Wednesday, June 14, 2017
In Gold we Trust: Gold Bull Market Charts and Research / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
In Gold we Trust Report: Bull Market Will Continue
The 11th edition of the annual “In Gold we Trust” is another must read synopsis of the fundamentals of the gold market, replete with excellent charts by our friend Ronald-Peter Stoeferle and his colleague Mark Valek of Incrementum AG.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
UK High Street Loan Interest Rates More than 2% Higher Compared to Challengers / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
The quarterly Moneyfacts UK Credit Card Trends Treasury Report, which studies the UK personal finance market (Unsecured Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Overdrafts), shows that the gap between unsecured personal loan rates from high street brands and the rest of the market has widened, with high street rates now 2.3% higher on average compared to other providers*.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
The #1 Gold Stock of 2017 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
UK Savers’ Apathy Can Cause them to Miss the Best Deals / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
Data from moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that the savings market has shown some signs of improvement since the start of 2017, with the number of savings rate rises outweighing cuts for the fifth month running. In fact, rises outnumbered cuts by a third, as Moneyfacts recorded 95 rate rises in May versus 60 rate reductions.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
USDCAD Broke below Channel Support / Currencies / Canadian $
USDCAD broke below the bottom trend line at 1.3435 of the price channel on its daily chart, suggesting that the uptrend started from the January 31 low of 1.2968 had completed at the May 5 high of 1.3793 already.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Can Ripple catch the rally of Bitcoin & Ethereum / Currencies / Bitcoin
Ripple is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, after Bitcoin and Ethereum. It’s distributed financial technology allows banks to efficiently settle transactions in real time. An alternative to today’s global payment infrastructure, Ripple eliminates time delays and ensures certainty of settlement, resulting in lower transaction costs for banks and their customers and unlocking new revenue opportunities.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
From OSS to CIA Ongoing Clash with Military Intelligence / Politics / Intelligence Agencies
For all those supporters of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's war, many admire the exploits of the OSS in Europe. While historians for the allied legions adopt the account that circumstances dictated the creation and use of the British, Special Operations Executive, which Churchill proclaimed, to 'set Europe aflame'; the precedent left a heritage of intervention that few ever warned about the nature of counter-offensive missions. Gathering intelligence on adversaries is valid and even necessary to defend your country. However, to establish contingents of lethal assassins is a fundamental departure from intelligence procurement. During World War II the American version of clandestine operations put into motion a competing and dangerous rival to the traditional role of military intelligence.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
The Everything Bubble, Return Of The Subprime Mortgage / Interest-Rates / Subprime Mortgage Risks
This cycle’s main bubble is in government bonds and fiat currencies, with a dash of large-cap tech thrown in for variety. But like a hurricane spawning tornadoes at its periphery, this Money Bubble is creating secondary bubbles like student debt and subprime auto loans that are impressively destructive in their own right.
An example of how extreme things have gotten is US housing, which — as the previous decade’s main bubble — wasn’t supposed to be a problem this time around. But apparently no sector is immune from all that excess central bank liquidity. As today’s Wall Street Journal notes, the subprime mortgage is now being resurrected:
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
How One Forecasting Tool Defied the Stocks Bull Market Naysayers / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
Three compelling Elliott wave charts lay it all outThe Elliott wave model often indicates a stock market outlook that's at odds with the sentiment of the crowd.
But, that's okay. The crowd is usually wrong at major market turns.
For example, two years ago on May 9, 2015, the bull market was six years old
and the third longest in history. A few days earlier, CNN Money said:
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
When Will Theresa May 'Dead Woman Walking' Resign? Forecast / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
George Osborne the architect of the Conservative surprise general election victory of 2015 that no one saw coming as every polls based forecaster had been expecting a hung parliament with the most probable outcome being that for a Labour led coalition government. Instead David Cameron's Tories in 2015 eeked out a small outright majority government that gave the Conservatives the false confidence to go ahead with the EU referendum again based on the opinion polls that REMAIN just could not lose, but they did and so did Cameron and Osborne, replaced by May and Hammond.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Gold and Silver at Breakout Point from 6-Year Downtrend - David Morgan Exclusive / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in our good friend David Morgan of The Morgan Report. David, it's always a real pleasure to have you on with us and I'm especially excited to talk with you about some of the topics we've got on tap today. How are you?
David Morgan: I'm doing well Mike, thank you very much.
