Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Stock Market Three Peaks and a Domed House / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
Friday’s decline broke the neckline of a small head-and-shoulders pattern seeming to leave behind the cupola Lindsay described as the top of his Domed House pattern: points 21 - 25.
If the market holds to the template, the Dow should fall to point 26 and rebound to point 27 within the same price range as the First Floor Roof (points 15-20).
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Stock Market Freefall Episode Coming Soon... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has nearly retraced yesterday’s rally in an impulsive fashion. 2100.00 has already been tested in the futures. It is not likely to provide much support in this decline. The new target appears to be the December closing price at 2044.00.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
There Is Only One Right Way to Do a Precious Metals IRA / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
A small handful of outfits in our industry recently sprang up and started heavily promoting a so-called “self-storage” or “LLC” IRA. The pitch is for you to establish an LLC company to store the metals on behalf of your IRA in your home (or nearby).
At first glance, it sounds like an attractive option. Investors buy metals to increase privacy and control. Some do not want to rely on third-party vaults and would prefer having personal access to their metals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We totally agree with this sentiment when it comes to precious metals that you personally and directly own. But anyone considering this “self-storage IRA” scheme should be extremely careful and aware of the risks.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Bitcoin Price Back Down / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: no speculative positions.
The current banking system is global, at least in theory, but it definitely seems that the term “global” does not actually apply to all parts of the payments space the way we would like it to. International wire transfers still tend to be slow and costly. It is perhaps irritating that sending an email takes seconds but sending $5 abroad is slow, expensive or altogether impossible. This is why companies like Western Union still charge hefty fees for overseas transfers. As it turns out, Bitcoin and other digital currencies might offer a way forward for making the remittance industry more accessible. On Quartz, we read:
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton Became Unelectable Long Ago / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Whenever I bring up something Hillary Clinton has done or failed to do, there are always people who react with a “Yes, but Trump did so and so…!” reflex. I’d like to get that out of the way first of all, because it distorts the conversation to no end. Criticism of Hillary does not equal support for Trump. Suggesting that it does is insulting.
I do not think it’s a good idea for Trump to become president. But that does not mean it’s a better idea for Hillary to be inaugurated. In fact, there’s something to be said for the argument that if you have to choose between two really bad options, pick the worst in order get it over with faster. The problem with that, in turn, is that in this case it’s hard to determine which of the two is worse.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
How Gold Bugs can Have their cake and eat it too by Embracing the trend / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Sol_Palha
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.John G. Pollard
Many individuals sit back and look wistfully at the 1st stage of the Gold Bull Market they missed. It is interesting that people focus on what they lost but not what they might miss. Since Gold topped out in 2011, many sectors took off; one could have deployed a portion of one’s funds in any of these sectors and walked away with healthy gains. Instead, the classic Gold bug clung to Gold and let all these opportunities slide away.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
You Didn’t See This Bubble Burst Coming / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Harry_Dent
I keep saying that in the next great crash, everything will get swept up in the onslaught – with virtually no exceptions.And that goes too for what we eat!
The 30-Year Commodity Cycle peaked in mid-2008 and has been the first major bubble to crash and burn.
The CRB (Commodity) Index has been down as low as 67%, with the potential for 74% or lower in the next few years.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold - Own Physical, Allocated Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
“Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold” by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com
In this publication, we warn regularly of the risk involved in storing wealth in banks. They’ve made the removal of your deposits increasingly difficult in addition to colluding with governments to allow them to legally freeze or confiscate your money.
To add insult to injury, they’re creating reporting requirements with regard to the contents of safe deposit boxes and restricting what can be stored in them – again, at risk of confiscation.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Relentless Interest Rate Cuts are a Deterrent to Savers / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Data from Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that rate reductions in the savings market have now outweighed rate rises for eleven consecutive months and that August has officially become the worst month this year for cuts.
In August, Moneyfacts recorded three savings rate rises. Disappointingly, rate reductions over the same period completely outshone this figure, with the number of rate decreases standing at a staggering 388, which translates as around 130 cuts to every rate rise, and some deals fell by as much as 1.30%.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
August Record Global Temperatures, Brexit and the Climate Change Catastrophe / Politics / Climate Change
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Another month goes by with another sign that where climate change control measures are concerned it is already too LATE to avert the climate change catastrophe that awaits humanity THIS century. According to NASA August 2016 was the hottest August month on record beating the last record by 0.16c (2014), which puts reality far beyond anything the climate change models of barely a decade ago were forecasting would happen, as we are now experiencing temperatures that weren't meant to materialise for several more decades and not 2016 which is indicative of a run away green house effect in progress.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Gold Boom! End Game Nears As Central Banks Buying Up Gold Mining Companies! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Jeff_Berwick
When you watch mainstream media or listen to central bankers, gold is constantly deemed to be the redheaded stepchild of the investment industry.
