Banks, airlines all up while faangs are taking a bit of a break. If you ask me whats the best Case Scenario for the market to the end of the year, i would say this whole narrative about how its like the top five stocks driving the market, i would like to see that come to an end and Everything Else play catch up and start to participate and that is literally what weve seen take place. We had a breadth thrust a week and a half ago where almost every stock broke back above its 200 day. We now have more s p 500 components that are up on the year than down on the year for the First Time Since march i think alphabet is the most recent performer but the faangs are not part of this the whole narrative out of the window that this is index fund money and only microsoft driving this is gone now you have a broadbased rally, not based on nonsense, companies have rising earnings expectations, almost every sector weve even got performance at companies that six months ago you could have made a case to
Scales back on the number of pilgrims it allowed to perform the hodge this year due to the pandemic. In a move limiting the scope of the conflict in the u. A. E. Backed separatists in southern yemen said there are abandoning demands for self rule. It out it states has announced the withdrawal of up to 12000. 00 troops from germany nearly half will be repositioned to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics that follows an earlier decision by donald trump to cut troops blaming germany for failing to spend enough in defense its a move that Officials Say will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete. As anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States just months the United States has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the Core Principles of enhancing u. S. And nato deterrence of r
While futures are off their highs following the release of that complaint but we will still be up about 50 points on the dow, up maybe 4 on the s p, 4. 5 on the nasdaq. We were higher than that before the whistleblower complaint was released. We have come down a little bit but not that much. Look, this is going to be a very big day for politics and of course, for your money. You are going to see Speaker Pelosis news conference. Thats in our 10 00 hour. The speaker owns the impeachment process. She favors quote, a quick, narrow impeachment probe focused on ukraine. Hold on. Theres a great deal happening on the corporate front as well. First off, peloton goes public at 29 a share. This is another big name ipo which is losing money and its facing lawsuits from music stars who want more money for appearing on the peloton workout screen. We will show you the first peloton trade. How about this. An aboutface for mcdonalds. Yes, they are planning a meatless burger. Watch beyond meats stock go
10 year yield and as you see since basically the European Union finally began quantitative easing in earnest theyve gone into negative territory but i tell you whats remarkable is that you know we made a film like 10 years ago about the collapse of iceland we went to iceland about 6 months 9 months before it collapsed and predicted that it would collapse because it was a serious ponzi scheme where the banks were lending. To speculate and the result of that speculation in the Housing Market would be used as collateral at the bank to create more lending so it became a huge ponzi scheme force a collapsed now people talk about these negative Interest Rates they think its the result of some policy by someone in doing some economic bennett benefit but they dont understand is that is the biggest bubble in history the sovereign bond bubble is by far the biggest ponzi scheme bubble its ever been created in the history of the world and when you talk about these sovereign bonds trading in negativ
A settlement in gold and then that was stopped in 71. 00 then you had c. I. Currencies or franc the other feet of currencies and thats how you end up with a global ponzi scheme and you had as nomi prins writes in her excellent book collusion about how the Central Banks then were no longer competing with each other in a mercantile a system but became their coconspirators in a global monitor a system where each bank was simply passing the hot potato around the world and there was never any moment when Interest Rates are not being cut over the past 40 years 45 years thats never happened in one country may have raised a bit but another country would have dropped by considerably more the net result is now the goal of the globe is their debt to g. D. P. For planet earth is approaching 350 percent well some say that the u. S. Dollars back backed by oil so it always has been backed by something hard. Liquid oil the other thing that were seeing however is as Michael Hudson dr Michael Hudson an