Saturday, February 04, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - How to USB Smart Switch Transfer App's, Data and Settings (E4) / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Here's a quick way to get your new samsung phone setup with data and software and settings easily transferred over form your old samsung phone using the smart switch USB transfer dongle that comes with many if not most new samsung phones such as the S7. It really does work as this video illustrates, and can even get most of the stuff off of dying old phone! Though there will be some app's it won't achieve transfer of settings over for instance Whatsapp will need a little more work.
Saturday, February 04, 2017
KitKat Easy to Win Personalised Packs Promotion, 1000 Prizes Every Day! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
KitKat has just launched a very, very easy to win promotion where the prize is a personalised 4 finger KitKat bar with your own picture and message on it. KitKat are making 1000 prizes available EVERY DAY which is why this really is an easy to win promotion i.e. so far we have won EVERY entry we have made.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
US Mint Gold and Silver Bullion Coin Sales / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold’s first new bull market since 2011 last year was overwhelmingly driven by stock investors flooding into gold ETFs. Traditional physical bar-and-coin demand was actually quite weak, falling considerably year-over-year. Nevertheless, it’s still important to stay abreast of classic gold and silver investment demand. One key microcosm of that comes in the form of the US Mint’s sales of its popular American Eagle coins.
When American investors buy physical gold and silver bullion, it’s often in the form of these American Eagle 1-ounce coins. They have a really interesting history. Back in the early 1980s, foreign national gold coins led by South Africa’s famous Krugerrand were soaring in popularity. The US Congress didn’t want the States to be left out of the prestigious national-gold-coin business, so it finally acted in 1985.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Shocking Fact in Today's US Jobs Report: Employment Stalls / Economics / Employment
By: Mike_Shedlock
Initial Reaction
Today's employment report shows a robust increase of 227,000 jobs. The good news stops there. The rest of the report was horrific.
The big news is in employment where the three-month trend worsened.
In the last three months, employment has only risen by a grand total of 33,000. Employment in January declined by 30,000. For the entire year, employment rose by only 1,548,000. The average increase from a year ago is only 129,000 per month.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
SPX Challenging its Cycle Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX is challenging its 2-hour Cycle Top at 2296.60. This move is corrective and appears to be a retracement with the added feature of filling the gap left on January 30. Wave 2 reversals often come off the Cycle Top resistance, so this is not abnormal. This is the 43rd hour from the 2300.99 top. It strongly suggests a reversal may ensue thin the current hour.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
US Jobs Report Spikes Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
SPX futures are higher, taking out the 2289.14 high. The bearish count suggests another double zigzag that does not take out the 2300.99 high. A possible target may be the Cycle Top high at 2295.95.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Ignore Trump Sabre-Rattling and Buy Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
Gold hits 12-week high- USD Gold price up 4.85% in last month
- Sabre-rattling from Trump administration set-to benefit gold
- Iran upset and Middle East tensions could drive oil and gold prices up.
- Financial Times foresees “not only currency wars but a fully fledged trade confrontation that could be disastrous for the world economy.”
- Royal Mint producing 50 % more gold bullion coins and bars compared to 2016
- Utah moves to hold public funds in gold
- WGC report demand for gold hit four-year high in 2016
- Investment demand climbed by 70% last year fuelled by geopolitical uncertainties
Friday, February 03, 2017
Gold Price and Reflation / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
In recent years, deflation was considered one of the biggest threats to the global economy. These fears are vanishing. As deflation becomes the thing of the past (there was even the end of deflation in Japan at the end of 2016), reflation is now attracting the attention of investors. What does it mean? According to the most popular definition, reflation is an increase in economic activity and inflation, usually caused by using inflationary measures to reverse deflationary trends. We simply take reflation to be acceleration in the rate of inflation, i.e. the opposite of disinflation, which is a decrease in the rate of inflation.
Friday, February 03, 2017
Forex Trading Alert: USD Index at Fresh Lows / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Nadia_Simmons
Earlier today, the USD Index extended losses against the basket of the major currencies as yesterday's Fed statement didn't give clear signal on the timing of its next rate hike. How did this drop affect the technical picture of EUR/USD, USD/CAD and AUD/USD?
In our opinion, the following forex trading positions are justified – summary:
EUR/USD: none
GBP/USD: none
USD/JPY: none
USD/CAD: none
USD/CHF: none
AUD/USD: none
Friday, February 03, 2017
The US Dollar is About to Collapse / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Graham_Summers
The $USD is about to collapse.
This is not fear mongering, nor is it just a bold statement. The $USD has peaked and is about to breakdown in a BIG way.
