Thursday, March 10, 2016

Seven Small-Cap Biotech Stocks on the Upswing 2016 / Companies / BioTech

By: TLSReport

Biotech stocks—and the stock market in general—took a dive at the beginning of 2016, headed down on macroeconomic factors such as financial instability in China. The Life Sciences Report's 2016 Small-Cap Biotech Watchlist was not immune to that movement, heading into negative territory almost from the moment the selected companies were introduced. But as the market has shown signs of rebounding, so too has the Watchlist.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Stock Market Smart Money is Quietly Getting Out of Dodge / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It appears that SPX may close between 1894.35 and 1992.69 as an “inside day.” This denotes uncertainty in the market. However, there is no uncertainty. This is the best it can do to prevent an all-out collapse.

ZeroHedge comments, “One week ago, when looking at the latest BofA client flow trend monitor, we noticed something strange: despite the S&P's surge higher due to either a record short squeeze or because it is merely another bear market rally, the smart money was selling.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

The Gold Bull Market Is Back... Will It Last? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: MoneyMetals

Stefan Gleason writes: The gold bull is back. After trending downward for more than four years, gold prices have broken out to the upside with a gain of more than 20% off their December lows.

Gold’s crossing of the 20% threshold even caused the financial media to take notice. “Gold is now in a bull market,” reported CNNMoney (March 7, 2016).

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

The Fed is About to Trigger Another Great Depression / Economics / Great Depression II

By: Graham_Summers

It’s literally 1937 all over again.

Many analysts have called for the Fed not to repeat its mistake of 1937.

That mistake?

Raising rates when the economy was already weak. Doing this prolonged the Great Depression.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Humans Are Hard-Wired to Value Some People over Others / Politics / Social Issues

By: MISES

Andrew Syrios writes: One of the most persistent — and fallacious — argument against the libertarian or laissez-faire position is that libertarianism is an “atomistic” and “selfish” philosophy that denies the obvious truth that human beings are a “social species” who long for a strong sense of community.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

European Migrants Crisis - Be Careful What You Wish For, Angela / Politics / Refugee Crisis

By: Raul_I_Meijer

What is perhaps most remarkable about the deal the EU is trying to seal with Turkey to push back ALL refugees who come to Greece is that the driving force behind it turns out to be Angela Merkel. Reports say that she and temp EU chairman Dutch PM Mark Rutte ‘pushed back’ the entire EU delegation that had been working on the case, including Juncker and Tusk, and came with proposals that go much further than even Brussels had in mind.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Gold and Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax / Stock-Markets / War on Cash

By: Casey_Research

By Justin Spittler

The largest underground currency market in history...how to make huge investment gains from negative interest rates...none dare call it a tax.

Editor’s Note: This is the most important Dispatch we’ve published all year.

You won’t find our regular daily market commentary in this issue. Instead, you’ll find an urgent message from Casey Research director Brian Hunt. Right now, the government is planning a secret new tax. It involves a new way of taking money directly from your bank account…

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Stock Market SPX Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The impulsive decline in SPX appears to be in need of a correction this morning. Currently the Premarket is higher, but beneath the 38.2% retracement level at 1989.54. We may see a further probe higher after the open to either the 50% retracement level at 1993.28 or the 61.8% retracement level at 1997.02. The retracement may go back to touch the lower trendline of the Bearish Pennant near 2001.00 – 2002.00, but that would be the extreme.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Gold Price Could Surge To $8,000/oz On Negative Interest Rates – Lassonde / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

The gold bull market has returned and gold could surge over 1,000% to $8,000 per ounce in the coming years according to legendary gold investor, Chairman of Franco-Nevada Corporation and former Chairman of the World Gold Council, Pierre Lassonde.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

International Trade Sinks with the Baltic Dry Index / Economics / Global Economy

By: BATR

Economists and professional investors follow the Baltic Dry Index because it is a leading indicator on the forecast for international trade. A week ago this gauge hit an all time low. Since then a small upturn has moved the index upward slightly. Hellenic Shipping News observes in Baltic Dry Index climbs to 349, up 7.

“Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore. The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.”

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

OECD Warns Leading Indicators Point to Slower Global Economic Growth / Economics / Global Economy

By: Mike_Shedlock

Pitifully Late Recognition of the Obvious

It's been pretty clear that the global economy has been slowing for some time, but recognition of that fact has been pitifully slow.

