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Retail Sales Expected to Be Strong in January, Helped by Stimulus ChecksFeb 17, 2021 - 05:22:59 PST
Aided by government stimulus checks, consumers are expected to have boosted their spending in January, and the trend is likely to continue.
China’s Digital Yuan Needs to Beat Alipay, WeChat Pay Before Challenging Dollar, Researcher SaysFeb 17, 2021 - 05:17:56 PST
China's digital yuan, which the country's central bank has been developing, is expected to work in a similar way to transactions through existing payment apps.
‘This Is Not Inflation’: Economist Says Expectations Are Unanchored from RealityFeb 17, 2021 - 05:14:53 PST
Inflation expectations are detaching from reality, meaning markets might be overplaying the rise in U.S. Treasury yields, says Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.
Mortgage Demand Falls Further As Rates Rise at the Fastest Pace in MonthsFeb 17, 2021 - 05:12:37 PST
Another week of rising rates spurred homeowners and buyers to pull back from the mortgage market, and the trend is not expected to turn any time soon.
COVID Live Updates: Leaders Call for Global Treaty to Ensure Future Pandemic TransparencyFeb 17, 2021 - 05:09:01 PST
A global “pandemic treaty” has been proposed in a bid to ensure more transparency around future pandemics, amid unease over China’s sharing of information around the coronavirus outbreak.
THE INSIDE SCOOP SILVER ETFs vs. SILVER: You'll Be Suprised At The Long-Term PerformanceFebruary 17, 2021
Investors will be surprised to learn which of the Silver ETFs compared to the silver price have performed the best over the long-term. While most precious metals investors believe one of the Silver ETFs is a better alternative than another, the data I found, suggests otherwise. For that reason, I decided...
The Gold-Silver Ratio is now at an important level, and if it breaks through, it could cause the silver price to continue even higher. The silver price has been outperforming the gold price since the WallStreetBets "Silver Shortsqueeze" campaign. Also, it also seems that the "industrial demand component" is keeping...
Gold does not directly conform to the majority of the most common valuation methodologies used for equities or bonds. Without a coupon or dividend, typical models based on discounted cash flows, expected earnings, or book-to-value ratios, struggle to provide an appropriate assessment for gold’s underlying value. This presented an opportunity for the World Gold Council to develop a framework to better understand gold valuation.
Feb 16, 2021 - 12:55:02 PST
The silver exchange-traded fund SLV appears to have just amended its prospectus to acknowledge difficulty in sourcing metal for the fund.
The Reddit crowd may not have taken full control of the silver market in the end, but they did enough to rattle the biggest exchange-traded fund tracking the metal. The ETF at the heart of a recent day-trading storm -- BlackRock Inc.’s $17 billion iShares Silver Trust (ticker SLV) -- posted a near-record outflow of $712 million in the past week...
Gold futures fell Tuesday to settle below the key $1,800 mark for the first time in over a week, with investors focusing on gains in benchmark bond rates,...
Feb 16, 2021 - 12:31:01 PST
The moral of the story is…TIA…There Is an Alternative. It’s hiding in plain sight, we just need to remove our kaleidoscope glasses.
Fed speakers repeatedly promise policy tightening is a story for next year or the year after. To quote Jerome Powell: "We're not thinking about raising rates, we're not even thinking about thinking about raising rates."
“Japanification” in the economic sense refers to the stagnation that Japan’s economy has faced over the past three decades, and is typically applied in reference to the concern among economists that other developed countries will follow along the same path.
Get Mike Maloney’s views on the latest market action in today’s must-watch update, including news on the ‘midnight changes’ to two of the largest silver ETFs, how retail bullion supplies are holding up…and what Mike did for his 65th birthday.
Bloomberg: Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by SocialismFeb 16, 2021 - 11:49:57 PST
Bloomberg News reports that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has quietly begun transferring state assets back into the hands of private owners in an effort to reverse Venezuela's economic collapse. “Saddled with hundreds of failed state companies in an economy barreling over a cliff...
The current speculative manias in the market provides a good opportunity to revisit investing legend Howard Marks on his views of risk and money.
Bitcoin Poses No Threat to the Dollar As the World’s Currency Leader, Fed’s Bullard SaysFeb 16, 2021 - 11:29:07 PST
The U.S. dollar will remain the world's reserve currency, even as bitcoin rises in popularity, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard told CNBC on Tuesday.
Biden directed federal housing regulators to extend forbearance and foreclosure relief programs for U.S. homeowners on Tuesday.
You can take another three-month break from your loan, as part of COVID-19 relief.