Category: Finance
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5 Reasons your blue-chip stocks are tanking – and no – it’s not the corona virus
The recent blood-bath in blue-chip stocks was catalysed by the spread of the coronavirus, but there are 5 underlying causes that have made it so dramatic and ugly.
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5 Reasons your blue-chip stocks are tanking – and no – it’s not the corona virus
The recent blood-bath in blue-chip stocks was catalysed by the spread of the coronavirus, but there are 5 underlying causes that have made it so dramatic and ugly.
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![Nio (NIO.NYSE) surges 12%: Chinese Gov. doesn’t want Tesla (TSLA.Q) to humiliate the locals]()
Nio (NIO.NYSE) surges 12%: Chinese Gov. doesn’t want Tesla (TSLA.Q) to humiliate the locals
NIO took a leaf out of Apple’s (AAPL.Q) playbook and outsourced production to a to a purpose-built factory run by JAC Motors (江淮汽车) a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer.
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![Stocks tank, gold surges – my locked-down communist wife tells a grim COVID19 virus story]()
Stocks tank, gold surges – my locked-down communist wife tells a grim COVID19 virus story
“While the comparison to SARS may provide some guidance, important changes have been experienced in China and the Chinese gold market since the 2003 outbreak,” stated the WGC.
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![Powell: “Nothing about this expansion that is unstable”]()
Powell: “Nothing about this expansion that is unstable”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the Fed is keeping a close eye on the possible fallout and impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Powell hasn’t made any claims yet as to what this means either in terms of possible liquidity injections or a rate cut. Let’s examine that.
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![There’s no place like home: 3D Sustainable Developments prints an answer to the global housing crisis]()
There’s no place like home: 3D Sustainable Developments prints an answer to the global housing crisis
Canada more than doubles the Indian subcontinent in terms of land mass, but its population of 37.59 million is a 2.8% sliver of India’s 1.3 billion – that’s 4 people per square kilometre compared to 420. Interestingly, both India and Canada are in the middle of a serious housing crisis that threatens to break the…
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Germany’s corporate codetermination – cunningly co-committed or cataclysmically codependent?
Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act (ACA) threatens to level the corporate playing field in America by bringing labor into the boardroom. Understandably, industrial lobbyists have crawled out of the rot of Washington’s woodwork to lambaste the ACA as a useless partisan ploy bent on destroying U.S. entrepreneurial spirit. So, is corporate codetermination cunningly co-committed or…
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![Coronavirus freak-out: global markets just paid $3 trillion for a bowl of weak peacock soup]()
Coronavirus freak-out: global markets just paid $3 trillion for a bowl of weak peacock soup
A Wuhan market price list offers 112 types of wild critters including peacocks, foxes, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, porcupines and camel meat.
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![A “skies the limit” stock market = a house of cards?]()
A “skies the limit” stock market = a house of cards?
Lately, I’ve been making a point of asking those around me, when the conversation inevitably turns to stocks, “what’s your current exposure to equities?” Some people don’t have a ready answer to that simple query. Some have a general idea, but many don’t have a clue as to how they are positioned among the various…
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![Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control]()
Pepsi, Nestle and Amazon: asymmetric risk and monopoly control
Two hundred years after the Sherman Anti-trust Act brought about the fall of Rockefeller’s monopoly control, Bernie Saunders and Elizabeth Warren pushed for America to once again decide whether Pepsi (PEP.NASDAQ), Nestle (NESN.SWX) and Amazon (AMZN.NASDAQ) are agreeable corporate spouses or abusive partners slipping in after a trial separation, but in the age of post-modern…
