Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• How Mega-Mergers Are Impacting The Marketplace

  Published 08 June 2018 | viewed 2,168 times

  Dow-Dupont ($156 billion), AT&T-Time Warner ($85 billion), CVS-Aetna ($68 billion). Welcome to the era of merger mania, where corporate deals have never been bigger or…

• Looming Social Security Crisis Threatens Retirement For Younger Generations

  Published 07 June 2018 | viewed 2,133 times

  One of the worst nightmares by younger generations has been the thought of hanging up their boots only to find there are no Social Security…

• Technical Flags Suggest Trouble Ahead For Gold

  Published 07 June 2018 | viewed 13,830 times

  Gold has been holding the $1,300 level for almost a week now. While that handle remains an important psychological level, any further deterioration is likely…

• How Russian Gold Production Will Help Ditch The Dollar

  Published 06 June 2018 | viewed 15,747 times

  Russia has been pro-actively trying to minimize its exposure to its American enemy No. 1 through a number of ways, including replacing the dollar in…

• Nasdaq Hits All-Time High As S&P 500 Flatlines

  Published 06 June 2018 | viewed 2,950 times

  About two months ago, one of stocks' biggest bulls gave a rallying call for investors to become bolder and trust growth stocks more. Blackstone's Joseph…

• 5 Cool Ways Walmart Is Improving The Shopping Experience

  Published 06 June 2018 | viewed 2,383 times

  ''On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.'' That's a rather depressing quote by Fight Club that acts as a…

• Facebook’s War On Propaganda

  Published 05 June 2018 | viewed 9,135 times

  Facebook continues to be a moneymaking powerhouse as the company's latest quarterly report aptly reminded even its doubters; but a massive scandal over data privacy…

• The Stock Market Is Defying A Strong Jobs Report

  Published 04 June 2018 | viewed 7,005 times

  Labor reports and interest rates do not make for very exciting tea party banter. In fact, the average person regards them as a dry subject…

• Famous Short-Seller Calls Marijuana ‘’The Big Long’’

  Published 04 June 2018 | viewed 37,080 times

  A hedge-funder that bet big against the housing market prior to the 2008 crash now says cannabis is “the big long.” Danny Moses' short-selling exploits…

• The World’s Biggest ICO Has No Product

  Published 03 June 2018 | viewed 2,304 times

  The tech industry has more than its fair share of products that failed to take off. Some, like the simply ridiculous Infinium Phantom of 2003,…

• Why Banks And Credit Card Companies Should be Scared

  Published 02 June 2018 | viewed 1,764 times

  Nowadays as you stroll down the streets of Shanghai, you are likely to encounter a unique sight that has nothing to do with the city's…

• The Crypto Market Is Much More Than Bitcoin

  Published 01 June 2018 | viewed 3,389 times

  When bitcoin sneezes, the rest of the crypto market catches a cold. For the vast majority of cryptocurrencies, a bad day for bitcoin means a…

• London’s $13T Metals Exchange Just Got Even Hotter

  Published 01 June 2018 | viewed 2,623 times

  Demand for metals used in Li-ion batteries has been surging, thanks to a booming electrical vehicle, or EV, industry as well as rapid growth in…

• Peak Gold: Is It Already Here?

  Published 31 May 2018 | viewed 6,872 times

  For more than five millennia, gold has been one of the world's most valuable metals, with man's insatiable appetite for it timeless and universal—even religious.…

• The New Growth Runway That Apple Can Exploit

  Published 31 May 2018 | viewed 2,581 times

  About half a decade ago, the world's biggest enterprise software vendor, Microsoft, was a company whose very existence was threatened by the mobile and cloud…

• The Chinese Tech Stocks Taking Over The World

  Published 31 May 2018 | viewed 2,229 times

  There are some sectors of the stock market that investors consign to the scrapheap because they believe money goes there to die. Not too long…

• The Indisputable Link Between Gold And Energy Prices

  Published 30 May 2018 | viewed 5,533 times

   “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”--Albert Einstein When trying to predict gold prices, investors usually look at one or several…

• Treasury Yields Are Outperforming U.S. Equities

  Published 30 May 2018 | viewed 6,468 times

  U.S. equities markets have been very tepid this year, barely able to dig themselves out of a narrow trading range. After a nice climb in…

• Goldman: Machines Are Taking Over Markets

  Published 29 May 2018 | viewed 2,644 times

   “Liquidity is the new leverage”: That was the ominous warning fired by Goldman Sachs’ head of Global Credit Strategy, Charles Himmelberg, admonishing traders about the…

• Tech Giants Struggle To Comply With New Privacy Laws

  Published 29 May 2018 | viewed 1,938 times

  Hordes of privacy advocacy lawyers have been in celebration mode since the big day for the European Union’s dreaded GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) last…