP TARIFF BODYSLAMS CHINA — WELCOME TO TRADE WAR SEASON 2 The U.S. just jacked tariffs on China up to a face-melting 245% — yeah, not a typo — up from the already brutal 145%. Why? Because Beijing hit back and Trump doesn’t do chill. He also signed an executive… https://t.co/9uWfqezUUd pic.twitter.com/YHzkOpMrXr — Mario …
BREAKING: US financial conditions are now their tightest since the 2020 pandemic, per ZeroHedge. Financial conditions are even tighter than during one of the most rapid Fed hike cycles of all time, in 2022. Conditions have tightened rapidly as stocks have pulled back, while… pic.twitter.com/d53KqrwU4D — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 14, 2025 Is this …
by MonetaryCommentary It’s extremely rare for #stocks and #bonds to both slump at the same time. On a quarterly basis, you’ve only seen about nine such episodes since 1990; and on an annual basis, it’s happened only twice (1931 and 1969, with a near‑miss in 2018). Well, this episode is happening now, in a “perfect storm” …
by David Haggith It’s “sell America” everywhere in a tectonic-scale economic breakdown. Get out of American stocks, then leap back in. Dump US bonds, then buy hard. Ditch the dollar. Get your gold out of the country. Today morphed into a do-everything-the-opposite-at-the-same-time kind of day. The morning started with loud screams of deleveraging everywhere, but …
TRUMP JUST NOW: – Stocks were up 88% in my first term, they will be up more now that I get to do what I want with tariffs – Countries are calling me and “kissing my ass” – Congress wants to take away my power to negotiate on tariffs but Congress sucks at negotiating pic.twitter.com/IZv6YgKR8e …
Bessent says that Trump is considering delisting all Chinese companies from the US stock market. 🚨🇺🇸TREASURY SEC: DELISTING CHINESE STOCKS FROM U.S. STOCK EXCHANGES IS AN OPTION Bessent just dropped a bombshell: delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges is officially on the table. Source: Fox https://t.co/pXPU8lXXe9 pic.twitter.com/2qaz328uoF — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 9, 2025 …
S&P 500 erases 4.5% rally, marking biggest bull trap of 2025 The BULL trap: We just witnessed the biggest bull trap of 2025 with the S&P 500 erasing a ~4.5% rally in ~3 hours. Between 10:30 AM ET and 3:15 PM ET, the S&P 500 erased -$2.3 TRILLION of market cap. Bull traps are TEXTBOOK …
Marjorie Taylor Greene makes huge stock market play just days before tariffs announced Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to know that the stock market was about to crash, as just days before the market meltdown she pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the market and invested in treasury bills instead. This move came just …
https://finviz.com/futures.ashx Stock futures bounced on Tuesday in a slight reprieve from the market turmoil sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariff rollout that led to the biggest equity losses since the pandemic. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rallied 1,243 points, or 3.3%. Futures tied to the S&P 500 were up around 3.1%, while Nasdaq-100 futures also …
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, I just had to write. While everyone is blaming Trump and tariffs for the stock market crash, not only did Socrates forecast that months in advance, but I trade copper professionally, as you know. What you have created should be recognized as the answer society has been searching for over the …
🚨 RETAIL INVETSORS BOUGHT $4.7 BLN IN STOCKS ON THURSDAY, LARGEST LEVEL OVER THE PAST DECADE, JPMORGAN SAYS — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 4, 2025 Firms are going to start blowing up if this continues. This is rapidly turning into a real financial crisis. — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April 4, 2025 "We also talk to …
By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist Today is “liberation day” according to the Trump administration. President Trump believes that introducing tariffs against the U.S.’s trading partners will make things “fair” and stop the U.S. from being “ripped off.” Some Trump insiders have even gone so far as to claim that the U.S. will …
