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S&P 500 Earnings Stuck at 2011 Levels, Stocks up 87% Since

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And what could possibly go wrong?

– S&P 500 Earnings Stuck at 2011 Levels, Stocks up 87% Since

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Of course, he’s right. We all know it, we’ve watched the manipulations.
We’ve seen the Shipping Activity Index (BDI) sat in the gutter.
We’ve seen Caterpillar report 5 consecutive years of continuous order book drops.
We’ve watched the food stamps grow to one third of the population.

All these show total disconnect from Wall St & the Fed bullshit manipulation
Stocks prices continuously rise as a result of false purchases by the banks and buy backs by the Companies…..but activity, earnings and returns are rubbish.

Now the truth outs. We are slap bang in a depression & Trump has been set up to take the fall for it.

Yet, being an astute businessman, he knew all this already, and his crowing is equally false. He knew he was going to be the scape goat.”

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Bank Stocks, Dollar, & Yields Surge After Yellen Warns “Waiting Too Long To Hike Is Unwise” – Speech Highlights And Live Feed

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– Bank Stocks, Dollar, & Yields Surge After Yellen Warns “Waiting Too Long To Hike Is Unwise” – Speech Highlights And Live Feed

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Trump’s Latest Fan: Buffett Bought $12 Billion In Stocks Since The Election

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– Trump’s Latest Fan: Buffett Bought $12 Billion In Stocks Since The Election:

Count one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest financial backers, billionaire Warren Buffet, among the biggest fans of the “Trump rally.”

In an interview with Charlie Rose recorded on Friday, Warren Buffett said that since the election day, Berkshire Hathaway bought $12 billion in stock. This was a change in strategy for Buffett, who as it turns out was a net seller in the first nine days of the month, when Hillary seemed like a guaranteed winner in the November election, one which Buffett was selling into.

“We’ve, net, bought $12 billion of common stocks since the election,” he said in an interview with Charlie Rose that aired on Friday. Buffett didn’t identify the securities that he picked. As of Sept. 30, Berkshire had an equity portfolio valued at $102.5 billion.

Read moreTrump’s Latest Fan: Buffett Bought $12 Billion In Stocks Since The Election

Dow 20000! What Could Go Wrong?

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Full article here:

– Dow 20000! What Could Go Wrong?:

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
January 29, 2017

Congratulations, America! The Dow Jones Industrial Average has just rolled past 20,000 for the first time ever! Let the fireworks fly, because the ticker tape parade is about to begin!

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Clif High: 2017 Predictions on Everything

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FYI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAI07f-5M0

31.12.2016

Description:

Internet data mining expert Clif High uses calls what he does “Predictive Linguistics,” to mine the Internet and collects billions of data points to produce forecasts of the future. High has predictions on Trump, gold, silver, housing, stocks, bonds, the dollar, interest rates and even new discoveries that will change the world that are coming out of Antarctica.

H/t reader squodgy:

“The CRASH is already in place for those not in the manipulated financial world.
But Mr High says end Feb through March & April will have notable signs of correction and reality checks.”

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Deutsche Bank “Explains” How Stocks Will React To The Fed’s Rate Hike

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Sure!

– Deutsche Bank “Explains” How Stocks Will React To The Fed’s Rate Hike:

“This time is different”, or maybe it’s just 1929 all over again, because according to Deutsche Bank, after 8 years of easing sent the S&P to all time highs, the only thing that is more bullish than a dovish Fed, is a Hawkish one, and as a result no matter what the Fed does tomorrow, and how it hikes rates, equities can only go “higher.”

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Two New Jersey Traders Arrested For Manipulating $10 Billion Worth Of Stocks, Making $26 Million In Profit

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– Two New Jersey Traders Arrested For Manipulating $10 Billion Worth Of Stocks, Making $26 Million In Profit:

The SEC continued its crackdown against market-manipulating masterminds today, when it charged two New Jersey-based traders, 37-year-old Joseph Taub, of Clifton, and 21-year-old Elazar Shmalo of Passaic, with manipulating more than 2,000 stocks and reaping more than $26 million in profits from their successful trades.