Mike Gleason: Well, as we begin here David, I want to talk to you about the danger of complacency because I think it's a very appropriate topic for the times we're in right now. To you and me and to many others in our space with a similar world view, we see a whole slew of reasons to own precious metals. We have threats of war in many places throughout the globe. We have a president here in the U.S. who the establishment hates and is hoping to oust if they get the chance. We have nation central banks printing new fiat currency at unprecedented levels all throughout the world.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Goldman Sachs Crashes Tech FANG Stocks! / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
Last Friday June 9th, 2017, Robert Bouroujerdi, a Goldman Sachs analyst, “warned that the $600 billion outperformance by the 5 biggest tech stocks known as ‘FAAMG’ — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet — had contributed about 42 percent of all stock market gains over the last year. Goldman worries that the boom has created an “valuation air-pocket,” similar to the ridiculously high valuations for tech stocks during the Dot-Com boom.”
Goldman Sachs comments “market’s over-reliance on FAAMG for growth and appreciation has created positioning extremes, factor crowding and difficult-to-decipher risk narratives.”
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Stock Market Long-term Elliott Wave View / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
I am sending the charts in landscape to capture as much detail as possible. Wave [5] has been a stretch of 506 days, approximately 2.8 times the time of Wave [1]. By stretching, it gave us 17.2 years from high to high in this Super Cycle.
Wave [5] was 636.10 points, while Wave [1] was 347.61 points. Wave [5] was 2.81 times the size of Wave [1] in days.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Manipulated and Made-up Markets / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
The economic ruse that is run by Communist China is growing bigger by the day. The formula behind what has been the Great Red Engine of global growth is really very simple: Print new money and funnel it through the state-owned banking system in order to entice businesses and individuals to incur a debilitating amount of non-productive debt.
Historically speaking, countries that have utilized this ersatz form of economics have suffered a currency and bond market crisis. But the command and control government of China always seems to be one step ahead of the laws of economics; and has been able to defer the inevitable day of reckoning due to its large currency reserves.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
How To Use Emotions To Make Better Investment Decisions / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
BY JARED DILLIAN : There are a lot of times in my life where I wish I was just a computer and didn’t have feelings. I’d probably be a much better trader.
And that’s what this piece is about. We’re all human beings, trading and investing, trying to make money, but these things called emotions get in the way.
Most trading experts will tell you to get rid of your emotions altogether, to get as close to being a computer as possible.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
UK General Election Results Map 2017 vs 2015 vs Opinion Polls / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
The UK General Election result of 2017 surprised all just as had the election result of 2015 when every polls based analyst had been expecting a hung parliament with the most probable outcome being for a Labour led coalition government. Instead David Cameron's Tories in 2015 eeked out a small outright majority government that gave the Conservatives the false confidence to go ahead with the EU referendum again based on the opinion polls that REMAIN could not lose, but they did and so did Cameron and Osborne. Now it was the turn of Theresa May to get it very badly wrong, lulled into a false sense of BrExit security as the pollsters this time forecast a certain landslide, when instead the impossible Hung Parliament materialised literally forcing Theresa May into doing a deal with Northern Irelands Protestant fundamentalists.
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Monday, June 12, 2017
3 Charts That Show How Stock Market is“Enormously Overvalued” / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
Last week in Outside the Box (my free newsletter for investors), Jim Mellon shared some good advice on picking stocks in the Age of the Index Fund. Jim said,
[C]ommitted investors should make a list of companies that they really like, know about, and want to own—at the right price. If the shares of those firms are too high, put in limits, possibly 20–30% below current levels, and wait. Don’t let cash burn a hole in your pocket—let the stocks come to you, and don’t chase.
Within a day of publishing Jim’s piece, my friend Vitaliy Katsenelson’s quarterly letter to clients landed in my inbox, and I thought it would make a good follow-up to Jim’s article.
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Monday, June 12, 2017
The Disturbing Trend That Will End in a Full-Fledged Pension Crisis / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
Shannara Johnson writes : Some experts think it will be the trigger for the next financial collapse. Others call it a “national crisis” of unprecedented proportions.
But what all of them agree on is that there’s no way US pension funds can keep their promises to the next wave of retirees.
Right now, millions of Americans are hard at work believing their pensions will be their saving grace for retirement. But the predicament pension funds across the United States find themselves in does not just spell trouble for the distant future.
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Monday, June 12, 2017
India Stock Market Nifty-NSE Next Warning Area for Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
In June 2015, we mentioned that Nifty-NSE from India was in a warning area for the bulls and a larger correction was expected to take place. Over the next 12 months, Nifty lost 25% dropping from a high of 9119.20 on 3.4.2015 to a low of 6825 on 2.29.2016. However, as we keep mentioning World Indices trend remains up and dips are nothing more than buying opportunity in the right areas, so this dip in this Indian Index was another buying opportunity in the blue box between 7459 – 6721.
Nifty-NSE buying area down from 3.4.2015 peak
Monday, June 12, 2017
Will Technology Stocks Sell-Off Drive Stock Market Lower? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
Our intraday outlook is now bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook remains neutral, following S&P 500 index breakout above last year's all-time high:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral