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The Hope For A "Greater Fool"

The Hope For A "Greater Fool"

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

Last week Frank Chaparro penned an interesting note:

“It looks like this bull market just won’t quit. Friday marked the 2,003rd trading day since the stock market rally began back in 2009, making it even longer than the bull market that preceded the 1929 crash.

 

Mexican Peso Soars To Highest Level Since Trump Election After Banxico Adopts $20 Billion Hedge

Mexican Peso Soars To Highest Level Since Trump Election After Banxico Adopts $20 Billion Hedge

At the start of January, when the Mexican Central Bank spent $2 billion to defend its currency in a rare intervention in the spot market, and which lasted just a few hours before the selling resumed, Goldman analyst Albert Ramos had some advice for Banxico: don't use reserves to defend the Peso as Mexico would have greater need for them elsewhere.

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CSX To Fire Over 20% Of Management-Level Employees

CSX To Fire Over 20% Of Management-Level Employees

Earlier today, the WSJ reported that railroad giant CSX Corp, currently embroiled in a protracted activist investor fight, said that Michael Ward, its chairman and CEO will retire in May as railroad veteran Hunter Harrison and an activist investor try to shake up the company and grab the top spot. Harrison, a railroad veteran who unexpectedly announced his early departure from Canadian Pacific Railway in January foregoing tens of millions in potential bonuses, has been working with Paul Hilal of the Mantle Ridge activist fund, to become the company’s next chief executive.

SocGen: "The Average Stock Is Still 26% Down From Their All-Time Highs"

SocGen: "The Average Stock Is Still 26% Down From Their All-Time Highs"

With the S&P making new all time highs on a daily (and hourly) basis, and the VIX just why of all time lows, one has to look hard to find something that is amiss with the "market." Which is precisely what SocGen's Andrew Lapthorne did recently, and in his latest report he warns that global indices hitting all time highs is "disguising an underbelly of trouble."

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