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Markets that see volume of transactions evaporate on up days and surge on down days have traditionally offered a warning sign to invested capital. The price action on Friday for the Canadian TSX 60 (here captured in the XIU) is just one of several red flags to anyone who is paying attention to downside risk. Red bars at bottom of this chart (in red oval) denote selling pressure and should be compared with the grey bars of buying pressure shown here on the other trading days year to date.

Source: Cory Venable, CMT, Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc.

When Dateline visited China’s vast empty cities in 2011, it became one of our most popular stories ever with over three million views online.

So are the uninhabited towns now bustling with residents? And is the building of unwanted homes and businesses still continuing?

Adrian Brown returns to China for Dateline to answer those questions… and finds 20 new cities are taking shape in this year alone.

There’s already a near deserted replica of Paris complete with its own Eiffel Tower and Champs Elysees, while even levelling a range of 700 mountains can’t stand in the way of another vast new conurbation…all good urban forward planning or an economic bubble that’s about to burst? Here is a direct video link.

USDA recommends 2800 calories a day?! For the average sedentary lifestyle, that is a ton of calories to burn. Even if one is consuming healthy foods and spends an hour a day sweating in physical exercise, it is hard for the average fit person to burn more than 2000 calories a day. No wonder so many people are drowning in body fat.

Pizza Hut’s recently unveiled “cheeseburger pizza,” a pie with an entire cheeseburger patty embedded in each slice, clocks in at a mind-boggling 2,800 calories.Here is a direct video link.