Thursday, March 03, 2016

GLD ETF Continues To Add Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Dan_Norcini

The continued build in the number of reported gold holdings in the large gold ETF, GLD, is nothing short of phenomenal. This week alone, another 22 tons of gold have been added to the ETF bringing the total in storage to 788.6 tons.

Here is a chart showing the sharp increase in holdings.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Stocks Follow Crude Oil Price Higher Towards New All Time Highs 2016 - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Dow's latest surge higher has put the stocks index within 3% of setting a new high for 2016, so it's not looking like it's going well for the bears who at least into early February were proclaiming that the Great Bear Market Apocalypse was upon us. Instead for the past couple of weeks or so have been increasingly going silent, into hibernation. Though I have to give it to the perma bears, those who have been wrong for the longest are still out there pumping out bear market and crash rhetoric of 30%, 40% even more than a 50% drops!

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Donald Trump – Bad For US Dollar, Good For Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

Donald Trump’s emergence as the Republican frontrunner and possible future U.S. President is causing some gold and investment analysts to suggest diversifying into gold according to the Wall Street Journal.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Stock Market Refusing To Fall....Sentiment Peeking Above Zero For Spread.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Jack_Steiman

The market got a plethora of happy news yesterday, which began with China's central bank deciding it was time for yet another stimulus program. In addition, we heard Mr. Draghi of the Euro zone promise more help on the stimulus front, and lastly we had a better than expected, although still contracting, ISM Manufacturing Report. A triple play of good market news.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Waning Enthusiasm for Share Buybacks Signals Major Stock Market Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: EWI

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Thursday, March 03, 2016

SPX Rally Curbed by the Trendline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Each successive high has been stopped multiple times at the Broadening Flag trendline. Wave (c) of [y] consists of 17 waves, which is a very extended impulsive wave.

Tomorrow is day 43 from the January 20 low, a Primary Cycle Pivot day. It appears that we may have our Primary Cycle top after all, but measured from a prior low instead of the February 11 low.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

Sprott Global: Minimally Consider 20% in Real Assets Including Farmland and Diamonds / Stock-Markets / Investing 2016

By: Gordon_T_Long

Gordon T Long interviews Jason Stevens of Sprott Global Resources Investment. Stevens has an education background in the natural resources and precious metals field for the past 12 years, and has worked alongside mining engineers, geologists and the industrial industry executives to support his research and work with Sprott Global.

Sprott Global is widely known for providing alternative investments in the precious metals field of economy for investors. Recently, they have created two qualitatively weighted indexes, ETFs, as opposed to market capital ratings that give larger companies a higher rating without any supporting evidence.

Thursday, March 03, 2016

How Does Sam Afford to Buy So Much Stuff? / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: MISES

Mark Brandly writes: Lately, I’ve wondered how my neighbor, Sam, affords to buy so much stuff. He appears to have an unlimited budget. When I asked him about this, Sam asked, “Do you think I’m spending too much?”

“That depends,” I said, “How much money do you make?”

“I take home $100,000 a year.”

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Stock Market Teetering on the Edge of a Precipice - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Mario_Innecco

Transcript Excerpt: Its march 2nd 2016 Wednesday it's 11 o'clock here in london where 6 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time in New York or the USS yeah I'd like to talk today about
the stock markets and in my view looking at the technicals quiet worrying in my
opinion I've got done a little bit of analysis on the monthly chart of the Dow
Jones industrial average and to me I don't want to sound alarmist and I know
most people prefer things to work out you know more moderately but in looking
at the picture that you will see soon it looks quite scary you know what could
happen in the next few months six months even less than six months in my opinion
so here we go again so I've gone back as you can see on the chart coming up here

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

The Stock Markets Are Misreading the Economic Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Graham_Summers

The US markets are in a quandary.

On the one hand, some of the data (GDP growth, unemployment, etc.) suggests the Fed should continue to hike rates. On the other hand, other data points (food stamp usage, labor participation rate) suggest the US never actually entered a real recovery.

