Saturday, April 23, 2016
Stock Market No Real Selling....Most Indexes Strong....Nasdaq Lagging / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
The Nasdaq has been lagging for the entire year and that's simply because of the higher P/E's associated with those four-letter stocks. In a declining-global environment within a forced fed-bull market the majority of the big money doesn't want to get caught in a bad, Nasdaq earnings report, and get slaughtered so that big money plays it safe and goes to the lower P/E, higher-dividend world. The result is under performance in the Nasdaq, and out performance in the S&P 500 and Dow. The Nasdaq got hit by a threesome of bad reports last night. Google Inc. (GOOG), Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) and Microsoft Corporation (MSFT). All three hit hard today. That trio, which is very heavily weighted, took the QQQ's down very hard today, although there was the usual strong move off the lows as the day wore on. The bull market was very much intact with zero signs of topping out, although there was some technical damage on the Nasdaq.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
President Obama Attends David Cameron's 'Political' Funeral as Brexit Looms / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
President Obama dutifully followed David Cameron's script, heavily laden with the consequences of a Brexit and finished off with a nice sprinkling of threats, blowing away the illusion of a special relationship as Britain in trade terms at least would find itself at the back of the trade agreements queue following a Brexit vote victory, perhaps even behind North Korea!
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Stock Markets Dow, FTSE Tracking Crude Oil Rally Towards New All Time Highs 2016! / News_Letter / Stock Markets 2016
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle Newsletter2nd Mar, 2016 Issue # 6 Vol. 10
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
UK Interest Rates, Economy GDP Forecasts 2016 and 2017 / News_Letter / UK Interest Rates
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle Newsletter6th Feb, 2016 Issue # 4 Vol. 10
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Stock Market Bottoming Out or the Last Bull Standing? / News_Letter / Stock Markets 2016
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJan 25th, 2016 Issue # 3 Vol. 10
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Crude Oil Price Crash Triggering Global Instability, Trend Forecast 2016 / News_Letter / Crude Oil
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJan 17th, 2016 Issue # 2 Vol. 10
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Most Popular Financial Markets Analysis of 2015 - Stock Bull Market Splutters into 2016 / News_Letter / Financial Markets 2015
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterJan 1st, 2016 Issue # 1 Vol. 10
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
UK House Prices, Immigration and the London Property Bubble / News_Letter / UK Housing
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterDec 11th, 2015 Issue # 25 Vol. 9
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Paris Terror Attacks, Death Pangs of a Dying Religion, and Impact on BrExit EU Referendum / News_Letter / Religion
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterNov 18th, 2015 Issue # 24 Vol. 9
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
UK BrExit Referendum as European Union Faces Migration Catastrophe / News_Letter / EU_Referendum
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterNov 12th, 2015 Issue # 23 Vol. 9
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Gold Stocks Climbing Epic Wall of Worry / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
The gold stocks have had a tremendous rally in recent months that has left most investors and even gold bulls on the sidelines. From low tick to high tick GDXJ has more than doubled while GDX has nearly doubled. Indices such as the HUI and XAU have more than doubled. It has been a fantastic rally yet both anecdotal and actual data suggests there has been a major wall of worry building. Although gold stocks may be starting a correction, the presence of a strong wall of worry provides further confirmation of a major trend change.
In recent weeks readers and followers of various gold centric websites have been bombarded with bearish commentaries from pundits and analysts forecasting a correction. More than a month ago the reasoning was the commitment of traders (CoT) report. More recently, the reasoning revolved around an alleged “parabolic move” in the gold stocks and a budding head and shoulders top in Gold.
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Silver’s New Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
Silver officially entered a new bull market this week, decisively crossing the necessary +20% threshold. Speculators and investors alike are returning as awareness spreads of how radically undervalued silver is compared to prevailing gold prices. When silver awakens to a new bull market after a long bearish slumber, massive gains are usually unleashed. Silver’s tiny advance so far is just the tip of the iceberg.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Mike Mayo: Citigroup, BofA, Comerica Should Shrink Faster / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Bloomberg
Mike Mayo, managing director at CLSA Americas, spoke with Tom Keene and Michael McKee on Bloomberg Radio this morning. Mayo said Citigroup, Bank of America and Comerica should move faster to restructure, including selling more assets, to catch up with competitors that are generating better returns: “All three of those banks have failed to create value for every year for the last eight years. And so our question for the board of directors is if you’re not getting it done, what is your plan B?”
He said: “You have some banks like JPMorgan and Wells Fargo with very good returns. Citigroup has poor returns. That’s why our team is going to the annual meeting on Tuesday to say some of your peers are getting it done.”
Friday, April 22, 2016
USD/JPY may be losing its influence on Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The USD/JPY influence on the SPX may be waning. ZeroHedge reports, “Kuroda, we have a problem. Following rumors overnight, USDJPY is obediently being bid (Yen weaker), with its biggest day since January and pushing above 111 (highest in 3 weeks). Normally this would be all the US equity needed to spike ignorantly to new highs... but it's not...
Friday, April 22, 2016
Who are Gold Traders? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The Commitments of Traders Report is one of the most important publications on the gold market. It is usually published every Friday at 15:30 Eastern time by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide market participants "a breakdown of each Tuesday's open interest for markets in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC". Unfortunately the readers don't get a full picture because of a three day lag between a report and the actual positioning of traders (though the report is issued on Friday, it contains Tuesday's data). The open interest, analyzed in the report, is the total number of futures contracts not yet liquidated by an offsetting transaction or fulfilled by delivery.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Market Bubbles, Bubbles, Toil and... Pop / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Doug_Wakefield
"Prosperity is like a Jenna tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall." That's a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech a few weeks ago. - US Recession Data Shows It's a Very Short Road to Capital Controls, Simon Black, March 15, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
Obama Instructs British Poodle to REMAIN Within the EU Superstate / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
President Obama, the leader of the free world visits Britain today for the apparent purpose of instructing the British people to vote to give up their hard won freedoms in THREE wars (1st, 2nd and Cold War) to an bureaucratic undemocratic European Union, something that the American President himself would never contemplate for the US of giving up even an inch of American sovereignty to even nations that border it let alone that which Obama today proposes for the UK. One of sacrificing British sovereignty for the greater American good, one of the British identity being drowned out in a EU soup that is determined to average down living standards and civil liberties so that all europeans are equally poor and disenfranchised.
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Blanket US Student Debt Amnesty Now / Politics / Student Finances
By: Mike_Whitney
A couple weeks ago the Wall Street Journal confirmed our worst fears about the student loan program, that is, that it was going to blow up in the government’s face just like all the other gigantic debt-bubbles that preceded it. For the sake of background, here’s a brief excerpt from the article that will bring readers up-to-date:
Read full article... Read full article...“More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments or are behind on more than $200 billion owed, raising worries that millions of them may never repay.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Gold Price Forms Bearish Double Top / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Austin_Galt
The gold price saw some volatile price action today after hitting upside resistance and reversing back down impulsively. Let's check out the daily and monthly charts and see the bearish pattern that has formed.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Our Day of Reckoning / Politics / Social Issues
By: Richard_Mills
The second half of the 20th century saw the biggest increase in the world’s population in human history.
Our population surged because:
- Medical advances lessened the mortality rate in many countries
- Massive increases in agricultural productivity because of the “Green Revolution”
The global death rate has dropped almost continuously since the start of the industrial revolution - personal hygiene, improved methods of sanitation and the development of antibiotics have all played a major role.
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