Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Unhealthy, Not Wealthy, and Far from Wise, The Changing Healthcare World / Companies / Healthcare Sector

By: John_Mauldin

“The first wealth is health.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.” – Carl Jung

Decisions, decisions. Many Americans will have to make a big one in the next 60 days or so. How you decide will affect both your health and your wallet. Hospital management and doctors are seeing significant differences in the trends of patient care and are moving to adapt. Some of the changes they implement are going to create significant economic impacts on households and local communities.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Which Is The Better Investment - Gold Or The Dow? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: Austin_Galt

As far as I'm concerned, the only way to answer the question of which is the better investment between gold and the Dow Jones Industrial Index is to analyse the chart of the Dow expressed in gold. So, let's do just that using the monthly and weekly charts of the Dow/Gold ratio.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Stock Market Initial Projection Reached (Short-Term Top Expected) / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend - Bull Market?

Intermediate trend - SPX is in the midst of an intermediate correction (at least).

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 discusses the course of longer market trends.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Gold Signals The End Of This Monetary Era / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: Hubert_Moolman

Gold remains our best means of economic measurement. It is not a perfect, but it is our best. Due to its monetary properties, gold can be used to measure wealth across generations.

Just like we have the sun and moon to discern the times and seasons, I believe, we have gold to discern changes in wealth. It is interesting that the sun is often compared to gold, and the moon to silver. Just like a day in the Middle Ages is comparable to a day in this century, an ounce of gold in the Middle Ages is comparable to one today.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Brainard's Wake-up Call to Fed on U.S. Rate Hike Calls / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Ashraf_Laidi

The growing inverse correlation between the frequency of Fed speeches and uniformity of the message on monetary policy action cannot be ignored. The newest member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hasn't made too many speeches, but her message has been on point since her first speech in June.

In her speech yesterday, Lael Brainard, Federal Reserve Governor since June of this year, dealt a prominent blow to the hawks at the Fed, by contradicting three major premises upon which calls for a 2015 rate hike are built. Having served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs for over three years, she knows a few things about international developments. Here are some of the central points of her speech:

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

German DAX Stock Market Index Expected To Go Lower / Stock-Markets / Germany

By: Gregor_Horvat

German DAX fell sharply down this summer so we see price in big wave IV) pullback which could reach much lower levels by the end of the year, but after wave (B) rally is complete which seems to be underway now to higher levels. Ideally price will hit 10800 before downtrend will continue into wave (C).

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Gold and Silver Bear Markets Are Not Over / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: InvestingTrack

Our gold and silver models state that the gold and silver bear markets are not over as of October 13, 2015. Here’s why.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Gold for Stocks Bear Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Axel_Merk

While some continue dancing, the music might have already stopped: are we already in a bear market in stocks? In this context, we study past bear markets to see whether gold may serve as a valuable diversifier for what's ahead.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Marc Faber - Gold’s “Bigger Question” Is Where To Store It / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: GoldCore

Marc Faber has again encouraged individuals to own physical gold, be wary of possible government confiscation and said that the big question is where to store your gold.

“ … But I would say an individual should definitely own some physical gold…The bigger question is where should he store it?”

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Mindless Stupidity of Negative Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: MM

MoneyMorning.com By Lee Adler, Editor's Note: We're sharing this Wall Street Examiner column with you today because negative interest rates are destroying trillions of dollars in wealth in Europe right now, cheered on by some of the "smartest" economists in the world – who want to bring NIRP here. Here's Lee Adler with some facts that show why negative rates are a horrible idea…

There are troubling signs that the doves at the Federal Reserve are considering a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) as a way to handle "the next crisis" – and there's always a next crisis…

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Daily Israeli War Crimes in Palestine / Politics / Palestine

By: Stephen_Lendman

Israel is attacking defenseless Palestinians with lethal force and vicious propaganda - reflecting state terror fueled by longstanding racist hate, wanting maximum land for Jews only, and having Palestinians confined to isolated ghettoized bantustans, deprived of all rights and resources. 

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Challenger Banks Herald a Savings Market New Dawn / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts

By: MoneyFacts

Data from Moneyfacts.co.uk reveals that fierce competition is leading to encouraging signs of improvement in the savings market.

