Charles Benavidez

Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 27 Feb 2018

Biography

• U.S. Money Market Funds Post Highest Outflows Since 2011

  Published 22 June 2018 | viewed 138 times

  U.S. Money market funds have just posted record cash outflows for the week ended Wednesday. Net outflows for the week clocked in at $51 billion,…

• IMF Warns Of Doom And Gloom After G7 Circus

  Published 12 June 2018 | viewed 2,571 times

  Following a ‘doctrine’ best defined by a White House official as “We’re America, Bitch”, Trump has engaged in egotistical trade battle that has even drawn…

• Trade War Tensions Heat Up Following G7 Summit

  Published 11 June 2018 | viewed 346 times

  A photograph shared by German chancellor Angela Merkel largely sums up the disintegration of the G7, which turned into a juvenile sparring match that now…

• Facebook Looks To Fox, CNN To Combat Fake News

  Published 07 June 2018 | viewed 379 times

  Facebook is keen to turn its video ad business into another key revenue-generating platform, but to make it work, it’s going to have to deal…

• Citibank, DB To Fight Possible ‘Criminal Cartel’ Charges In Australia

  Published 04 June 2018 | viewed 867 times

  Amid an ongoing investigation in Australian banks, insurers, financial service providers and pensions funds for everything from rate-rigging to mistreating customers and questionable consumer lending…

• The Cyber Heists Banks Don't Want You To Know About

  Published 30 May 2018 | viewed 1,098 times

  Bank robberies aren’t as exciting as they used to be when they were the stuff of Ocean’s Eleven style, or the coarser Bonnie and Clyde.…

• The Multi-Billion-Dollar Business Of Influence Peddling

  Published 23 May 2018 | viewed 340 times

  The Saudi-led blockade of Qatar could have packed more of a punch had top Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy’s courting of crown princes from UAE and…

• The Biggest Hurdle For The Buffett-Bezos Healthcare Plan

  Published 22 May 2018 | viewed 477 times

  The American healthcare system is broken, and few would argue otherwise, and now the richest men in the world--Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and the world’s…

• Investment Funds Enjoy Short-Lived Victory Over S&P 500

  Published 13 May 2018 | viewed 700 times

  ''There's no doubt in my mind that the S&P 500 will do better than the great majority of professional managers achieve for their clients after…

• Russia’s “Surreptitious Social Media Campaign”

  Published 10 May 2018 | viewed 629 times

  Setting politics and geopolitics aside, there is a gold mine of Russian-linked Facebook ads to be found in the recent release by the House Intelligence…

• The U.S. Industry Losing Billions In The Iran Fallout

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 376 times

  The first victim of Trump’s decision yesterday to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal are giant aerospace companies Boeing and Airbus, whose license to sell…

• Five Deals To Watch This Week

  Published 08 May 2018 | viewed 515 times

  From two new initial public offerings (IPOs), a $1.2-billion share build-up by an activist investor in a giant bank, heating up mega-deal rivalry in the…

• Why Buffett Isn’t Bullish On Gold

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 824 times

  The difference between investing in gold and stocks is a multi-billion-dollar gap over time. There were endless lessons learned and tips for investors coming out…

• Armed, Unmanned, Ready For Combat: A Driverless Military

  Published 04 May 2018 | viewed 776 times

  For the Pentagon, driverless cars will come a lot sooner—and they’ll save lives and rewrite the rules of the battlefield, for better or worse. This…

• U.S.-China Trade Talks In A Stalemate

  Published 03 May 2018 | viewed 720 times

  U.S.-China trade talks wrapped up their first day of meetings in Beijing, with no indication that anything has been resolved, and the prevailing sentiment being…

• This Billionaire Is Betting His Fortune On Gold

  Published 02 May 2018 | viewed 24,026 times

  Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris thinks the massively overvalued stock market could push gold prices to $1,800, and that’s why he’s invested half of his $5.7-billion…

• Mining Giant Hit Hard In $3 Billion Royalties Scandal

  Published 30 April 2018 | viewed 697 times

  Stocks of Glencore lost 3 percent in trading today after reports that a company affiliated with sanctioned Israeli businessman Dan Gertler have issued a $3-billion…

• What Sparked Russia’s Gold Buying Spree?

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 11,080 times

  Russia has scooped up another 300,000 ounces of gold the past month, according to Gold Seek, boosting is ever-growing reserves to 1,890 tonnes and coming…

• The $200 Million ‘Golden Parachute’ For Rupert Murdoch

  Published 20 April 2018 | viewed 588 times

  The $52.4-billion Disney-Fox mega merger represents one of the biggest deals in history and the Murdoch family of 21st Century Fox fame will be compensated…

• The Next Housing Crisis Could Be Right Around The Corner

  Published 19 April 2018 | viewed 1,581 times

  Things might look good now for Western housing markets, but some are calling for a painful correction thanks to monetary tightening that’s leading to higher…