Monday, April 18, 2022
Gold Gains In Price Only – Not In Value / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: Kelsey_Williams
GOLD GAINS IN PRICE ONLY
It has been said that the more things change, the more they remain the same. That is certainly true of gold prices.
Let’s look at the following three charts in succession. Then we’ll talk about them…
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Monday, April 18, 2022
Wall Street’s “green light” to get into Crypto / Currencies / cryptocurrency
By: Stephen_McBride
Won’t governments just ban crypto?It’s one of the most common questions folks ask me.
“Regulation” has been a bogeyman for the space since bitcoin (BTC) burst onto the scene 13 years ago.
Folks have long speculated new rules will crush crypto markets.
I couldn’t disagree more.
Regulation won’t kill crypto. Instead, it will lead to much higher crypto prices, as I’ll show you today.
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Sunday, April 17, 2022
Stocks Bear Market Trend Forecast Into Mid May 2022 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
What if you could know the future, had a chart of the stock market that showed a high probability trend forecast into the middle of May 2022. We'll that's what my Patrons got in a market brief at the end of March 2022, a trend forecast right into the middle of May 2022.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022
Stock Market Trend Forecast Into Mid May 2022, AI Stocks Portfolio Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
What if you could know the future, had a chart of the stock market that showed a high probability trend forecast into the middle of May 2022. We'll that's what my Patrons got in a market brief at the end of March 2022, a trend forecast right into the middle of May 2022 -
Whilst my last market brief signaled to expect a strong April to be punctuated by an imminent correction into early April before the final forecast push higher into a May high that the following chart of the S&P better visualises of what I have in mind in terms of how the trend could play out.
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Saturday, April 16, 2022
Beating Inflation: Are The Fed’s Dreams Gold’s Worst Nightmare? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: P_Radomski_CFA
While investors remain happy-go-lucky, fundamental data for gold and silver is now worse than in 2021. Is this the last chance to come back to earth?
As another week comes to a close, the winds of change are blowing across the financial markets. However, while many investors and analysts can see only sunny days ahead, fundamental storm clouds should rain on their parade over the medium term, and it’s quite possible that it’s going to happen shortly.
To explain, this week culminated with the USD Index soaring above 100, the U.S. 10-Year real yield hitting a new 2022 high, and Goldman Sachs’ Financial Conditions Index (FCI) hitting its highest level since the global financial crisis (GFC). However, the PMs paid no mind yet. In fact, investors across many asset classes continue to ignore the implications of these developments. So far.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Inflation pushes the 30-year Treasury bond yield through long-term moving average trends! / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Gary_Tanashian
Okay, let’s take a breath. I don’t like to use ‘!’ in titles or even in articles. In fact, when I see too many of them I immediately think that someone really REALLY wants me to see their point. That said, the signal shown below is pretty important.
It’s in-month with a monstrously over-bearish bond sentiment backdrop similar to when we installed a red arrow on the chart below at the height of the Q1 2011 frenzy (cue the Bond King: “short the long bond!”). Chart jockeys are probably delivering the bad news of the chart’s inverted H&S, a potential for which NFTRH began managing a year ago when the 30yr yield hit our initial target of 2.5% and then recoiled as expected after the public became very concerned about inflation.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
Stocks Bear Market About to Resume? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tthe stock market rally that had the the bulls salivating is probably coming to and end, and thus the direction of travel over the coming days should be lower as the Dow continues to target $31k. In terms of the bear market we will probably eventually see the Dow gravitate to below $30k, how low and in what time frame requires in-depth analysis which I will focus on next after housing. In the meantime, This is the type of trend I warned to expect, VERY VOLATILE as investors gyrate between FEAR and GREED. A sell off now could set the scene for a strong April i.e. off a higher end March / early April low rather than a break to new bear market lows.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
What a Brutal Bear Market Brings Besides Crashing Stock Prices / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: EWI
"When social mood is negative, rallies, marches and protests become common events"
Sure, it's highly important to get out of value-losing risk assets before the onset of a big bear market.
No analytical method offers a guarantee; however, our experience shows that if you follow the message of the Elliott wave model, you'll have a good chance of protecting your wealth during the next financial downturn.
Having said that, there's more to a severe bear market than collapsing investment prices. Keep in mind that the shift from a positive to a negative social mood -- which brings on a financial bear market -- also brings on an array of societal problems.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
4 Reasons Why Franchises Are Still Relevant in Today's Economy / Companies / SME
By: Steve_Barker
There is no question that the economy has taken a toll on businesses of all sizes in recent years. However, one business model has shown remarkable resilience – the franchise. Franchises are still thriving today because they offer several key advantages that small businesses and startups can't match. In this blog post, we will discuss four reasons why franchises are still relevant in today's economy.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Stocks – Uncertainty Ahead of Quarterly Earnings Season / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Paul_Rejczak
Stocks fluctuated following their recent decline on Tuesday and the S&P 500 index closed slightly below the 4,400 level. Is this still just a downward correction?The S&P 500 index lost 0.34% on Tuesday following its Monday’s decline of 1.7%. There is still a lot of uncertainty concerning the Ukraine conflict and Fed’s monetary policy tightening plans. On Monday it led to a more pronounced profit-taking action. However, the coming quarterly earnings releases season may be a positive factor in the near term. This morning the broad stock market is expected virtually flat following the Producer Price Index release.
