Tuesday, May 23, 2017
First-time Buyers Finding Help to Buy ISAs Less Helpful / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Whilst figures from the Office for National Statistics show that house price rises have slowed recently, those looking to get on the first rung of the housing ladder are still faced with the daunting task of gathering together a substantial deposit. With the latest research from moneyfacts.co.uk showing that the top-paying rates on the Government-backed Help to Buy ISA have been slashed by a whopping 1.73% since its launch in 2015, first-time buyers are likely to find it even more difficult to save.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Today's Stunted Oil Prices Could Cause Oil Price Shock In 2020 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: OilPrice_Com
As oil prices remain unsteady and OPEC continues to make headlines every hour, the world is focused on oil’s immediate future. As Saudi Arabia announces plans to slash production and move their economy away from oil dependency, many industry insiders are predicting that the now over-saturated market will reach an equilibrium with higher commodity prices by 2018 and U.S. shale production will continue to grow along with global demand.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The Only Metal Trump Wants More Than Gold / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: OilPrice_Com
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Stock Market Good Day to Start the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a exceptional up-day today. The day started out with a gap to the upside, then a sharp run-up, they consolidated in the morning, continued midday, pulled back early afternoon, and ran again for a fifth wave in the afternoon, finishing near the session highs for the day.
Net on the day, the Dow was up 89.99 at 20,894.83. The S&P 500 was up 12.29 at 2394.02. The Nasdaq 100 was up 47.84 at 5699.40.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
America's Southern Heritage is a Threat to the Deep State / Politics / US Politics
By: BATR
In an age where the accounts of history are no longer taught or the chronicles of past generations are lost to the consciousness of the current culture; all that is left is a fairy tale of deception designed to confuse, indoctrinate and eliminate critical thinking. Astute students of the War of Northern Aggression understand that the cessation of hostilities set into motion the forces of imperialism and the perversion of a Constitution with the addition of harmful amendments. Liberty was the primary causality of all the bloodshed and the institution of a totalitarian statist regime became the permanent outcome of the conflict.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Is the Gold Price Correction Over? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: The_Gold_Report
With confidence in the post-election "Trump inflation trade" waning, Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, set out their thesis for the end of the current correction in the gold market.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Gold Long-Term Trend Is Bullish Despite Resistance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Ed_Carlson
Gold rallied $26.50/oz. last week closing at 1,252.70 and above the 200-dma. Gold is finding resistance from the December trendline and the detrended oscillator is overbought warning of a pullback. Gold priced in Euros (lower) isn’t very bullish on gold’s prospects either. Cycles have us looking for a decline into mid-May and possibly as early as last week.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Manchester Bombing - ISIS Islamic Terrorist Attack Attempt to Influence BrExit Election / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The people of Britain are waking up to a terrorist bomb attack on young people attending an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena at 10.33pm killing 22 people, including children and injuring 59, Britain's worst terror attack since the London 7/7 bombings nearly 12 years ago. A suspected suicide bomber detonated a device at 10.33pm last night in the foyer as concert goers were leaving. The response of politicians has been to suspend election campaigning for at least 24 hours.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Stock Markets Should Fear Central Banks More Than Trump / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Michael_Pento
Trump’s economic agenda has become further delayed by what seems like daily leaks from the White House. This may finally bring about the long-awaited equity market pullback of at least 5 percent. However, what will prove to be far more troubling than Trump’s ongoing feuds with the DOJ and the press, is the upcoming market collapse due to the removal of the bids from global central banks.The markets have been feeding off artificial interest rates from our Federal Reserve and that of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan for years. In addition, the global economy has been stimulated further by a tremendous amount of new debt generated from China that was underwritten by the PBOC. After it reached the saturation point of empty cities, China is now building out its “Belt and Road Initiative” that could add trillions of dollars to the debt-fueled stimulus scheme that has been spewed out over the world-wide economy.
