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Gold surged to a six-year high yesterday, while the stock market struggled all day to nearly recovering from an initial and practically instantaneous six hundred point plunge. The stock market was responding to the increased pressure being exerted by the Trump Administration’s labeling of China as a “currency manipulator” for attempting to mitigate American tariffs,

06/14/2019, Los Angeles / Morgan Stanley just released a report indicating that, “Business conditions are at their worst level since the 2008 financial crisis.” Stanley’s proprietary “Business Conditions Index” is reported to have fallen 32 points last month, making it the “sharpest collapse since the metric was formulated.” The BCI, as well as a separate

05/30/2019, Los Angeles The S&P 500 double-topped in September of 2018 and by December it had dropped more than 20%. Last month, the S&P double-topped again and since then it’s been one step forward and two steps back, so no one should be the least bit surprised if it’s down at least 20% before the

Since May 3rd, the S&P 500 has lost $1.2 trillion. At its low on Monday, the DJIA was down 700 points, or about 2.7%. The S&P was down similarly. But the NASDAQ lost more than 3.5% due to the greater concentration of companies in industries that are most affected by the current trade discord with

Following a conversation with Steve Eisman, the Neuberg Berman Group money manager who famously predicted the collapse of subprime mortgages in advance of the 2008 financial crisis, Bloomberg is reporting on his new and equally disturbing concern, that the U.S. corporate debt market will suffer “massive losses” if the U.S. economy falls into recession. The