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Raymond James downgraded 13 banks on Monday and lowered earnings estimates for most banks citing downward revisions to net interest margin and slowing loan growth.
Banks make loans to borrowers at a higher rate than non-performing assets such as savings accounts and CDs and profit from the difference.
However, in an environment in which the yield curve is flattening, Banks’
Here we are back again with another weekly look at the US Markets. SPX has rallied off the panic lows from Christmas Eve (which was called for) and is sitting right at 2600 resistance. The Outlook is neutral with a Besrish bias…
You can see the clear resistance lines of 2600 AND 2680. This resistance goes all the way back to 2017 and should be noted. IF you missed the first chance to sell at 2900 and then the break of 2760 then here is yet ANOTHER chance to sell.
The largest rallies happen in BEAR MARKETS, and do not let the
Scripsio was excited to get out in the open as quickly as possible. But there’s always that concern about under-delivering, over-promising and simply offering a bad experience at a time when first impressions are perhaps most important.
On one hand, Scripsio needs a lot of work. But, on the other, a lot of it works already. So, are we ready for Beta? We really don’t know for sure. So we’re inviting you to come on over and take it for a test drive. Let us know if Scripsio really is ready for Beta. If so, here we go. If not, let us know what it still needs to be mature enough to embrace the Beta designation.
What is Scripsio?
That probably depends on who you ask. For some, it’s a community site. For others, a social platform. And yet a few will think of it as a Steem UI.
For us, it’s all those, and more. Scripsio is the culmination of a dream to have a multiuser, multisite (multiblog) social community without censorship, but also with built in features to promote mutual consideration. On top of this is the desire to create monetization options so that there are opportunities for everyone who wants to, to engage in a way that provides some profit.
Freedom
But we also wanted to stay out of the way. Your relationships are yours. From Scripsio’s perspective, it’s up to you to build them and nurture them. You don’t need some corporation attempting to demand how you behave.
On the other hand, folks need to be able to block content they don’t want to be subjected to. So we’re installing filters for NSFW and other categories that you can opt out of (not implemented yet). Hopefully that’ll provide an environment that is conducive to growth, freedom and mutual respect without anyone having to compromise their own principles and convictions.
Scripsio also respects your property. What’s yours is yours. This is why we’ve activated two features in your profile. You can download all your own data at any time. After all, it’s yours, right? But you can also delete it at any time. It’s sort of the danger button. Once you click it and approve the erasure, your info is deleted from our servers. There are exceptions, such as if you had any transactions on the site that have to be recorded. And we can’t erase what you’ve put on the blockchain. But you can delete it from the Scripsio servers.
Privacy
As you can see in our Privacy Policy, we do not sell you out. It’s your information. We will use general information regarding categories and traffic flow to help with analyzing what works and how we may serve you better, as well as in our pursuit of more effective advertising and other opportunities. But your personal information will not be sold, ever.
As you can see, we do not ask for very much information. The only reasons we ask for your birth date is for NSFW purposes and to protect children. Otherwise, you can use whatever information for your profile that suits you. We do verify the email address to at least set a low wall of entry, to help reduce spam and harassment.
This is also one of the reasons we do not have any sort of fiat gateway on the site. While we may do so eventually, it will have to be through a third party that verifies your identity. Simply put, we don’t want to be responsible for that information and we want you to be able to engage freely on Scripsio without concern regarding your personal information. Therefore, our goal will be to provide tools to facilitate exchanges in digital cryptos/tokens.
Well, let’s wrap it up for today. If you’re not on Scripsio now, you can click the link at the bottom and read this there. It’s all integrated with Steem.
For now, please check it out and let us know what you think. Then let’s build it into someplace we feel safe and that we can all be proud of.
“The time to buy is now, I have said it often, it’s only getting more and more true as time passes.”
That was the opening line of my shopping cart post of 11 December. It’s still valid – only now even more so.
Whether you take action on my recommendations or not is of no consequence to me: I share my thoughts because I want you to make profitable investments, but I’m not forcing anybody.
What I am doing is taking my own advice and leading by example. I’m putting every last cent that I can afford to into crypto. This is difficult,
…I am speaking about TRON [TRX], which, despite the polemic created lately for the declarations done by a Former Director of the TRON Team, TRON has managed to grow from 300 to 846 satoshis in just 15 days…
Personally, after this great “campaign”, I have decided to sold part of my TRON stake, maximizing my BITCOIN benefits :-)… Following the “Money Flow”, TRON is falling towards the 61.8 FIBO level very rapidly… However, I would expect a deeper correction…
An Interesting Level for considering a new entry is 515 Satoshis . Will see.
Is that a whiff of optimism in the crypto air? I believe so, despite the last couple of days of bearish price action. Whether this newfound cheerfulness converts into a general trend reversal remains to be seen. What’s not in question is the continuing tsunami of updates, developments, iterations, re-iterations and competing project narratives that have ushered in 2019. Once again, lots left on the editing floor – hopefully, crypto enthusiasts new and old will find a lot of value/interest in this week’s post.
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One day in crypto:
0/ On a day that marked the 10th anniversary of the #Bitcoin#blockchain, the #crypto ecosystem has been ripe with updates and releases.
Below, I've pieced together a 15-part thread filled with developments from the past day or two. Hope it proves helpful! pic.twitter.com/7HirE0LqgB
EOS ecosystem keeps growing in new and interesting ways:
Breaking News! In the first quarter of 2019, we will launch https://t.co/JJBiuIvBob side chain of eosio. We believe a true side chain should support the same account system with #EOS Mainnet. And we already prepared for it by our own way ( .m) accounts before IBC. pic.twitter.com/V0dNva4Dy2
On 4hr chart, looks like 3680 support still holding, next move position building up while it consolidate. More bias for downside move toward the channel bottom around 3400 also the 3rd leg of the staircase pattern.
News: (Current) | (Upcoming)
Short term moving average (day candle) :
RSI :
Network Value to Transactions Ratio :138
Total marketcap :122
Dominance :52.4
Bitfinex Margin Long/Short Volume Ratio :
Depth Chart : (S) | (R)
Weekly Timeframe :
Bitcoin is consolidating right on top of the $3,600 support zone. Should price decisively break below $3,600, the next relevant area of support is between $3,400 and $3,250.
In my last EOS update, I pointed out the larger wedge it was consolidating in. I told you it would likely make a larger move as EOS approached the apex. The following day, price broke down from $3.00 to as low as $2.30. It then sightly rallied to the $2.45 support zone. EOS continues trading around $2.45 at the time of writing this update.
In today’s video analysis I discuss, where prices may be
Okay, maybe not everything but definitely the returns on Real Estate and Stocks. Often people debate over which is a better investment.
Luckily, I came across an economic study that analyzes a bunch of investments over the last 145 years! Let me share what I found from it about real estate and stocks.
Real Estate vs. Stocks as an Investment
There are several key metrics to keep an eye on when investing, a couple of which I’m going to discuss below.
Investment return always seems to be the headliner when analyzing investment options so I will start with that one. It’s worth pointing out risk exposure
Palladium is widely used in three-way catalytic converters in car exhaust systems. Palladium is also used jewelry and in dental fillings and crowns. Another common use for palladium is in multilayer ceramic capacitors. These are an important part of common electronics equipment such as cell phones, laptops, fax machines, etc. Palladium is also used in connector plating for a number of electronics.
If a US-China trade war deal can be reached, Palladium will likely increase in price from a Chinese plan to introduce policies to boost domestic spending on items such as autos and home appliances this year.
