Jeffrey Gundlach & Wilbur Ross: Stocks, Bonds, Bitcoin, Tariffs & China

Jeffrey Gundlach On Bonds, Tariffs And Bitcoin

Gundlach: "Bitcoin is the Dot Com of our world today." CNBC.com video above published Apr 4, 2018: Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of Doubleline Capital (Domain: doubleline.com), talks bonds, tariffs and bitcoin in an exclusive interview on CNBC's "Fast Money." See also Doubleline Funds webcast-schedule and bitcoin price.

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• JPMorgan's Dimon praises Trump's deregulatory efforts in annual letter | Reuters.com

• Daily Presidential Tracking Poll | RasmussenReports.com April 04, 2018: "51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance."

VIX

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index, known by its ticker symbol VIX, is a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility implied by S&P 500 index options.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Reacts To China's New Tariffs

CNBC.com video above published Apr 4, 2018: In an interview with CNBC, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says China's new tariffs do not represent a threat to the United States.

NASDAQ Composite UP 2.5% YTD:

The NASDAQ Composite (ticker symbol IXIC) is a stock market index of the common stocks and similar securities (e.g. ADRs, tracking stocks, limited partnership interests) listed on the NASDAQ stock market. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a/k/a Dow or DJIA) and S&P 500 Index, it is one of the three most-followed US stock markets' indices. The composition of the NASDAQ Composite is heavily weighted towards information technology companies.

S&P 500 Index DOWN 0.4% YTD:

DJIA DOWN 0.87% YTD

The Dow’s (DJIA 30 stocks) decline for the year-to-date primarily comes down to 5 stocks which give a better narrative than the media of how tariff issues are affecting US equity prices: 3M; Caterpillar; Home Depot; Proctor & Gamble; Walmart.

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What Parade in China? Global Stock Markets on a Roller Coaster (video)

1 month charts for DJI (left) and S&P 500 show a "roller coaster" ride (source: google.com, 1 Sep 2015)

Ref. Domain Mondo: Will Death Crosses and World Markets Rain on China's Parade This Week? (Aug 31, 2015)--

What Parade in China? Global Stock Markets are on a Roller Coaster!

“The problem is, as much as China is the catalyst for this, it’s also that we’re seeing weakness in fundamentals here. A lot of company earnings were hurt by China in the second quarter and it’s only gotten worse. People are losing confidence with the whole situation there breaking down, not just in the stock market but in data as well.”--Matt Maley, an equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co LLC in New York (Bloomberg, infa) 

U.S. Stocks Tumble as China Slowdown Deepens Concerns on Growth (Sept. 1, 2015)- Bloomberg Business: "The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 3 percent to 1,913.85 at 4 p.m. in New York, the third-worst drop this year. It’s a sour start to September, historically the worst month of the year with the equity gauge falling 1.1 percent on average going back to 1927, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 469.68 points, or 2.8 percent, to 16,058.35. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 2.9 percent."

Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy - The New York Times: "... Concerns have already been rising that China’s slowdown is worsening and its problems are becoming harder to overcome. Such fears helped ignite a dramatic sell-off on stock markets around the world. Shares on the Shanghai stock exchange have tumbled by more than third since the June high.“Global investors have now come to realize that China’s travails are beginning to affect everyone,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC in Hong Kong...."

Japanese Stocks Swing as U.S. Data Adds to Global Economic Gloom - Bloomberg Business: "Investors in Japan have turned the most bearish on equities in almost seven years. Short-selling accounted for 41 percent of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday [Sept. 2, 2015], the highest ratio since the bourse began keeping daily records in 2008."



Stocks Slump: How Much Lower Can They Go? -- OppenheimerFunds CIO Krishna Memani and Bloomberg's Oliver Renick discuss the selloff in U.S. stocks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel on "Bloomberg Markets," Sept. 1, 2015.

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S&P 500 Closes Down, Now Negative Return for 2015

S&P 500 Closes Down August 20, 2015, Now Negative Return for 2015

Close on Dec 31, 2014: 2,058.90

Close on Aug 20, 2015: 2,035.73

Apple AAPL - 112.65 DOWN $2.36 (2.05%)
Google GOOGL - 679.48 DOWN $14.56 (2.10%)

S&P 500 Slides Most Since Feb 2014 as Emerging-Asset Rout Spread - Bloomberg Business: "The rout in emerging assets knocked the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index out of its seven-month trading range and gave U.S. equities their biggest drop in 18 months amid intensifying concern that global growth is slowing. The selloff in currencies from Kazakhstan to Thailand roiled stocks around the world, wiping out year-to-date gains in U.S. equities and sending British shares into a correction. Investors sought the safety of gold and Treasuries as the S&P 500 breached a key technical level that it’s been above since March...."


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