Wherever one looks there are disconnects... between bonds and stocks, between risk and uncertainty, between hope and reality. But, as former fund manager Richard Breslow notes, most critically, there is a divergence between data and Fed actions, and this time is different as central banks appear to have shifted into 'whatever it takes' to tighten policy from emergency levels mode.
As Bloomberg's Richard Breslow writes,
Start buying oil.
That's not only this morning's recommendation by Dennis Gartman but, as this afternoon, also Citi's commodities team (led by OPEC's impressario Ed Morse) which moments ago issued a report according to which crude oil markets will not only bottom, but more importantly, "investors should position now for a potential V-shaped rebound in crude oil prices, as price risk seems asymmetrically skewed to the upside."
Do two wrongs make a right? But we digress...
Not to be outdone by Jeff Bezos' "out of the box thinking", Elon Musk has turned the amplifier of fast money to '11'...
Car-maker, tech stock, solar company... and now music streaming service.
Oh the genius of Elon Musk... "you just don't get it"
As ReCode reports, put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file:
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com
Infographic website Visual Capitalist recently published an eye-catching infographic on behalf of Sprott Physical Bullion Trusts which featured 4 well-known billionaire investors and their supposed investments in gold. The infographic is titled “Why the World’s Billionaire Investors Buy Precious Metals” and can be seen here.
The 4 investors profiled in the infographic are:
Last February we described some of the "horror stories" of corporate leverage that emerged as a result of China's unprecedented offshore M&A spree that emerged in 2015 and raged through most of 2016: after all, with over $100 billion in foreign acquisitions, the bulk of the funding would inevitably come from debt. These were some of the examples we highlighted: