LONDON—Stock markets headed south on Sept. 17 as investors took fright at the news that Washington was set to announce a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods in the latest escalation of their trade conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected announcement of a href=”https://www.theepochtimes.com/source-says-trump-wants-tariffs-on-200-billion-more-chinese-goods-despite-talks_2661601.html”>new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods drew an immediate […]

To understand the routs in Turkey, Argentina, and other emerging markets, one needs to understand the anatomy of a credit bubble. They are all the same, although the companies and countries caught up in them are different. Credit conflagrations are normally ignited by a small, wrong-footed speculator. Those with the thinnest capital have the most […]

In his newsletter and blog Altucher Confidential, maverick investor and author James Altucher usually focuses on out-of-the-box investments like bitcoin, obscure pharma stocks, or buying a laundromat But the common stock market is not beyond him. An eternal optimist, James came during the depths of the last crisis in 2009 to predict a fantastic run […]

James Altucher is a lifelong learner: Not only did he go to university to study computer science but later taught himself to be a successful investor, entrepreneur, and publisher. In his investments, Altucher frequently manages to discover hidden aspects of a company or an economy and turn a tidy profit. The publisher of the Altucher Confidential […]

Earnings season couldn’t be coming at a better time for the stock market.

Both bitcoin skeptics and supporters get too hung up on the price. If the price is up, bitcoin is taking over the world, say the supporters. If the price is down, it’s proof that bitcoin is a scam or a bubble, according to the skeptics. The problem with this simplistic analysis—it depends on the whims […]

The 4 percent crash in the U.S. dollar in January didn’t harm the stock market, given that the S&P 500 rose 7.4 percent through January before the recent crash. Neither did the 0.45 percent rise in yields to 2.85 percent on the 10-year Treasury. People thought those two factors would not hurt stocks. Yes, the […]