31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Why Wages Have Lost Ground in the 21st Century
Why Wages Have Lost Ground in the 21st Century
By Charles Hugh Smith – The problem with stagnant wages is our socioeconomic system requires ever-higher incomes to function. One of the enduring mysteries for conventional economists is why wages aren’t rising for the bottom 95%…
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Made in the USA (by Robots): China to Open Sewbot Factory in Arkansas, Producing Shirts for 33 Cents
Made in the USA (by Robots): China to Open Sewbot Factory in Arkansas, Producing Shirts for 33 Cents
By Michael Shedlock – A Chinese T-shirt company is setting up shop in Arkansas, lured by US sewbots and lower production costs. It will cost about 33 cents to produce a shirt. Please consider China Snaps Up America’s Cheap Robot Labor.
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on SVXY Is Suddenly The Largest VIX-Linked ETP, As Inverse Volatility Bets Roll In
SVXY Is Suddenly The Largest VIX-Linked ETP, As Inverse Volatility Bets Roll In
Would you believe that VXX (iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN, Expense Ratio 0.89%, $1.35 billion in AUM) is no longer the largest “Volatility” based ETP in the U.S. listed marketplace, at least for the moment?
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Recent Small Cap Popularity Continues As We Head Into September (IWM)
Recent Small Cap Popularity Continues As We Head Into September (IWM)
Analyst/ETF Trader Paul Weisbruch of Street One Financial brings us his daily fund flows update, which today looks at unabated inflows into both large cap and small cap equities on the final day of August.
The dip-buying momentum has not abated in the past couple sessions, accompanied and perhaps even preceded by larger inflows as we mentioned in two of the largest Equity Index ETFs, SPY and IWM (Russell 2000).
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on U.S. Releases 500K Barrels Of Oil From Strategic Reserves Amid Harvey Chaos (USO)
U.S. Releases 500K Barrels Of Oil From Strategic Reserves Amid Harvey Chaos (USO)
From Tyler Durden: The U.S. Energy Department announced on Thursday that it would release 500,000 barrels of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a result of the disruption to the US petroleum industry following Hurricane Harvey.
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on What’s Driving The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) Higher This Year?
What’s Driving The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) Higher This Year?
From WisdomTree: One of the best aspects that WisdomTree brings to the table is the sheer breadth of investment strategies. If we think in terms of U.S. equities, as an example, there are 15 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the returns of 15 proprietary Indexes.
What IS (and ISN’T) working at a particular time tells us important information about the U.S. equity market.
WisdomTree’s U.S. Equity ETFs in 2017
31 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The SEC Is Requesting Key Documents DryShips
The SEC Is Requesting Key Documents DryShips
Shares of the bulk shipping company are down 12 percent this morning after reporting a $37.12 per share loss in the second quarter.