Real Vision: Finance & Investing

DB-Dec22,2021:The number of new cases in South Africa has slowed in recent weeks and is down more than 20% in the past week, pointing to the probability that the Omicron variant has reached its peak. Perhaps this may not be that bad after all. Alfonso Peccatiello is in Holland under a strict lockdown, and he is joined by Darius Dale of 42 Macro on the Daily Briefing to discuss the lockdown conditi...

DB-Dec21,2021:After markets were down yesterday, oil, stocks, and crypto rebounded. Goldman Sachs also recently released their new projection for oil, explaining that oil could potentially reach $100 a barrel within the next two years. TG Macro's Tony Greer, editor of the Morning Navigator, joins the Daily Briefing to discuss why he thinks not enough people own copper and update his market outlook...

DB-Dec20,2021:The Omicron fear factor has sent the entire market tumbling downhill – what does this mean for 2022? Jeffrey Schulze of ClearBridge discusses how you should protect your investments and prepare for the disruption. Goldman cuts GDP forecast down to 2% after Sen. Joe Manchin said he won’t support President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Real Vision's Weston Nakamura also discusses the...

DB-Dec017,2021:At the year's end, people are normally buying the winning tech stocks. This year, however, people are selling. What is going on? Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, talks about the volatility in tech stocks and whether you should buy the dip. He will also discuss cryptocurrencies and his 2022 outlook on the digital asset space. Interviewed by Maggie Lake. Want to submit questi...

DB-Dec16,2021:As the Fed wages its battle against inflation by signaling raising interest rates in 2022 at a faster pace than expected, Liz Young, Head of Investment Strategy at SoFi, explains who the winners and losers are from the Fed’s decision and how we should position our investments. Will a hike in interest rates accelerate the growth of cryptocurrencies? In the UK, the Bank of England rais...

DB-Dec15,2021:In the most highly anticipated decision of the year, the Fed said it would ramp up its pace of tapering and hike rates three times in 2022. So what does that mean for your investments? Darius Dale, founder and CEO of 42 Macro, shares his thoughts on how investors should position themselves as we head into the New Year. Will Bitcoin be a hedge to an uncertain future? Interviewed by Th...

DB-Dec14,2021:The Fed meeting begins today, and Thomas Thornton joins the Daily Briefing to discuss what that means for stocks and Bitcoin. One thing’s for sure: we can probably expect a hike in interest rates. Gold already retreated 1% today in anticipation. Meanwhile, airlines are already looking ahead to next year and expecting a bounce back in travel. American Airlines plans to hire 18,000 peo...

DB-Dec13,2021:U.S. stocks have kicked off the week in the red amid concerns over the Omicron variant and ahead of the Fed decision on Wednesday. Meme stocks like GameStop and AMC are suffering the most as investors dump risky positions. Dave Floyd, the founder of Aspen Trading, explains how to handle the market sell-off. Interviewed by Maggie Lake. Want to submit questions? Drop them right here on...

DB-Dec10,2021:Raoul Pal shares his key takeaways from Real Vison’s ‘The Takeover’ in Las Vegas. Where are the leading names in the cryptosphere placing their bets? Plus, U.S. inflation surges to its highest level in 39-years, putting even more pressure on the Fed’s taper timeline. Pal joins Maggie Lake to discuss these topics and more! Want to submit questions? Drop them right here on the Exchange...

DB-Dec09,2021:Ahead of Friday’s CPI print, analysts expect a reading of 6.8%, showing that inflation is still running hot through the economy. After a week-long rebound, Brent Crude fell 0.8% as fuel demand setbacks rise and Omicron fears persist. Bitcoin fell 3% from yesterday’s levels, and while crypto enthusiasts are still hanging on to the “store of value” narrative for BTC and other cryptocur...

DB-Dec08,2021:With markets easing on Omicron fears this week and assets across the board beginning to recover from last week’s drawdowns, Pfizer and BioNTech both announced today the initial findings of the effectiveness of their boosters against the Omicron variant, demonstrating promising results of neutralizing the virus. The October JOLTS numbers also were released, showing that 4.2 million Am...

DB-Dec07,2021:Tech stocks are making a comeback today and oil is up over 4%, easing Omicron fears, but can it last? Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that while the Omicron variant appears mild, its lightning-speed spreadability could lead to even more mutations. Bitcoin has recovered and is risk-on. Tony Greer joins us for another TG Tuesday to discuss stocks, oil, Bitcoin, and how to navigate Powell...

