Tuesday, February 08, 2022
Reform of the G 7 and the City of London Corporation needed as a matter of urgency. / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2022
By: Christopher_Quigley
Nicholas Shaxon:
"Wealthy individuals hold over 10 trillion dollars offshore….However, the IMF estimates …… that the balance sheets of small island financial centres alone added up to 18 trillion dollars".
The Group of Seven (G-7) is an intergovernmental organization made up of the world's largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Government leaders of these countries meet periodically to address international economic and monetary issues, with each member taking over the presidency on a rotating basis.
In response to the Panama Papers on off-shore banking operations in South America (released by WikiLeaks) the European Commission set up a commission of investigation. Its recommendations are outlined below. However, to date, the G 7 and the City of London Corporation have refused to adopt such measures. This is despite the fact that the G 7 adopted a specific mandate to adopt strategies to aid third world spiralling debt.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2022
Buy This Top Payment Disruptor Stock / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Stephen_McBride
Did you add payment stocks to your portfolio yet?
A few weeks ago, I showed you why payment stocks are one of my top investment ideas for 2022.
I told you one “threat” weighing on these stocks: the buy-now-pay-later trend.
But there’s another reason some folks in the know are worried…
Today, I’ll share all the details. I’ll explain why it’s only more reason to buy world-class payment stocks.
And I’ll share one of my favorites to buy today…
Monday, February 07, 2022
INVESTORS SEDUCED BY STOCK CHARTS COMPLETELY MISS THE THE BIG PICTURE! / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Given some of the comments I tend to get, (without mentioning anyone) illustrates that many people are STILL failing to fully grasp what we are dealing with here, the AI stocks are NOT NORMAL CORPORATIONS! THEY ARE ON AN EXPONENTIAL TREND TRAJECTORY!
And that exponential reality is QUANTUM AI!
Instead investors are getting seduced by standardised charts of every stock, throwing random names about just because they have fallen x%, perhaps buoyed by one of the more useful metrics, a low PE ratio to entertain thoughts of investing. All of which acts to dilute what is actually taking place as most investors focus is usually in the wrong place, permanently hinged on a few droplets of water that are the quarterly earnings reports at the expense of ignoring the ocean that is the Quantum AI mega-trend.
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Monday, February 07, 2022
Why the Federal Reserve Note’s Decline Is FAR Worse Than Reported / Currencies / US Dollar
By: MoneyMetals
Americans are waking up to some uncomfortable truths. One of these is the fact that government bureaucrats and the corporate media regularly lie about what is going on in the world.
They tell us the Federal Reserve Note “dollar” is strong and price inflation is completely under control. (We use quote marks because a true dollar is 24.057 grams of silver, whereas the Federal Reserve Note is a form of counterfeit.)
Millions of Americans now notice rapid price inflation and a good portion of them are pouring into physical bullion.
To illustrate just how much nonsense is baked into official inflation data, we are presenting three charts...
Monday, February 07, 2022
Powell the Pivoter Cannot Now Pivot Back to a Dove / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Michael_Pento
The current Fed Chair is perhaps best known for his quick pivots from hawkish back to dovish and vice versa. Maybe he is just too dependent on the prevailing winds of the current economic data. Or, perhaps more accurately, he is most swayed by the performance of the stock market. In either case, Jerome Powell received more reasons to become hawkish just one day following his already hawkish FOMC press conference.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Q4 2021 GDP growth at a 6.9% SAAR. This is a big problem for the Fed, since it falsely believes inflation comes from an economy that is growing too fast. Add in the 7% CPI print for December, and you have a Fed that now understands it is far behind the inflation curve and it's time to pivot towards an even tighter monetary policy stance. Nevertheless, the FOMC fails to grasp the rapid growth and inflation was engendered by unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, which has now gone in reverse.
Sunday, February 06, 2022
Why Putin Wants the WHOLE of Ukraine - World War 3 Untended Consequences / Politics / Russia
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Saber rattling, troop build ups, mis-information, clutching at peace straws, clueless journalist suggesting it's not going to happen because Putin's best buddy in China is in the mood for an omicron spreading sporting event.
Clearing away the fog - The Russians ARE going to invade Ukraine as soon as weather permits! Why? Because Russia is a dictatorship! Dictatorships seek out that which can exaggerate their power and Ukraine in those terms is the only obvious bordering target for Putin.
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Sunday, February 06, 2022
Will the Fed Tighten Gold? The Consequences Might Be Ignoble / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.The first FOMC meeting in 2022 is behind us. What can we expect from the US central bank this year and how will it affect the price of gold? Well, this year’s episode of Fed Street will be sponsored by the letter “T”, which stands for “tightening”. It will consist of three elements.
First, quantitative easing tapering. The asset purchases are going to end by early March. To be clear, during tapering, the Fed is still buying securities, so it remains accommodative, but less and less. Tapering has been very gradual and well-telegraphed to the markets, so it’s probably already priced in gold. Thus, the infamous taper tantrum shouldn’t replay.
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Sunday, February 06, 2022
New US National Debt Milestone Signals Currency Crisis Ahead / Interest-Rates / US Debt
By: MoneyMetals
The U.S. reached a $30 trillion milestone this week. Instead of signifying a great achievement, though, it serves as a dire warning for American workers, investors, and retirees.
On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding surpassed $30,000,000,000,000.
That’s a lot of zeroes. It amounts to $231,000 per household.
Interest on the debt currently costs taxpayers $900 million per day, or $330 billion per year. Enormous as that sum may seem, it is artificially low at present due to depressed interest rates.
Sunday, February 06, 2022
Gold and SIlver, Precious Metals Sector Is at a Terrific Buy Spot / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, and sees good cause to be positive about gold's future outlook.
In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see there is every reason to be positive about its future outlook.
Generally speaking, the Precious Metals sector has been dull for a long time, since early August 2020 to be exact and it has seriously underperformed the market as a whole, which is a positive in the sense that this makes it more undervalued with more upside.
In recent months, as we can see on the latest 6-month chart, GDX has been pretty much rangebound above a strong support level, with its overall trend being neutral to slightly lower. Over the past couple of weeks it has dropped quite sharply, which of course was partly in sympathy with the sharp drop in the broad market, and it is looking more of a buy here with the appearance of a bull hammer on Friday close to the support.
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Saturday, February 05, 2022
THE Stock Market VALUATION RESET Explained / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The valuation reset is the rotation out of over valued growth stocks the pinnacle of which populate Cathy Wood's ARK funds and into under valued low PE usually dividend paying stocks as the following illustrates for the Russell Small cap stocks where high value stocks were bid up to to fever pitch ridiculous valuations whilst the value stocks were largely neglected by the market and as you can see we are a long way from the value reset from running it's course so this could play out for most of 2022. Where our AI tech stocks are concerned this translates into the higher the PE stocks facing greater downwards pressure for the likes of Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft and Amazon. Conversely the lower the PE stocks should see upwards pressure especially for dividend paying stocks such as IBM, Intel, GPN, LMT and so on into the biotech's.
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Saturday, February 05, 2022
A Gold-centric Macro View / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: Gary_Tanashian
As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing…
As unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers tucked in below the fold).
In my opinion, a sizeable component of the gold ‘market’ is actually marketing; to the fearful, to the naive, to the biased, to the politically rigid… Also in my opinion, Twitter is a breeding ground made for brief promos, sloganeering and bias reinforcement.
Pop up mini-screed behind us, let’s take another view of the macro from the perspective of a pretty rock that is heavy and does nothing, other than provide an anchor to long-term value in a bubble era where value is temporarily an outmoded concept. You don’t root for gold. You play the macro and keep an eye on gold, because when it is time to be bullish on gold, it will mean that…
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Saturday, February 05, 2022
Gold and silver Inflation Safe Havens / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: Richard_Mills
The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.
Bloomberg believes the Fed might be more aggressive: “Our baseline is for the Fed to hike five times, each 25 basis points, this year, and balance-sheet runoff to begin in July. Our in-house rule for the Fed’s reaction function flags an upside risk for a 50 basis-point hike in March followed by five 25 basis-point hikes in the rest of the year.” Anna Wong, chief U.S. economist
The Fed has been wracking its brains trying to figure out how to control inflation, which is at a 40-year-high, and interest rate hikes are normally the usual panacea to cool an overheated, high-inflation economy.
The US Labor Department said that its Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.2% from November to December, bringing producer prices to a record-high 9.7%, the biggest calendar-year increase since data was first calculated in 2010.
The same report said US consumer prices increased solidly in December, led by gains in rental accommodation and used cars, culminating in the largest annual inflation rise in 40 years. Used-vehicle inflation is mostly driven by the shortage in semiconductor chips.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022
High Risk Bio and Tech Stocks and the Quantum Entangled Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Investing 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
Did you buy Google (Alphabet) near $2512 last week as I and many of my patrons did, and similar for many other AI tech stocks?
