Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Changes Coming to the Financial Markets in 2018 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Rodney_Johnson
It’s the first week of January, which makes it time for football playoffs and New Year predictions.Since I’m not likely to grace the gridiron anytime soon, I land in the forecast camp. But playing Nostradamus is fraught with its own danger, and reminds me of an old quote by Darrell Royal, the longtime University of Texas football coach, that explained why he favored running the ball. He believed that when you threw the football, three things could happen, and two of them were bad.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Comparing Bitcoin and the NASDAQ Internet Bubbles / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Harry_Dent
Cycles reoccur throughout history, but they more rhyme than duplicate.Each bubble tends to get more extreme than the last one because there’s more wealth to chase it. Wealth is concentrated in the top 1% to 0.1% and grows exponentially (income does not).
The greatest bubble of our lifetimes was the tech bubble in the Nasdaq from late 1994 into early 2000. That built over a period of five years – the typical time frame for most stock bubbles.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Five Reasons Gold Stocks Will Breakout in 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
There are very few sellers left
There were very few sellers left in January 2016 when the devastating “forever bear” was about to end. Six months later and a 150% rebound in the large caps and 200% rise in the juniors (GDXJ) provided sellers an opportunity. They drove the miners and juniors down by 40% to 45% in less than five months. However, both GDX and GDXJ have been able to hold above that low multiple times. GDX has held $21 four times! GDXJ has held $29.50 twice in solid fashion.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Precious Metals Sector is on Major Buy Signal 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets, noting buy signals for both gold and silver at the close of 2017.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Gold Market Themes for 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
2018 has just begun. What will a new year bring for the gold market?
Macroeconomic Outlook Will Remain Unpleasant
The current economic expansion is surprisingly durable, as it has already lasted more than 100 months. It worries many investors who are afraid of the upcoming recessions. Surely, there are many reasons to worry, and the recession will eventually come. But we are not at this point yet. The current expansion is unusually long, but it is exceptionally sluggish.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Stocks, Oil and Gold Market Price Forecasts 2018 (Video) / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Nadeem_Walayat
2017 surprised most by proving to be one of the greatest years of the past decade for stock investors, traders and gamblers as bull markets appeared everywhere. Commodity traders too enjoyed strong bull market gains in the likes of oil and gold, for instance the oil price ended at its highs for the year at $60 whilst Gold had a bumpier ride to end the year at $1310, up a healthy $160 or 14%.
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Vauxhall Zafira 10 Year Owners Review - Top 10 Tips and Points for Buyers / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Your not going to get a more comprehensive review than one from someone who has owned and driven a Vauxhall Zafira for nearly 10 years! So here it is my near 10 year review of what any prospective Zafira buyer needs to know of what to expect when owning a Zafira and how to deal with the various issues that will come up such as resetting of the service lights, or ensuring their under car spare wheel carrier does not rust etc...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
“The lie is the rock on which this republic rests.” / Politics / US Politics
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
I stole this quote from Andrew Jackson whose actual quote was, “The Bible is the rock on which this republic rests.” Of course, the United States is not the country, or republic, that is was when the extraordinary genius of Andrew Jackson graced the presidency. Jackson also once said, “One man with courage makes a majority.” With that courage, President Jackson exterminated the plague of a central bank, balanced the country’s budget, and left the US taxpayers owing no debt to anyone on the planet. Without Jackson’s courage, the country has been growing debt since he left office in 1836. Plantation slavery has been replaced with debt slavery and sovereign rule has been replaced by bankster domination. We can only pray, ‘Please Lord, send us another leader with Jackson-like courage’.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Why You Should Run Away from SPY, IVV, VOO, and Other S&P 500 ETFs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: John_Mauldin
BY OLIVIER GARRET : A decade after the Global Financial Crisis, investors seem to have forgotten about risk.
The amount of money that has flowed into S&P 500 ETFs in recent years concerns me. With little regard for valuation, investors just continue to pump capital into ETFs that track the main index.
Over the last three years, $100 billion has flowed into the three largest S&P 500 ETFs—SPY, IVV, and VOO. This year alone, investors have pumped in around $50 billion.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
FAANG Executives Selling Their Stock Is a Warning Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : Nobody has a better insight into the future prospects of a company than its top-tier employees.
Executives will always boast about their businesses, but it’s what they do with their own money that really matters.
I’m talking about insider trading.
Not the illegal kind, but rather planned buys and sells of stock by the company’s insiders—the directors, executives, and founders.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
How To Make Your Term Paper Writing Easier / Personal_Finance / Education
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
SPX is higher. USD is Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Happy New Year!