More importantly, how can the jobs data suggest such a strong employment situation… when one in seven Americans are on food stamps?

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

That Makes TWO Central Bankers Ringing Bells At Market Top / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Graham_Summers

In the last month, we’ve had two major confessions from Central Bankers.

We’ve already detailed the first, which came from the Head of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Understanding the Federal Reserve’s Shell Game / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank

By: MISES

Dan Sanchez writes: The Federal Reserve is a key component of the American Transfer State. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The beneficiaries are the government and its elite cronies.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Stock Market Primary Cycle ...in hours! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX closed precisely at the trendline of its Broadening (bearish) Flag formation. The rally from February 11 to the top took almost exactly 86 hours. This was no coincidence.

This would be considered a Primary Cycle in hours. Primary Cycles are often described in superlatives. Unfortunately, my Cycles Model works in days and I have to do the additional calculation for the hours.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Stock Markets Dow, FTSE Tracking Crude Oil Rally Towards New All Time Highs 2016! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Dow's latest 350 point surge higher to 16,836 has put the stocks index within 4% of setting a new high for the year, so it's not looking like it's going well for the stocks bears who at least into early February were proclaiming that the Great Bear Market Apocalypse was upon us. Instead for the past couple of weeks or so have been increasingly going into hibernation. Though I have to give it to the perma bears, those who have been wrong for the longest are still out there pumping out bear market and crash rhetoric of 30%, 40% even more than a 50% drops!

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Gold and the US Monetary Base Signals the Greatest Depression / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Hubert_Moolman

Gold is currently trading in excess of $1200 an ounce. This is well above the 1980 all-time high. However, this is an incomplete representation of what gold is trading at relative to US dollars. When you look at the gold price relative to US currency in existence, then it is at its lowest value it has ever been. This is an example of how paper assets are completely out of tune with tangible (real assets).

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Hillary Clinton Loves Goldman Sachs / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Stephen_Lendman

It’s hard imagining a more despicable candidate for any public office, unthinkable for the nation’s highest.

Her presidency, if elected, assures endless wars of aggression, possible confrontation with Russia and China, letting Wall Street, other corporate bandits and war-profiteers continue looting the nation’s wealth, as well as likely advancing tyranny to full-blown, stripping the mask entirely off constitutional governance.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Fantasy Ceasefire in Syria / Politics / Syria

By: Stephen_Lendman

I’ve explained many times. Syria is Obama’s war. There’s nothing civil about it. Scoundrel media regurgitated state-sponsored propaganda falsely claims otherwise.

Endless war rages, US policymakers committed to replace its sovereign independence with US-controlled puppet governance - one of history’s greatest crimes toward this end of no consequence.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Spectacular Day on Wall Street / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market definitely had a turn-round Tuesday as the indices exploded from the get-go. They ran very sharply higher until midday when they consolidated, and then stair-stepped their way higher at a shallower angle, but still continued strong until the close when they spiked right into the close to finish at the highs for the day going away.

Net on the day, the Dow was up 348.58 at 16,865.08. The S&P 500 was up 46.12 to 1978.35. The Nasdaq 100 was up 132.50 to 4333.61, up 132% and more than 3% for the day.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Energy Foreign Ownership Translates into Higher Electric Bills / Companies / Electricity

By: BATR

What exactly is a public utility? If you listen to the government officials in New York State, a foreign company is just dandy and will qualify from the Public Service Commission as a provider of electricity. While this may be old news, the continued adverse fallout from foreign ownership can no longer be flittered away. The latest approval of rate increases goes as an example of how the entire political favoritism system operates. The Buffalo N.Y. News reports, You’re likely to see higher electric bills soon.

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Stock Market In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Ed_Carlson

"In like a lion, out like a lamb" is a proverb describing the month of March. The month of March usually starts with cold, unpleasant weather, but ends mild and pleasant. Seasonality in equity markets during the eighth year of a Presidential term had led me to expect quite the opposite but it now appears equity markets may more closely resemble weather expectations. My Hybrid Lindsay forecast for a high on February 29 (or very close to it) is outlined below.