In this week’s recap, we saw a general rise in global stocks, with the U.S. market ending positive and the European market having its best performance in 7 months on Friday. Earnings figures from banks boosted the markets a lot. Asia-Pacific stocks rose sharply as investors reacted to the release of China’s inflation data for September. Mainland Chinese stocks closed slightly lower. William Shatner, a Star Trek actor, traveled into space at the age of 90 on one of the flights made […]
Market Recaps
Recap October 10: Energy Shortages, infrastructure Probs (instagram), Crisis Averted in USA (Recap Ep144)
In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about the possible energy crisis to come due to the increase in energy production costs; moreover, the effect of this and the increase in transportation costs makes the possible crisis look more and more real. Communications infrastructure failures (as happened with WhatsApp this week) may repeat themselves and even last longer. Shares of Moderna, a U.S. pharmaceutical and biotech company, fell -8.94% on Wednesday to $302.42 as European Nordic countries suspend the use of Moderna’s Covid-19 […]
Recap October 3: Robert Kiyosaki collapse October? Gas shortages London, Communism in Berlin (Recap Ep143)
In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about an interview with Robert Kiyosaki in which he discusses the possible collapse of the US economy and the stock market, supporting the idea of seeking other safe havens away from stocks. The gasoline shortage crisis in the United Kingdom foreshadows the possible social conflicts that could be caused by a major crisis. Following the German parliamentary elections, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has taken the majority of the government. On Thursday, the UK announced that […]
Recap September 26: China Bans Bitcoin (again), Financial Crisis Averted, Socialism in Germany (Recap Ep142)
In this week’s recap, Marcello discusses the new ban imposed by China on Bitcoin transactions. The Financial Crisis that was on the verge of becoming a reality because of the Evergrande situation, seems to dissipate. Fearing the arrival of a leftist political movement to power in Germany, many millionaires started to move their fortunes out of the country. On Wednesday, it was reported that the main unit of China’s biggest property developer Evergrande had negotiated a deal with bondholders to settle interest […]
Recap September 19: Financial Crisis 2022? Hole in Ozone, Hyperinflation (Recap ep141)
In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about a financial Crisis to come due to several economic events that had occurred lately, including hyperinflation. A Hole in the Ozone is now a threat. European power prices have risen to multi-year highs on a variety of factors in recent weeks, coming from extremely strong commodity & carbon emission prices, to lower wind output. What’s worse, the record run in energy prices is not expected to end soon, instead analysts are warning, it is likely […]
Recap September 12: Bitcoin is money, SEC sues Coinbase, Inflation explodes (Recap Ep140)
In this week’s recap, U.S. stocks were mixed and global equities retreated from record highs as investors balanced growing concerns about the slowing pace of the economic recovery and expectations that the Federal Reserve will delay tapering its bond purchases and traders’ fear the Covid-19 spread will weigh on economic growth. The European Central Bank announced Thursday a slowing in the pace of net asset purchases, under its pandemic emergency purchase program, amid surging inflation & strong economic growth. Euro-zone inflation hit […]
Recap September 5: Worst Drought in 70 Years, Binance BANNED 3x, Bitcoin Fraud (Recap ep139)
In this week’s recap, Marcello talks about the worst drought in 70 years and how that is affecting the market and Binance has been banned by a third country. U.S. added just 235K jobs in August & unemployment rate fell to 5.2% from 5.4% in July, even as the economy appeared to falter w/surging coronavirus cases. Economists expected employment growth to slow slightly in Aug to a gain of 750K jobs, amid falling consumer confidence & disruptive school closures. Declines in restaurant […]
Recap August 29: Food Shortages Accelerating, Chaos in Afghanistan, Inflation (Recap Ep138)
In this week’s recap, U.S. stocks moved higher Friday & for the week, as the S&P 500 (1st time above 4,500) & Nasdaq hit new records, with Fed Chairman Powell stressing that the central bank shouldn’t overreact to the recent spike in inflation, meaning the easy money policies will continue for now. European stocks rose on Friday. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed +0.4% higher, with mining stocks up +1.9%, while real estate stocks added +1.5%. Commodity-linked stocks were the best weekly […]
Recap August 22: Magnetic Pole Danger, Warren Buffett Prepares for Crisis, Afghanistan (Recap Ep137)
In this week’s recap, we see that U.S. and global stocks ended generally lower, although the S&P 500 reached a new all-time high for the week. This indicates that it may be time for the market upswing to begin to decline. The American dollar rose to a 9-month high vs the Euro, Australian & New Zealand currencies on Thursday, with U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers mostly now in agreement that a stimulus taper will start later this year. As U.S. President Biden scrambles […]
Recap August 15: Mother of all crashes is coming, record highs, Lionel Messi cryptos (Recap Ep136)
In this week’s recap, we found that U.S. and global stocks, in general, ended the week higher and at several all-time highs, despite the expansion of the Delta variant of Covid-19 and global supply shortages. U.S. wholesale prices rose sharply in July for the 6th consecutive month & offered little evidence that a big wave of inflation is on the verge of cresting. The producer price index jumped +1% last month. Analysts had forecast just a +0.6% increase. The pace of wholesale […]