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Perhaps you read yesterday that the Communist dictatorship of China decided yet, again, to dump trillions of yuan into their fake economy to try to create the simulacrum of prosperity. As before, countless times, it popped the stock market higher and, as has always happened, it eroded almost immediately. As I type this, the majority of gains that trillions of new debt accomplished has been laid waste. Here is what the FXI has done over the past twenty-four hours:
Let’s look at some pictures of the developing risk situation in the US stock market, in light of Inauguration Day upcoming on January 20, 2025, when the new president will be sworn in and his “Make America Great Again” jingle reconstituted. This group of indicators is far from exhaustive, as we use several other indicators and tools in the NFTRH service, many of which also currently forecast a coming phase when risk is to be realized, rather than just implied, as it is now.
(more…)The pledge to tax all Mexican imports by 25% is causing the Mexican country fund to sink even deeper.
The honeymoon can’t be over if they haven’t even thrown the wedding yet. Still, the Trump exuberance from the past week seems to have fizzled out in most places. Below is just a sampling of the kinds of stocks which had bonkers rallies for a few days but seem to be in full-sputter mode (or at least are so lofty that they are crazy-vulnerable).
