Saturday, February 20, 2016

Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident And Emergency Walk-in Not Fit for Purpose / Local / NHS

By: N_Walayat

The across the board relentless deterioration in the quality of NHS healthcare is not just limited to adult services but as illustrated by the Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident and Emergency Walk-in facilities is literally an across the board manifestation of healthcare paralysis for reasons that go beyond the usual tendency for the public sector to be inefficient.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Rising U.S. Interest Rates? Never Mind / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: John_Rubino

It was always a matter of when, not if, the financial markets would tell the Fed to stop raising interest rates. And it appears the message has been received:

Friday, February 19, 2016

Stock Market Danger Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

You may ask, “Why the rally back to the zero line?”

The first answer is, “Because it can.” That’s what support and resistance lines are meant to portray. They represent pockets of buying power or selling pressure, depending on which side you are coming from.

There is another reason. Computer algorithms can be trained to “sense” these areas and use them to the owner’s advantage. In this case, it may be to the owner’s advantage to maintain the market at this level so that certain options will pay off.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Gold Mining Stocks Thrive in Bleak Q4 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Zeal_LLC

The gold miners’ stocks have soared this year as investors flock back into this long-abandoned sector.  Many traders wonder if these eye-popping gains are merely the product of fleeting sentiment that could reverse anytime, or are supported by strong underlying fundamentals.  With the gold miners reporting their latest quarterly operating results, this extensive new data offers great insights into gold mining’s fundamentals.

By law, publicly-traded companies must file quarterly earnings reports four times a year.  These yield a treasure trove of valuable information for traders, and are easily the single-most-important contribution to financial-market transparency.  The Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies traded on the US stock markets to file quarterly earnings reports no later than 45 days after their quarters end.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Equity Outflows Resume... It’s Time to be All-in Short / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX bounced off Intermediate-term support at 1904.40 this morning. There are a couple more supports that must be taken out today so progress may be slow, but steady on the downside. This assumes no catalyst rears its ugly head to spark the panic decline today.

Despite the three-day rally, we have seen the longest streak of equity outflows since 2008.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Is the Gold Price Manipulated? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

The belief in manipulation in the gold market is associated with the notion of discrepancies between the paper and physical price of gold. The latter is artificially set lower by futures markets creating tons of synthetic gold. Hence the price of gold does not reflect its fundamentals. But the divergence between paper gold and ‘real’ gold cannot last forever; therefore the day of reckoning will finally come, and the paper gold market will collapse and the price of gold will skyrocket.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Ego and the U.S. Presidential Primaries / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Walter_Brasch

Like millions of Americans in the middle of February I have the flu.

Unlike millions of Americans I have a deadline.

Forced to stay at home, sucking Vitamin C drops, I have read newspapers, listened to radio, and watched television as a source of diversion.

Dominating the media is the campaign for the presidency.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Premarket Stock Market Decline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX has fallen to its 2-hour mid-Cycle support in the Premarket. This is unusual for OpEx in the Index Futures. It suggests some turmoil that may carry over to the open. OpEx Fridays are usually more volatile than normal, but this type of activity before the open is unusual.

ZeroHedge reports, “Not even this morning's mandatory European open ramp has been able to push US equity futures higher, and as a result moments ago the E-mini hit session lows on rising concerns about Brexit as talks drag on in Brussles, but mostly as a result of overnight confusion about China's loan explosion and whether the PBOC has lost control over its maniacally-lending banks.”

Friday, February 19, 2016

Marc Faber Warns “Own Some Solid Currency, In Other Words … Gold” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

“Leave a million dollars with a bank, and in a year, you get only something like $990,000 back,” Marc Faber, respected publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, told Bloomberg by phone yesterday.