Monday, May 22, 2017
What an America First Trade Policy Could Mean for the US Dollar / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: John_Mauldin
JACOB L. SHAPIRO : It was only a few months ago that OPEC, once the de facto arbiter of oil markets, seemed to have a plan to inflate the price of oil: The cartel, along with several non-OPEC members, agreed in December to cut production by roughly 1.2 million barrels per day.
And for the first quarter of 2017, OPEC largely made good on its pledge. It produced 1.1 million fewer barrels of oil per day in the first quarter of 2017 than it did in the final quarter of 2016. Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest producer, accounted for 55% of the cuts.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
James Rickards: Gold’s “Decisive Turn Around” – “Next Stop Is $1,300 Or Higher” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
James Rickards via Daily Reckoning
But the most important development this week may be the one you never heard about on the news or the internet.
On May 10, gold launched a decisive turnaround from its most recent decline.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
US Dollar 3 Year Cycle Low Charts / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Gary_Savage
The dollar is now 4 days into its final bloodbath phase. This phase usually lasts 5-7 days. We should get a bottom this week.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Buy-to-Let Mortgages for Limited Companies Double / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
The Buy-to-Let (BTL) market has faced extra scrutiny recently as landlords have been hit by several BTL tax changes in recent years. As tax reliefs are being cut, landlords are looking at their options, with many considering incorporation. Luckily for them, research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the proportion of BTL deals available to limited companies has doubled in just one year.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Stocks Fluctuate Along Record Highs - Topping Pattern Or Just Pause? 22nd May / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,410, and profit target at 2,200, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is 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
Monday, May 22, 2017
Gold and Sillver Markets - Silver Price Sharp Selloff - 22nd May / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the precious metals market, noting a price bounce off positive divergence
Monday, May 22, 2017
An Ethereum Price Forecast For 2017 / Currencies / BlockChain
By: InvestingHaven
The price of cryptocurrency Ethereum in 2017 is going through the roof, similar to the price of Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies. Our Ethereum price forecast for 2017 and later is very bullish.
Interestingly, there are no Ethereum price forecasts available on the web. So we are among the first ones to forecast the Ethereum price for 2017 and later. There is even no Ethereum price forecast on the official Ethereum site ethereum.org.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Stock Market Volatile C-Wave / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: Uptrend continues.
SPX Intermediate trend: The correction from 2400 on 3/08 continues, with the B-wave now in place.
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 discuss longer market trends.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Stock Market Trend Forecast and Fear Trading / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The broad US stock market last week took a tumble sending a massive wave of fear through investors’ minds. On Wednesday May 17th the S&P 500 index plummeted 1.7% causing the fear index to jump a whopping 48% in a single session.
What does this mean and what should we expect going forward? I don’t see the recent drop as being anything to worry about at this point. It’s important to remember that some of that larges drops in stocks happen during a bull market (rising trend). In fact, these stand out sharp drops on the charts are nothing more than the market trying to buck investors out of the bull market (scare them out) before it continues higher.
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
THREE Charts That Tell Us the Next Financial Crisis is Closer Than Most Think / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2017
By: Graham_Summers
The election night bull market trendline is about to break. The only reason stocks have held up is hype and hope for Trump’s economic agenda. With the entire MSM, establishment shills, and deep state operatives trying to derail this, the market is about to lose this prop.
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Sunday, May 21, 2017
US Dollar Cycle : Deep Dive / Currencies / US Dollar
By: SurfCity
I thought I would start off this weekend by recapping one of the most important aspects of Walter Bressert’s Cycle Theory. Very simply put, it is that Longer Cycles almost always dominate the shorter Cycles. This is Huge because if you understand where you are in the Longer Cycles, trading the shorter ones becomes much easier.
Is the USD really topping here? This is an extremely importing Cycle call here because if it is, Gold and the broader Commodity Complex may well be ready to become much more bullish going forward. There is no doubt that the USD has been very bullish since 2014 but this post and related charts will provide you with why a trend change maybe upon us.
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