Thursday, January 25, 2018
Can Toys R Us Survive by Learning Lessons from The Entertainer Toy Shop's Relative Success? / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Nadeem_Walayat
In December the British arm of Toys R Us came to within hours of going bust the followed it's american parent company's filing for bankruptcy protection in September 2017 which that triggered a downsizing programme through rapid store closures that are likely to see at least 200 of it's 866 US stores close in an attempt at reducing its $5 billion debt mountain which dates back to its leveraged buy out of 2005 that costs Toys R Us $400 billion a year in interest payments.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Bitcoin, Oil, Gold, and SPX Price Prediction Next 5 Days / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
USD Nearing its Target / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
USD futures are still trending lower, although some are calling for a bottom here. The morning low at 88.62 came awfully close to the Orthodox Broadening Top target that I have highlighted for nearly a year.
One wouldn’t be blamed for taking short profits here. However, even as the risk of a reversal rises, the Cycles Model suggests that it still has a week, if not more, of decline ahead. In addition, Wave (5) reaches 1.5 X Wave (1) at 88.16 and 1.618 X at 87.60.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Gold Gains a Powerful Friend / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Yesterday, gold won an influential supporter in the White House. Who is he?
The Enemy of Gold’s Enemy Is Gold’s Friend
As the ancient proverb goes, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. Although it is usually employed in foreign policy, this concept also applies to finance. Given the negative correlation between the greenback and gold, the enemies of the U.S. dollar are generally gold’s friends.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
USD/CHF Under Long-term Support! / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Nadia_Simmons
Earlier today, the greenback declined to the lowest level against the Swiss franc since mid-September 2017, which resulted in a small drop under the long-term support line. Is this a sign of bigger move to the downside or just a trap?
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Debt, Dollar and Stocks - A Modest Plan / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Raul_I_Meijer
This is an article written by Dr. D, who last month wrote a series at the Automatic Earth entitled Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist.
It shouldn’t surprise you that bitcoin plays a cameo in his Modest -but actually quite grand- Plan as well.
Dr. D: With all the talk about the bubble market, people are once again saying Donald Trump is a fool, he should never have taken credit for a Dow that’s about to collapse. In addition, how does he think he can get away with claiming we have a great economy made greater? He said in the election the economy was terrible and the Dow was a bubble, that’s why he won.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Gold Jumps To Crucial Technical Level. Important Action Coming Up / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: John_Rubino
After what seems like a decade in the shadow of tech stocks and cryptocurrencies, gold and silver are rocking again. Which of course leaves everyone wondering if this is the beginning of the long-awaited epic run, or just a head fake preceding yet another grinding, protracted, soul-sucking decline.
The following chart has a couple of technical indicators that, if history still matters, shed some light on the challenges gold now faces. The first is the 50-day moving average, shown here as the thin line that tracks the more colorful price line. Note how when gold’s price spikes above the moving average, it is, in technical terms, “overbought.” In other words, it’s ahead of itself and has to fall to get back into sync with longer-term momentum.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Have You Seen Palladium’s Tradable Price Pattern? / Commodities / Palladium
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Are you prepared for the next big move in the metals markets? Would you like to know what to expect in the immediate future that could save you thousands of dollars? Then pay attention to this message as we share something most traders are overlooking right now.
Our research team at Technical Traders Ltd. have spent years developing our skills and financial modeling systems. Right now, many traders are seeing the big upward price swings in the metals as a sign that prices will continue higher. Well, in the long run, they are correct. But right now we believe the metals will roll over and trend lower for the next few weeks setting up for the next leg higher.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Four Skills You Need to Learn Before Investing in the Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Chad_Champion
Successful investing isn’t just about mastering math formulas, accounting skills, or cash flow models.
Those are certainly helpful if you want to buy individual stocks or bonds. But successful investing is more about developing the right mental attitude.
The way you can develop it is by mastering a specific set of skills. The good thing is that if you start building these skills now, you’ll be on your way to becoming a better investor.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
This US Real Estate Bubble Looks Very Familiar / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Harry_Dent
We called the real estate bubble top in late 2005, just before it began to burst in early 2006. So did Jim Stack, a newsletter writer in Whitefish Montana.Now Jim has a Housing Bubble Bellwether Barometer that’s flashing a sell signal after going up 80% last year. All our alarms are going off as well.
