Saturday, August 12, 2017
Bitcoin Pushing Higher / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
The mainstream media are picking up on Bitcoin’s meteoric rise. In an article on CNBC, we read:
Bitcoin will likely outperform stocks and bonds the rest of this year, according to the first major Wall Street strategist to issue a report on the digital currency.
"I think bitcoin is an underowned asset with potential for huge institutional sponsorship coming," Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said on CNBC's "Fast Money" Wednesday.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Will the Death of Diesel Cars Ruin Platinum? / Commodities / Platinum
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The gloomy future of the diesel vehicles is commonly known. However, what does it really mean? And how could the demise of diesel technology impact the precious metals market?
The 1970s oil crisis and accelerating inflation made diesel-powered cars popular, especially in Europe where gasoline prices were always higher than in the U.S. The new technology was considered as more efficient and less polluting, as diesel cars produce less carbon dioxide than gasoline cars (thanks to better mileage). Hence, policy makers started to support diesel and the market share of diesel cars went from 14 percent in 1990 to 50 percent in 2016, as the chart below shows.
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
How to Alton Towers Half Price Discount Entry 2017 and 2018, Any Time, No Pre-Booking! / Personal_Finance / Theme Parks
By: Anika_Walayat
We are now well into the 2017 summer holidays, and whenever we have a rain free day many UK families will be off on day trips to the UK's various theme parks, with Alton Towers definitely at the top of the list especially for 12's and over's. But Don't pay the GATE price! In fact don't pay the lower online price either! that requires pre-booking, which means your gambling on the weather.
Friday, August 11, 2017
Is the Yellen Fed Planning to Sabotage Trump’s Presidency? / Politics / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: MoneyMetals
The Federal Reserve can make or break a president.
Monetary policy influences all financial markets as well as the cycles in the economy. No president wants to have to run for re-election when the stock market and economy are turning down.
Recall that President George H.W. Bush was sitting on sky-high job approval numbers in 1991 and was expected to coast to victory in his 1992 re-election bid. But then the economy swooned toward recession, giving Bill Clinton the opening he needed.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Gold to Silver Ratio: Turning Lower / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: ElliottWave-Forecast
Gold to Silver ratio looks to have ended cycle from 7/4/2016 low (64.38) and should turn lower at least in 3 waves to correct cycle from 7/4/2016 low. The video below explains what the expected turn lower in the ratio means to Gold and Silver:
Friday, August 11, 2017
Tech Guru Unveils New Battery To Challenge Lithium-Ion / Companies / Lithium
By: OilPrice_Com
By Tsvetana Paraskova : The rise of electric vehicles and the quest to find solutions to energy storage for the renewables industry have created a breeding ground for tech experts to develop battery technologies.
Last week, Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy and the company he currently backs, Ionic Materials, unveiled a solid-state alkaline battery design that they claim would be cheaper and safer than the lithium-ion battery.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 2: Relative Strength Index (RSI) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
EWI's senior analyst shows you a beautiful example of how supporting indicators help identify a trade setup in Halliburton (HAL).
"There are many different forms of technical analysis. A completed Elliott wave pattern supported by additional evidence allows for more confident forecasts and higher probability trades."
- Jeffrey Kennedy
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Chicago is America’s Next Black Hole / Politics / US Politics
By: Rodney_Johnson
The Windy City is famous for a lot of things, including the biting winter breeze off Lake Michigan and blowhard politicians.Whether Chicago got its pet name from one or the other doesn’t really matter, since both fit.
But soon, the place also called the Second City will be known as something else: The municipal black hole.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
What Makes Women Better Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Adam_ODell
Remember that book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus? It sold more than 50 million copies in the ‘90s!It brilliantly shed light on some of the biggest differences between men and women in terms of each gender’s typical traits, thought patterns, communication styles, and behaviors.
Sure! It garnered some criticism for perpetuating stereotypes, although I’m sure the author never meant to suggest that all men are problem-solvers, for example, or that all women are good at multi-tasking.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
The Shocking Economic Truth About Russia / Economics / Russia
By: Harry_Dent
The Russian drama seems to intensify with each passing hour.I certainly have my opinion on the matter, as, no doubt, do you. But it’s not my opinion that I want to share with you today. Instead, I want to share two charts that may well shed new light on recent events…
Here’s the first. I warn you, it’s shocking.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Silver Boom Time? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Hubert_Moolman
Previously, I have shown how conditions in the financial markets are very similar to that of the early 80s (circa 1983). Basically, the Dow was at a start of a long-term rally around 1983, and silver just broke down and entered a long-term bear market.
