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Navarro is now walking back his ‘its over’ comments!

  
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White House Trade Adviser Navarro is now speaking with the Wall Street Journal denying the trade deal with China is over.

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Earlier:
  • Peter Navarro declares trade deal with China is over
  • Risk trades getting smashed on the Navarro comments that trade deal with China is over
  • More on White House trade adviser Navarro announcing the trade deal with China is over

Now this:

  • Navarro tells the WSJ his comment about China trade being “over” not as seems.
  • Says he was trying to make broader point about “trust.”
  • ‘Its over’ was not about the phase 1 deal, that remains in place
OK, so the lack of comment from Trump was the tell – Navarro was wrong to say what he did. This is an epic f*ck up from Navarro. Says he was making a point about trust … what, not to trust a thing this idiot says?
Still, if you caught some of the moves its all good!

New York City has its first suspected case of coronavirus

  
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Patient is at Bellevue hospital

Patient is at Bellevue hospital
New York City health officials announced today that a patient at Bellevue hospital is suspected to have coronavirus.
They’re sending a sample to the CDC to confirm and if so, it would be the first case in the city. Suspicious are high because the patient tested negative for influenza and other common illnesses.
The patient is under-40 and in stable conditions. Results are expected in 36-48 hours.
The person has a travel history to China but other details are unclear. This would be the ninth case in the US after one person was confirmed to have contracted the disease Friday near Boston.

WSJ reports that ‘Iran Threatens to Pull Out of Nuclear Treaty, Like North Korea’

  
Analysis, Politics
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A piece in the Wall Street Journal on the threats from Iran (in case you missed them) that it will potentially follow the path of North Korea

  • Iran warned that if the 2015 nuclear agreement unravels, it make like NK and depart the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Says the Journal – “threat, voiced by an Iranian official to reporters”
Link here for more (WSJ is gated)
Middle East tensions continue to simmer away.
A piece in the Wall Street Journal on the threats from Iran (in case you missed them) that it will potentially follow the path of North Korea Takes notes! CC in Iran!

Lessons From John Templeton

  
  Education
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1. “I never ask if the market is going to go up or down, because I don’t know, and besides it doesn’t matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: Where is the one that is lowest priced in relation to what I believe its worth?” Like every other great investor in this series of blog posts John did do not make bets based on macroeconomic predictions. What some talking head may say about markets as a whole going up or down was simply not relevant in his investing.  John focused on companies and not macro markets. He was a staunch value investor who once said: “The best book ever written [was Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham].

 2. “If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.  I’ve found my results for investment clients were far better here [in the Bahamas] than when I had my office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.  When you’re in Manhattan, it’s much more difficult to go opposite the crowd.”  The mathematics of investing dictate that investing with the crowd means you will earn zero alpha, because the crowd is the market.  You must sometimes be willing to take a position that is different from the crowd and be right about that position, to earn alpha. John put it this way: “If you buy the same securities everyone else is buying, you will have the same results as everyone else.” 

 3. “The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.  Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.  People are always asking me: where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question…. The right question is: Where is the outlook the most miserable? For those properly prepared in advance, a bear market in stocks is not a calamity but an opportunity.”   To be able to sell when people are most pessimistic requires courage.  Being courageous is easier if you are making bets with “house money.” Making bets with the rent money is always unwise.  Templeton believed problems create opportunity. For example, it was on the day that Germany invaded Poland that he saw one of his best buying opportunities since prices were so low and values so high.  Simply telling his broker that day to buy every stock selling under $1 yielded a 4X return for John.  (more…)

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