Thursday, October 18, 2018
Average five-year Fixed BTL Mortgage Rate Lowest on Record / Housing-Market / Buy to Let
By: MoneyFacts
With significant change in the buy-to-let (BTL) market over the past few years, many landlords feel uncertain as to what the future holds for them and their investment. However, this nervousness has not deterred lenders, with the average five-year fixed rate falling to its lowest level on Moneyfacts.co.uk records this month.
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Thursday, October 18, 2018
Best Waterproof Compact Camera Olympus Tough TG-5 Review - Unboxing / Personal_Finance / Reviews
By: HGR
If you have been looking for a rugged compact camera that you can go swimming with then you undoubtedly will have come across the Olympus Tough TG-5 that is priced towards the top of the range these cameras between £320 and £400, against an average price of about £200 for the range for waterproof cameras. So in this comprehensive series of videos we put the Olympus Tough TG-camera through it's paces to see if it actually delivers all that it promises. Where this video covers what you actually get in the box.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
US Stocks Mount Impressive Early Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As fast as the downside breakout occurred, the upside recovery appears to be taking place as Q3 Earnings begin to hit the news wires. This past weekend, the news cycles and market experts all seemed to have opinions about where the US equities market was headed after last week’s price collapse. We’ve read everything from warnings of a $20 trillion dollar collapse to seeing Bloomberg’s SMART INDEX chart showing equity valuations are near historic market bottoms. It seems everyone wanted to get out and share their opinions – I guess we are no different.
The facts still remain the same, until the global market dynamics change and the US equities markets break the defined price channels that have been well established, we do not see any reason to consider a 6~8% correction life-threatening. In the total scope of the price range, this move represents less than a 25% price correction from price rotation points (as you’ll see on the longer term NQ chart below). Yes, eventually, some critical market event might cause the US equity markets to change direction, but until then stay safe and roll in and out of trades with skill.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
FANG vs. BANG Stocks: Which is the Better Bet? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: EWI
Dear Investor,
A recent MarketWatch article encouraged traders to "Forget Facebook and Apple and buy cheap BANG stocks." You may be wondering if that's really a good strategy.
Our friends at Elliott Wave International asked their Senior Metals Analyst, Tom Denham, for his take.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Silver's Time Is Coming / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and discusses the factors that he believes will lead silver upward.
Unlike gold and precious metals stocks, silver did not break out strongly on Thursday – although it rose, it did not break out at all, nor was volume exceptional, as we can see on its latest 6-month chart below. However, this is not a cause for concern, because in the early stages of sector bull markets gold leads, so we can expect silver to "follow suit" shortly. This is worth knowing, because it means that it is still possible to pick up a lot of silver stocks (and ETFs) at knock down silly prices before it really starts to move.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Stock Market Volatility Breeds Contempt / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the stock market volatility of the last week and what it may mean for precious metals.
When asked about the dominant theme for the markets last January, I said that the one thing I looked forward to was a return of "VOLATILITY" as the Federal Reserve Board moved to "normalize" the interest rate structure, now commonly referred to as quantitative tightening. What has actually transpired since then was a brief volatility spike in February during which the UVXY tripled in ten days but other than that, markets screamed higher, hitting new high after new high with annoying complacency and irritating certainty while "VOL" collapsed.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Gold 7-Year Bear Market Phase Is Over / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund uses charts to explain why he believes the gold bear market is over. Thursday was a momentous day for the precious metals sector with gold, GDX and other índices, and giant gold ETF, GLD all breaking out on impressive volume, and this development was all the more extraordinary because it happened when the broad stock market was crashing. This is viewed as a strong sign that instead of being dragged lower still by a crashing stock market, the precious metals sector will soar. Silver hasn’t broken out yet, but it should soon follow suit.
