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In this week’s recap, one of the most important news was the loss of more than $50 billion by Berkshire-Hathaway in the 1st quarter, its worst quarter in a decade, with its CEO Warren Buffett admitting the $6.5B recently divested investment in the airlines, was a mistake. However, the firm still retains $137B of cash on hand, with a market capitalization of some $444B.

World shares rose on Thursday after China’s exports came in far stronger than expected, suggesting an economic recovery there was already underway thus supporting global growth in the process, but the dollar fell from 2-week highs as millions more Americans became jobless.

U.S. Treasury will borrow a record $3 trillion in Q2 to subsidize economic rescue efforts due to the corona-virus. That’s in addition to Q1 borrowing of $477 billion & an anticipated $677 billion for Q3. All the massive deficit spending (national debt is near $25 trillion) has some analysts worried about a potential debt crisis.

A key U.S. April jobs report to show a historic surge in unemployment later today, due to coronavirus pandemic induced, the government ordered lock-downs. Data are likely to indicate a loss of a staggering 22M last month, in what will be the steepest plunge in payrolls, since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

International Energy Agency bets on green hydrogen; China and US resume talks on phase 1 of their trade deal; Uber’s shares go up; Norway’s central bank cuts interest rates again; Lord & Taylor is preparing to liquidate its inventory; 2 U.S. citizens have been detained in Venezuela; The U.K. reports the highest official death rate from coronavirus in Europe.

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In the stock market we had a very spectacular month of April: the best month for the Dow since 2002, which is the main stock exchange in the US; the S&P 500, which is the stock exchange we mainly trade, had its best results since 1974; the NASDAQ, the technology one in the US, had its best month since 1987; and now, on Saturday May 2nd, Warren Buffett, “the Oracle of Omaha”, reported during an interview that he sold all his shares of American Airlines, the biggest airline in the world, adding about $10B in shares sold. This action will most likely have a strong impact on the market on Monday, May 4th, and the whole month.

The saying goes “Sell in May and go away”, although this is not always correct, it is likely that Buffett’s decisions are a preview of what will happen in the market during the month of May. What is certain is that we will have an extremely volatile market, as the world’s economies are constantly opening and closing. There are more good days coming up for traders.

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During this week we saw how economies started opening again after the coronavirus driven shutdown, World stocks are having their best month on record Thursday, with encouraging early results from a coronavirus treatment trial using the drug Remdesivir & expectations of more European Central Bank (ECB) stimulus later in the day, helping to ease the economic & financial pain of February, March & early April.

Bolivian Parliament calls for presidential elections; The Bank of Japan expanded its stimulus efforts; General Motors suspends quarterly dividend and share buyback; 30 million unemployment claims in the US; Big increase in the price of Bitcoin.

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The economic crisis of 2020 is still going. The global economy is expected to shrink by -3.0% during 2020, in a stunning coronavirus-driven collapse of activity, that will mark the steepest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The IMF predicts a partial rebound in 2021, with the world economy growing at a +5.8% rate.

Trump will temporarily suspend immigration to the U. S.; More than one million people in Europe infected with COVID-19; 1st Iranian military satellite in orbit; Google will use a new verification process for advertisers; U.S. business activity fell to record lows; U. S. House of Representatives passes 4th Coronavirus Relief Bill.

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During this week, the U.S. Commerce Department said that retail sales fell 8.7% last month, more than expected, & another indication that the coronavirus is taking a huge toll on the U.S. economy as consumers resigned in spending on goods ranging from cars & clothing to meals at restaurants. It’s the biggest monthly decline since the Commerce Department started keeping records in 1992 & comes after reports that nearly 17M Americans have filed for 1st-time unemployment claims in recent weeks.

The IMF estimates a shrink of -3% in the global economy; Philippine banana exports may drop nearly 40%; Walmart & Netflix reached new all-time highs; The number of new houses being built in the U.S. declined; Oktoberfest will not be held this year; Analysts estimate that only 1 in 5 restaurants will survive the US quarantine.

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In this week, the US stock remains mostly higher due to OPEC decisions and as evidence mounts that coronavirus death & infection rates may be leveling off.

E.U. finance ministers wrapped up talks on Thursday night, with agreement on a package of measures worth 500 billion Euros to cushion the blow of the coronavirus pandemic, but left unresolved the most contentious question of how to share the financial burden that has so bitterly divided them, a classic North vs South debate over debt. Trump administration asking Congress for an additional $250B in emergency economic aid for small U.S. businesses. That’s in addition to the $349B that’s already part of the CARES Act signed into law on March 27. Over $70B of the loans have already been processed, which encourage small enterprises to keep their employees on staff & to help them pay overhead costs, during the pandemic closures.

On Tuesday, New York reported its largest 1-day COVID-19 death toll at 713 fatalities, while the number of U.S. cases surpassed 400,000. Nationwide coronavirus infections reached 200,000 on April 1, meaning the nation has doubled its confirmed case count in just 1 week.

Bitcoin price dropped nearly $200 in minutes on Friday, April 10, to slide below $7,000 for the 1st time in 4 days; UK Prime Minister leaves intensive care unit; Bernie Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign; China reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday; the U.S. & the world is awash in crude; S&P turns Australia’s outlook negative; U.S. policy on commercial mining in space upsets Russia; Teladoc shares soar due to the demand for telemedicine; scientists estimate the age of whale sharks.