“I would rather want to own some solid currency, in other words … gold” warned Faber.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Stocks, Commodities, Bonds, Gold and Currencies Weekly Views / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Gary_Tanashian

It occurs to me that in public writing I tend to bludgeon people with macro fundamentals (like gold vs. positively correlated markets, yield relationships and even confidence in global policy makers), market indicators (VIX, Equity Put/Call, Gold-Silver ratio, Sentiment, Participation, etc.) and other views beneath the surface of things. So much so that I sometimes forget that people might like to see simple nominal charting as a frame of reference.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Support for Stock Market Indexes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Donald_W_Dony

The recent downward slide for North American indexes appears to have found a floor.

After declining for much of the last six weeks, the key U.S. indexes have all reached their 200-week moving averages (m/a) and stopped.

Only the commodity-heavy TSX went right through its 200-week m/a and settled on the lower support level of 12,000.

Friday, February 19, 2016

How Rogue Market Price Spikes Can Make You Money / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Stocks are taking a breather today from the recent rally off our cycle lows and support level. As explained and shown in this morning’s video we are expecting stocks to stall out over the next 5 days and become choppy.

Any weakness in stocks means money will flow into metals and that is what happened on Thursday afternoon.

Friday, February 19, 2016

2016 Tax Tips for Landlords and Real Estate Investors / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets

By: Larissa_James

As a landlord or real estate investor, one of the most important tasks you face each year is filing your tax return. Even the smallest slip-up can result in major losses or penalties. As such, you wan to be very careful in how you proceed. Let’s take a look at a handful of the top tips for 2016.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Marc Faber Warns “They Will Bankrupt the World!” / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2016

By: Gordon_T_Long

Dr. Marc Faber joins FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long in an exciting discussion of monetary malpractice, negative interest rates, the influence of current geopolitical risk and much more. Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics.

Friday, February 19, 2016

EU Commits Suicide as BrExit Referendum Leave Vote Looks Inevitable / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Today the European Union looked down the barrel of a gun and then pulled the trigger, as the self interest of individual nations prevailed, and most evidently by the Visegrad-4 (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic) that continued to put short-term greed ahead of long-term economic and political commonsense leaving David Cameron to emerge Friday Chamberlain style waving a piece of paper of "Reforms in Our Time".

Friday, February 19, 2016

Fascinating Gold Charts With Hidden Trendlines / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: InvestingHaven

Gold had another very strong day, closing the day 2% higher. After a strong run over the last couple of weeks, the question is where gold stands, and how much upside potential it has. Let’s revise the charts and leading indicators in this article.

First, our daily gold chart (since gold peaked) shows that gold recently broke out of its downtrend. Interestingly, the gold price retraced this week to just below the resistance line, and closed today 1% above it. So far so good, this is strong price action without any doubt.

Friday, February 19, 2016

These 3 Factors Make a U.S. Recession 2016 Highly Probable / Economics / Recession 2016

By: EWI

Dear Investor,

I'm sure you noticed that the markets went off the rails since the start of this year. During this decline, there has been one persistent question market pundits have been trying to answer:

Friday, February 19, 2016

Trump Candidacy Is Sign of a Falling Empire and a Rising Resource Market / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: The_Gold_Report

Dramatic daily moves in the U.S. dollar, gold prices and the larger markets are pointing to a global banking collapse that will send resource prices higher in 2016, according to 321gold.com founder Bob Moriarty. In this interview with The Gold Report, he shares his insights on how mining equities will react and five names he is watching.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

The U.S. Ban on Cash Has Already Begun / Interest-Rates / War on Cash

By: Graham_Summers

The Central Banks hate physical cash. So much so they there will likely try to ban it in the near future.

You see, almost all of the “wealth” in the financial system is digital in nature.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Latest Turkey Ankara Blast: Terrorism or False Flag? / Politics / Turkey

By: Stephen_Lendman

Put nothing past fascists running Turkey, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a megalomaniacal international outlaw, a lunatic capable of anything to further his Ottoman empire delusions.

False flags are perhaps the oldest dirty trick in the book, a longtime US tradition, dating from at least the mid-19th century, 9/11 the mother of them all.