Just that alone, is unbelievable, considering that gold has been one of the best performing investments of the 21st century. On December 31st, 1999, gold closed at $290.25. As of today it is trading at $1327.80.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Stock Market Expanded Zone Of Importance....Bears Do What They Do Best... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
On Friday we had one those gigantic down days we see every so often on big volume and a horrendous On Friday we had one those gigantic down advance decline line. The type of move off a top that almost always leads to more immediate down side. That is, until we moved from the stock market to the fed market where all seems to be well no matter what is taking place in the real world economy.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Central Banks Able to Get “Trading Machines” to Pump Up Markets, for Now… / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: MoneyMetals
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report. Craig runs one of the most highly respected and well known blogs in the industry and has been covering the precious metals for close to a decade now and puts out some of the best analysis on banking schemes, the flaws of Keynesian economics and evidence of manipulation in the gold and silver markets.
Craig it's great to have you back and thanks again for joining us today. Welcome.
Craig Hemke: Hey Mike, it's always a pleasure. Thanks for the invite.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Correction in Gold and Silver Markets Continues / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the multiweek correction in the gold and silver markets.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Gold and United States Imported Oil / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: DeviantInvestor
The US has imported crude oil for many decades. The following data (1970 – 2015) comes from the Energy Information Administration of the US government. This data shows reported barrels of crude oil imported into the US.
(Note: This is not a comprehensive analysis of imported energy, nor does it compensate for exports of crude oil, imports or exports of coal, natural gas or other energy sources.)
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Silver Will Be A Top Performing Asset In The Next Financial Crisis / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The much awaited Jackson Hole speech by the Fed Chair Janet Yellen – and the subsequent nonfarm payrolls data failed to ignite the prospects of a rate hike this September of 2016. The market now forecasts only a 21% probability of a rate hike in this month, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. The probability of a rate hike in December of 2016 stands at just above 50%.
Time and again, I have explained why the Fed cannot hike rates in 2016. Contrary many market experts, my view has stood the test of time and has come to fruition. According to my research, the chances of a rate hike in December of 2016 are also very bleak. Nonetheless, the Fed speakers will continue to “jawbone” the dollar, the way they have been doing for the whole year.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
The Donald Versus Killary: War or Peace? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Antonius_Aquinas
Although history does not exactly repeat itself, it does provide parallels and sometimes quite ominous ones. Such is the case with the current U.S. Presidential election and the one which occurred one hundred years earlier.
The dominating question which hung over the 1916 campaign was whether the country would remain neutral in regard to the horrific slaughter which was taking place on the European battlefields in probably the greatest act of mass insanity ever recorded, World War I.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Global Stocks, Bonds Fall Sharply - Gold Consolidates After Two Weeks Of Gains / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: GoldCore
Global stocks and bonds fell the most since the Brexit panic today as recently dormant volatility came back with a vengeance. There are deepening concerns that global central banks’ ultra loose monetary policies have been ineffectual and may indeed be creating asset bubbles in stock, bond and indeed property markets internationally.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Why the Greater Recession Will be Dollar Bearish / Economics / Great Depression II
By: Michael_Pento
The Great Recession of 2008 provided markets with an interesting irony: As the US economy was collapsing under the weight of crumbling home prices, investors curiously flocked to the US dollar under the guise of “The Safety Trade.”
But the truth is that investors weren’t running into the dollar for safety, what they were actually doing was unwinding a carry trade. In a carry trade an investor borrows a depreciating currency that offers a relatively low interest rate and uses those funds to purchase an appreciating currency that offers the potential for higher returns on its sovereign debt and stock market. The trade’s objective is to capture the difference between rates, while also benefitting from the currency that is rising in value against the borrowed (shorted) funds.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Stocks Break Below Their Two Month Long Consolidation - New Downtrend? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,210, and profit target at 2,050, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook is now 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