DB-Dec06,2021: The Macro Compass is a four-quadrant tool that helps see the macro forest first and then the trees. Alfonso Peccatiello uses this model to determine how to distribute his investment portfolio. Peccatiello discusses on the Daily Briefing investment opportunities in commodities and cryptocurrencies. Interviewed by Maggie Lake. Want to submit questions? Drop them right here on the Exch...

DB-Dec 03,2021:The NASDAQ is down today over 300 points, and the VIX continues to edge up to its 52-week high. Jim Bianco discusses the latest tech fallout and where the equities sell-off is concentrated. The Omicron variant is rattling the markets. Fears of a deepening supply chain crisis are at the forefront of investors’ minds. Despite these fears, the unemployment rate’s drop to 4.2% may signi...

DB-DEC 02,2021:Steven Van Metre joins the Daily Briefing to share his outlook of the volatility ahead as we close out the year and begin to look forward to an equally unstable 2022. With markets still recovering from major pullbacks in the past few days, Van Metre of Steven Van Metre Financial lays out his perspective on the consumer as Apple shares fall on weaker iPhone demand. He analyzes the ma...

DB-Dec 01,2021: As U.S. equities and oil inventories rise, investors are wondering whether the newly discovered Omicron variant threatens to reverse the recovery the economy has made. While officials instruct people not to panic, the uncertainty has already caused some movement in the markets: the S&P 500 rose 1.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.4%. Da...

DB-Nov 30,2021: Fed Chair Jerome Powell just said it’s time to retire the word “transitory”—are you shocked? All the major U.S. market indices fell more than 1% on the announcement while the dollar strengthens and crude oil tanks. Ash Bennington is not surprised by Powell's announcement to retire "transitory", and he sits down with Tony Greer of TG Macro on another installment of TG Tuesdays on th...

DB-Nov 29,2021:Weston Nakamura joins us from Japan to share his insight on why the market went down on Friday and to talk about Turkey, where the stock market is thriving. He also discusses what’s happening to the Turkish Lira and how the currency can impact an entire asset class. While the real world is seeing the emergence of yet another Covid variant, Omicron, the virtual world of Decentraland...

DB-Nov 24,2021: Are we back in 1969? At only 199,000, last week’s initial jobless claims were the lowest in over half a century since November 1969. That was the pre-internet and pre-cell phone era. Is this a signal for the recovery of the economy or are people just starting their own small businesses? Another throwback to a historical era, inflation hasn’t run amok through the economy since the e...

DB-Nov 23,2021:The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will release 50 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to battle gas prices and tame inflation. Gold and silver prices have also slipped lately – so it may be time to be bullish. Tony Greer joins us once more for TG Tuesdays to discuss oil and gold on today’s Daily Briefing. Interviewed by Ash Bennington. Want to...

DB-Nov 22,2021:President Biden nominates Fed Chairman Jerome Powell for a second term. The question on everyone’s mind is, what does it mean for the economy? Could Biden’s pick signal that the administration is opting for policy continuity? Powell faces a completely different economy from when he was sworn in, and he will have to pivot from previous policies as inflation is at 6.2%, its highest in...

DB-Nov 19,2021: Bitcoin just got its biggest upgrade yet with Taproot, which will streamline transaction processing and make everything more efficient. In the U.S., the House finally passes President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Build Back Better spending bill, but there might be further revisions from the Senate. In Austria, days after issuing a lockdown on the unvaccinated, the country has announce...

DB-Nov 18,2021: Katie Stockton, founder, and managing partner at Fairlead Strategies joins to chat about her outlook for stocks as we head into the end of the year. The major indices remain in consolidation phases that she views as healthy pauses within their uptrends. Katie’s short-term indicators are mixed for a neutral takeaway, but she expects them to turn higher next week as the holiday seaso...

DB-Nov 17,2021: After weeks of backlog in the L.A. ports, officials say they’ve finally made some progress and cleared about 29% of the cargo. Last month’s retail sales report resulted in a gleeful leap in stocks and the U.S. dollar. As inflation continues to rage through the economy with the highest CPI in 30 years, President Obama’s former economic adviser, Steven Rattner, blasted the Biden admi...

DB-Nov 16,2021: Tony Greer returns to the Daily Briefing to discuss a spike in retail sales in October, even in the face of rising inflation. Not only are sales up 1.7% from the previous month, but also up 16.3% year-over-year. This is as a result of the combination of U.S. households having extra cash from the stimulus money and a frenzy to get holiday shopping started early this year to avoid su...