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In today’s video Marcello talks about dividend investing. One topic he hasn’t talked much about before since he had had to adapt his way of trading to his way of living. Traveling constantly and not being able to have a good internet connection or any internet connection at all made Marcello develop his own style of trading. Marcello has been swing trading for the last years in order to have all the trading centers running. Remember that Marcello is not a trading advisor and he only does these videos for educational purposes only.

He now thinks that with this huge crash in the markets last week he is looking at new incredible opportunities he wants to share with all of us. The entire global economy has frozen since governments have taken measures to lock down people in order to contain the spread of the virus but giving a huge blow to the world economy in the process. He thinks that in the kind of situation that we are in, he prefers the kind of companies that don’t rely completely on customers buying goods, especially luxury goods. This situation we’re living in today is going to pass away, but it might come back as another wave, just like the Spanish flu did, but this will definitively change the way we live. So, you have to be careful where you put your money now. What he really likes right now are big oil companies because the economy moves on oil. Everything moves on oil. And something great about these companies is that they are still paying their dividends! They haven’t stopped paying them nor slashed them as they did in the past. We now have to think about security but also about making money.

Marcello goes on talking about what he thinks about investing in shares of oil companies like British Petroleum, Shell or Exxon Mobile. He shares some insight on how that investment can turn out very profitable but never forgets to warn us that the market is unpredictable and we should do our own research. A word of wisdom from Warren Buffet fits perfectly this situation “Be greedy when others are fearful, and be fearful when others are greedy”. We’ve lived the biggest expansion in the history of the markets. The biggest bull run in history. That’s greed. And now we have a situation where the market’s going down and there’s a lot of fear on the streets. All of these are created by an unprecedented event. Governments are locking down. The economy is being shut down. But when we think about the worst-case scenario, the world is not going to stop buying gold.

This is a situation that Marcello talked about before. On previous occasions he referred to this crash and told us it was going to happen. This is probably not going to get the global economy into recession, but it will definitely throw red numbers on the second-quarter growth result. Marcello is usually making videos about trading, but since the online community has been asking for him to make videos on investment in general, he’s now giving us his thoughts about dividend investing.

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Today we’re gonna be talking about real estate investing vs trading. It’s important to be able to talk about this because what happens is everybody talks about the money that you can make when things are great but nobody talks about what happens when things are not great. That’s one of the most important reasons why we choose trading.

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In the recap of this week, we found that U.S. stocks end higher, as investors calculate the U.S. government $2.2 trillion rescue package will help businesses keep employees. Also as it seems the major global oil producers will agree to reduce output in the coming months. This agreement is important because oversupply is further undoing the oil market’s structure, & there may be more trouble to come as the world quickly runs out of storage capacity. The collapse in demand has shut refineries from South Africa to Canada, leading to even more excess barrels in the market.

U.S. Labor Department: The U.S. lost 701,000 jobs in March as the growing coronavirus pandemic devastated the American economy & ended more than a decade of uninterrupted employment growth. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4% from 3.5% in February, the largest 1-month jump since January 1975.

The coronavirus economic freeze could cost 47M jobs & send the unemployment rate past 32% (Great Depression Levels). At-risk jobs ultimately could be lost to a government-induced economic freeze, aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19. A record 3.3M Americans filed initial jobless claims for the week ended March 21 & economists expect another 2.65M or more to join them this week.

The Russian central bank will suspend its gold purchases; manufacturing activity in China rebounded; up to 240K Americans could die as a result of the coronavirus; the European Commission questions Viktor Orban’s emergency powers; the U.S. failed to lock down crucial medical supplies; “Chinese Starbucks” shares fall due to accounting fraud; the unemployment rate in the US rose to 4.4%.

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The recap of this week was marked by the coronavirus and its consequences in the global economy.

After one entire week of work, The US House on Friday passed the expected historic $2T coronavirus relief package. Last week there were 238,000 claims for unemployment in the US, this week the number spiked to 3.28 million when the estimate was for around 1 million. Indicates there are far more people losing their jobs than originally thought. U.S. stocks end lower Friday, after exiting a bear market on Thursday with a 21% gain for the Dow in 3 days. The index is still on track for its best week since 1938.

The Federal Reserve is hiring BlackRock the world’s largest money manager, to shepherd several debt-buying programs on its behalf as the central bank works to shore up an economy reeling from the spread of coronavirus. BlackRock will serve as an investment adviser & will manage assets for 3 separate programs, including 2 new facilities to provide liquidity to corporate borrowers, as well as purchases of agency commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Spain’s coronavirus lockdown was extended on Thursday to last until at least April 12, as Europe’s 2nd-worst-hit country after Italy, struggled to tackle a fast increase in the death toll. Spain saw its death toll exceeded China’s on Wednesday, with 738 lives lost in a single day & now surpassing 4,000.

British PM Johnson and Prince Charles tested positive for coronavirus; Precious metals prices continue to rise; Russian ruble gains strength against the US dollar; the US offers reward for Maduro and his circle; U.S. Treasury Yields at record lows Wednesday hitting negative rates for the 1st time in American history; Record collapse of the world economy in March; Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021.

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