Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Gold Bull Confirmed: What's Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan confirms a bull market for gold and lays out his investment strategy.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
How Demographics Decided Brexit / Politics / BrExit
By: John_Mauldin
Stephen McBride, Garret/Galland ResearchThe June 23 decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union shocked many people. If we take a closer look at voter demographics, however, the reasons behind the Leave victory become much clearer.
Below, we look at the most significant voter patterns to emerge from the referendum.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Here’s How Much Europe Depends on the UK / Politics / BrExit
By: John_Mauldin
Euroskeptiscism is on the rise in Europe. Countries like Poland and Hungary have actively sought to limit the EU’s influence and ignore its rules—most recently with regard to refugee policies.
Even the most Euroskeptic governments, however, campaigned against Brexit. While European nations may want to limit the EU’s role and influence at home, both economic and security interests led them to support the UK’s membership in the EU (read our free special report on Brexit implications).
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Brexit Doesn’t Change the Sad Reality of Europe / Politics / European Union
By: John_Mauldin
Europe was already in a shambles before the Brexit vote (read Mauldin Economics’ special report on Brexit implications). The UK’s decision may have made a bad situation more volatile. Europe, however, would still be a mess if “Remain” had won.
- If Remain had won, refugees from Africa and the Middle East, many with the UK as their destination, would still be struggling across the Mediterranean or taking land routes into Eastern Europe. The EU would still be desperately trying to stem the tide and to accommodate those whom it can’t stop.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Theresa 'Cersei' May Wins Tory Game of Thrones to Seize Conservative 'Iron Throne' / Politics / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Home Secretary and master tactician Theresa 'Cersei' May surprised all by succeeding in seizing the Tory 'Iron Throne' some 2 months ahead of schedule, putting David 'Lannister' Cameron on 48 hours notice to quit No 10 Downing Street. The seeds for today's victory were sown a week ago ago as BBC newsnight revealed emerging details of a plan hatched to kill off Andrea Leadsom's building campaign before it gained further momentum.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Gold - Wonderland / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Tanashian
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” –Alice in Wonderland
Silver out performs gold as both rise with Treasury bonds, which are in turn rising with stocks, as Junk bonds hit new recovery highs while USD remains firm as inflation expectations are out of the picture. This is highly atypical, maybe even unprecedented.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Gold And Silver – Be Afraid, At The Very Least Be Wary / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_Noonan
BREXIT opened a Pandora's Box for the EU. Will the globalists shut it closed and then reseal it for generations to come? Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but the stench emitting from Brussels has been overpowering Europe. People in the Western world are being manipulated each and every day by the elite's mainstream press with everything that can be construed as potentially negative that stems from BREXIT as a scapegoat.
The world is drowning in debt created by the central bankers and force-fed to states like a goose being fattened for foie gras. Always, always follow the money. Almost everything wrong in the world today can be traced to debt, debt that has been foisted upon states and people by bankers for the sole purpose of enriching only the shadow globalists. At the end of the day, the tab gets passed onto everyone else to pay. That is the sole purpose of the bail-outs and bail-ins. Nothing else, not even you, matters to the elites.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
SPX testing the Cycle Top Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The SPX Premarket is challenging the 2-hour Cycle Top at 2136.81 this morning. Indications are, we may see a probe higher at the open. Although it did not go above the 2134.72 high of May 20, 2015 on Friday, it may do so this morning.
Does that hurt the bearish case? Probably not. You will note that May 19 was exactly 8.6 years (3141.6 days) from the October 11, 2007 high. The time has arrived fro a change of trend. However, I believe that the central banks have been pushing against that change of trend. Thus we have the Orthodox Broadening Top. A move above the upper trendline, called a throw-over, does not invalidate the formation.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
What US Economic Recovery; 62% of Americans Don't Even Have $1000 in Savings / Economics / US Economy
By: Sol_Palha
A key sign of financial health is savings; if one does not have a decent amount of money tucked away for a rainy day, it is a sign that all is not well. Americans have a very hard time sticking to a budget and saving, compared to their Asian counterparts. This is reflected in the startling revelation that over 62% of Americans do not even have $1000 in their savings account. Foreigners are shocked when they find out that Americans have so little money saved for a rainy day.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
ECB and BOJ Now Trapped in Endless Counterfeiting / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Michael_Pento
The Fed was able to end its massive $3.7 trillion series of Quantitative Easing campaigns without the stock market and economy falling apart. The end of QE 3, in October of 2014, did cause temporary turmoil in the major averages; but all in all, it did not lead to a protracted market decline, nor did it immediately send the economy into a recession.
