Wednesday, October 26, 2016
4 Incredible Market Forecasts You Have to See to Believe / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Consider the common thread among these four market calls:
Read full article... Read full article...Forecast 1: A two-month, double-digit rally in a blue-chip stock index, even as investor sentiment hit a negative extreme last seen at the epic market lows of March 2009.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Globalization Faces Challenges / Economics / Global Economy
By: John_Browne
For much of the second half of the 20th Century, and even into the new millennium, "Globalization" was the dominant theme used to describe the drift of the world economy. It was widely considered both natural and inevitable that the world economy would continue to integrate and that national boundaries would become less constraining to commerce and culture. And with the exception of the eternal "anti-globalization" protesters, who robotically appeared at large gatherings of world leaders, the benefits of globalization were widely lauded by politicians, corporate leaders and rank and file citizens alike. But a casual glance at the world headlines of 2016 suggests that the belief in globalization has crested, and is now in retreat. What are the consequences of this change?
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
3 Reasons Ex-Wall Street Trader Jared Dillian Is Stock Market Net Short Today / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: John_Mauldin
BY MAULDIN ECONOMICS : Take profits and batten down the hatches. That’s the advice of former head of ETF trading Jared Dillian. He believes equity markets are likely to see a rough ride in the next few months.
In a recent interview with Mauldin Economics, Dillian elaborates on three red flags that make a case for a near-term pullback in stocks. Dillian first notes that “the price action is really not that good” in various financial markets.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The US Sent a Warning Message to Putin / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
BY JACOB L. SHAPIRO : US Vice President Joe Biden went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently and said the US was sending a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden’s words come after the US released a statement that it was “confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.”
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Aging of the Microchip Industry Is the Reason Behind This Economic Malaise / Stock-Markets / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN : Classical economics argues that as capitalism matures, competition causes both wages and profits to decline. Wages go down because the early successes of capitalism cause more workers to compete for jobs. Profits decline because more businesses enter markets, causing business failure.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Imprisonment or Impeachment – The Dirty Turn of the American Election / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Dr_R_M_Mathew
Never in her official life, had Hillary Clinton imagined that her secret and corrupt dealings, without any legal loophole, would be proclaimed at the roof of the building, as has been written in the Bible. The Biblical prophecy is getting fulfilled in the twenty first century in the case of Hillary Clinton as the WikiLeaks has been exposing her several sensitive e-mails, giving light to her shady deals, corruptions and bribing in terms of not in millions but in billions, sometimes trillions.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Silver Prices in an Exponential Financial System / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: DeviantInvestor
Our financial systems create exponential increases in:
- Debt
- Prices for stocks
- Prices for commodities
- Currency in circulation
- Prices for gold and silver
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Next big Catalyst for Stocks and Commodities / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Clif_Droke
We’re about to enter that time when financial commentators offer up their best guesses as to what investors can expect in the Near Year. It always makes for fun reading, but it also never fails to disappoint. Instead of engaging in that tired exercise in futility, investors would do better to focus on something more productive. And that would be next year’s most likely catalyst for stock and commodity prices.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Rigged Election: Hillary and Trump Caught Partying Like BFF’s With Kissinger at Jesuit Gala / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Jeff_Berwick
We have been very, very suspicious of Donald Trump since he began his political run.
Many believed he was an outsider who was our “only hope” to tame the US federal government beast. But it has become very clear he is not.
First, Wikileaks showed that Killary herself actually approved Trump to be her competitor. According to an email sent from an assistant at the Clinton campaign, Hillary was aware that Trump was going to run before the political process was fully underway.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
It’s Still the Media, Stupid! / ElectionOracle / Mainstream Media
By: Antonius_Aquinas
The US Presidential campaign has demonstrated once again that the mainstream mass media is still the dominant force and arbitrator of political events and if it is successful in pushing the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua past the finish line this November, it may have achieved its greatest triumph. During the campaign’s stretch run, the mainstream media has used every form and variety of spin, distortion, half truth, calumny, and lies in its diabolical effort to make Killary Rotten Clinton President of the USSA.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Stock Market Cycle Shift / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
Last week’s commentary stated that we expected to see a high in the Dow no later than Wednesday. That high didn’t come a day too soon as the index topped on Wednesday at 18,252 and fell to an intra-day low on Friday at 18,050.The Hybrid Lindsay model points to a low this week and it looks increasingly as if the low will come late as short-term cycles have shifted to be more in line with the Lindsay intervals pointing to a low this Friday.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Cycle of Low Crude Prices Nearing an End, Says Saudi Oil Minister / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: The_Energy_Report
Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih declared the cycle of low crude prices is nearing an end as the oil market strengthens in recent weeks.
