Hour 1 – A Focus on The US Markets and Major News Events Of The Week
This week is a full two hours of markets! The first hour we will focus on the US market rebound and some of the major news event from the week.
If anyone is in Vancouver and attending the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) please be sure to swing by my booth or send me an email (Fleck@kereport.com). I’m more than happy to meet up at the show of in the afternoon to sneak away to watch the football games. If you are unable to make it email me with any companies you would like me to sit down with.
- Segment 1 – Jesse Felder, Founder of The Felder Report is with me for two segment. In the first segment we focus on the US market rebound and some analogs that could tell us where the market is heading.
- Segment 2 – Jesse is back and this time with a focus on the gold market and his thoughts on the Newmont Goldcorp deal.
- Segment 3 – Nicholas Pardini, Founder of The Davos Investment Group outlines what kind of bear market we are for this year.
- Segment 4 – Marc Chandler, Managing Partner at Bannockburn Global Forex recaps the slew of major news events this week. These include the Brexit vote, UK no confidence vote, China trade comments, and strong US economic data.
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Cory & all the KER Contributors – Thanks for putting out another great weekend show.
Hi Cory! Thanks again for the podcast! Just wanted to mention that the last couple weeks the podcast feed has been messed up, today is only 14 min.. I think just one segment is being uploaded rather than the hour.
Hey Mike, thanks for the note. I have heard from a couple people this is happening. It all started after a back end update has to be done for the site. I have talked to our webmaster and tried uploading the files differently but we can’t seem to get it sorted out. We will keep on trying but if you happen to know or hear how to fix this please let me know.
Have a great weekend!
Hedge Fund Industry Capital Falls From Record On Investor Outflows
01/18/2019 – HFR
“Hedge fund outflows in 4Q were driven by several factors, most notably investor reaction to steep losses in traditional asset investments and the sharp spike in equity market volatility leading to redemptions. However, outflows also included several large fund closures from early 4Q (pre-equity market declines in Oct & Dec), including instances of family office conversions and orderly, manager-initiated returns of investor capital, with all of these representing a stark contrast from the panic-driven redemption from the 2008 Financial Crisis,” stated Kenneth J. Heinz, President of HFR. “Trends in Macro, CTA, and RVA/Credit Multi-Strategies, and stronger relative outperformance of larger funds were all favorable throughout the intense market dislocations of December and 4Q. While the overall investor flows and performance trends were negative, it is likely that discriminating institutional investors which experienced or observed areas of strong performance through the most difficult equity and commodity trading environment in a decade will factor these positive dynamics into portfolio allocations for 2019.”
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just took home a $31 million pay packet — despite the bank’s share price dropping 9% last year
Trista Kelley and Callum Burroughs – 01/18/2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-just-got-a-31-million-salary-2019-1
Jamie Dimon: Crime pays.
Yes. It’s the tragic hypocrisy and reality.
Ayn Rand was right about a lot:
“… When you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.”
She understood that collectivism is evil: “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
+1
On January 18, 2019 at 7:12 am,
OOTB Jerry says:
Only one making money in this market is Jamie D……..with bonus of $31 MILLION…..
another give me from the FED…….
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China’s Slowdown Is Miners’ Single Biggest Fear This Year
Cecilia Jamasmie | a day ago
China’s slowdown is miners single biggest fear in 2019 — report
An economic slowdown in China, consumer of about half the world’s commodities, is the single biggest challenge for the mining and metals sector in 2019. (Image courtesy of Liebherr.)
“A worsening of the ongoing economic slowdown in China, consumer of about half the world’s commodities, is the single biggest challenge mining and metals companies face this year, a new survey of senior executives shows.”
“Beijing-related worries have already dragged industrial metals prices along and increased future demand concerns so far this year. This has led some to question whether the country’s government is doing what’s needed to stop the downward trend.”
http://www.mining.com/chinas-slowdown-miners-single-biggest-fear-year-report/
sorry – that doubled up in text and didn’t post correctly.
