Two Bullish Factors Pushing Oil Prices Higher
12/11/2019 9:45 AMOil prices were up on Tuesday as Washington agreed to delay the scheduled December 15th tariff hike on China. The impact of the OPEC+ production cut agreement on markets has also yet to wear off. - The volume of natural gas that was vented or flared in the U.S....
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What’s Driving the Decline in the Goods-Based Sector, After the Boom of 2018?
12/11/2019 9:37 AMServices are growing at a decent pace, though more slowly than a year ago. The labor market is the strongest in years, so consumer spending is growing at a good pace, including retail sales, driven by red-hot ecommerce sales. Where the economy is in trouble is in...
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The Focus On Trump Misses The Bigger Story
12/11/2019 7:29 AMTraditional politics is on the outs across the world. Brexit and a UK election featuring Jeremy Corbyn vs Boris Johnson was inconceivable just 5 years ago. As was the takeover of the Democratic Party by socialists Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth...
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Make 5 Minutes to Read This – It’s Important
12/10/2019 3:18 PMIn September overnight borrowing rates jumped 500% in less than 4 hours. And nobody’s talking about why. Too bad because it’s a major warning. but then again - so is the pension strike in France. and - the civil violence in Hong Kong, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina,...
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The Most Innovative Jobs In The U.S. Are Clustering In A Handful of Cities
12/10/2019 9:48 AMThe United States has a total area of 3,796,742 square miles. That makes it the third or fourth-largest country in the world by land area, depending if you count overseas territories. So what's the point? Despite its size, the U.S. is facing a dilemma of...
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10 Most Oversold Stocks In The S&P 500
12/10/2019 9:30 AMTechnical traders are always looking for signals that a stock could be due for a change in direction. Given that stocks rarely move in one direction for too long without periodic retracements, a stock that has endured heavy selling pressure and has become “oversold”...
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The Best Way To Invest In The Energy Sector In 2020
12/10/2019 9:27 AMA record number of energy companies filing for bankruptcy coupled with poor performance by the industry in 2019 has made it incredibly hard to find investments in the energy space that can be considered safe or promising. The industry’s favorite benchmark, the Energy...
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Not An Anniversary To Celebrate
12/10/2019 7:19 AMWe hear so much about Canadian values from some quarters - the question is which Canadian values are on display when it comes to ignoring, in the name of trade, that the Chinese government is holding two Canadians...
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Canada’s NATO Commitment Is Not Going To Be Ignored
12/09/2019 8:08 AMIn 2014 Canada signed the agreement, along with all other NATO members to spend 2% of our GDP on the military. We're not close and the US, whose picking up the shortfall is not going to let it...
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Goofy Award
12/08/2019 7:01 AMHow can we be surprised with actions of the biggest human rights abuser on the planet - China - but we were shocked and appalled by this story. Plus Newsweek throws a log on the "fake news"...
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