The Confidence Indicator for the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo is at its highest reading in 18 years… higher than it was in early 2006.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
US Dollar Will be Key to Gold Sesame / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Gold may be considered to be a bet against the U.S. dollar. The depreciation of the greenback supported the yellow metal in 2017. The price of gold managed to rise last year in rather unpleasant macroeconomic environment mainly thanks to the weakness of the U.S. dollar. Now, the key question is whether the bearish trend in the greenback will continue or we will see a trend reversal (or actually a continuation of a rebound which started in September)?
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
How to Check Land Rover Discovery Sport Adblue and Oil Change Service Interval Levels / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
It is very, very important for Land Rover Discovery Sport owners to regularly check their Adblue and Oil Change Service interval levels because they don't tend to change in line with what Land Rover states i.e. that an oil service is due every 21,000 miles etc. So checking ensures you are not suddenly caught off guard by a dash warning. Adblue is a mixture that is added to diesel fuel so as to lower emissions and meet EURO6 regulations. You car will have a 13 litre Adblue tank which technically should be consumed at the rate of 1litre per 1000 miles driven.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Stock Market Surge Continues... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
This is just a refresher of the long-term (monthly) chart of the SPX. Wave [3] is 1.5 times Wave [1] and the next level is where Wave [5] is also 1.5 times Wave [1]. The red target was first mentioned by Northman Trader in ZeroHedge two weeks ago. We are a week away from the next lunar eclipse, which is being highlighted by several Cycles Theorists. They are expecting a super blue-blood moon that has not been seen since 1866.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
A few words on the Gold Sector / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Gary_Tanashian
As the long-term interest rate Amigo continues upward, the anti-USD ‘inflation trade’ continues onward and more and more gold bug writers emerge from the woodwork, it is time for a little antidote to the inevitable pitches and hype to come.
Everything is playing to script and with this little pullback to a higher low in the miners being resolved in the favored direction, the writer bugs are going to further their bullish message and try to get more reader bugs to follow their guidance. But absolutely nothing has changed.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Bitcoin Crashes Below $10,000. What's next? We have Answers… / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: EWI
Dear Reader,
"Wild" doesn't begin to describe Bitcoin's price action.
Less than 12 months ago, it traded as low as $1,200. By early December, it hit a high of $19,891 – and on the CBOE, Bitcoin futures topped $20,000.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Bitcoin Market Crashing: Is this the end of Bitcoin or a pause before the next Bull Run? / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Sol_Palha
For greed all nature is too little.Seneca
Whenever the masses fully embrace a market, trouble is usually close at hand, and that's what occurred with bitcoin; the masses were completely enamoured with Bitcoin. The masses were euphoric and were expecting bitcoin to soar to the next galaxy. Wild targets of $100,000 were being issued that sounded more like the ravings of a lunatic than of an expert. In an article published on the 4th of December 2017 we made the following comments:
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Precious Metals Sector On a Major Buy Signal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
4 Key Markets At Levels Not Seen In 3 Years / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Chris Vermeulen, Founder of TheTechnicalTraders.com joins met today to look at the markets that are breaking out in early 2018. The USD, oil, copper, and treasuries are all at levels not seen since 2014. Plus as Chris notes the precious metals are also very close to breaking out which could be the final push to make traders move into the commodities sector even more.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Tax Cuts Supercharge the Economy / Politics / Taxes
By: BATR
If you get your fake news from the corporatist filtered media, the sky is falling now that the Trump tax cuts are law. Pounded into the skulls of the dense hard heads of diminished grey matter is that the benefits of putting more cash into the pockets of everyday workers is peanuts. The collectivists who operate under communist economic doctrines fear that their normal class warfare rhetoric is hitting a wall of worry from their pro redistribution base. This factor requires telling an even bigger lie. Unleashing the animal spirits of confidence in growing the economy is now a reality, and the defenders of slicing a shrinking pie cannot bear the contrast of a vibrant and expanding economy.