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[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Waver Amid Lingering Bank Woes: Markets Wrap [Reuters] First Republic Bank shares plummet day after hitting record low [Reuters] U.S. five-year credit default swaps hit new 2011 high [Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Stock Selloff Eases After $446 Billion in Value Wiped Out [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Edges Higher After Dropping on Concerns Over Demand Outlook [Yahoo/Bloomberg] US […]

Central Banks Accumulate More Gold Than Ever Chile Nationalizes All Lithium Assets Why Is China Aggressively Building out Its Railroads? Required Reading – Vaclav Havel “The Power of the Powerless” (1978) – Click Here https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html The Early Bird Gets The Gold April 26, 2023 “If you look at the steeply inverted yield curve today, defined […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Fall Amid Mixed Earnings; Bonds Rise: Markets Wrap [Reuters] First Republic shares plunge as $100 bln deposit flight jolts investors [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Swings as Muddy Economic Outlook Blunts Supply-Driven Gains [Yahoo/Bloomberg] First Republic’s Strains Jar Investors Anew After Weeks of Calm [Yahoo/Bloomberg] China’s Deepening Selloff Shows Investors Are Losing Confidence [Reuters] UBS hit […]

In one of his famous pearls of wisdom, King Solomon advised, “by wise guidance you can wage war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Though not a warrior himself, he likely learned this truth from his martially brilliant father. It was a lesson Solomon’s son learned only in part (you don’t need merely […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Struggle With Focus on Earnings, Rates: Markets Wrap [Reuters] Dollar edges lower; on track for second straight monthly loss [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Steadies After Slumping Last Week on Global Demand Fears [Yahoo/Bloomberg] China Stocks Post Biggest Two-Day Drop This Year on Geopolitics, Growth Woes [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Record Gold Prices in India Slow Buying in […]

[Reuters] Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection, begins liquidation sale [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Fed’s Next Rate Move May Crystallize With Coming Data: Eco Week [Reuters] Russia’s Medvedev warns Moscow will scrap grain deal if G7 bans exports [Reuters] Paris, Kyiv, Baltic states dismayed after China envoy questions Ukraine sovereignty [Reuters] Foreign states rush to evacuate […]

Author Nassim Taleb accurately observed that, “experience in finance with a discount rate near zero is like having studied physics except without gravity.” After well over a decade of the most activist and loose monetary policy in history, we have indeed been living in an alternate universe. HAI continues to expect recessionary wreckage and a […]

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