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Former Chief Market Strategist for Sutton & Associates, LLC, Freelance Writer
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Andy Sutton is formerly the Chief Market Strategist for Sutton Associates, LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He writes the periodic Economic and Financial Commentary My Two Cents with many articles co-authored by Graham Mehl. He earned an MBA with honors in ...more

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Two Steps Back To Get One Step Forward?
We’ve been waiting for the U.S. economy to reach escape velocity for the last 6 years. What we mean is we’ve been waiting for the economy to finally become self-stimulating & no longer require monetary or fiscal stimulus to keep it from stalling out.
Deutsche Bank Clients Unable To Access Cash Due To IT ‘Glitch’
The bank suffered a further blow to its image this weekend with a third IT outage in the space of a few months on Saturday “that prevented some customers getting access to their money for a short time.”
Saudi Arabia Injects $5.3 Billion Into Banking System
Saudi Arabia’s central bank stepped up efforts to support lenders in the Arab world’s biggest economy as they grapple with the effects of low oil prices.
State Tax Revenues Plunge In Q2
Tax collections have been particularly weak in states with economies that are heavily reliant on oil or other natural resources. In the second quarter, growth in individual income taxes from withholding has slowed considerably.
Another Fund Manager Goes Short
We find it surprising how, having covered the unprecedented growth in US corporate debt over the past few years, which has more than doubled from $2 trillion at around the time of the financial crisis to approximately $6 trillion currently…
Banks Want A ‘Special’ Brexit Deal
Banks want Theresa May to strike a Brexit deal just for them. The prime minister is being lobbied by finance companies to win them an interim agreement with the European Union before formal exit talks start
US Recession Jitters Stoke Fears Of Impotent Fed And Fiscal Paralysis – UK Telegraph
An ominous paper by the US Federal Reserve has become the hottest document in high finance. It was intended to reassure us that the world’s hegemonic central bank still has ample firepower to overcome the next downturn.
Health Care Marketplace Rate Hikes Could Threaten Enrollment
Many of next year’s premium rate increases on the Affordable Care Act exchanges threaten to surpass the high and wildly fluctuating rates that characterized the individual insurance market before the health law took effect.
“Apple Tax” Shows Wisdom Of Brexit
It’s strange that, even now, the Brexit vote is routinely referred to as an expression of anger or frustration — as if the most easily baffled half of the population had voted in response to forces they could not understand.
S&P Short Interest Reaches 3-Year Low
As Barclays reported, for S&P 500 stocks, the flow to US equities from short-covering since March has been $60bn, and $26bn since June. This means that as of this moment, the S&P500 short interest as a percentage of market cap is at 3 year lows.
A Stunning Admission From Deutsche Bank.. Why A Shock To The Markets Is Needed
Without an external economic shock it is hard to see policymakers being prepared to take dramatic, fiscal action to jumpstart the global economy and bounce it out of a financial repression
‘Bit-Bail’ To Swipe 36% In Historic Bail-In
Bitfinex announced it would pull a page right out of Europe’s bank resolution mechanism, saying that all of its users will lose 36% of their deposits after it concluded its review the massive hack, in what is set to be the first ever bitcoin bail-in.
Jobs ‘Rigging’ Continues – CESBD ‘Adds’ 112,000 Mystery Jobs
With many expecting a payrolls whisper number to come below the consensus print of 180K, last week the BLS reported that July payrolls soared by 255K, above even the highest Wall Street forecast.
Goldman: Treasury Markets No Longer React To Economic Data
For all the younger traders in our audience, we would like to inform you that maybe not now, but once upon a time, markets actually used to respond to economic data.
Goldman Gets Away With It Again
The Fed announced that Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $36.3 million to settle allegations by the Federal Reserve that it obtained and used confidential regulatory materials from the central bank two years ago.
Alasdair Macleod – Forget Brexit, It’s The Banks
Brexit is not the most important problem facing markets, it is mounting problems in the European banks.
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