Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Is A Second OPEC Oil Cut On The Cards? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
OPEC’s coordinated effort to curtail global supply has so far managed to put a floor under oil prices, which have been sitting modestly above US$50 since the deal was announced at the end of November last year. But resurging U.S. shale has been capping the upside, and Brent has not breached US$58 per barrel. Analysts and experts are now mostly predicting that oil prices will remain below US$60 this year.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
The US Is Going Through a Profound Demographic Shift That Will Affect Everyone / Politics / Demographics
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK COX : The US fertility rate fell again last year, marking the lowest rate of reproduction since the CDC started keeping records in 1909. This prompted the amusing Bloomberg headline, “Make America Mate Again.”
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Capital Controls May Be Coming to the US / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: John_Mauldin
Those who hoped President Trump would tone down his protectionist rhetoric will be unnerved six weeks into his tenure. From his meeting with business CEOs, Trump has put trade “front and center.”
So far, all is going well for the president. Markets are inching higher, and inflationary forces have picked up. However, bringing back jobs and reducing the trade deficit will be a tougher task.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Stock Market Very Mixed, Volatile Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a sloppy down day today. The day started out with a move down, and then a strong rally on the Nasdaq 100 took the S&P 500 up as well when Apple Inc. (AAPL) rallied, but they failed at triple-quadruple top near 5374 on the Nasdaq 100 as the S&P 500 got nowhere near their recent high, and as a result of that negative divergences backed off. They retested the lows, bounced around, formed wedges, and then in the afternoon, they broke those wedges to the downside, and made slightly lower lows before a late rally brought them back.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Accelerating Economic Reform Execution in China / Economics / China Economy
By: Dan_Steinbock
After political consolidation, China is ready to begin a broader implementation of structural reforms. That is vital to double per capita income in 2010-20.After President Xi assumed office in fall 2012, Chinese leadership has steadily moved toward more comprehensive structural reforms. As evidenced by the recent Two Sessions in Beijing, these reforms are about to move to a new level.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Peak Freedom - Orwellian CIA Leaking Sieve Vault-7 Hacking Tools Exposed by Wikileaks / Politics / Intelligence Agencies
By: Nadeem_Walayat
President Trump recently stated that he loves Wikileaks, predominantly in response to its leaking of Hillary Clinton's emails. And in that spirit Wikileaks latest leak of near 9000 CIA documents once more reminds all the extent to which the NSA and CIA wish to eavesdrop into the lives of potentially every person on the planet, friend or foe does not matter for the CIA seeks to surveil everyone and everything through hacking of a myriad of internet connected devices from Android and Apple smartphone's to Samsung smart TV's, to the more traditional PC's infected with malware and web cam hacking routes. ALL used to surveil, record, catalog and process near infinite amounts of data across a network of huge data centres that have sprung up across remote areas of the United States during the past 15 years that tap into an estimated 98.6% of the worlds internet traffic generated by web connected devices.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The Fake News Blitz by the Deep State Establishment Elite / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: James_Quinn
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” – H.L. Mencken
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”– Andrew Carnegie
I’m 53 years old. The older I get the less sure I am about things I was sure about when I was 25 years old. I believed stocks for the long run was an unquestioned truth. I believed our economy was based on free market capitalism. I believed stock prices were based upon profits and cash flows. I believed a home was a place to live – not an investment. I believed the Catholic Church was run by good men doing good things. I believed journalists and the media were watchdogs working on behalf of the public. I believed our military was protecting our interests. I believed politicians legislated on behalf of the people. I believed the main purpose of bankers was to loan money to businesses and consumers in order to support economic growth. Boy, was I dumbass.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
How to Get a FREE PS4 Sony Games Console 2017 in Walkers Crisps UEFA Promo / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Walkers Crisps 2017 UEFA Champions League Snap & Share promotion is proving to be a relatively easy to enter and win promo. Where entrants can win one of 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. Out own experience illustrates that after only 5 days of posting the requisite 3 pic's a day on Walkers pinned post facebook page we managed to win an Adidas UCL Finale 16 Capitano Football! And then just 10 days later won a PS4 Sony Games Console! Given how easy it was to firstly win the football which is as good as FREE to whomever wants one, and then for a little more persistence the PS4, then this is an not to be missed opportunity as there is still have plenty of time to win until the promo ends on the 23rd of April.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
US Real Estate & Interest Rate Change – You’ve Been Warned! / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Is this the moment which could spark a stock market sell-off?
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, in a speech given in Chicago, last Friday, March 3rd, 2017, suggested that the FED will likely resume raising interest rates later this month.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Bitcoin Important Price Action to Be Seen / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: no speculative positions.
Bitcoin is making its way into mainstream press. In an article on the CNBC website, we read:
Digital currency advocates had plenty to crow about last week when bitcoin's price overtook gold.
