Submitted by Brett Arends via MarketWatch.com,
Hard to believe, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average could fall by another 1,000 to 5,000 points and still not be “cheap” compared with long-term stock-valuation measures.
That’s the stark conclusion from an analysis comparing current stock prices to underlying measures such as per-share revenue, earnings and corporate net worth.
For citizens of Nicolas Maduro's socialist paradise the news is terrible, and getting worse with every passing day.
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,
One week ago, in the aftermath of the dramatic downgrade to junk of Asian commodity giant Noble Group, we showed readers the list of potential "fallen angel" companies, those "investment "grade companies (such as Freeport McMoRan whose CDS trades at near-default levels) who are about to be badly junked, focusing on the 18 or so US energy companies that are about to lose their investment grade rating.
In November of 2014, we announced the quiet death of the petrodollar.
The system which underwrote decades of dollar dominance and kept a perpetual bid under USD assets met an untimely demise when the Saudis moved to bankrupt the US shale complex by deliberately suppressing oil prices.
The implications, we said, would be far-reaching.