In recent weeks we have been wary that, despite highly favorable COTs and Hedgers charts and rotten sentiment indicators, etc,. a general asset liquidation might drag the precious metals sector even further down, but Thursday's extraordinarily positive action by the sector serves to allay those fears. Of course, it's not hard to see why the precious metals sector might do the opposite to what it did back in 2008 when the market crashed, and it nosedived too. There are two very big differences this time. One is that, before the 2008 crash, the precious metals sector was actually quite elevated. That is in marked contrast to now where it is beaten into the ground with sentiment in the basement – basically it is so unloved and neglected that the only way is up. The other big difference between now and 2008 is that while a major asset liquidation cycle will result in a flight to cash that could drive the dollar significantly higher, beyond that the longer-term outlook for the dollar is grim, with much of the rest of the world, tired of U.S. bullying in the form of sanctions, military threats, and now trade wars, and its unquestioning support of rogue states like Saudi Arabia and Israel, committed to freeing themselves from dollar hegemony – and plans in this direction are now well advanced, with countries like China and Russia having built up big gold reserves that can at some point be used to back their currencies, and workable substitutes for the SWIFT payments system at the trial run phase. Subjected to continuous provocation, China may at some point decide to go for the "nuclear option" and dump its huge Treasury hoard, sending the Treasury market reeling and interest rates skyrocketing, which will cause the US economy to buckle and implode – the U.S. appears to be overlooking that China has this power.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Gold - A Golden Escape / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Richard_Mills
The oil price is rising due to the upcoming restrictions on the sale of Iranian oil - the second of a two-part set of sanctions imposed on the Middle Eastern power following the Trump Administration’s decision in May to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA). Sanctions lifted under the Obama Administration were re-imposed.
Trump said the deal was disastrous for the United States and a security threat. He also said Iran wasn’t following through on a number of changes it agreed to make, such as more diligent inspections, including Iran’s ballistic missile program in the agreement, removing Iran's presence in Lebanon, and stopping funding terrorist groups like Hezbollah.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Tec Stocks Sector Set For A Rebound? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Chris_Vermeulen
There has been quite a bit of chatter about the FANG stocks recently. In fact, the entire Technology Sector has taken a beating over the past 30+ days. Our research team, at Technical Traders Ltd., believes the Technology sector is setting up for a 15%+ price rebound from these recent lows and we want to alert our followers to be prepared for this move.
Let’s start by taking a look at a 1 Month S&P Heat Map showing just how distressed certain sectors are in terms of price valuations. The Brighter Red highlighted symbols represent a price decrease of at least -6.7% to well above -10% over the past 30 days. It is pretty easy to see the entire Technology, Technology Services, Financial, and Consumer Goods sectors are all under some pricing pressure. What interests us is we call the “capital shift” that has been taking place over the past 4+ years.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Real Estate Transactions are Becoming Seamless with Blockchain-Powered Data Sets / Housing-Market / BlockChain
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
The availability, quality, reliability, and pricing of real estate data is one of the biggest challenges facing real estate stakeholders. A report published in the Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences suggest that “absence or inadequate reliable data will result in inappropriate decision or even no decision at all.”
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Important Elements of a Viral Landing Page / Companies / SME
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Landing pages are the webpages on your site that a user “lands in” when they click on a call to action from an external site or another page from your site. From a marketer’s perspective, these are pages that are part of your website’s marketing campaigns and whose purpose is to generate leads.
The power of a good landing page is overlooked. Many potential consumers who are only visiting your website for the first time do not have the time to ripple all your website’s pages in search of the product you are offering or your contact information so they can reach you. There are numerous alternatives out there and, at this stage, you are all equals with your competitors. By making your landing page inviting and easy to maneuver, you’re giving your visitor zero reasons to consider going back for other alternatives.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Stephen Leeb Predicts 3-Digit Silver and 5 Digit Gold?! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: MoneyMetals
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.
Coming up we’ll hear a wonderful interview with first time guest Dr. Stephen Leeb of Leeb Capital Management. Dr. Leeb weighs in on what he believes will be a major fly in the ointment for the U.S. when it comes to the trade war with China and also tells us if he’s still holding onto the thought that we’ll see triple digit silver prices sometime during the next decade. Don’t miss our conversation with the great Stephen Leeb, coming up after this week’s market update.
