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Market Summary: The long and the short of it. The corona-virus once again dominated the markets with both Europe and the Americas nose-diving into the red on opening and following the Asian markets lower. EUROPE The European markets finished sharply lower with shares in the German Dax -2.74% leading the region down, while the French […]

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 Market Summary: The long and the short of it. Stocks got hammered at the opening of Asian markets after a weekend of nervous headlines surrounding the Wuhan coronavirus. All eyes and ears await the meeting between the World Health Organization and the Chinese officials. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Composite is down -2.75%, the Japanese Nikkei down

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Important Portfolio Update

All Positions Liquidated. + 29.68% We will keep positions in Gold and Silver and anything essential in times of crisis. In 2013 we wrote; “This is the largest peacetime accumulation of debt in world history and our contention is that this ends through war, economic wars, currency wars, trade wars and finally physical war. War

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 Market Summary: The long and the short of it. US Markets: Equity markets opened up pessimistically in morning trading and dove into the red. Investors regained their courage on the back of the Federal Reserve’s Chairmen Jerome Powell’s testimony to congress. The Chairman said the U.S. Central bank is done cutting interest rates for the

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Market Summary: The long and the short of it. U.S. Markets: The equity markets stalled again yesterday following Chinese media comments on President Trump’s speech to the Economic Club of New York. China Global Times said, “Quite a lot of criticisms and complaints about China from President Trump in his latest speech, but hardly anything

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 Market Summary: The long and the short of it. US Markets: Equity markets were again dominated by President Trump’s remarks over the weekend, dashing investor optimism that Washington and Beijing would soon reach a deal to end the paralyzing trade war. Both the S&P 500 and the New York Composite (NYA) dove into the red

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Portfolio Update

  The Impartial Lens Portfolio:  We believe in a free market. We would rather have no war, no stupidity, no crony-capitalism, no nepotism, no corruption, no political circus, no fake news and we could very well do without the other seven deadly sins. Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. In reality, we have

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Market Summary: The long and the short of it. U.S. markets: President Trump tossed a spanner into the markets on Friday. Confirming Peter Navarro‘s warnings, the President tweeted that he has not agreed to rollback tariffs with China, thus refuting Larry Kudlow’s comments. Navarro 1:0 Kudlow. The markets subsequently fell at the open and it

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