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Wall Street Analysts Are Slowly Losing It

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– Wall Street Analysts Are Slowly Losing It:

Back in April, we commiserated with BBG ex-trader and commentator, Richard Breslow, who when looking at the ongoing events in markets, had a near nervous breakdown. For those who missed it, here are the key excerpts:

Trading is a hard business. The world is becoming a more complicated place: a number out of China may do more to the price of your U.S. shares in a retailer than, well, U.S. retail sales. Yet creeping, dangerously, into the investment advice dialog is the argument that buying and holding no matter what the event is the winning strategy. If you ever needed a “past results don’t guarantee…” disclaimer it’s especially true now.

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$195 Billion Asset Manager: “The Time Has Come To Leave The Dance Floor”

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– $195 Billion Asset Manager: “The Time Has Come To Leave The Dance Floor”:

“When the supposed solutions to the Fed’s dilemma are merely new “problems,” you know you are approaching the cycle’s end… long-term investing is predicated on not just knowing where the happening parties are during the reflationary parts of the cycle but more importantly, knowing when the time has come to leave the dance floor. In our view, that time has already come.”

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Multi-Billion Tiger Cub Says “The Biggest Correction Since The 2008 Crisis” Has Begun

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– Multi-Billion Tiger Cub Says “The Biggest Correction Since The 2008 Crisis” Has Begun:

Tiger cub Robert Citrone said “we believe we are in the midst of the market correction we have been expecting,” adding “It will likely persist over the next 3-4 months and be the largest correction since the 2008 crisis.”

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AND NOW: The SEC’s Former Head HFT Expert Joins HFT Titan Citadel

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– The SEC’s Former Head HFT Expert Joins HFT Titan Citadel:

Last April, we commented on the most blatant (pre) revolving door we had ever seen at the SEC (and there have been many): the departure of the SEC’s head HFT investigator, Gregg Berman, who during his tenure at the agency (whose alleged purpose is to keep the “market” fair, efficient and unmanipulated) did everything in his power to draw attention away from HFTs. He did that, for example, by blaming Waddell and Reed for the May 2010 flash crash. This is what Berman, whose full title was the SEC’s “Associate Director of the Office of Analytics and Research in the Division of Trading and Markets” said in the final version of the agency’s Flash Crash report:

Read moreAND NOW: The SEC’s Former Head HFT Expert Joins HFT Titan Citadel

Goldman Downgrades S&P 500, Stoxx 600 To Sell, Cites “Elevated Valuations And The Risk Of Shocks”

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– Goldman Downgrades S&P 500, Stoxx 600 To Sell, Cites “Elevated Valuations And The Risk Of Shocks”:

After tactfully warning clients for months that staying invested in US stocks and bonds is an unacceptable risk, overnight Goldman’s Peter Oppenheimer finally changed Goldman’s official “tactical” bias, and as of this moment recommends selling not only bonds, as well as the S&P500 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 “due to elevated valuations across assets and the risk of shocks.“

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Betting On Crazylegs In The Final Race: “You Don’t Want To Be Riding This Horse When The Time Comes”

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Prepare for the coming crash. (It could already happen this month.)

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– Betting on Crazylegs in the Final Race:

Since the early 2000s, I’ve been describing a coming economic depression that will dwarf the one that began in 1929. But this is by no means guesswork or crystal ball gazing. Whenever a country (or countries) creates debt that is beyond the level that they can ever repay, an economic collapse is a near-certainty. Today, many jurisdictions, particularly, the US, EU, UK, Canada, etc. have created debt that is far beyond anything the world has ever seen. This assures us that the corresponding collapse will be of epic proportions.

Of course, I’m frequently asked, “When will it happen?” This is all but impossible to predict, but to be perfectly honest, back around 2006, I was guessing, “probably by 2012.” Although I predicted the minor crash of 2008, I felt that the bigger jolt that’s still coming would have been on our doorstep by now. Again, it’s not all that hard to predict the events if you do your homework, but predicting the timing is another matter.

However, I’ve continued to repeat my general principle that when an economic unraveling of major proportions is coming, significant events increase in frequency and severity.

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Marc Faber Rings the Alarm Bell, Predicts a 50% Near Term Correction in Stocks

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– Marc Faber Rings the Alarm Bell, Predicts a 50% Near Term Correction in Stocks:

Volatility is the name of the game. Stocks are acting up, but standing strong. Oil is propelling higher and the US dollar is falling. Turmoil around the world has never been higher and an ominous shadow is lurking in the background, ready to strike.

The situation that we now face is ultimately going to end in a collapse of epic proportion. The financial world is now a ticking bomb that is just waiting to explode – I know this, you know this and even if the masses don’t, they can feel it in their bones.

Read moreMarc Faber Rings the Alarm Bell, Predicts a 50% Near Term Correction in Stocks

Jeffrey Snider: All Signs Point To Systemic Reset

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– Jeffrey Snider: All Signs Point To Systemic Reset:

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“… what’s happened in stocks is more a myth than actual reality. Investors in stocks are buying at ridiculous valuations based on the premise that the Fed can create a recovery through liquidity. And what 2014 and 2015 show us is that this simply wasn’t true! …the longer the earnings recession lingers, the higher the risk that stock investors will realize that they’ve been following the wrong story all along!”

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Paul Tudor Jones Emerges As Latest Mega Bear With Record Surge In S&P Puts

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– Paul Tudor Jones Emerges As Latest Mega Bear With Record Surge In S&P Puts:

It appears that Paul Tudor Jones is even more bearish than George Soros, based on the surge in the fund’s S&P puts, which rose from $490 million notional to $1.7 billion notional, a nearly four-fold increase, and making it the biggest such position in the fund’s history. In fact, as of this moment, PTJ’s gross put exposure amounts to 37% of his entire disclosed long equity exposure of just over $4.7 billion.

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Carl Icahn Turns Apocalyptic: “I Am More Hedged Than Ever, A Day Of Reckoning Is Coming”

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– Carl Icahn Turns Apocalyptic: “I Am More Hedged Than Ever, A Day Of Reckoning Is Coming”:

“I have hedges on, I’m more hedged than I ever was. [The market] is way overvalued at 20 times the S&P and I’ll tell you why: a lot of it is a result of zero interest rates. That’s going to be hurt.  There’s going to be a day of reckoning here.  I’ve seen it many times in my life.  When things look good, they look great.  You go into the sky.  But that’s when you have to really pull down and really stop buying.”

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Nassim Taleb Warns the Biggest Black Swan Event Of All Is Coming (Video)

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Continue to prepare for collapse.

99% of the people will get totally destroyed financially.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
-Benjamin Franklin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q147uQTzCjg

Aug 13, 2016

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Billionaire Soros doubles bet against US stocks

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– Billionaire Soros doubles bet against US stocks:

Soros Fund Management has increased its bearish bet against US companies on the S&P 500 index. Its billionaire owner will make money if the index collapses.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 is an American stock market index based on market capitalization of 500 large US companies having common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on NASDAQ.

The 86-year-old investor’s fund has reported it had arranged ‘put’ options on roughly 4 million shares as of June 30. This is up from 2.1 million shares as of March 31.

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Russian Stocks Soar To Record Highs – Up 60% Since White House “Sell” Order

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– Russian Stocks Soar To Record Highs – Up 60% Since White House “Sell” Order:

Russia’s MICEX stock index rallied to all-time record highs today. This is likely very disconcerting for The White House as since the March 2014 lows when they issued the following statement: “If I were you, I wouldn’t invest in Russian equities right now,” Russian stocks are up 60% – tripling the 19% gains in the S&P off those lows…

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“The Final Melt Up”, “A Blow Off Top”: Money Floods In As Investors Turn Euphoric At Triple Record High

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– “The Final Melt Up”, “A Blow Off Top”: Money Floods In As Investors Turn Euphoric At Triple Record High:

In a historic trifecta, yesterday for the first time this century, all three US indexes posted concurrent record highs. The last time this had happened was on December 31, 1999.

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