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By FS Staff By FS Staff – Jim Puplava recently interviewed estate planning expert Elizabeth Morgan who explains how taxes can be affected by the political climate and changing political administrations. She discusses the effect of sunsetting exemptions… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Geopolitical Futures By GPF – Oil production in Russia is back with a vengeance. Whether Moscow ever really adhered to its agreements to cut production is a matter of debate, but the government’s most recent production data should put that debate to rest. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Oil Price Oil Price – Iran’s crude oil production fell by more than 400,000 per day from May to September 2018, reaching an average of just 3.4 million barrels per day last month, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Short Term Energy Outlook published… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus – The current earnings season has reached a record 80% of companies beating estimates. Such optimism will need tapering in the weeks ahead, putting stock market multiples at risk. With stocks stagnating despite great earnings, prices… …read more

By Oil Price – Strong global oil demand growth, quickly falling inventories, and geopolitical issues from Iran to Venezuela could push oil prices to as high as $100 a barrel in 2019, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – Recent talks over this past weekend have helped make it clear that both sides are interested in reaching an agreement. China has already agreed to increase its imports of U.S. products, and on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Peter Boockvar By Peter Boockvar – If only the curve could talk and tell us what it’s thinking. The US 2s/10s spread is down to 42 bps, a fresh 11 year low. This after a slew of economic data was seen overseas and before key data in the US later today. Italian bonds are

By FS Staff By FS Staff – “When we look at the S&P 500 specific advance-decline line, it hit a new high already (last) week and that tells you that there’s good internal strength in the index,” Hill said. “I would expect it also to move to a new high in the coming weeks… …read

By Adrian Ash By Adrian Ash – Gold prices slipped within $1 of yesterday’s new 2018 lows in Dollar terms in London on Wednesday as the US currency traded near this week’s new multi-month highs on the forex market. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – When we last spoke to John Kosar at Asbury Research earlier this year, he told Financial Sense Newshour listeners to watch for a spike in oil this summer. So far, that’s exactly what’s happened and Kosar warned a further spike is possible… …read more From:: Financial Sense