Thursday, June 15, 2017

How to Find the Best Auto Loan / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans

By: Boris_Dzhingarov

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Ultra-low Stock Market Volatility #ThisTimeIsDifferent / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Axel_Merk

We increasingly see claims low volatility in the markets may be structural. Even as we agree that some of the analyses we see make good points, we are concerned we may be setting ourselves up for a major shock. Let me explain.

Before getting into the details about the current environment, let me make some general observations. In my experience, complacency, with its cousin low volatility, is the best bubble indicator I am aware of. Perceived safety gets investors to pile into investments that they later regret. When it happens on a massive scale, major market distortions may be created that can lead to financial crises. And as the tech bubble that burst in 2000 shows, even if there is no systemic risk, the unwinding can be most painful to investors. In 2008, however, the perception that home prices always had to rise had become engrained in highly levered, yet illiquid, financial instruments, causing the unwinding to bring the global financial system to its knees. In our assessment, however, make no mistake about it: assuming for a moment the next crash won't take down a major bank, doesn't imply it cannot wipe out much more of your wealth than you ever anticipated.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

UK Housing Market Forecast to Take Hit on Political Uncertainty / Housing-Market / UK Housing

By: GoldCore

• Growing evidence of slowdown in UK property market
• Slow-down in activity in UK housing market in run up to UK election
• Average UK house prices dropped in the three months to May
• Halifax report annual house price growth fallen to a four-year low of 3.3 percent.
• “Political instability breeds procrastination on the part of homebuyers and sellers”
• Sterling drop will increase divide in housing market, first time buyers continue to struggle
• House price growth has lost momentum, volumes continue to drop

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

DOLLAR has recently damaged GOLD and SILVER- viewed in MRI 3D charts / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: Stephen_Cox

About 10 days ago MRI Trading Signals posted a FEATURED article on the bottom of our home page titled DOLLAR CROSSROAD?  In it are 20 charts showing the potential impact a Dollar Index bottom would have on Gold and other exogenous markets.

This article is an update.  So far this week, DX has traded inside last week’s narrow range.  Once that changes Gold and Silver will react- perhaps dramatically.  Tomorrow, June 14, the FOMC minutes are released.

The MRI 3D Report recommended last Wednesday evening to buy DXU17 @ 96.660 LMT with a 0.220 sized 96.440 STOP GTC.  Friday showed to be a top (temporary?), so our updated 97.070 STOP GTC was elected Sunday and we’re flat thru the FOMC.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

GBPUSD Broke below 1.2755 Support / Currencies / British Pound

By: ElliottWave-Forecast

GBPUSD recently broke below 1.2755 support on its daily chart, indicating that the short term bullish movement from the March 14 low of 1.2109 had completed at the May 18 high of 1.3047 already. Further decline would likely be seen over the next several weeks.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

US Dollar Acceleration Phase is Dead Ahead! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017

By: Enda_Glynn

My Bias: LONG
Wave Structure: rally in wave [C]
Long term wave count: wave [C] is underway, upside to above 136.00
Important risk events: JPY: N/A. USD: CPI m/m, Retail Sales m/m, Crude Oil Inventories, FOMC Statement, Federal Funds Rate, FOMC Press Conference.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Bitcoin Price Corrects / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Mike_McAra

Bitcoin is now a lot more popular among mainstream investors than it was only a couple days ago. This is perhaps evidenced by the fact that the digital currency made its way to Bloomberg Markets homepage. In the short piece we read:

Bitcoin rose as much as 5.8 percent to an all-time intraday high of $2,999.98. The virtual currency has tripled its value since the beginning of the year amid greater acceptance of the blockchain technology that underpins the exchange method, global political uncertainty and increased interest in Asia. Skeptics have said that there may be a bubble in the making as bitcoin has repeatedly broken records without showing signs of slowing.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Hell Freezes Over: CFTC Finds Trader Guilty of Metals Price Rigging / Commodities / Metals & Mining

By: MoneyMetals

It must have been painfully awkward for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Last year, Deutsche Bank settled a civil suit involving blatant market rigging and turned over reams of information, including chat logs and voice recordings. The trove contained plenty of damning evidence which had gone overlooked by the CFTC.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Hit or Pass? An Overview of 2017’s Best Ranked Stocks / Commodities / Sector Analysis

By: Submissions

Subject to an entire array of occult myths, the stock market is, in fact, the platform through which companies raise money. After an IPO – initial public offering – based on the estimated value of the company at the time, the ownership is split into a number of shares. Each share is a piece of the company.

