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View all articlesSurvey data show the U.S. manufacturing sector contracted for the eighth consecutive month in June (from Reuters on July 3)…
Read articleU.S. airline travel appears to have fully recovered from COVID-19 (from Charlie Bilello via Twitter on July 3)…
Read articleTraders were also more bullish on tech stocks relative to the overall market than any time since the peak of the dot-com bubble (from Macro Charts via Twitter on July 1)…
Read articleInvestment newsletter writers were more bullish at the end of June than at the peak of the market in late 2021/early 2022 (from the Elliott Wave Financial Forecast on June 30)…
Read articleMortgage rates have correctly forecasted U.S. corporate earnings over the past several years, and unfortunately, they’re sending an ominous message today (from Francois Trahan via Twitter on June 26)…
Read articleHere’s more on the thinking behind Berkshire’s big investments in the energy sector (from Kingswell on July 18)…
Read articleGlobal consulting giant McKinsey warns of huge potential shortages in “clean energy” metals (from Bloomberg on July 4)…
Read articleCommodities are likely to follow gold higher over the next several years (from Otavio Costa via Twitter on July 12)…
Read articleGrain prices are rising again after Russia announces an end to Ukraine export deal (from The Wall Street Journal on July 17)…
Read articleFund managers are more underweight commodities than anytime since the COVID lows (from BofA Global Research via The Daily Shot on July 18)…
Read articleLarry Fink – CEO of giant asset manager Black Rock – says bitcoin is an “international asset” (from Bitcoin Magazine on July 5)…
Read articleWhy the next bitcoin bull market could be bigger than many anticipate (from Onramp Bitcoin on July 10)…
Read articleThe Federal Reserve just completed a “successful test” on the viability of a digital dollar (from PaymentsJournal on July 13)…
Read articleBitcoin’s next “halving” is roughly 280 days away (from Glassnode via The Daily Shot on July 14)…
Read articleHere’s an important reminder about too-good-to-be-true “fixed yields” in crypto (or any other asset) (from Saifedean Ammous via Twitter on July 14)…
Read articleDemocratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces a plan to end bitcoin taxes and back the U.S. dollar with bitcoin and gold (from Bitcoin Magazine via TheStreet on July 18)…
Read articleMultiple spot Bitcoin ETFs just took the first step toward potential Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval. Here’s when a decision could come (from Cointelegraph on July 19)…
Read articleWe’ve seen a rare confluence of extremes in June. Investors went “all-in” on megacap growth (MGC) and tech stocks, shown by pandemic-level net call buying and all-time record inflows into tech funds (from Deutsche Bank/TheStalwart via Twitter on June 3)…
Read articleThis was followed by a record amount of call buying in small-cap stocks via the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) (from Goldman Sachs/Mayhem4Markets via Twitter on June 7)…
Read articleShort sellers capitulated at one of the fastest weekly paces in years (from Goldman Sachs/Marlin_Capital via Twitter on June 9)…
Read articleThe American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey showed “net bullishness” (% bulls minus % bears) surged above 20% – its highest level since November 2021, just weeks before the bear market began (from AAII/biancoresearch via Twitter on June 12)…
Read articleMeanwhile, the S&P 500 became even more overbought than it was at the bull market peak in late 2021/early 2022 (from bespokeinvest via Twitter on June 13)…
Read articleSeveral big chain stores warn U.S. consumers are pulling back (from CNN Business on June 1)…
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