Higher carrots and tougher sanctions now while it seems that the risk of a full blown currency wars are now at diminished both economies have been ravaged by the ongoing trade war so after all the dust settles who is in better shape now lets take a look at this this shows the 4 major Central Banks the e. C. B. The bank of japan the peoples bank of china and the fed over in red and their total assets so what do you notice here this is a really interesting trend right now because all of the worlds Central Banks are kind of converging together and coming together at a very similar valuation up here but then theres the one the fed thats actually breaking the trend here everyone else has come to an equal stance at about 5. 2 trillion in assets but the fed has been on autopilot to reduce its Balance Sheet the reverse of everybody else they did so through a series of quantitative tightening starting at the end of 2017 but now this has resulted in a liquidity drain that is tightening the u. S.
Where the currency manipulator label while it is in part symbolic it can actually open doors for very real consequences by doesnt it country as a currency manipulator it opens the doors for trump to set more formal punishment higher carrots and tougher sanctions now while it seems that the risk of a full blown currency wars are now at diminished both economies have been ravaged by the ongoing trade war so i after all the dust settles who is in better shape now lets take a look at this this shows the 4 major Central Banks the e. C. B. The bank of japan the peoples bank of china and the fed over in red and their total assets so what do you notice here this is a really interesting trend right now because all of the worlds Central Banks are kind of converging together and coming together at a very similar valuation up here but then theres the one the fed thats actually breaking the trend here everyone else has come to equal stands at about 5. 2 trillion in assets but the fed has been on au
True chinese trade delegation will travel to washington in september to conduct the next round of face to face negotiations and its most recent statement on thursday china indicated that it might not move forward with the latest round of tariffs on the u. S. Instead stressing the need for the worlds 2 largest economies to the conflict the ministry of commerce spokesperson golfing said that china has ample means for. But thinks that the question should be discussed. Should be discussed now is about removing tariffs as it is not conducive to china or the us both china and the us seem to want to call a ceasefire after this year long trade war on monday trump conceded that trumps phone calls from china did not happen the way he said they did and that it was his attempt to project optimism to boost markets trump has been increasingly concerned about the markets inability to breach 3000 and is agitated the destroyed war with china is dragging on months longer than expected. Earlier this mont
Number came in soft enough to illustrate that inflations finally running out of steam so when the c pichlt came in around 3 way down from where it was before we all cheered. Many people bought stocks. Everything was fine, right wrong. That rally was a totally revolting development. Sure enough the averages spent the rest of the session selling off dow finishing just up 53 points while nasdaq advanced minor. A far cry from that yoef heated opening. Theres so many reasons why it was a mistake to buy stocks this morning. Because ive been spending this whole week teaching you how to avoid the kind of mistakes that make you give up on the entire stock market were going to unpack this one. Unpack it good mistake number one the vast majority of people who follow the stock market closely were predicting that the Consumer Price index would be up around 3. 3 . It was actually up 3. 2 . Take note. When most prognosticators predict 3. 3 inflation and yet 3. 2 inflation, guess what its not a surpri
Were always keeping an eye on tech. For example, apple share, can they stem what has been a sevenday slide . Chip stocks, though, continue to outperform. And the other big story, that weight loss boom and novo nordisk overtakes the market. Market reaction to the jobs number, not just the headline and the unemployment at 3. 9 but revisions taking about a third away the last couple of months. I think those of us who are used to the precision of Artificial Intelligence and generative a. I. Are just in shock that there could be a number thats this far off. This is the kind of thing that jensen huang could solve with his eyes closed. Why its so important, this takes away what was the hot number that made us a great threat and took away a spring rate cut. 3. 9. We know they remind me of the dow jones average. Very interesting headline, but its not really whats at the guts of this, but in a political year, what that says is, hey, look, the economy is slowing and maybe the fed should have pres