The Aluminium Puzzle: Record Deficit But Bombed-out Price: Andy Home
Reuters | about 21 hours ago
http://www.mining.com/web/aluminium-puzzle-record-deficit-bombed-price-andy-home/
Record $93B Private Capital Flows Into Natural Resources
Frik Els | about 16 hours ago
http://www.mining.com/record-93b-private-capital-flows-natural-resources/
AngloGold faces South African dilemma as M&A gold rush quickens
Bloomberg News | about 21 hours ago
“Two decades ago, Anglo American Plc created the world’s No. 1 gold miner by merging its South African assets. Having long since been eclipsed by its rivals, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. may need to leave home to keep up.”
“Newmont Mining Corp. and Barrick Gold Corp. have forged mega deals that will extend their lead over AngloGold. Saddled with Mponeng, the world’s deepest mine in a dying South African industry that’s struggling to contain costs, the third-biggest producer could boost its value by leaving the country, according to Rene Hochreiter, analyst at Noah Capital Markets in Johannesburg.”
“Their best bet is to get out of South Africa and leave Mponeng behind,” he said. “The costs never come down in South African gold.”
http://www.mining.com/web/anglogold-faces-south-african-dilemma-ma-gold-rush-quickens/
Barrick mulls selling Zambia Copper mine over higher taxes
Cecilia Jamasmie | about 3 hours ago
http://www.mining.com/barrick-mulls-selling-zambia-copper-mine-higher-taxes/
The Consensus Is Clear: Copper Is Headed Higher – CEO
Jan 20, 2019
“Supply-demand fundamentals swing in copper’s favor, and everyone seems to agree, said Vince Sorace, CEO of Kutcho Copper. ”
“There isn’t a corporate or an analyst or a strategic that I’ve talked to in the last year that isn’t on the same page with respect to, they see, a continuation with respect to demand, and that could be driven from a number of different places,” Sorace told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.”
“More importantly, they’re seeing a waning supply,” he added.
Open Square Capital 2018 letter to clients
– January 2, 2019
“Market sentiment is a mercurial thing. It flits around fundamentals and sprinkles pixie dust that propels prices higher, or black powder that combusts and burns. With the right circumstances in the final quarter, it became the latter as the market scorched itself and created a wildfire that raged uncontained.”
“Fear replaced greed as macroeconomic concerns, quantitative tightening and US/China trade tensions collided to deflate the market. A correction that began in October took hold by November and accelerated into the year-end as
computerized trading algorithms (“CTA”) took the baton and drove the market and oil prices lower.”
“Make no mistake, the oil sell-off had little to do with fundamentals, this was largely about momentum and correlation as oil shed 40% in less than three months…”
http://cdn.ceo.ca.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1e44lnm-Open-Square-Capital-Investor-Letter-2018-Q4.pdf
Great show Cory; thanks! I’m always partial to Jesse Felder who in my book get’s the Oscar. I consider myself a lucky man to be able to listen to his comments on markets and gold at no cost. His ideas of where gold is headed and how it will get there is much different than most other analysts. If you need to feel better about your gold holdings, listen to Jesse.
I’ve another question for the board and would appreciate comments. Recently noticed the volume on the S&P Index on a 10 year, weekly chart. Can anyone tell me what accounted for the huge rise in Ave. Weekly shares traded at the beginning of 2017? From 2012 thru 2016, shares traded on the S&P were slightly below 4 Billion a week. The last 2 weeks of 2016, all of 2017 and 2018 the average weekly traded jumped to over 10 Billion and never looked back. That’s a huge amount of new money …………..or was it credit?? Any ideas?
Bitcoin Black (BCB) January 2019 Update
Launch
We have kept pushing the launch date back because of constantly making tweaks and improvements.
We now have an official launch date of February 1st 2019.Larger scale testing is taking place in the meantime. A solid development team continues to form and will continue to grow and become stronger as BCB matures.
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Hey Cory, you going to run into Peter Who at the show up there?
If so, tell him I said hello.
Thanks for the weekend show guys as always.
Much appreciated.
Cheers.
Hi CFS.