"Market fundamentals, in terms of supply and demand, have begun to improve," Falih stated on Sunday at a press conference with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, adding: "We are optimistic that oil prices will continue to improve in the future."
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The Current Message of Yield Curves: Inflation or Deflation? / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Gary_Tanashian
With the state of post-Op/Twist systemic dysfunction, there are no absolutes, but…
Generally, a rising yield curve (after years of Goldilocks and her favored declining curve) would signal changes in financial markets. But it is not as simple as stating ‘the curve is rising… it’s bearish!’ or ‘the curve is rising… it’s bullish!’. It is potentially both of those things and it will have different implications for different markets and asset classes.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Broken Central Banks: 4 Quick Pix / Interest-Rates / Central Banks
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The Western central bank franchise system is totally broken, totally insolvent, and totally corrupt. It invites the Gold Standard return. The entire financial system is built upon a debt-based monetary system. The debt saturation process has run its full course. The central bank heads have been covering the sovereign debt for the last five years, having rendered their balance sheets as ruined. Debt is at obscene levels, like $19.7 trillion for the USGovt. No debt limits are in place anymore, a signal that most likely it has already defaulted. A hidden game is underway, with control lost to the creditors, even as they attempt to salvage their debt holdings. The major central banks continue to manage badly the great game, where money is fake phony and a farce. A titanic battle is underway, where the Eastern nations are discarding their USTreasury Bonds, and doing so in tremendous volume while they set up the many platforms and pieces to the Gold Standard.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Government Stimulus is an Oxymoron, Debt to GDP / Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2016
By: Michael_Pento
The accumulation of Debt, at its very essence, is simply borrowing consumption from the future. And this is true on any level of debt, be it either public or private. Just as savings is deferred consumption, the exact opposite is true for debt. Therefore, it can only be beneficial in the long-term if it leads to an expansion of productivity in the present. If the funds borrowed do not improve output per unit of labor it is much more difficult to pay back that debt and any perceived benefit ends up being nothing more than an ephemeral illusion.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Today is a Stock Market Daily Turn Date / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
While SPX hasn’t broken out above 2154.79 in the Premarket, there is a threat of a final probe to the 50-day Moving Average at 2161.11 that may turn the double zigzag (w-x-y) into an a-b-c formation, which is more appropriate for a Wave 2. That appears to be the pattern in the futures, although the futures and cash markets don’t necessarily have to agree in pattern.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Points Reward Credit Cards that Become ‘Pointless’ / Personal_Finance / Credit Cards & Scoring
By: MoneyFacts
Shoppers that frequently pay by card might decide to open a reward credit card to use as an alternative to their debit card, so that they can earn points every time they spend. However, not all cards are as rewarding as they may seem.
A points scheme is useful for those who want to gain a little extra by turning the points into vouchers or other rewards, but sometimes these rewards can take a long time and a significant spend to add up to anything worthwhile. In addition, some cards will charge higher rates of interest on purchases than could be achieved elsewhere, so if shoppers are not careful, the interest could outweigh any benefits.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Diamonds in the Gold and Silver Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Rambus_Chartology
Back in September we looked at a possible morphing Diamond on the GDXJ in which the dashed trendlines were showing the original Diamond. When it started to morph into the bigger Diamond I added the two red circles that showed the false breakouts from the original dashed Diamond. As you can see the last two weeks produced a rally that so far has failed below the apex of the morphing Diamond. From a Chartology perspective the Diamond is a reversal pattern as it has five reversal points.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Trump’s Gettysburg Address against the New World / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: BATR
If not now, WHEN? Only the most dedicated Totalitarian Collectivist would want to keep the NWO in power. Those who are so dim-witted to believe that the governance elites are legitimate rulers, exercising moral authority are so ignorant and illiterate that they deserve the fate of sheep taken to the slaughter. The Sheeple designation is apt for a society mired in a distorted reality of serfdom.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Another Stock Market Gap Goes Nowhere....Huge Earnings Week... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
Let's start with the world of earnings. There have been so many pre-warnings, meaning warnings that were announced before the actual earnings date, that we know the season got off to a bad start. Some giants warned ahead of time, but now we'll focus on those who are waiting for their actual day to announce. This morning we got Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB), an economically-sensitive stock, to report, and it wasn't pretty. It was down huge for the day. What's so amazing to me so far this particular-earnings season is how low the bar has been set for just about everyone, since we are dealing with eight straight quarters of lowered earnings expectations. It would be easy, one would think, for most to beat with no problem. The actual numbers may be weak, but they are better than expected. Right!? Not happening so far overall. Always good beats, but the number of bad reports is adding up, once again, more than anyone would like.
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