Charles Benavidez

Staff Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 27 Feb 2018

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• Americans Leaving Their Jobs At Fastest Rate In 17 Years

  Published 05 July 2018 | viewed 3,241 times

  Is it a sign of economic high times when there are more jobs than there are U.S. workers who are interested in filling them? And…

• Three Key Takeaways From Mexico’s Elections

  Published 02 July 2018 | viewed 1,870 times

  Mexican elections have just ushered in the most powerful president in three decades, and he’s pursuing a leftist agenda of change buoyed by a public…

• Tech Employees Turn Activist Over Trump Immigration Policy

  Published 29 June 2018 | viewed 3,190 times

  Trump’s aggressive immigration measures that separated thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing has sparked a round of protests from within…

• JPMorgan: Emerging Markets Heading Into Bear Territory

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 4,449 times

  Emerging market stocks have dropped three consecutive days as the bears take control and currencies take another hit, led by a very nervous Chinese yuan…

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

  Published 22 June 2018 | viewed 8,988 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 5,213 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 1,774 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 1,847 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 5,532 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 3,409 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 1,894 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 2,067 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 2,429 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 2,479 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 1,852 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 2,503 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 2,453 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 2,506 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 2,051 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 26,240 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…