An Angry Japan Responds To Trump's Toyota Taunts
After Trump's Thursday morning twitter taunt targeted Toyota, when the President-elect warned Japan’s biggest carmaker that it will face heavy penalties if it chooses to make cars for the US market in...
View ArticleBill Gross Compares Trump To Mussolini
To say that the "former bond king" Bill Gross - unlike his "royal successor" Jeffrey Gundlach, or the world's biggest hedge fund manager Ray Dalio - is not a fan of Donald Trump, or his proposed...
View ArticleWeekend Reading: The Beginning Of The Ending
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,A few week’s ago I discussed the post-election surge in the market based on rather optimistic outlooks as opposed to the technical underpinnings...
View ArticleNothing Has Really Changed in the Oil Market Since the 2014 Crash (Video)
By EconMatters We discuss the EIA Weekly Oil Report, check out the Futures Market, and discuss the longer term outlook for the market given mature and declining demand in the developed world, massive...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler To Invest $1 Billion In The US, Add 2,000 Jobs
Suddenly the coolest thing in corporate America is announcing major capital investments in the US while adding thousands of American jobs, in other words the opposite of the globalization trend of the...
View ArticleFBI Arrests Volkswagen Exec Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud The US
While various other carmakers, such as GM, Ford, Fiat and Toyota, have had their share of headaches in recent weeks worried if and when Trump will tweet about them next, the epicenter of all car...
View Article"It Finally Happened": Trump Thanks Fiat And Ford For Investing In The US,...
Having succeeded in turning around Ford's plans to invest $1.6 billion in Mexico last week, and converting it into a US-targeted investment into the US last week, after similar twitter-based...
View ArticleFiat CEO Warns May Shut All Mexico Production If Trump Tariff Too High
Agree with his proposed policies or not, it's difficult to argue that Trump is delivering on his promises to the autoworkers of the Midwest who single-handedly voted him into the White House. Before...
View ArticleFrontrunning: January 10
Immigration in focus as U.S. Senate confronts Trump nominees (Reuters)Jeff Sessions to Be Grilled on Race in First of Hearings (WSJ)Libya Ramps Up Oil Production, Threatening OPEC Plans (WSJ)Valeant to...
View ArticleIs Israel, Not Russia, To Blame For Hillary's Election Loss?
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,Mainstream media, led by the Washington Post, put on a blistering attack blaming Russia for Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump.Like lemmings over a...
View ArticleGM Shares Jump 5% After Forecasting Higher 2017 Profits, Strong China Sales,...
So much for fears that a mini feud between the president-elect and General Motors, which was the target of one of Donald Trump's "make it in the USA or else" tweets, could pressure the stock of the US...
View ArticleGundlach Calls Gross A "Second Tier Bond Manager" And Other Highlights From...
While Gundlach spoke for an hour and a half in his first webcast of 2017, perhaps his longest presentation to the broader public yet, and covered many areas in the presentation titled "Just Markets",...
View ArticleHoover's Folly
Submitted by 720Global's Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,In 1930, Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. As the world entered the early phases of the Great...
View ArticleA Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Experiment of...
Preface: Washington's Blog reached out to Dr. Haering after reading several excellent articles on India's cash ban. Dr. Haering then combined the information into a single article for us. We lightly...
View ArticleFutures Rise On Friday 13th Ahead Of Deluge Of Bank Earnings; Dollar...
European shares rose as Fiat rebounded on hopes concerns about parallel to Volkswagen are overblown, Asian stocks were little as Chinese shares fell to the lowest level of 2017 after poor export data,...
View ArticleAs Wall Street Tries To Trade On Trump's Tweets, Problems Emerge
Remember when investing was about reading financial reports, following news, anticipating cash flows, inferring the impact of monetary policy on risk prices, occasionally looking at charts (because...
View ArticleUS Military Deploys Nuke-Spotting Radar To Monitor North Korea
The Sea-based X-Band Radar has deployed out of Pearl Harbor after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un recently said his country was in the "final stages" of test-launching an intercontinental ballistic...
View ArticleGM Will Invest Over $1 Billion In New US Factories, Create More Than 1,000 Jobs
Not a week seems to pass without some an automaker, foreign or domestic, making an unexpected round of concessions when it comes to Trump's ambitions to "Make it in the US."And so, days after first...
View ArticleHyundai To Boost Investment In The US To $3.1 Billion Over 5 Years
Having been unleashed with a series of angry Trump tweets, the outpouring of carmarker investments in the US has turned into a veritable torrent, and just hours after GM announced it would invest $1...
View ArticleTrump Touts "People Are Seeing Big Stuff” After GM Unveils 7,000 New U.S. Jobs
Confirming rumors that leaked yesterday, GM has just announced plans to invest $1 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations and add 7,000 jobs domestically, over the next "few years". Of course,...
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