Wednesday, June 01, 2016
The $6 TRILLION Corporate Debt Implosion Begins... / Interest-Rates / Corporate Bonds
By: Graham_Summers
The corporate bond market is a $6 trillion time bomb waiting to go off.
It took the US half a century to grow its corporate bond market to $3 trillion.
Thanks to the Fed implementing ZIRP and holding rates there for seven years, we’ve doubled the corporate bond market, adding another $3 trillion in corporate debt… since 2009.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Stock Market Rough Week Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
While the eighth year of a Presidential term calls for a rally from mid-May to early/mid-June, it doesn’t promise to be straight up. This week looks set to see a correction downward against the bigger trend. The McClellan Oscillator’s dip below -150 and the lower Bollinger Band on 5/19/16 (the one-year anniversary of the top of the bull market in the Dow) marked the low of the recent sell-off. It closed above zero last week but the bears have the benefit of the doubt given the ‘complex’ structure below zero.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
GDX Adjusted Cycle, Projection and Chart / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Brad_Gudgeon
GDX and gold look to make their low around June 24, not June 17th as I had reported earlier. The cycles are following gold’s and not GDX’s cycle. June 2nd is a cycle change point (either a low or high) and happens to be the 16 TD low for gold.
The chart below shows GDX’s wave count ending an (x) of B wave on June 2 near 21.81 and rallying to 25.42 by June 8th to finish (y) of B.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Global Mints Report Record Silver Coin Sales for 2015 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_J_Kosares
Gold coin sales register third best year since 2002, 30% increase over 2014
Global investors snapped up a record 89.6 million one ounce silver coins in 2015, according to USAGOLD’s annual survey of global bullion coin sales. The strong 2015 showing follows an equally impressive 2014 for silver coins at 77.9 million ounces and 2013 at 85.4 million ounces. Year over year, silver bullion coin demand was up 14% from 2014. Last year was a banner year for gold bullion coin sales as well – the fifth best since 2002. National mints sold 2.75 million ounces in 2015 – an impressive 30% increase over 2014.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Stock Market Aggressive Short Entry Given / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Although SPX has bounced, VIX has given an aggressive sell signal. This provides a possible short entry for SPX.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Gold and Silver - Are you still waiting for a pullback, so you can take part in the bull market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Peter_Degraaf
Well, your time has come! Gold is in the process of testing the February breakout at a very important moving average. Whenever the market tests a breakout, it affords those who missed the breakout an opportunity to get onboard, and it enables those who helped to create the breakout, an opportunity to double up.
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Tips for Identifying Elliott Waves on Your Charts / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Master Instructor Jeffrey Kennedy shares simple ways to get your analysis started
The Elliott Wave Principle is based on 5 core Elliott wave patterns, each having hard-and-fast rules, and a handful of guidelines. Here, our master instructor Jeffrey Kennedy gives you his tips for applying the Wave Principle to any chart, in any market, on any time frame. Watch.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Are Help to Buy ISAs Doomed to Face More Interest Rate Cuts? / Housing-Market / ISA's
By: MoneyFacts
Help to Buy: ISAs, which were designed to boost the saving ambitions of would-be first-time buyers, have now been on the market for over six months. However, despite the excitement of their launch, Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that their shine has already begun to fade thanks to rate cuts and opening restrictions. Indeed, the average rate paid has already dropped from 2.55% to 2.39% since the start of the tax year (6 April 2016).
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Brexit is the Second American Revolution - Video / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Mario_Innecco
Its wednesday june first 2016 i'm going to be talking about brexit today and the second American Revolution
and you may ask what are you talking about American Revolution and brax it
well if you know your American history the first american revolution in the 1770s
I started because the British Parliament was user being their power towards the Englishman
yes Englishman that lived in the American colonies you know you read up books about John Adams which I have here John Adams by david mccullough and John Adams considered considered himself an
Englishman and when the American colonists were being taxed without representation
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Moneyfacts Business Current Account Star Ratings Announced / Personal_Finance / SME
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts has completed its annual assessment of the business current account market and awarded its Star Ratings as a result.
The Moneyfacts Business Current Account Star Ratings compare the charges and features that are most important for those looking for a current account, helping them to focus on a product that suits their individual business needs.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Now Japanese Prime Minister Abe Predicts Imminent Global Economic Catastrophe / Economics / Economic Collapse
By: Jeff_Berwick
We continue to report on important mainstream investors, professional and private, who have warned about an impending, global financial catastrophe. Now, add Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to that list.