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Stock Market Panic Selling - Can FED Engineer A Soft Landing For The Biggest Bubble We’ve Ever Seen? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Taking into account the Fed comments from last week, recently one of our technical analysts forecasted a correct S&P Index price range of $4348 to $4261. The market has since corrected to that level and is now bouncing.
With that said, investors have been panicking with the SPY ETF having an average outflow of more than $1 billion per day over the past ten days.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Stock Market Rally Getting Long in the Tooth / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Monica_Kingsley
S&P 500 recoverd the opening setback at 4,500, and the low volume behind the upswing coupled with credit market reversal shows that the push towards 4,600 is next – but it would be fraught with internal vulnerability. It‘s that value has welcomed the risk-on turn while tech barely prevented lower values – the bond reprieve won‘t last, and is providing more fuel behind the commodities push higher, and precious metals recovery.
The Kashkari effect and good ISM Manufacturing PMIs have worked fine, but the services data awaits. And I‘m looking at it to throw a spanner in the works, a modest one. For now, controlling the overall risk is key – fresh portfolio highs were achieved yesterday as new S&P 500 long profits were taken off the table – and commodities with precious metals are likely to do well in this extended (sticking out like a sore thumb) rally off oversold levels (in tech). The other key thought expressed in the linked tweet is that S&P 500 hasn‘t entered a bear market, that it hasn‘t rolled over to the downside for good. It‘s that I expect the return of the bears in the not too distant future, and a smoother sailing in 2H 2022.
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
Exploring James Drake’s Philanthropic Ventures / Politics / Social Issues
By: Sumeet_Manhas
20 years ago, the philanthropist and entrepreneur James Drake launched his first major enterprise: Future Science Group. Since then, he has developed a host of not-for-profit initiatives that operate within this progressive publisher and benefit from its resources and marketing, financial, legal, and IT departments. This way, each philanthropic enterprise can thrive in its own right and give back to industry-specific communities. Today, Drake leads an expansive philanthropic programme of organisations that contribute to the UK’s medical, scientific, and artistic arenas.
Drake’s philanthropic ventures might vary in terms of sector and approach, but each of his projects connects individuals from different backgrounds so thought-leaders can collaborate and contribute to society. From funding essential research into sports-related head impacts to providing scholarships for underprivileged musicians, publishing letter collections brimming with correspondence that may otherwise go unseen, and curating a central database for the renowned sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, Drake’s work covers a broad compass.
Wednesday, February 02, 2022
AI Tech Stocks Portfolio Buying Levels and Limit Orders for Buying the Panic! / Companies / AI
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A reminder that my plan is to capitalise on a valuation reset in the over valued tech giants as they are one by one marked lower by at least 20% from their bull highs as we recently enjoyed with Facebook down to $300, with Nvidia and AMD already along their path towards triggering buying opportunities and the likes of Microsoft and Apple to soon follow suit.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022
6 Things You Need To Know About Online Accounting / Personal_Finance / Financial Education
By: Steve_Barker
Efficient accounting is a very important element of a successful business. Unfortunately, many start-ups and new business owners overlook accounting, choosing instead to manage their businesses finances themselves. The primary reason for this is usually to save money, which is strange, considering the fact that online accountants are extremely affordable. Not only are they affordable, but they also save you a lot of money in the long term.If you have found this page because you have realised how important professional accounting is, then you are on the right track. Here are six things that you need to know about professional online accounting:
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022
How Can I Save More This Year? / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: Submissions
Finding ways to spend less, and save more, could be a resolution that you have set yourself this year. Alternatively, you may simply want to make it easier for yourself to make tax payments, or pay other bills when they are due. Parents may also want to teach their children about good money habits, especially in a society filled with the ability to make convenient purchases. Adopting some better money choices could really benefit you and your family, and set everyone up for more stability in the future.To teach your children about saving money, you might want to consider opening a tax efficient ISA for your child. Unlike some savings accounts, an ISA might not count for tax purposes, meaning you can save right up to the maximum amount without having to pay fees on the money, or the interest it gains.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2022
Unloved Biotech Stocks Sector / Companies / BioTech
By: Nadeem_Walayat
And the same it true for the unloved Biotech sector, where here's a taste of what to expect when I take a detail look at the biotech stocks. It's definitely going to take something special to buck the sector downtrend!
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