See for yourself, the greenback has taken out critical support. The spike higher that occurred starting election night is looking more and more like a bullish headfake.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Stock Market Very Narrowly Mixed Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very narrowly mixed day at the end of the session, not only in price, but in underlying technicals. However, there was some volatility during the day. Initially there was a plunge down to support that held 5130 Nasdaq 100 and 2272 S&P 500. They rallied sharply, taking the Nasdaq 100 up to 5162, yesterday’s high, but fell short on the S&P 500 around 2284, which was beneath yesterday’s high of 2289. They came down midsession, bounced around into midafternoon, tried to retest, successfully did so, but then rallied back to resistance and couldn’t get through.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Why Stock Market Analysts Will be Wrong About 2017 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Clif_Droke
We're already a month into New Year and there has been an ample amount of sentiment data to suggest that investors, both retail and institutional, aren't terribly enthusiastic on the stock market outlook for 2017. Granted that institutional analysts are still bullish, as per usual, but in the round table type opinion polls I've seen they've apparently lowered their expectations. Everyone seems to be preparing for a somewhat disappointing year based largely on the assumption that after eight years of a bull market, surely another major rally is out of the question.
Friday, February 03, 2017
Economic Depression, Stagflation, Stag-Depress-Flation / Economics / Great Depression II
By: DeviantInvestor
The United States suffered through a deflationary depression in the 1930s. Stock prices crashed, currency in circulation declined, commodity and real estate prices fell hard and human misery prevailed.
President Roosevelt revalued gold from $20.67 to $35.00 per ounce in 1933 – a substantial devaluation of the dollar. Make-work and government spending programs were implemented. War followed the depression.
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Friday, February 03, 2017
Walkers UEFA Snap & Share To Win Match Tickets, PS4 and Footballs / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Walkers have just started a new promotion in conjunction with UEFA Champions League where buyers of crisp packets could win prizes including 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. All you have to do is to share a selfie that contains the top of your face with the crisp packet. Confused? Watch the video and all will become clear.
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Channel 4 War on 'Fake News', Forgets Own Alt Reality Propaganda Broadcasting / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Apparently Channel 4 is going to go to war against 'Fake News' next week with the likes of "i know nothing" Jon Snow fronting mocumentaries of the 'Fake News' of 2016. Don't get me wrong I love watching John Snow, it's about as close as the mainstream press ever gets close to a dose of reality from within their Left-Right political spectrum that they have been stuck in since the broadcast channels first started appearing in the 1970's. Since which time nothing much has changed, in that they fail to realise that the likes of Channel 4, BBC inhabit their own liberal alt-reality that each year reinforces the delirium perpetuated on themselves and the general population.
Thursday, February 02, 2017
MACD: Learn to Recognize Trade Setups / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
See examples in Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) and Intel Corp. (INTC)
Just as there are patterns in price, there are also patterns in momentum indicators. These patterns can support your Elliott wave analysis and help you identify tradable moves in price.
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
Could Cars Be the Death of Us This Time Around? / Interest-Rates / Debt Crisis 2017
By: Harry_Dent
The shining star of the 2009-2016 recovery has been auto sales.We weren’t surprised. In fact, we saw it coming. After all, cars are the last large purchase people make before stepping quietly into their years of increased saving and decreased spending. From around the age of 57 to 64, one task takes center stage: save for retirement. In the durable goods sector, housing peaks first around age 40, then furnishings at age 46. Only automobiles continue to grow after the peak in spending at age 46.
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
American Fracking Companies Keeping Their DUCs in a Row / Commodities / Articles
By: Rodney_Johnson
OPEC producers are cutting production… or so they say.And in addition, several non-OPEC producers, like Russia, are also cutting production. If history is any guide we could do away with the titles and simply call the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the all rest, the Energy Liars’ Club.
They often say one thing and then do another.
Even Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister noted that OPEC members have a history of lying to each other. I don’t care how they treat each other. I’m only interested in how their actions – not their words – affect the money in my pocket.
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
Red States vs Blue States - What’s Next: A Third and Potentially Lethal Trigger / Politics / US Politics
By: Harry_Dent
This past Monday I updated my Boom & Bust subscribers about an important new development in the civil war that I see brewing… or at least the possibility that the United States of America won’t remain the way we know it for much longer. We’re certainly no longer united. In fact, we’ve not been this polarized and divided since the Civil War.Unfortunately, the state we find ourselves in today has been painted on the wall for a long time! And my hierarchy of cycles – which includes the Spending Wave Cycle, the Technology Cycle, the Geopolitical Cycle and the Boom/Bust Cycle – have shown me for many years now what we have in store. And now a near 100-year cycle in globalization has peaked, much like the last one did when World War I started.
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
How Misconceptions Are Driving the US to Sociopolitical Disaster / Politics / US Politics
By: David_Galland
Throughout history, bad ideas such as those espoused by Marx have taken hold in the public arena and become institutionalized. This occurred despite the inherent violence required by a system in which individuals are forced to be subservient to the state. I’ve discussed issues like this previously, but I find it continues to be relevant today.
The iconic socialist revolutionary, Che Guevara, made the case that in a true socialist revolution, large swaths of the population had to die.
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