Saturday, December 02, 2017
Volatility: Dead - or Just "Sleeping"? / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: EWI
Learn about the danger of "quiet markets" (and what happens after)
Watch as our own Murray Gunn explains why you shouldn't get too comfortable with the lack of volatility in the markets.
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Saturday, December 02, 2017
How Will Gold End 2017? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The 2017 is almost gone. The last eleven months were not perhaps a spectacular time for gold, but it managed to rise more than 12 percent year-to-date, as one can see in the chart below.
Chart 1: Gold prices year-to-date (London P.M. Fix).
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Saturday, December 02, 2017
Gold Junior Stocks Q3’17 Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
The junior gold miners’ stocks have spent months grinding sideways near lows, sapping confidence and breeding widespread bearishness. The entire precious-metals sector has been left for dead, eclipsed by the dazzling Trumphoria stock-market rally. But traders need to keep their eyes on the fundamental ball so herd sentiment doesn’t mislead them. The juniors recently reported Q3 earnings, and enjoyed strong results.
Four times a year publicly-traded companies release treasure troves of valuable information in the form of quarterly reports. Companies trading in the States are required to file 10-Qs with the US Securities and Exchange Commission by 45 calendar days after quarter-ends. Canadian companies have similar requirements. In other countries with half-year reporting, many companies still partially report quarterly.
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Friday, December 01, 2017
Bitcoin Possible Correction / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
Bitcoin might be expensive according to Vítor Constâncio, Vice President of the European Central Bank. In his interview with CNBC, we read:
Investors flocking into bitcoin are taking a risk by buying at such high prices, the vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Vitor Constancio told CNBC Wednesday.
"It's a very particular asset, it's a speculative asset by definition looking to the developments in its price. Investors are taking that risk of buying at such high prices," Constancio noted.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Is a Stock Market Tax Bill Surprise Coming? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX futures declined to 2631.25 in the overnight session, but appears to have recovered the majority of its decline. We may have seen the completion of an a-b-c correction that may probe the upper trendline or go to 2650.00 before reversing back down.
ZeroHedge reports, “Markets were thrown for a loop in the past 24 hours, with the Dow first soaring nearly 400 points on Thursday on expectations that tax reform was a done deal, when drama emerged just after the close when the Senate tax bill came this close to falling apart when the proposed "Trigger" was ruled as invalid, pushing a Thursday tax vote to this morning, and as of this moment the bill appears in limbo with the GOP scrambling to find ways to appease the sudden loud opposition among budget hawks.”
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Friday, December 01, 2017
Online Accounts Risks, One of Largest Brokerages Halts Online Trading After “Glitch” / ConsumerWatch / Cyber Crime
By: GoldCore
– ‘Technical issue’ at Fidelity temporarily blocks access to online accounts and halts online trading
– Fidelity is 3rd largest brokerage by client assets: $1.7 trillion at the end of 2016
– NatWest, RBS, Ulster Bank have experienced online banking “issues” in November
– Clients left without access to funds & failed payments & little to no recourse
– Social media exposing the banks’ and online trading platforms’ shortcomings
– Reminder that online accounts can be rendered non-viable and vulnerability of absolute dependence and digital cash, digital gold etc
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
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Friday, December 01, 2017
3 Global Financial Markets That Could Indicate an Interim Correction / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Gary_Tanashian
Here are a few global ETFs with little room to drop in order to avoid daily chart technical breakdowns. That does not mean the end of the larger up trends, but could signal oncoming intermediate corrections if they do fall further and close the week that way (pre-market is red). The question would be, are they leading the fiscally drunk US market and its chronic tweeter in chief/stock pumper?
Friday, December 01, 2017
Stock Market Parabolic Beginning? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Gary_Savage
The price action in the Dow and S&P suggest the parabolic phase may have begun.
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Friday, December 01, 2017
Knowledge Sharing Social Network for All - A Big Business Venture / Companies / Social Media
By: Dr_R_M_Mathew
We have hundreds of Social Networks and thousands of Data or Information Providing Websites. But none of them could serve for Knowledge Sharing and meeting the Knowledge needs of diverse categories of people and thereby augmenting the Knowledge Consumption and Production of Humanity. Most of them are unauthentic, obsolete, irrelevant and undependable as they are designed for providing truck load of Data and Information, without much usable knowledge contents.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 01, 2017
Labour Sheffield City Council Election Panic Could Prompt Suspension of Tree Felling's Private Security / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The escalation this week of the Labour controlled Sheffield City Council's PFI contractor Amey deploying private security in footage and images has been generating outrage amongst Sheffield's electorate where even the mainstream press who usually tend to ridicule the tree protestors as being a fringe group have started to question recent tactics in the wake of footage of protestors being 'geckoed' i.e. squashed between walls and metal barriers.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Why Have You Been So Quiet About Metals? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Avi_Gilburt
The question in the title is one of the most frequent comments I have been getting of late. And, the answer is quite simple: They are not doing anything right now. In fact, if you look at the charts, we have been in the same general region for several months.