In January, the Fed still believed it would get in four rate hikes this year. The IMF also held to its overoptimistic global growth estimates.

Amusingly, the Fed still believes recent weakness is "transitory", but the always late to the party IMF changed its tune today in the wake of miserable trade data from China.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Another Down Day for the Stock Market Indices / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices had a rough session. They gapped down hard at the opening, bounced to support, and retested in the morning, which enabled them to rally midday. The Nasdaq resistance at 4310 was too much to overcome as was 1995 S&P 500, and they sold off in the afternoon. They not only sold off, but made nominal new lows late in the day, before bouncing slightly, essentially closing at the lows for the day.

Net on the day, the Dow was down 109.85 at 16,964.10. The S&P 500 was down 22.50 to 1979.26. The Nasdaq 100 was down 37.82 to 4265.51.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

China And Fracking: The Pillars Of “The Recovery” Are Crumbling / Economics / China Economy

By: John_Rubino

When historians sort out this era of once-a-decade financial bubbles, they’ll marvel at how dissimilar the drivers of each boom were. The junk bonds of the 1980s were essentially leveraged tools for extracting wealth from companies. The dot-coms of the 1990s were vehicles for exotic new technologies and untested business models. The sub-prime mortgages and credit default swaps of the 2000s were semi-fraudulent fee-generation schemes.

All, in retrospect, were strange, unsteady foundations on which to build a global economy. But they look positively sane compared to the pillars of the current expansion: China and fracking.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Gold’s Next Move And Price Target / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: InvestingHaven

As discussed a couple of weeks ago, Rob Tovell outlined several price targets for gold. As the first ones are hit, the next target comes in around $1345. However, that target will not be met in a straight line, and volatility is entering the gold market right here right now.

The key challenge for gold is best visible in the weekly chart. That is the first chart discussed in the video which is embedded below.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

President Obama Peddling Fiction, Ignoring Fact / Politics / US Politics

By: Peter_Schiff

In his seventh, and final, State of the Union address this January, President Obama, clearly looking to bolster his legacy as the president who vanquished the Great Recession, boldly asserted that "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction." Unfortunately for the President, more and more Americans seem to believe (with an adequate basis in proof) that the fiction is emanating from the White House.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Commodities Jump on US Dollar Weakness / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Donald_W_Dony

With the U.S. dollar drifting lower over the past four months, most commodities are feeling a strong tailwind blowing their way.

Dollar bulls were hoping for a more aggressive program of interest rate increases, but instead the Fed dialed-back the number from four to two this year. The US$ pulled away from its high of $100.60 and formed a series of lower levels.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

UEFA Champions League Now 20 Times Harder To Win! (Walkers Crisps Promo) / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps

By: Adnaan_Walayat

It's several days since we warned that it was increasingly looking like the Walkers Crisps promo was to all in tents and purposes over, as it was becoming near impossible to win any prizes. We'll now a few days on and some 100 entries I can confirm several facts that will save you a lot of time and money, especially as officially the promo has another 6 weeks to run. Top of the list is the fact that in our experience it is now about 20 times harder to win a prize than just a week ago. Watch the video for the all of the info.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Trump vs. the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Clif_Droke

The broad equities market has gotten a respite from the selling pressure which plagued it for the last few months.  Some of this can be attributed to the Kress cycle “echoes” which we reviewed earlier this year.  The echoes, which are based on the 6-year, 10-year, and 30-year cycles, suggested that stocks could experience a rally in the March-April time frame based on past rhythms.  To date that expectation has materialized as traders cover short positions that were built up to excessive proportions in prior months. 

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Stocks Bear Market Rally End It’s Close… very close / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Ed_Carlson

The biggest rallies occur in bear markets and equities have had an impressive run after leaving behind a double-bottom in January and February - but the “end is near”.  In election years, March is a seasonally strong month for equities but this year, the March rally got started early in the first half of February. Several signs point to a top either last Friday or sometime this week.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Learning to Trade - Do You See a Pattern You Recognize? If Not, Move On (Video) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: EWI

Watch a sample of the type of lessons you'll get during Trader Education Week

Jeffrey Kennedy has taught lots of classes, seminars and webinars in his years here at EWI, but my favorite message of his is this:

"Do you see a pattern on the price chart you are looking at on your screen? If not, then move on to the next price chart."