Tuesday, May 24, 2016
How the Democrats Could Lose the Presidency--Again / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Walter_Brasch
In 1967, the United States was digging itself deeper into the war in Vietnam.
The anti-war movement was being forged by the youth, energetic and willing to stand up to establishment values. They were the peace-loving environmentally-friendly hippies, the more radical but fun-loving Yippies, and those who held weekday establishment jobs and resented the structure and rules of an older generation that had survived the economic depression of the 1930s, the war years of the 1940s and early 1950s, and now wanted the “Happy Days” comfort of the 1950s.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
How to Take Advantage of Multi-Week Correction in Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan finds gold stocks are on a short-term sell signal and reveals an excellent entry point.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
How to Make Money in Stock Crashes / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Submissions
During the height of the 2008 financial crisis, a trader with the reputation for being the “Rain Man” of crash trading turned a $100,000 trading account into $6,629,641 in 18 months!How was he able to beat 99.99% of the competition?
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Walkers Crisps Spell & Go Instant Win - Chances of Winning Sunglasses. Cameras, Books... / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Apart from entering letters to win one of 20,000 holidays (which is proving to be an impossible challenge), another way to win a prize in Walkers Crisps spell & go promotion is from opening one of the single sale packets (not multi-pack) usually 32.5g size, where you can win one of 250,000 instant prizes including sunglasses, cameras, books and packets of crisps. So having thus far failed to win a holiday after entering 140 letter codes, we thought we would give the instant wins a try by buying a big box of 32 bags instant win packets and see how many prizes we can win.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Stock Market Crash Death Cross Doom Prevails / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Nadeem_Walayat
We appear to be at one of those stock market times of the year when cognitive dissonance prevails, for one does not need to look far to see the building mood for imminent doom that apparently has been imminent all year! Nevertheless, it appears to be reaching a new fever pitch of intensity with the focus now on the apocalyptic sounding DEATH CROSS ! Which depending on the analyst has occurred from twice to more than a dozen times this century for the fundamental fact that the Death Cross just like much of Technical Analysis is just a back fitting exercise, i.e. tweak the parameters used so as to fit a pattern with the benefit of hindsight so as to support ones pre-existing opinion.
Monday, May 23, 2016
U.S. Housing Market Real Estate Bubble Part II / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Michael_Pento
It shouldn't be hard to understand that nearly 90 months of ZIRP has regenerated the equity and real estate bubbles that first pushed the global economy off a cliff back in 2007. In fact, the Fed's unprecedented foray with interest rate manipulation has caused these assets to become far more detached from underlying fundamentals than they were prior to the start of the Great Recession.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Can The British Pound Turn Around? / Currencies / British Pound
By: Richard_Cox
Broad trends in currency markets have been somewhat subdued for most of the year. There are few different reasons to explain why we are seeing this type of activity but it is important to look ahead in order to determine which factors are likely to present themselves during the second half of this year. Most of the recent activity has been centered on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy implications for the US Dollar. But when we are looking for oversold currencies that are basing themselves for strongly bullish runs, one of the best options in the market just might be the British Pound (GBP).
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Why Aren't Venezuelan Interest Rates Going Negative Like in Europe? / Interest-Rates / Venezuela
By: Mario_Innecco
Monday May 23rd 2016 I'm gonna talk about Venezuela is mainly because we've
been you know bombarded in the last few months which stories in the mainstream
and alternative media about hyperinflation Venezuela societal
collapse people killing packs to eat you know loads of horrible stories and I'm
not saying they're not true they are and Venezuela though is a fairly rich
country know you look at their GDP per capita has hired in China I know they
have a lot of oil revenue but it's still not a poor country and the main theme
and even Zero Hedge who blog I read it and I really enjoy what they talked
about and how you analyze things they've caught you know they've been trapped by....
Monday, May 23, 2016
Time to Hedge Gold and Silver Positions / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Savage
Time to hedge metals positions. Here’s why:
Monday, May 23, 2016
Gold - The Next Top Performing Asset to 2020 & Beyond / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
2016 has been a great year for gold. Its currently up 17%.
This is the best time to invest in gold for the long-term investor.