But, you see, many of you really don’t want an update to know what I really think about the complex. Rather, many of you want an update to either soothe your emotions about the market, or to provide some confirmation bias for you. It has become purely emotional for you, so you feel the need to constantly deal with your emotions.
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Friday, December 01, 2017
Capital Repositioning Driving Stock Market Volatility Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Recent moves in the FANG stocks shows that capital is starting to reposition within the global market. As the end of the year approaches, expect more of this type of capital control to drive greater volatility within the markets. At this time of year, especially after such a fantastic bullish run, it is not uncommon to see capital move out of high flying equities and into cash or other investments.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Britain Pushes for Brexit or Bust / Politics / BrExit
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
There are competing arguments as to how a Brexit will impact Britain. Those opposing a Brexit believe it will have disastrous repercussions on the UK economy, plunging the country into raging inflation, high unemployment, and a skills shortage among others. One of the more pressing concerns for Britain is the exodus of companies from the City of London to other European capitals.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Amey Grinch Felling Sheffield Christmas Lights Cherry Street Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield City Council's 'streets ahead' PFI contractor Amey has deployed increased tree felling / security resources at the start of this week in an attempt to fell hundreds of trees before the end of this year by deploying what resembles an army of green capped hi vis jacketed security personnel to accompany felling crews that tend to far out number the protestors standing beside street trees in freezing temperatures across dozens of Sheffield's streets. The catalyst for this weeks escalation is the looming deadline contained within the PFI contract to fell 6,000 of Sheffield's big street trees by the end of 2017 (out of an estimated total of 36,000).
Thursday, November 30, 2017
SPX Giving Back its Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX went parabolic this morning, nearly undoing my Wave analysis. The current Wave structure is invalidated at 2660.13. That was a close call. By 1:00 pm it was over.
Equities are at a spike high which makes it hard to go short, especially after this terrific short squeeze.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Long-tail Pin Bar On BTCUSD Daily Chart Suggests Trend Reversal / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Submissions
Bartosz Kali writes: After a phenomenal and very surprising run, the price of Bitcoin in relation to the US dollar is showing signs of retreating into a inevitable correction.
On a daily chart of BTCUSD as shown by price data from Bitstamp, we can clearly see a long-tail Pin bar indicating a trend reversal.
Long-tail pin bars are usually an indication of a strong rejection of a bullish run by the market and it is very often followed by a period of trend reversal.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
The War on Gold Intensifies: It Betrays the Elitists’ Panic and Augurs Their Coming Defeat / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Stewart_Dougherty
Dictatorship (noun): Definition #3: absolute power or authority (Websters);
Def. #2: absolute, imperious or overbearing power or control (Random House);
Def. #3: Absolute or despotic control or power (American Heritage);
Def. #3: Absolute or supreme power or authority (Collins English Dictionary);
Def. #1: A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted
to an individual or small clique (Wikipedia).
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Five Charts That Show We Are on the Brink of an Unthinkable Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2017
By: John_Mauldin
Bonfires are fun to watch, but they eventually burn out.
Human folly apparently doesn’t, so we just keep adding to the absurdities. The volume of daily economic lunacy that lights up my various devices is truly stunning, and it seems to be increasing (you can find a previous series of charts in my free newsletter Thoughts from the Frontline, which you can subscribe to here).
Let’s take a look at a series of charts I received from my “kitchen cabinet” of friends.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Low Cost Gold In The Age Of QE, AI, Trump and War / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
‘Fear and Loathing In the Age of QE … AI’ is a presentation given at Mining Investment London earlier this week.
Stephen Flood, CEO of GoldCore presentation (28 minutes) was well received at the conference which is a strategic mining and investment conference for leaders in the mining and investment sectors, bringing together attendees from 20 countries.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
S&P 500 Fluctuates As Technology Stocks Sell Off / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly:
Intraday trade: Our Wednesday's intraday trading outlook was neutral. It proved accurate because the S&P 500 index lost 0.03%, following slightly higher opening of the trading session. The market broke above its short-term consolidation on Tuesday. We still can see negative technical divergences along with medium-term overbought conditions. However, there have been no confirmed negative signals so far. Therefore, we prefer to be out of the market today, avoiding low risk/reward ratio trades.
Our intraday outlook is neutral today. Our short-term outlook is neutral, and our medium-term outlook is neutral:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutral
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): neutral
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral