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Dozens of police from France's elite RAID counterterrorism unit cordoned off an area of southern Strasbourg on Thursday close to where a gunman who attacked the city's Christmas market was last seen, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.  Fre...

Another joyous green open and another immediate round of selling...   And Trannies are getting monkeyhammered... This is not supposed to happen......

Back in August, Swiss multi-billion asset manager, GAM Holdings - one of Europe's largest alternative money managers - announced it has frozen withdrawals at some of its bond funds after a surge in redemptions from clients who sought to withdraw the...

No eggnog for you! President Trump has added a special holiday spin to his ongoing conflict with his antagonists in the news media by canceling the annual White House Christmas Party for members of the press, Fox News reported. While the President a...

Authored by Haley Zaremba for Oilprice.com, This week the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a groundbreaking oil and gas discovery in West Texas' Permian Basin. According to the organization's recent press release, a whopping 46.3 b...

Fentanyl is so powerful that a few milligrams can be fatal. It would take about 40 pounds of fentanyl to kill everyone in New York City and 1,515 pounds to kill almost all Americans. This killer opioid is so potent, according to Bloomberg it could be...

Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, 2018 has been kind to corporate profit margins. In fact, the margin expansion we've seen so far in 2018 is unprecedented in a late cycle economic environment when wages are rising briskly...

President Trump angered senior officials in his Justice Department and Democratic lawmakers this week when he told Reuters reporters that he wouldn't hesitate to intervene in the prosecution of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou - who is at the beginning of wh...

With US stocks set to open higher on Thursday, traders' blood pressure probably spiked when they saw headlines from an interview with White House trade advisor Peter Navarro hitting the tape (who can forget his infamous comments two week ago when he...

Authored by Steve Saretsky of VancityCondoGuide The sudden shift in the Vancouver housing market has been well documented. In November, home sales across all property types sank to a ten year low for the month. The drop is rather unprecedented consi...

One day after President Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for a variety crimes, Trump took to Twitter to address alleged campaign finance violations Cohen says he engaged in at Trump's direction.  Cohen...

As expected, Mario Draghi managed to deliver yet another dovish "end of QE", because while in less than three weeks the European Central Bank will no longer engage in government bond QE, the reason the Euro tumbled is that, as previewed overnight by ...

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist, Think back to this past summer. The US dollar was rallying hard, having risen from 88 DXY in the spring to 97 as August drew to a close. At the same time, the American stock market was on fire, tacking...

After re-accelerating in October, US Import and Export price growth slowed dramatically in November to the lowest since Nov 2016 and July 2017 respectively... Import prices fell 1.6% MoM (well below expectations of a 1.0% decline) slamming the YoY g...

Blain's Morning Porridge submitted by Bill Blain "I put them with my own, can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you.� As I said yesterday; if May wins the UK remains a SELL. She won her confidence vote, but, the essential reality...

Having slashed both growth and inflation outlooks,  one could be forgiven for wondering why ECB President Mario Draghi would choose now to stop its massive bond-buying program (which has done so much good for the European economy and markets)... Wit...

A day after collapsing to the ominous $6.66 March 2009 closing lows, GE stock is soaring in the pre-market after long-time bear JPMorgan analyst Steve Tusa upgrades the company to neutral from underweight. Citing the fact that the liabilities and "k...

As expected, the ECB - which obviously is keeping its rates unchanged - confirmed it would end its asset purchases in December 2018, while clarifying that it would "continue reinvesting, in full, the principal payments from maturing securities purcha...

Theresa May is in power. But she's not in charge. That's essentially the takeaway from last night's 'no confidence' vote, where more than half of the Tory backbenchers who aren't on the PM's payroll (i.e. don't hold formal positions within ...

With algos trying to force a rally for the third day in a row, the "STFR" crowd arrived early as stocks in Europe and S&P futures surrendered early gains as investors initially bought on the latest optimistic developments in America-China trade relat...

Italian bond yields moved lower for a second day to touch their lowest level since Sept. 27 while Italian bank stocks lead the country's benchmark index higher after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti said that the government would cut its defici...

Authored by Tom Luongo, When an event grabs headlines like the protests in France have I temper my reactions to it.  I didn't give the Yellow Vest protests much thought at first wanting to see where they would lead. Protests like this and even big...

Would the real Buhari please stand up? Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told a group of Nigerians living abroad in Poland last week that he rumors that he had died and been replaced by a "clone" were not true, after a 'fake news' report claimi...

Authored by Tom Luongo via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Last weekend's protests across France may have done far more damage than just smashed windows and stolen iPhones. The depth of French anger at the neoliberal globalist policies of Preside...

