Investors Bet $4 Billion on a Cryptocurrency Startup
In a week where cryptocurrency prices continue to take an absolute drubbing, there’s still evidence of great faith in the technology to revolutionize payments, security, More...…
Welcome Back, Rates Volatility!
Hold on to your hats, folks (…or your shorts? Maybe not?). Volatility is back in bonds. “Italian politics just did what a correction in U.S. More...…
Goldman: Don’t Bet Against Oil
Confirming sentiments in previous Red Swan observations, oil is indeed rising, hitting $80/barrel as summer is poised to roll in for the northern hemisphere. Hedge More...…
Young left out of US boom in housing wealth
Why haven’t under-45 Gen-X and Millennials taken advantage of the real estate recovery since the bust in ’08? These things never have one answer, and More...…
A Warning Signal for Global Stock Markets Is Flashing in Japan
Japanese market flight to defensives is potentially an early indicator of trouble ahead in U.S. and global markets. U.S. defensives don’t show a similar pattern More...…
GM May Also Exit the American Car Market, Morgan Stanley Says
So, here’s a funny one: a bunch of carmakers who don’t really make cars. Sound illogical? It is shaping up to be the future of More...…
Stocks Head for Weekly Advance as Dollar Steadies: Markets Wrap
While not necessarily January 2018 boom levels, markets seem to be relaxing, blessedly, back into steady growth again. U.S. stocks were mixed Friday, with major More...…
Cryptocurrencies are getting slammed after a raid at South Korea’s largest exchange
And now, in This-Is-What-You-Get-Betting-In-An-Unregulated-Marketplace news, crypto prices got whacked again by fears around fraud in these completely unregulated and often opaque markets. Big, well-known coins More...…
Eight Geopolitical Risks That Could Send Oil Prices Surging
Oil is looking shaky moving forward, as a number of geopolitical risks turn on the pressure. Venezuela is chief among the causes, even showing up More...…
I’m Sorry I Criticized You, Apple. You Win
Apple has been through many phases and changes in its history. Early innovator of the PC, democratizer of desktop computing, routed and limping loser in More...…