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By Global Risk Insights By Global Risk Insights – As US exports of liquefied natural gas have increased, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have viewed them as a way to decrease Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas. However, while US exporters have some… …read more From:: Financial Sense

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 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