The event signaled a potentially important moment point for bitcoin, which is generally seen as asset that stores wealth. Bitcoin has gained more than 60 percent in price since mid-January.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Fake Gold Coins Warning - “Pure” Gold Coins that are Gold Plated, Collectibles and eBay / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
Gold Investing 101 – Beware eBay, Collectibles and “Pure” Gold Coins that are Gold Plated (Part I)
- Investors looking to gold again but gold buyers need to exert caution
- ‘Wolves of Wall Street’ ready to hungrily gobble up life savings of unsuspecting ‘widows and orphans’
- Like all markets are few bad apples in gold market
- Need to do due diligence on company buying from
- Avoid companies marketing gold plated coins as “pure gold” coins
- Collectible coins do not capture the value of gold and are not safe havens
- Not liquid and pricing similar to art market
- Own gold bullion coins as insurance, to reduce counter party risk and to preserve wealth
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Cash ISA Season Limps into Action, with Very Few Contenders / Personal_Finance / ISA's
By: MoneyFacts
It’s been a very slow start to the ISA season, as the latest research from Moneyfacts.co.uk reveals that the average ISA rate has continued to fall to a new low of 0.82%. While there have been gradual increases to the ISA allowance over the years, the market remains deprived of intense competition.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
3 Maps Show How Water Access Can Make Or Break A Nation / Politics / Water Sector
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN AND ALLISON FEDIRKA : Access to and control over water is a strategic imperative for all countries. As such, it has been a source of conflict throughout history.
Water access can impact a country’s geopolitics in many ways. The first (and one of the most obvious) is sea access. Access to the world’s oceans enables a country to use major maritime shipping routes. It also opens an additional route by which a country could project force by having a navy.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The Agriculture Revolution Is Coming / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : Humans have needs, but we need some things more than others.
Back in the 1940s, American psychologist Abraham Maslow famously classified human needs into a hierarchy, often shown as a pyramid.
At the foundation are our physiological needs: air, water, food, etc. Only when these needs are met can we reach upward to more and more refined stages of material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Here’s All You Need to Know About US Strategy In Asia-Pacific / Politics / US Military
By: John_Mauldin
BY XANDER SNYDER AND CHEYENNE LIGON : On a recent trip to the Pacific, US Defense Secretary James Mattis reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to guard Japan against foreign threats. Both the US and Japan have interests in the South China Sea. Geopolitical expert George Friedman has written extensively about this shared interest in This Week in Geopolitics (subscribe here for free).
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
China’s Domestic Problems Are Good News for Gold Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: John_Mauldin
In 1978, one year after taking control of impoverished China, Deng Xiaoping declared “to get rich is glorious.” Since Deng’s declaration, China’s per-capita GDP has grown by over 5,000%.
China is without question the biggest economic success story in recent history. However, rapid growth has come at a cost. China’s total debt/GDP ratio is now a staggering 277%—and the credit expansion is showing no sign of slowing. New bank loans in 2016 totaled $1.84 trillion—8% above the previous record.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
10 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Hit The Road By 2020, Here’s How To Profit / Companies / Auto Sector
By: David_Galland
Given the advanced state of driverless technologies and the amount of money being poured into the sector, there is little question—make that, no question at all—that within 10 years, driverless cars will be the norm.
The implications are immense and widespread.
There are currently about 1.4 billion cars on the road. Many of those cars, and eventually all, are going to be replaced by self-driving vehicles.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Chartology of the Commodities: The Inflation/Deflation Barometer / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Rambus_Chartology
One of the biggest questions investors have is what type of environment are stocks and the economy in, deflation or inflation? Knowing the answer to that question can give you a heads up on what different sectors to invest in and what sectors to stay away from. Tonight I would like to update some of the different commodities indexes to see if they can give us any clues on which way the deflationary or inflationary pendulum is swinging. Commodities are often an under analysed asset class as compared to Stocks and Bonds. However they are the nuts and bolts , the real stuff supporting human existence.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Glass-Steagall Essential Banking Regulation / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: BATR
The central struggle since the inception of the Republic has been about the control of money. Since the U.S. Constitution clearly defines coinage, the objective of the mercantile elite was to circumvent the law and establish a National Bank. Woe to any defender of President Andrew Jackson for abolishing the Second Bank of the United States and rendering the Bankster Nicholas Biddle to his ignominious place in hell. This victory for the common man was ultimately betrayed when the Federal Reserve Central Bank was instituted with all the ills of fractional reserve banking.
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Stock Market Euphoria, China's Dumping of Treasuries Ignite Recession Concerns / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: The_Gold_Report
Citing the uncertainty caused by China dumping U.S. Treasuries, an impending debt ceiling crisis, the upcoming French elections, and more, Wealth Research Group editor Lior Gantz advises investors to make sure their portfolios are diversified.
Each of the last five major U.S. recessions were preceded by a shrinking global trade as a percentage of GDP.
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