Missing the Big Picture on US Protests
01/07/2021 9:13 AMYesterday's protests in Washington weren't the beginning but more importantly they're not even close to the end. (Photo: BBC...
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Schacter’s Eye on Energy – Jan. 6th
01/06/2021 10:36 AMSaudi's fear of economic impact from new Africa Covid mutation causes them to unilaterally cut back crude production by 1.0Mb/d. Production increases by Libya, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Iraq and Venezuela will likely offset this. Clearly OPEC+ is in disarray. The...
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Here Are The Full “Blue Wave” Implications For Politics, Markets And The Economy
01/06/2021 9:47 AMThe Democrats are on the verge of winning the two Georgia Senate elections, according to news agencies as multiple sources have called the race for Raphael Warnock while Decision Desk HQ has called the race for Ossoff. With these victories, Democrats would gain full...
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NYSE Reverses China Company Delisting Plans … For Now
01/06/2021 9:44 AMIn a confusing move for everybody, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has scrapped plans to delist three Chinese companies it announced just four days earlier. Just last week, the NYSE had said it had determined that the three companies--China Mobile, China Telecom...
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Why Do We Let Economic Illiterates Dominate Debate
01/06/2021 7:44 AMWe simply can't afford them any longer. The key to recovery in so many areas is predicated on a strong economic recovery. Without it social programs, jobs and charities are in...
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Short List for Most Disturbing Stat
01/05/2021 8:00 AMThe Communist Party of China is embedded in organizations, institutions and businesses throughout the West, which should remind us there are lots of ways to win a...
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Market Correction: Could We Kick off 2021 With a “Vicious” 10-15% Pullback?
01/05/2021 7:40 AMStop me if you’ve heard this one before: the stock market looks pretty frothy going into the new year, and it’s coming in hot, perhaps too hot. Given the rally we’ve had since those depths of March, it definitely feels as though we’re overdue for another vicious...
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Tesla Finally Almost Hit 500,000 Deliveries, Two Years Behind its Promise, for a Global Market Share of… 0.7%
01/05/2021 7:29 AMBut Tesla’s market capitalization is higher than the combined total of Toyota, Volkswagen, Daimler, GM, BMW, Honda, Ford, and Fiat-Chrysler. The zoo has gone nuts. Tesla announced today that it finally almost reached 500,000 deliveries in a calendar year, with its...
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Bitcoin volume on CME, LMAX hits new records
01/05/2021 6:56 AMThe institutional herd has arrived to the Bitcoin market as institutional platforms see record-high volume. The daily volume of the CME Bitcoin (BTC) futures market and LMAX achieved a new all-time high on Jan. 4. The data show that the institutional demand for BTC is...
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Markets begin 2021 at never so high levels – which means they’ve never had so far to fall.
01/04/2021 8:14 AMI’m starting the New Year wondering if the Malicious Market Gods have launched the planet on to a new more vomit-inducing loop of the rollercoaster? It feels like we’ve become anaesthetised and insensitive to shock.. The bizarre has become normal and we simply shrug...
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