She hopes with the safe space she provided, the dog will soon learn that she deserves to come inside. This dog really needed help.
Stocks started the week on a high note but ended with a whimper. The S&P 500 index on Tuesday reached a record high close for the 17th time this year, as investors shrugged off a higher-than-expected 3.2% annual rise in consumer prices and cheered a cooldown in some categories like food prices. Stocks weren’t the only winners. […]
Bitcoin, Bond Yields, & Black Gold Bounce Amid Big Auction & Bad Data A quiet day with some uglier than expected housing data (new home sales miss) and manufacturing (Dallas Fed survey sunk) left bond yields and black gold higher, but bitcoin stole the headlines. The bad data prompted a dovish drift in rate-cut expectations Source: Bloomberg The dovish drift sent the dollar lower Source: Bloomberg And pushed gold marginally higher Source: Bloomberg Bitcoin surged back...
Legal commentator Harry Litman told CNN that Donald Trump would go to any lengths to pay a $464 million bond payment by Monday so he could appeal a New York fraud judgment. Litman explained to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield why he believed Trump would pay the bond by the Monday deadline. "Look, it involves all kinds of financial complications," he said. "But I think, first and foremost, he is very concerned about not looking like a loser." "And he came out to his lawyer's dismay and said he...
NVDA Fails To Impress, Bitcoin Battered, But Bonds & Black Gold Bid Ahead Of Fed NVDA showed off a new chip and a robot BoJ did their hawkish thing (but promised to save the world if things went to shit) US housing data surprised to the upside and the screens were green but it wasn't the love-fest so many hoped as anxiety remains ahead of tomorrow's FOMC meeting NVDA ended the day higher barely Stocks overall ended higher into tomorrow's FOMC meeting, led by The Dow and Small...
'Powell Put' Sparks Surge In Stocks, Bonds, & The Dollar; Bullion & Black Gold Flat On Week Positive macro, central bank love-fest, and AI catalysts buy all the things US Macro 'outperformed' expectations this week amid more pro-cyclical data points Source: Bloomberg which combined with a dovish tilt by Powell (which lifted 20-24 rate-cut expectation) Source: Bloomberg and positive AI catalysts Source: Bloomberg Put this all together - rates, growth, and secular...
Many consider investing in gold a key measure for economic security against both the economic harm of inflationary government spending and the advent of central bank digital currencies around the world.
According to February 2024’s latest inflation data, Turkey faces an inflation rate exceeding 67%, amid ongoing currency devaluation and a declining lira against the U.S. dollar. Recent findings suggest that in an effort to safeguard their wealth, Turks are increasingly turning to gold, with smuggling hitting unprecedented levels. Additionally, there is a growing interest among […]
Depending on your spiritual beliefs, fate is either random or it’s destiny.
Greg Gordon never shoots up alone anymore. He knows the heroin he buys on the street in East Harlem is deadlier than ever, often mixed with fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer. So when he wants to get high, as he does almost daily, Gordon goes somewhere he can use drugs among people he trusts to save him if he overdoses. That place is an old four-story red-brick building on East 126th Street, between a cramped bodega and a litter-strewn parking lot...
Gold bug Peter Schiff has highlighted a problem with owning spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). However, the issue Schiff pinpointed isn’t unique to bitcoin ETFs. This discussion has reignited calls for self-custody among crypto proponents. Peter Schiff’s Warning Prompts Self-Custody Push Gold advocate and economist Peter Schiff has highlighted a problem with owning spot bitcoin […]
Veterans of a top-secret World War II unit that used inflatables and fake soundtracks to feed phony intelligence to Nazi Germany were given the congressional Gold Medal on Thursday.The work of the "Ghost Army" unit, comprising the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and 3133rd Signal Service Company, is believed to have saved the lives of up to 30,000 men as the Allies pushed deeper into Europe.The unit of about 1,300 soldiers ran more than 20 missions to create false troop movements and signs of...