The Elliott Wave Principle is a form of ‘technical analysis’ that believes investors move between periods of bullish and bearish thinking in a reasonably consistent pattern.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Mind the Gap! High-LTV Mortgages Get Cheaper / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Heightened competition in the mortgage market has given those with smaller deposits a boost, as not only are there more deals for borrowers to choose from but there are also lower rates. In fact, Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that the difference in rates between the average two-year fixed mortgage at 60% and 90% loan-to-value (LTV) has reduced by 0.93% to 1.03% in just two years.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Venezuela Descends Into Chaos... Europe and US Next? / Politics / Venezuela
By: Jeff_Berwick
It has been less than two months since I visited Caracas, Venezuela. While things were already very bad when I was there, they are now worse.
Power shortages have deepened (and this in an oil rich country!); food is becoming scarce (some people have resorted to eating dogs and cats); people lie on concrete slabs in hospitals without medicine (if you thought medical care was bad, just wait until it’s free!); and riots and looting are growing worse.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Did AMAT Chirp? Implications for the Economy and Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Gary_Tanashian
The following is the opening segment of this week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 396. The report also covers, in detail, the technical status of US/Global stock markets, precious metals, commodities, currencies and even a few individual gold miners and a couple of new (non-gold related) NFTRH+ trade ideas.
In January of 2013 we noted that the "Canary's Canary" chirped and signaled an economic up phase (such as it was) on the horizon. The Canary was the Semiconductor sector, which is cyclical and economically sensitive. The Canary's Canary is the Semi Equipment sector, manned by the likes of Applied Materials and Lam Research.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
ZAR Gold Price Signals A September 2001-Type Event In The Financial Markets / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
The gold price in South African Rand (ZAR) is often a leading indicator for a USD gold price rally, as well as major trouble in the financial markets. A good example of this was around August/September 2001, just before the September 2001 crash (which turned out to be a major turning point in the markets - not just for the events of September 11).
Monday, May 23, 2016
Stocks Extended Their Rebound On Friday - Will They Continue Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.
Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral. Our medium-term outlook remains bearish, as the S&P 500 index extends its lower highs, lower lows sequence:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutral
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): neutral
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): bearish
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral
Monday, May 23, 2016
UK Treasury Propaganda Warns of 3.6% Brexit Recession, the £64 Billion Question? / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Treasury (UK government) is to issue a statement today that basically puts the price of Brexit at 3.6% of GDP or £64 billion, resulting in a 1 year recession (much milder than the last), which is set against a large chunk of the euro-zone having been in economic depression for 6 long years.
Leaving the European Union would tip the UK into a year-long recession and lower Britain's economic growth by 3.6%.
Though the margin of error is probably at least 3% that effectively could completely cancel out the Treasury forecast.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Stock Market Support Breached, But Not Broken! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: The beginning of a lengthy correction is most likely underway!
SPX Intermediate trend: May be in the process of forming a H&S bull market top.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
No Stocks Bear Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Gary_Savage
If you try hard enough you can always find a set of moving averages that will confirm your bias. The 50/100 week exponential moving average cross has never generated a false signal in 36 years. It’s confirming what I’ve been saying all along. No bear market.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Japan and US at G7 – Agree to Disagree / Currencies / Japanese Yen
By: Dan_Norcini
The big Pow-Pow taking place in Japan with the G7 ( Group of Seven) finance ministers yielded what most of us already expected – no agreement whatsoever.
I found Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso’s remarks quite revealing. His view is that the recent movements in the Yen have been “excessive”. “The movement seen over the past several weeks can’t be described as ‘orderly,” he noted.
He noted that “one-sided, speculative trades” have been behind some of the move higher in the Yen. The Japanese find such things undesirable.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
EIS Sheffield Warns Parents Not to take Photos of their Children on School Sports Days! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The jobs worth's at the English Institute of Sports (EIS) situated in Sheffield are apparently warning parents not to take photos of their children on school sports days held at the EIS, as illustrated by the letter issued by Greystones Primary School to all parents, that is holding it's Sports Day today.
The EIS has advised us that parents are not allowed to take photographs....
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