The nearest important resistance level is now at around 4,475-4,500, marked by the recent support level and Monday’s daily gap down. On the other hand, the support level is at 4,350-4,400. The S&P 500 index retraced more of its March rally, as we can see on the daily chart (chart by courtesy of http://stockcharts.com):
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
7 Things Everyone Knows About Social Proof That You Don’t / Companies / SME
By: Steve_Barker
When it comes to marketing, there are some very ingenious solutions. Most people just know about the obvious ones, like SEO and content marketing. Only marketing professionals know about more complex aspects, like social proof. Social proof can be a very effective way of increasing the exposure of a business, bringing in customers, and building a reputation.
But what is social proof, and how does it work? This article will explore the subject in great detail, telling you seven things that everyone in the marketing world knows about social proof that you don’t.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Utilities Rising & Transporters Sinking – Sector Rotation Is Providing Clues / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Historically, investors gravitate toward more defensive and commodity-focused sectors, such as precious metals, energy, commodities, and utilities, in late-cycle bull markets.
Recently, the stock market is beginning to show us signs that the bull market may be coming to an end. Commodities such as energy, grains, and precious metals have all experienced nice rallies. Price action also confirms money flow coming out of transports and into utilities.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
Stocks Bear Market Trend Forecast Current State / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
We are in for a volatile trend with a downwards bias for much of 2022, as I wrote to expect on the 5th of Dec 2021 accompanied by revised trend forecast graph.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
Eye On JPM Ahead of Earnings / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Mike_Paulenoff
JPM (JP Morgan) reports quarterly earnings this coming Wednesday during pre-market hours. Investor reaction to this particular report is positioned to have a significant influence on the price of the stock. JPM's outspoken and high profile CEO Jamie Dimon already has warned us that changing (i.e., deteriorating) macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions are making business more challenging for the bank, despite the fact that interest rates have backed up sharply in recent weeks, which usually is a prescription for stronger bank earnings.
One look at Mike Paulenoff's daily chart of JPM certainly indicates something else is on the mind of investors that is outweighing the traditionally positive influence of rising interest rates on JPM's bottom line.
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
Not About Gold – All About The US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Kelsey_Williams
IT’S NOT ABOUT GOLD
There is a lot of talk centering on the US dollar and its “ultimate end as the world’s reserve currency”.
There is also additional talk about what this means with respect to the price of gold, but that is just talk.
The price of gold tells us nothing about gold. The only thing a continually rising gold price tells us is that the US dollar continues to lose purchasing power. (see What’s Next For Gold Is Always About The US Dollar)
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
6 Things You Need To Know Before Investing In Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2022
By: Steve_Barker
Investing in gold is a smart investment. But why? Gold has been valued for centuries and for good reason! It's rare, durable, and can be used to make jewelry or electronics. Plus, it's not affected by inflation so no matter what happens with the economy it'll always have some value. But before you invest in gold there are a few things you need to know - what type of gold should you buy? How do you store your gold? What if the economy takes another downturn? Learn more here!
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
New Biden Tax & Spend Plan Throws Gasoline on Inflation Bonfire / Stock-Markets / Inflation
By: MoneyMetals
As the Federal Reserve ramps up its rhetoric on rate hikes, precious metals markets continue to consolidate.
Gold and silver showed some signs of basing out and readying to moving higher with a rally on Thursday. As of this Friday recording, gold prices come in at $1,951 an ounce – up 0.9% for the week. Silver, meanwhile, is putting in a slight weekly gain of 0.3% to trade at $24.97 per ounce.
Turning to the platinum group metals, they have been slumping on late. Platinum is off 1.6% this week to trade at $1,000. And palladium, which is putting in a big advance here today of +$200 so far, is up a robust 7.4% this week to command $2,499 per ounce.
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Saturday, April 09, 2022
Stock Market in the Eye of the Storm, Visualising AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels / Stock-Markets / Investing 2022
By: Nadeem_Walayat
What if you could know the future, had a chart that showed you how the stock market could trend into the middle of May 2022, how much value would you put on it? More than $4 bucks?
We'll that's what my Patrons got in a market brief at the end of March 2022, a trend forecast based on Deem neurons right into the middle of May 2022 that so far has spooky Mulder style tracked the S&P quite accurately.
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Saturday, April 09, 2022
What to Make of the Bullish Resilience of Bitcoin / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: EWI
"A corrective pattern is countertrend to the larger trend in force"
Every time an obituary is written for Bitcoin, the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies manages to resurrect.
As a Jan. 25 CNBC headline noted:
Investors fear 'crypto winter' is coming as bitcoin falls 50% from record highs
The day before that headline published, Bitcoin had briefly dipped below $33,000, far below its November high of nearly $69,000. At that time, the entire crypto market had shed roughly $1 trillion in value since that all-time high in Bitcoin. Also around that time, Russia's central bank had proposed banning the use of cryptocurrencies.
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Saturday, April 09, 2022
6 Pieces Of Advice To Help You Make The Most Out Of Your Investments / Personal_Finance / Investing 2022
By: Steve_Barker
If you are looking into investing your money but are not sure how best to go about it, read on. Below are six straightforward pieces of advice for new investors to help them make the most out of their investments. These top tips include saving money first, using a free tracking tool to manage your investment portfolio, ensuring your investments are diverse, and leaving your investments alone for at least five years to allow them to grow. These tips, and more, will be detailed more thoroughly below. Good luck and get investing!
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