As Hurricane Michael ravaged Florida, the stock market got ravaged by some of the heaviest selling it’s seen in years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average careened 831 points on Wednesday and plunged another 545 points Thursday. The markets are rebounding somewhat early here on Friday however, although there was still plenty of damage done for the week.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
BREXIT, Italy’s Deficit, The EU Summit And Fomcs Minutes In Focus / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: C_Pissouros
Darius Anucauskas writes: It looks like a busy week, as there is a lot of economic data that is ready to hit the spotlight, together with the political news that are taking centre stage. Brexit negotiations are also in focus, together with the ongoing discussions around Italy’s deficit.
On Monday, the calendar is relatively quiet, apart from US retail sales figures that are set to come out before the US opening bell. The expectations here are that the figures for the core and headline could have increased. The headline number is expected to come out at +0.7%, which is well above the previous +0.1%. The core figure, which excludes automobiles, is forecasted to come out one tenth of percent higher, at +0.4%, against the previous month’s +0.3%. Certainly, better sales figures could have a positive effect on the US dollar, but we doubt that the greenback will show any strong reaction after numbers come out.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Is this the Start of a Bear Market for Stocks? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
Is this the start of a bear market for stocks? That’s probably what you’re wondering right now, with the S&P 500 sitting right ontop of its 200 daily moving average.
Here’s our long term, medium term, and short term outlook for the U.S. stock market. We focus on the long term and medium term. As U.S. stock market investors and traders, our job is to separate the signal from the noise.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Federal Reserve And The Markets / Stock-Markets / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Kelsey_Williams
Analysis and opinions of the financial markets vary depending on who is doing the analyzing. The most critical element that affects the song is the singer.
There is nothing wrong with that. But we should be aware that our own prejudice clouds our perspective. However, there is more that is not so obvious. With that in mind, lets take a look at things.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Chinese Economic Prospects Amid US Trade Wars / Economics / China Economy
By: Dan_Steinbock
As US trade war damage is spreading, markets reflect an elusive calm before a potential storm. While Chinese prospects and reforms prevail amid challenging conditions, IMF's global outlook remains too optimistic for 2018-19.According to new data, China’s exports rose by 14.5% year-on-year in September, which is an acceleration from the previous month. However, growth in imports declined to 14.3%.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
2019’s Hottest Commodity Is About To Explode / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: OilPrice_Com
It’s the most critical economic resource you’ve never heard of.
Element “V”.
Without this unknown commodity, you can’t build as strong a bridge, factory or skyscraper. It’s used extensively in planes, trains and supertankers.
It could soon form the backbone of America’s $386 billion electrical grid.
Forget oil or gold. Wars could even be fought over this unusual metal.
The scary part? None of it is produced in the United States. China, Russia and South Africa control almost all of the global production, and we’re locked in the middle of a trade war.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Keep A Proper Perspective About Stock Market Recent Move / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
There has been quite a bit of information and opinion in the news recently regarding the recent downside price action in the US Equities markets. We’ve seen everything from “The sky is falling” to “The markets will rally into the end of the year”. If you’ve been following our research and analysis, you already know what we believe will be the likely outcome and if not – keep reading.
There are a number of key components of the global economy that are of interest currently; US Treasuries, Precious Metals, Emerging Markets, the European Union, Trade Issues and Capital Shifts.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Consider This Your Final Warning About Gold, For Bulls And Bears Alike / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
Sentiment is a funny bedfellow. When the metals market was at the lows back in August, everyone and their mother were again certain that we were going to break below $1,000 in gold. Yet, that exact sentiment is what kept us from doing so, no different than what we saw at the end of 2015.
Currently, the sentiment has been turning bullish again, with many thinking the current rally is the break out everyone has been awaiting. As for me, I am not quite so certain.
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Is the Stocks Bull Dead? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend – Has the bear market started?
Intermediate trend – The correction has turned into a short-term debacle which may not be over.
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.