George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Carl Icahn among others have all made dire statements. They’ve also reconfigured their portfolios and taken positions in gold and silver and shorted the market.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
British Pound Climb Continues Despite Brexit Anxiety Driving GDP Growth to Lowest in Years / Currencies / British Pound
By: AnyOption
While the Pound has recently shrugged off a further tapering in the economy, Brexit fears continue to define the economic climate as evidenced by decelerating household spending and falling business investment. As the vote draws nearer, the economic data is likely to show that the anxiety is becoming more acute, with an even deeper pullback in fundamental activity anticipated. Current forecasts are showing growth retreating even further to a 0.30% pace for the second quarter, a figure that could easily be lower based on the sluggish attitude of consumers and businesses as they await the outcome. In the meantime, the Pound continues to be sensitive to the polling, with expectations of a “Bremain” vote driving the Pound higher, despite the obvious risks to the outlook that could sharply reverse the existing momentum.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Trump and Hillary Don't Know How to Fix the Economy / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: MISES
Justin Murray writes: Recently, Hillary Clinton was taped ridiculing Donald Trump for lacking a detailed plan for the American economy. The message, so it goes, is that Trump is not suited for the presidency because he doesn’t have a plan on how to turn the American economy around.
But is it really more dangerous to elect a president who makes up economic policy on the fly than one who proclaims to have a detailed plan for us?
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Stock Market Mixed Session to Start the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started the day out on a positive note, and then sold off dramatically, taking the Nasdaq 100 from 4526 down to 4497 in a 3-wave, constructive pullback. The S&P 500 pulled back from 2103 to 2089. A very later, 45-minute rally took place and brought the Nasdaq 100 up 30 points and the S&P 500 10 points. A last, 2-minute pullback brought them off that rally high, and they closed mixed on the day.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Counter Trend Rally in Gold Due; Stock Market Topping? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Brad_Gudgeon
The GLD chart below shows gold in a declining wedge. Cyclically, an 8 TD low is due in gold and a 4 TD low due in GDX on June 1st. A strong rally is indicated into June 2nd for both gold and GDX.
The stock market (as measured by the S&P 500) has either made its secondary top on May 31st or will likely do so on June 1, in my opinion. Another large drop is due in the weeks ahead.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
The Numbers Add Up to Vindication for a Cautious Gold Bull. . . / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the importance of caution and timing in gold investment.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
A “Big Money” Making Move is Coming to the Stock Market Soon… / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
Traders gunned the market higher last week thanks to extremely low volume (most of Wall Street left early for the holiday weekend) and the usual performance (many funds have to record results at month end).
The S&P 500 has now slammed up against overhead resistance (red line). We are once again within spitting distance of the all-time highs.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Will the Fed be Blind Sided by Stagflation? / Economics / Stagflation
By: Michael_Pento
Most Central Bank watchers know that our Federal Reserve has a dual mandate of stable prices in the context of maximum employment. But its use of the words "stable and maximum" is somewhat misleading. For instance, one would assume that "stable" inflation would lead the Fed to pursue no change in prices and "maximum" employment would be a rate targeted at 0 percent unemployment; but this is not the case.
For some antithetical economic reason central bankers have unanimously redefined stable prices as adopting a 2 percent inflation target. The Fed has also morphed the term maximum employment rate to mean a 5-6 percent unemployment rate, clinging to the misguided belief that full employment is the progenitor of inflation, despite no supporting economic or historical evidence.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
10 Questions About our Broken Financial System / Interest-Rates / Financial Crisis 2016
By: DeviantInvestor
Bonds look like a bubble in search of a pin. What if global bonds are revalued lower to account for the following?
- Probability of repayment in a currency that will maintain its purchasing power for the lifetime of the bond.
- Probability of responsible fiscal management by the governments of the bond issuing countries.
- Probability of repayment without rolling over those bonds by creating EVEN MORE UNPAYABLE
- Actual positive yield.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Here’s Where the TSA Got This One Wrong / Politics / US Politics
By: Rodney_Johnson
My wife hates to fly. It’s not the planes that bother her, although she’s no fan of turbulence. It’s the security process. There’s something about passing through a low-level X-ray machine that can see through your clothes that gives her the willies. Who can blame her?And then there’s the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) agents themselves. Why is it that six or seven seem to be just hanging out while three of them work one security machine, as 200 people wait in line?
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