Total Non-Financial Debt (NFD) expanded (nominal) $721 billion (strongest growth since Q2 ’18) during the quarter to a record $52.579 TN. NFD [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany It has been a dichotomous environment for hard assets securities.  On one hand, because of the toll [...]

[Reuters] China data, Gulf tensions see bond yields slip, stocks suffer [FXStreet] Poor Chinese data sends Gold to 14-month high [Reuters] Oil set [...]

[Reuters] Oil surges after Gulf tanker attacks, stocks claw higher [Reuters] Base metals fall amid trade uncertainty, weak China data [Reuters] Oil [...]

[Reuters] Shares snap seven-day hot streak [CNN] Hong Kong stocks fall as huge protests hit financial center [Reuters] Oil falls over 2% on weaker [...]

[Reuters] World shares rally again on Trump tariff relief, Fed hopes [Reuters] U.S. underlying producer prices increase solidly in May [Reuters] [...]

[Reuters] Stocks climb on trade, rate cut optimism; yuan falters [Reuters] Oil rises as Saudi sees OPEC, Russia restricting supplies for longer [...]

[Reuters] G20 finance chiefs express concern over risks from ‘intensified’ trade conflict [CNBC] Trump is ‘perfectly happy’ to hit [...]

[Reuters] U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin says Trump-Xi meeting has parallels to Buenos Aires summit [Reuters] G20 finance chiefs to warn of trade [...]

“Stocks Eye Best Week of 2019 on ‘Powell Put’ Bets,” read the Friday Bloomberg headline. By the close of Friday trading, the S&P500 had [...]

[Reuters] Stocks gain after sharp slowdown in May jobs growth [CNBC] 10-year Treasury yield drops below 2.06%, its lowest since September 2017, after [...]

[Reuters] Rate cut bets buoy U.S. stocks despite rise in trade tensions [Reuters] Yen gains on U.S.-Mexico trade woes; ECB awaited [Reuters] Trump [...]