SPX futures are higher this morning, but have not breached Friday’s high at 2692.12. The top view is that it is back-testing the trendline at 2690.00 from a possible Leading Diagonal. Should it exceed it, there is a possibility of a new high. There is an alternate Wave structure that would accommodate it.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Stocks, Oil and US Dollar Forecasts Summary 2018 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Ken_Ticehurst
We continue to be bullish on virtually all global stocks as we have been for well over a year, our longer term forecasts show the potential for another consolidation during 2018 but for now our daily forecasts show a continued increase in the value of most global stock markets.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Start the New Year Fresh by Consolidating Debts / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: MoneyFacts
A brand-new year provides the perfect opportunity to revisit finances and work out how much money is being wasted by incurring interest on costly credit cards. As 2018 begins, those borrowers with multiple credit cards could find their debt getting out of hand, with the temptation to borrow becoming too great.
An alternative would be to consolidate debts into one affordable unsecured personal loan, where the monthly repayments would remain unchanged and the debt is guaranteed to be gone by the end of the term – so long as a borrower continues to keep up with repayments, of course.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Cryptocurrency Mania and Blockchain Banking / Currencies / BlockChain
By: BATR
The never ending overdose of Bitcoin coverage in the press and on social media would have one believe that the manna of financial subsistence is leading us all out of the wilderness. Whether this crypto circulation of a promise to pay is actually a currency is very much an open question. What we do know and can take to the bank is that it is not legal tender. In the globalists world of central banksters all money if fiat and species is relegated to a numismatic coin collection.
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Bitcoin Crash Not Over, Crypto Gamblers Prepare for Spike Down to $5,000 / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The crypto gamblers have had a wild ride during during 2017 where early year bets on Bitcoin at sub $2000 for the first 4 months of the year convert into a $20k Mid December bubble peak! Whilst I had no interest in bitcoin or any other of the crypto's, I did pay some attention to its rise later in the year because so many people kept asking me how to buy, hold and trade bitcoins, and later still I kept being asked when they should sell, right upto the day bitcoin peaked at $20k!
And then came the inevitable crash to 10k, with the bitcoin as of writing recovering to trade at USD 13,300.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
2017 The Year of Weapons of Mass Distraction / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Nadeem_Walayat
2017 proved to be a year of mass distractions. There was Trump the con man who promised everything but delivered near nothing. though that did not stop him from claiming success in everything! However he remains very entertaining with his mad tweets and rhetoric of unleashing nuclear war, that the mainstream media were more than eager to regurgitate 24/7. So the greatest weapon of mass distraction of 2017 was being engrossed by the actor playing the part of being President of the United States. A year of twitter storms and war of words especially against North Korea's 'little rocket man':
“If the US is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime".
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Owning a Land Rover Discovery Sport HSE Black - Day 1 / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Thinking of buying an Approved Used Land rover? Well here in this series I cover the real customer experience of what to expect. In this video shot on day 1 of owning an approved used 15 month only Discovery Sport HSE Black we take a look at it's nicley polished bright and shiny exterior.
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Copper Outlook at Critical Juncture and Implications for the Silver Price / Commodities / Copper
By: Metals_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund delves into the reasons behind copper's recent rise and what that could mean for silver.
We have seen an unusually steady uptrend in copper this month that has resulted in it appreciating by about 10%, which might not sound like much, but makes a big difference if you are a producer with fixed costs. What is remarkable about this uptrend is not only that it came hard on the heels of a high volume smackdown in the early days of the month that at the time looked bearish, but that we have seen 16 days trading days in a row of higher closes as of the close of trading on Thursday, as can be seen on the 3-month chart for copper shown below. After doing some extensive research it has been discovered that the fundamental reason for this day after day seemingly interminable uptrend was that a prominent Chinese buyer, who has an old fashioned way of doing things, was walking over to the London Metals Exchange every day for weeks with his black briefcase in hand and buying roughly the same amount of copper.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Gold, Silver Predictions 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Michael_J_Kosares
A major shift in sentiment will drive prices in the new year
With such a solid end to 2017, it prompts the question what we might expect of gold in 2018. The most immediate question is whether or not it will pick up where it left off 2017 and continue its climb into the New Year, or fizzle and spend the year going sideways or worse, down. I have refrained from the perennial turn of the year prediction sweepstakes for a number years, but I will venture out on the limb this year to say a price in the mid-$1500s looks achievable in 2018.
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