However, as I have predicted in that article, we would likely see a divergence, despite the similar conditions. Normally, when such a divergence occurs, then one gets a massive move in an opposite direction to the pattern or period compared to.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Crude Oil Price Precious Metals Link in August / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadia_Simmons
In the previous month crude oil gained almost 9% as declines in crude oil, gasoline and distillates inventories continued to support the price of the commodity. In that environment light crude climbed above the psychologically important barrier of $50 and closed July above it. Despite this bullish development, the price of the black gold slipped below it at the beginning of August. Is this just a bigger pullback or the first sign of a longer correction? Is it possible that the oil-to-gold and oil-to-silver ratios give us more clues about crude oil future moves?
Friday, August 11, 2017
Former Lehman Brothers Trader: Unpredictable Government Actions Make It Smart to Hold Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: HAA
Shannara Johnson : What does a hot-shot Wall Street trader see in physical gold? And why would he be adamant about holding it?
Jared Dillian, former head of ETF Trading at Lehman Brothers, is an acclaimed financial author and investment strategist at Mauldin Economics. He first discovered gold in 2005 when the launch of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) drew his attention to the yellow metal.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Gold Up 2.3%, Silver 5.3% In Week – Gundlach, Gartman and Dalio Positive On Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
– Gold is up 2.3% this week and silver has surged nearly 5.3% as stocks sell off on geopolitical risk
– Billionaire fund managers and commodities experts increasingly positive on gold
– Risks are rising, and everybody should put 5% to 10% of their assets in gold – Dalio
– Dalio’s Bridgewater, world’s largest hedge fund, warned clients that geopolitical risks are rising
Friday, August 11, 2017
Influencer Marketing Predictions All Businesses Should Take Into Account / Companies / SME
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Influencer marketing is a huge trend in marketing right now. There are millions of new articles that appear online every single minute. That is why the very best content that a business creates can easily get lost in the loop. It is always important to get people to see the content that you create. Without this any content marketing campaign will fall flat. Out of all the ways in which you could promote something on the internet these days, using influencers is what tends to be highly engaging. It is not at all difficult to find influencers in any industry. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, August 10, 2017
USDCHF Failed To Break Channel Resistance / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Franco_Shao
USDCHF pulled back from 0.9772 to as low as 0.9611 after approaching the top resistance trend line of the price channel on its daily chart, indicating that the pair remains in the downtrend from the December 2012 high of 1.0343.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
The Strange Fall of the US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Dan_Steinbock
As the exuberant Trump White House has been mugged by realities, US dollar is plunging to record lows.What a difference a year makes! Last November, US dollar hit its 13-year high. According to the US Dollar Index, which measures the currency against a basket of six other major currencies, the greenback soared to a peak of 103. By early August, US dollar is struggling around less than 93.
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
SPX Confirmed Sell Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX is trying to make another test of the Short-term resistance at 2474.94. From there it should go down hard. Be Time to add shorts. Normally I wouldn’t recommend going 100% short until a trendline is crossed. But there’s enough confidence in the signals to go at least 50%.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Really Bad Ideas - Government Debt Isn’t Actually Debt / Interest-Rates / US Debt
By: John_Rubino
The failure of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking to produce a government-managed utopia is generating very few mea culpas, but lots of rationalizations.
Strangest of all these rationalizations might be the notion that government debt is not really a liability, but an asset. Where personal and business loans are bad if taken to excess, government borrowing is not just good on any scale, but necessary to a healthy economy. Here’s an excerpt from a particularly assertive version of this argument:
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
North Korea Nuclear War Threat - It's Time to Support Your President / Politics / US Politics
By: Raul_I_Meijer
A Guardian headline today shouts: “Trump Has Taken Us To The Brink Of Nuclear War. Can He Be Stopped?”. And I’m thinking that is such obvious nonsense, how dare you print it? The North Korea nuke build up has been going on for decades, and neither Bill Clinton nor George W. Bush nor Obama ever took any decisive actions against it. And now it all falls into Trump’s lap. But that doesn’t mean he’s ‘taken us’ anywhere at all. The last thing Trump wants is this.
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