However, the primary activity of the stock market takes place after the IPO. Having been attributed a value, the shares are constantly being bought or sold on the stock market, increasing or decreasing in price. The largest markets, such as the NYSE or NASDAQ, have millions of shares issued, with thousands of investors who buy or sell in a single day. This high volume of shares that change hands means that in that particular market, it is easy to buy or sell shares.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Rise Gold to Recommence Work at Idaho Maryland Mine After 60 Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017

By: WallStreetNation

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Bitcoin Is Mania And Not A Store of Value… I Sold-Out Last Week / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: John_Mauldin

By Stephen McBride : The price of Bitcoin has risen by 210% since March to over $2,900… and one of the world’s most successful investment strategists is warning investors to stay away.

Speaking at the Mauldin Economics’ Strategic Investment Conference, Raoul Pal—author and publisher of The Global Macro Investor, an elite macroeconomic and investment research service—said Bitcoin’s explosion upward is mania.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Here’s Why Market Deregulation Will Be Bad For Stocks / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation

By: John_Mauldin

BY PATRICK WATSON : Deregulation was one of President Trump’s top campaign promises. Expectations for it helped spark a post-election stock rally that boosted highly regulated sectors like banking and biotech.

I’ve thought all along people expected too much. Presidents don’t get a magic wand on Inauguration Day, and they can’t bring on major change just by talking about it.

Now, formerly bullish investors and business leaders are starting to curb their enthusiasm.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Stock Market Tech Shakeout! / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend: Uptrend continues with a serious loss of upside momentum in weekly indicators.

SPX Intermediate trend: Correction over. May be heading for about 2500, or fall slightly short of it.

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily-basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

In Gold we Trust: Gold Bull Market Charts and Research / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: GoldCore

In Gold we Trust Report: Bull Market Will Continue

The 11th edition of the annual “In Gold we Trust” is another must read synopsis of the fundamentals of the gold market, replete with excellent charts by our friend Ronald-Peter Stoeferle and his colleague Mark Valek of Incrementum AG.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

UK High Street Loan Interest Rates More than 2% Higher Compared to Challengers / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans

By: MoneyFacts

The quarterly Moneyfacts UK Credit Card Trends Treasury Report, which studies the UK personal finance market (Unsecured Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Overdrafts), shows that the gap between unsecured personal loan rates from high street brands and the rest of the market has widened, with high street rates now 2.3% higher on average compared to other providers*.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The #1 Gold Stock of 2017 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017

By: WallStreetNation

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

UK Savers’ Apathy Can Cause them to Miss the Best Deals / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts

By: MoneyFacts

Data from moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that the savings market has shown some signs of improvement since the start of 2017, with the number of savings rate rises outweighing cuts for the fifth month running. In fact, rises outnumbered cuts by a third, as Moneyfacts recorded 95 rate rises in May versus 60 rate reductions.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

USDCAD Broke below Channel Support / Currencies / Canadian $

By: Franco_Shao

USDCAD broke below the bottom trend line at 1.3435 of the price channel on its daily chart, suggesting that the uptrend started from the January 31 low of 1.2968 had completed at the May 5 high of 1.3793 already.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Can Ripple catch the rally of Bitcoin & Ethereum / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: ElliottWave-Forecast

Ripple is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, after Bitcoin and Ethereum. It’s distributed financial technology allows banks to efficiently  settle transactions in real time. An alternative to today’s global payment infrastructure, Ripple eliminates time delays and ensures certainty of settlement, resulting in lower transaction costs for banks and their customers and unlocking new revenue opportunities.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

From OSS to CIA Ongoing Clash with Military Intelligence / Politics / Intelligence Agencies

By: BATR

For all those supporters of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's war, many admire the exploits of the OSS in Europe. While historians for the allied legions adopt the account that circumstances dictated the creation and use of the British, Special Operations Executive, which Churchill proclaimed, to 'set Europe aflame'; the precedent left a heritage of intervention that few ever warned about the nature of counter-offensive missions. Gathering intelligence on adversaries is valid and even necessary to defend your country. However, to establish contingents of lethal assassins is a fundamental departure from intelligence procurement. During World War II the American version of clandestine operations put into motion a competing and dangerous rival to the traditional role of military intelligence.