Friday, January 06, 2017

Stock markets – the similarities between investment, and online gambling / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Submissions

Friday, January 06, 2017

Russia Looks for an Exit in Syria / Politics / Syria

By: STRATFOR

Forecast

• Despite the shared cause of supporting Damascus, Moscow and Tehran will continue to differ in their commitment to the conflict.
• As Russia concocts an exit strategy, its relations with Iran will steadily sour.
• The divergences between the countries will exacerbate the differences among Syria's loyalist forces.

Friday, January 06, 2017

Stock Market Very Mixed Picture / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices had a mixed session today, although at the end of the session they came on strong. The day started out with a pop to the upside for the Nasdaq 100, but the S&P 500 barely bounced. They barely came down in the morning, and the Nasdaq 100 held, although the S&P 500 made two lower lows. When the S&P 500 was not confirmed by the Nasdaq 100 by midday, they rallied, and rallied for the rest of the session. Not only that, the S&P 500 popped near 2270 at the close.

Friday, January 06, 2017

Philippines Regime Change 2017, the Year of Living Dangerously / Politics / Asian Economies

By: Dan_Steinbock

As President Duterte is rebalancing the Philippines’ economic and strategic policies, Washington is preparing plans for regime change. What the country needs is economic development, says Dan Steinbock – not Cold War.

After the election triumph of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines has initiated a series of economic reforms to accelerate development, decentralise governance and a tough but controversial struggle against corruption and drugs.

Friday, January 06, 2017

Gold and Silver Outlook 2017 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: MoneyMetals

Clint Siegner writes: Precious metals had a wild ride in 2016, launching higher in the first half of the year and then falling much of the way back to earth in the second half. Our outlook for 2017 hinges on some of the drivers that figured prominently in last year’s trading. There are also a couple of new wrinkles.

Friday, January 06, 2017

President Trump Understands the NSA, CIA... LIE, America's Intelligence Agencies Crime Syndicate! / Politics / Intelligence Agencies

By: Nadeem_Walayat

A gullible and as Mitt Romney likes to say 'not very smart' President Obama fell for more lies and deceit spewing out of so called US intelligence agencies, the NSA, CIA and more than dozen others all conjuring another dodgy dossier out of cyber space on Russian hacking of the US election to get Trump elected so as to fit their own agenda, one of TOTAL SURVEILLANCE for the goal for TOTAL CONTROL, TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! Something that President Trump is clearly aware of given his own experience during the election campaign and clearly as the intelligence reports bring into question the legitimacy of his own Presidency.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Attempted Coup Against Trump Continues / Politics / US Politics

By: Stephen_Lendman

Thursday, January 05, 2017

The Endgame, Trump & Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2017

By: Darryl_R_Schoon

In the bankers’ endgame, slowing economic growth and excessive central bank liquidity forces investor capital into financial markets; driving up the price of stocks, bonds and commodities and creating financial bubbles whose collapse pose a systemic threat in overly-indebted capitalist economies.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

The Rising U.S. Dollar and the Impact on Commodities / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Donald_W_Dony

The FOMC has raised its benchmark interest rate up for the second time since the recession of 2008 and 2009. And as the U.S. is the only G8 country, over the last eight years, to start increasing its rate, there is little to no competition for the currency.

The impact of a raising currency are many.

On the plus side, it creates higher demand for U.S. Treasuries, lower borrowing costs for the Federal government and foreign demand for U.S. assets (including stocks).

Thursday, January 05, 2017

How Fibonacci Ratios Govern the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: EWI

Scientists speculate that Elliott waves are the stock market's "critical structure"

[Editor's Note: The text version of the story is below.]

Thursday, January 05, 2017

China Attempts to Crush Yuan Shorts / Currencies / China Currency Yuan

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Yuan shorts suffered a bone crushing short squeeze over the course of this week after it hit an expected Master Cycle low on December 29. The retracement hit Intermediate-term resistance at 23.60 yesterday. Currently CYB is hovering in that zone.

CYB may go higher, but it cannot rally beyond the bottom of Wave 1 at 24.24. If it goes higher, the likely target appears to be the 50-day Moving Average at 23.74.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Gold – Half Cycle Low Due Soon / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: Gary_Savage

Gold is 13 days into its daily cycle. At some point soon there will be a dip into a half cycle low. That will be the next opportunity to buy long.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

S&P 500 Gets Close To Record High As Investors' Sentiment Improves / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Paul_Rejczak

Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,330, and profit target at 2,150, S&P 500 index).

Our intraday outlook remains 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

Thursday, January 05, 2017

The War On Cash Ratchets Up In Greece With “Soft Cash” Ban / Stock-Markets / War on Cash

By: Jeff_Berwick

It wasn’t long ago that it came out that the IMF intentionally wanted to create a “credit event” in Greece - part of a larger plan to destabilize Europe.

The country has already fallen victim to the repercussions of the war on cash, but now the grip of capital control is growing tighter.

The Greek Finance Ministry in their infinite wisdom has decided that its nation’s taxpayers will only be granted deductions or tax-allowances if payments are made using a debit or credit card.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Stock Market No New Highs... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Wave [c] of 2 is three points shorter than Wave [a] at 30.20 points. However, it has stopped short of 2273.82 and appears to be complete. If so, the decline begins in earnest. Short positions may be taken beneath Short-term support at 2260.63. A second break of the trendline at 2250.00 is also a good short entry.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

You’re Being Lied to! / Politics / Mainstream Media

By: Stephen_Lendman

Believe nothing at face value from government at all levels and scoundrel media sources.

On all issues mattering most, especially geopolitical ones, they systematically lie - fake news substituting for truth-telling, information important to know suppressed.

Media scoundrels operate as virtual press agents for wealth, power and privileged interests - willfully deceiving readers and viewers to keep them uninformed on what’s going on, feeding them worthless rubbish, fiction, not facts.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Now Is the Time to Buy Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: John_Mauldin

John Grandits : The Fed finally raised its target interest rate and issued guidance for 2017. Trump shocked the political world and stocks seem to be making new highs daily. Investor sentiment is at two-year highs, fueled by optimism for renewed economic growth, de-regulation, and tax cuts.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Americans Prefer Pets to Kids After the Great Recession - How to Cash In / Stock-Markets / Investing 2017

By: John_Mauldin

BY PATRICK WATSON : More and more Americans seem to prefer pets to children… and the resulting demographic trend has massive economic and investment implications.

The numbers are startling and affect everyone—whether you’re a parent, a pet owner, neither, or both. It’s also an investment opportunity you might try in 2017.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

There’s No Such Thing as Europe Anymore / Politics / European Union

By: John_Mauldin

BY PATRICK WATSON : The European Union’s founders envisioned an “ever-closer union” that gradually eliminated national distinctions. It didn’t happen, and geopolitical expert George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures says the opposite is now taking shape. “Europe” doesn’t really exist in any meaningful way.

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Chinese Yuan: "Manipulated" Currency Does NOT Mean "Unpredictable" / Currencies / China Currency Yuan

By: EWI

"...markets are bigger than governments."

This year's U.S. presidential election brought into focus one market you don't hear about often: the Chinese yuan, or renminbi.

"Donald Trump has been telling us all for a long time now that China is a currency manipulator. It's part of his plan for his first 100 days in office to get on with making sure that China is legally declared to be such a currency manipulator and thus start the process of doing something about it.