In the month of September, Moneyfacts has recorded 104 savings rate rises, with some increases being as high as 0.45%. This dwarfs the 28 rate reductions that have taken place over the same period. As a result, the best one-year fixed rate bond has increased from 1.90% a year ago to 2.10% today.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

China, The Great Depressions 1 & 2, and Gold / Commodities / Great Depression II

By: Darryl_R_Schoon

When uncontrolled credit growth results in speculative bubbles, capitalism’s cycles of expansion and contraction end in catastrophic deflationary depressions where large collapsing bubbles result in crippling levels of defaulting debt.

In June-July 2015, the Shanghai stock market retraced the beginning of the end of the historic 1920s US stock bubble whose collapse in 1929 ended in the Great Depression of the 1930s; and while it may appear history is repeating itself, it is not. This time, capital markets will not recover.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Deteriorating U.S. Economy / Economics / US Economy

By: Antonius_Aquinas

Despite doubling the national debt and the expansion of the money supply to some $8 trillion since the beginning of Obummer’s misbegotten presidency, the U.S. economy is once again in a free fall. Actually, there has been no real recovery, but a continual deterioration of living standards despite the lies and distortions from the financial media and government authorities.

Conditions, however, are now descending at an even faster pace.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Top 3 Technical Tools Part 3: MACD - Video Lesson / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis

By: EWI

Enhance your trading confidence with this short lesson on how to combine Moving Average Convergence Divergence with other technical tools.

"Guessing or going by gut instinct won't work over the long run. If you don't have a defined trading methodology, then you don't have a way to know what constitutes a buy or sell signal. Moreover, you can't even consistently correctly identify the trend." -Jeffrey Kennedy

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

An Introduction to Technofeudalism Ascending / Politics / Social Issues

By: BATR

The future of the planetary “Reign of Terror” has never been clearer. The pattern for global governance has been set into motion and operates under a model that has been used throughout much of history. The modern day version of command and control can be effectively described as Technofeudalism. The purpose of this introduction is to provide an outline of the arguments used by Steven Yates, Ph.D. The link to this significant treatise is provided below. In addition News With Views maintains an extensive archives of Dr. Yates’ work. Invest the time to read the entire essay for a full understanding of the linkage behind Technofeudalis and the course for top down dominance.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Stock Market Holding Below Breakout....Bullish Action Overall... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

The stock market plays games with the heads of the traders out there. For a good period of time it will not be able to move higher, and then out of the blue, things reverse and it simply can't fall very much. It transitions and fools the masses over and over, but isn't that its intentions! You bet it is. To keep you guessing and getting frustrated time after time. The house usually wins as we all know.

Monday, October 12, 2015

UK State Pension Top Up, Is It Worth It? / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement

By: Nadeem_Walayat

As of today Britain's pensioners are being offered a chance to top up their state pensions under what is known as Class 3A Voluntary Contributions .

The top up is open to all current pensioners and those about to retire by April 2016

The maximum increase in weekly pensions is £25 per week or £1300 a year on top of the current state pension of £115 per week / £5980 per year.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Move over ZIRP... Here Comes NIRP! / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: MoneyMetals

Precious metals prices enter the new week looking to extend the rally that began Oct. 2nd. Silver has gained nearly 10%, and gold is up almost 3.5%. The notion that the Federal Reserve governors may have missed their window to raise interest rates is beginning to sink in with investors.

In fact, if the U.S. economy should fall into recession, investors may see central planners move from zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) to the launch of negative interest rates.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Stock Market S&P 500: Is it This Simple? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Gary_Tanashian

In an age of Algorithms, High Frequency Trading, Quant-injected performance engines and every Casino Patron with an e-Trade account hyper-stimulating the market after each bit of news that is fed (no pun intended) to us by the financial media and Policy Central, the lowly individual can be forgiven for feeling small and vulnerable; for feeling as if the answers are beyond her, or that long-term success is out of his reach.

Indeed, this very publication has ground its gears pondering the fact that August-September market sentiment became historically over bearish in ratio to the relatively minor downside experienced thus far. That was a bullish, not a bearish thing. With sentiment now being repaired it is time to ask if we are giving the bulls too much latitude.