Yandex Maps, Russia's most popular web mapping service, has inadvertently revealed the exact locations, perimeters, and potential functions of hundreds of military facilities in Israel and Turkey, as well as two major NATO bases, according to Matt K...

Authored by Tom Luongo, So Angela Merkel is out as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).  In comes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Merkel's close ally who won the party's support with a very narrow victory over more conservative Friedrich Me...

The majority of French people are not satisfied with a series of new economic policies unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron this week, and say that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests should continue, according to a new poll.  According to a p...

Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson We are approaching critical mass, the point at which ...

California regulators are weighing a flat tax on text messaging which would help fund a program to make phone service available to low-income residents, according to the San Jose Mercury News, citing a 51-page report released by the California Public...

Authored by Meadow Clark via Daisy Luther's Organic Prepper blog, China is deploying emotional surveillance technology that mines data from the minds of its citizens. Essentially, they're data mining by reading their brains. The light-weight sens...

Venezuela's economic depression has claimed yet another victim, as Goodyear Tire announced it would shutter its Venezuela operations and lay off its entire local workforce, the latest foreign corporation to close shop in the crisis-torn county. On M...

Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The decision by Qatar to abandon OPEC threatens to redefine the global energy market, especially in light of Saudi Arabia's growing difficulties and the growing influence of the ...

Walmart is testing out a new kitchen robot assistant named "Flippy" at its Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters in order to see if it might make for a valuable team member in its in-store delis, according to Yahoo! Finance.  While Flippy had somewhat ...

For a trade war that was supposed to be between the US and China, Canada has found itself increasingly in the middle of the crossfire. And so after the arrest of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing in retaliation for the detention of the Huawei CFO...

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Free speech and the ability to speak truth are being shut down. It is happening with the complicity of the print and TV media, the liberal/progressive/left, the US Department of Justice (sic), the law schools and bar ...

On Thursday all eyes will be on the ECB monetary policy decision announced at 7:45am ET, with the press conference as usual 45 minutes later at 8:30am ET. The ECB will leave all three key rates unchanged; Mario Draghi is expected to confirm the end ...

Progress in the United States/China trade war seems to be happening at just the right time. The automobile industry in China has been crippled, partly as a result of this trade war, partly due to the ongoing domestic economic slowdown in the mainlan...

Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Clues from the Fed II, an RIA Pro article from November 28, 2018, provided important insight into one of Jerome Powell's most important speeches as the Federal Reserve Chairman. We share th...

The White House announced late in the day Wednesday that Russia will withdraw its long range nuclear capable bombers parked in Venezuela since Monday which flew to Caracas on a 10,000km mission in a show of support for socialist President Nicolás Mad...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro unleashed a hailstorm of serious accusations against the Trump administration and specifically National Security Advisor John Bolton on Wednesday, telling a press conference that Bolton is currently planning to ove...

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, If you want to understand the zeal with which social media platforms are now being censored, all you have to do is to look at what has been happening on our college campuses.  There...

A day after grabbing headlines with his grandstanding during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's testimony at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep Ted Lieu ( U.S. Representative for California's 33rd congressional district since 2015) went on CNN for vi...

Via Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com , Financial and precious metals expert Egon von Greyerz (EvG) says don't expect the global financial situation to get better anytime soon. EvG says, "You know what the politicians are doing now? Theresa May is my...

As we've pointed out time and time again, the notion that going to college guarantees a higher paying job and a better standard of living is a myth ('millennial Congresswoman' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez effectively embodies this myth; she worked as ...

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The elites' clever exploitation of politically correct cover stories has enthralled the comatose, uncritical Left, but not those who see their living standards in a free-fall. A family member who...

One of the key concerns voiced by finance professionals, politicians and rates traders over the past year, has been the gradual drop in foreigners as a percentage of the total universe of US Treasury buyers, which peaked earlier this decade and has s...

Stocks ended higher but well off the highs as an apparently massive concession from China (shifting its Vision 2025 plan) in the trade war and another win for Trump with huge soybean purchases from China, were hurt by Cohen, and The National Enquirer...

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, One of the most brilliant businessmen of our time decided to do nothing. In 1997, after being kicked out of his own company, Steve Jobs took back the reins of Apple. At the time, Apple had less than 4%...

President Trump still does not have a new chief of staff, but at least he now has a green light to hand out bailouts and subsidies to America's farmers. On Wednesday, the House passed an $867 billion farm bill to help those workers in the agricultu...

Two groups of Central American migrants delivered a list of demands to the US Consulate in Tijuana in Tuesday, with one group demanding to be let into the United States, or be paid $50,000 each to go home, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.  ...