The consensus view then became that the Fed’s strategy of unprecedented interest rate and monetary manipulations was a huge success, and it would be able to slowly raise the Fed Funds rate with impunity.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Fool's Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
The longest war in US history just got even longer. As NATO wrapped up its 2016 Warsaw Summit, the organization agreed to continue funding Afghan security forces through the year 2020. Of course with all that funding comes US and NATO troops, and thousands of contractors, trainers, and more.
President Obama said last week that the US must keep 3,000 more troops than planned in Afghanistan. The real reason is obvious: the mission has failed and Washington cannot bear to admit it. But Obama didn't put it that way. He said:
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Monday, July 11, 2016
UK Savings Market Review / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
As far as the savings market was concerned, the first half of 2016 was a total wipe-out. In fact, research from Moneyfacts.co.uk shows that, since the start of the year, savers have witnessed a vast number of rate cuts, which have caused rates to plummet to new lows. For example, the average five-year fixed rate has fallen by a whopping 0.63% since January this year.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Repeat Of 70s Pattern Shows That Silver $675 Price Is Realistic / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
In my previous silver article, I highlighted a very bullish pattern/fractal on the 100-year silver chart. It was a very big picture view of silver, which is really difficult to perceive within our current reality. However, at some point in time, it will catch up with our current reality. This will likely happen when the monetary system collapses.
Silver, even more than gold, is the opposite of what is considered a monetary asset (debt, like a federal reserve note), today. This is mainly because silver has been completely demonetized, whereas gold is still a part of the current system (think central banks gold reserves). When the illusion of money (value) is exposed for what it is (worthless paper or digits), then people will demand real money (value) like silver and gold.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Stocks VIX & SP500 Comparison of 2008 Market Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Today I like to share my thoughts about the S&P 500 index, the volatility index, and what I believe will be the trigger/event which sends stock markets around the world to new multi-year lows.
While the charts shown here are very simple there is a lot of information behind the scenes that backup the analysis/predictions on the charts below.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Stock Market VIX Strategy, Maximum Profits $ / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Joseph_VanDerveer
Proshares UVXY 2x ETF
Everyone wants to find ways to maximize profits and minimize losses. That's part of the game in trading the market. I would consider this an extremely high risk/high reward trade.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Silver COT update / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Dan_Norcini
This one will be brief…
Let’s stat with the overall NET POSITIONS chart:
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Stock Market Challenging the High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: The long-term trend is near its all-time high
SPX Intermediate trend: The uptrend from 1810 is now challenging the 2135 high.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Gold and US Dollar Trend Forecasts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Savage
While I’m expecting some kind of pullback at the $1390-$1400 level, I don’t think gold’s intermediate cycle will top until at least retracing the 50% Fibonacci level and probably back to $1550 by September. This will almost certainly be driven by an aggressive moved down in the US Dollar as it really starts to accelerate into the next 3 year cycle low due sometime net summer or fall.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
The Big Silver Long - What Gives? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
As Chris Powell of GATA made famous: "Price action makes market commentary".
Control the price of anything and you get control of the story. The U.S. Commodities Future Exchange (COMEX), a subsidiary of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is central to price discovery – and nothing else can compete.
Price action on the big silver ETF, SLV does not (yet!) factor into a price that begins and ends with a trading structure that is rigged to the tune of a few traders who dominate one side of the trade.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Japanese Stock Market Nikkei and Yen Preparing to Reverse Trends / Stock-Markets / Japanese Stock Market
By: Tony_Caldaro
On Friday the Yen hit our long term target of par (100).
A declining C wave should begin shortly to resume its bear market.
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