COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I read your piece on South Africa and you are the only person to explain that the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe took place after they stole all the land from the white farmers. You really turn over every stone in your research. My hat is off to you sir. MH ANSWER: Well I […]
Mainland China market stood out again today but only because it did not fall as much as other core indices. Shanghai saw its days low just after the opening bell and even looked to trade positive at one stage just ahead of lunch. However, ahead of Italian elections, BREXIT discussions and President Trump’s tariff announcement […]
Canada is the largest exporter of steel to the United States. The decline in the Canadian dollar has helped this trend in particular. Trump is clueless when it comes to the impact of currency on foreign trade. If he wants to do tariffs, they MUST be indexed to the currency. Failure to do that will […]
China appeared as the only bright spot in Asian markets this morning with Shanghai closing up +0.45% and the Hang Seng marginally better at +0.65%. Both indices toyed between both sides until the final hour then recovered at the close. Much of todays talk centred around the deleveraging that President Xi appears to be pushing […]
After the weak US retracement the DOW (futures) spent much of the Asian session around the mid 25,500 level. But, interesting that as we have been highlighting for a few weeks here that the DXY looking to be bottomed on time. Jerome Powell’s comments obviously shook markets, but worth comparing currency weighted equity index movements. […]
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; The goldbugs are saying that China, Russia, India are “rogue” rising economic powers that are rogue nations. They cite David Stockman who preaches the U.S. economy is in deep trouble thanks to its “massive indebtedness” and they seem to ignore what you have pointed out that the USA is in the best shape. They also cite […]
After the strong close in the US on Friday, we open the week with an equally impressive Asian session. It was the Shanghai index that shone bright today with a 1.25% return, not bad for a Monday and with month end so close. Domestic markets were boosted by the removal of the two-term limit […]
These are the World Stock Indexes Available in the Basic Level AEX (Dutch) Index Cash AEX All Share (Netherlands) All Ordinaries (Australian) Index Cash Athens Stock Exchange General Index (Greece) Cash Austrian Traded Index Cash BEL20 (Belgium) Index Cash Bist National 100 (Turkey) Botswana Stock Exchange DMS Companies Index (Botswana) Bulgaria Stock Exchange Sofix (Bulgaria) CAC-40 (France) […]
PRIVATE BLOG – Gold for the close of the 23rd
We have added the following market to the Socrates general public service level. AEX All Share (Netherlands) FTSE 250 (United Kingdom) FTSE All Share (United Kingdom) FTSE All World $ (Global) Hang Seng China Affiliated Corporation (Hong Kong) Hang Seng China Enterprises (Hong Kong) Tel Aviv 125 (Israel) Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Index (Jamaica) KOSPI […]
