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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 Stratfor – Canada has a trade war on its hands — and it is one entirely of its own making. For the past four months, two of its western provinces, Alberta and British Columbia, have been exchanging blows over an expansion to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Jill Mislinski – Let’s do some analysis of the Consumer Price Index, the best-known measure of inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) divides all expenditures into eight categories and assigns a relative size to each. …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

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, here’s what our staff is either reading this summer or recommends for reading, if you haven’t already made these books part of your list. Some of these you’ll recognize, by the way, as book interviews conducted on our… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – Almost a third of Banks are experiencing a spike in consumer credit card defaults to levels associated with recessions. While it could be a canary in the coal mine warning of a crisis rumbling through… …read more From:: Financial Sense