Financial Sense
By FS Staff – With the oil markets much closer to balance, geopolitical uncertainties are beginning to have a larger influence on the price of oil, something that hasn't been the case for the last 2-3 years, Robert Rapier at R-Squared Energy...
By Urban Carmel – For the third quarter (3Q17), S&P earnings rose 12% yoy, sales grew 6% and profit margins expanded to new all-time highs. These strong results are not due to the rebound in oil prices. Sales for the sectors...
By Alex Barrow – There are some growing signs of weakness in this market. Breadth is slipping, credit doesn’t look too great, there are more new lows versus new highs being made… that kind of stuff. I’m still not getting any major...
By Tom McClellan – Even before President Trump’s Asia trip, Chinese 10-year sovereign bond yields have been pushing higher. And that means we should expect the same for US 10-year T-Note yields. I wrote about this relationship...
By FS Staff – We’re finally hearing about the details of the GOP tax reform bill, and what we’re finding is that it has the potential to impact taxpayers in several ways, especially depending on where they live.
By Danielle Park – “Signs are there that we might be approaching an inflection point in the marketplace for autos,” William Black, managing director at Moody’s, said on Tuesday. No credit expansion lasts forever.
By The Conversation – Venezuela, the South American country convulsed by economic and humanitarian catastrophe, has defaulted on some of its debt after missing an interest payment due in October. Even as investors...
FS Staff – There's been very little deleveraging after the last financial crisis and, in fact, debt levels are at new records globally, which means investors should be thinking about the risk of “debtflation,” Russell Napier, editor of The Solid Ground, told FS Insider...
By Jill Mislinksi – With the Republican tax bill looming, we've updated this article to include the latest figures and estimates for federal debt and taxes. Federal debt is defined as "the gross outstanding debt issued by...
By Mises Institute – The vote for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump has baffled the mainstream and the establishment. Most market participants and observers didn't believe ex-ante that they were possible and as a...
By Adrian Ash – COMEX gold contracts recovered a $5 drop against a weakening US Dollar in London lunchtime trade Tuesday, rising back to last week's finish at $1275 after what analysts called another "large sell" order on...