Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Fed Stance Likely to Pressure US Dollar, GBP Chart View / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Richard_Cox
Financial markets always have an overriding story and if we look at the news headlines that have been generated over the last few months, we can see that the focus is once again back on the Federal Reserve. Market opinions are still sharply divided: If incoming data is consistent with labor market conditions strengthening, an interest rate hike could be foreseen sooner than we think.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Vauxhall Zafira Fires Recall - What to Expect at Dealership Inspections, Heater Repairs / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Vauxhall announced a recall of all 220,000 UK Zafira B models in November 2015, as apparently they are prone to bursting into flames. And now finally after a 6 month long delay the day has arrived when my own Vauxhall Zafira which actually does have a failing heater i.e. is at high risk of catching fire, but still the dealership deemed as not needing a more speedy inspection hence the delay. Anyway find out what to expect at recall Inspections, repairs done and how long it all takes.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
TLT & SPY Inverse Correlation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Joseph_VanDerveer
Here is an interesting chart below showing TLT which is iSHARES 20 year plus Treasury Bonds exchange-traded fund.
The red arrows and comments represent major lows in SPY or QQQ's. The green arrows and comments represent major highs in SPY or QQQ's.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
USDCAD Set To Resume Bear Rally / Currencies / Canadian $
By: Austin_Galt
The USDCAD looks just about ready to head back up which will be the next leg of the bear rally that commenced in early May 2016. Let's check out the action using the weekly and daily charts.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
US Jobs Report Changes the Landscape for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Gold soars as chances for a Fed rate hike this month evaporate. Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter, details what that means for investors.
Perhaps the lesson is this: Don't count gold out.
Last week, I was expecting another thrust downward for gold, with the metal losing perhaps another $35–$60 to the $1,150–$1,175 range.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
SPX Stock Market Tops in 87 Hours / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It appears that SPX has topped out at 1:30 pm (1330 hours) at 2119.22. The rally took almost exactly 87 hours, VS the 86 I had suggested. So, what’s an hour in the greater scheme of things? As I said earlier, the decline to 2025.91 took 44 hours instead of 43. It is what it is.
The reason I am writing is that there is a technical limit to this rally at 2120.16. Should it go higher, something else is going on with the Wave structure that I haven’t perceived. Wave [v] equals Wave [i] at 2117.54, which has been exceeded already. On a smaller scale, Wave (v) is equal to 1.382 times Wave (i) at 2119.55, which appears to be the closest fit.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Detecting Cancer With White and Blue Light / Companies / BioTech
By: Richard_Mills
Endoscopy is often used in the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of cancer.
X-rays and CT scans can show physical changes within the body and give information about the size, shape, and location of the changes. Endoscopes show details like color and surface texture allowing doctors to see exactly what’s going on.
If you go to a doctor exhibiting certain symptoms, endoscopy could be used to find the cause:
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Bitcoin after Nonfarm Payroll Data / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: no speculative positions.
Bitcoin is on the move up and this is the most prominently featured piece of news as far as the digital currency is concerned. On CoinDesk, we read:
Petar Zivkovski, director of operations at bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk that in his view, this correlation with the yuan is being used to sell headlines, and that it may not paint a portrait of what is happening on the ground.
"The theory that the Chinese are buying bitcoin due to yuan devaluation is a nice story to tell, but is in our view incomplete,” he told CoinDesk, adding:
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Gold Bullion, Texas Is Taking on a New Battle…Against the Entire Financial System / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Rodney_Johnson
200 men against 1,500 enemy troops.They were never going to win. They fought anyway. Everyone died. It’s a story that most Americans are vaguely aware of, but the tale of the Alamo is seared into the heart of every Texan.
In losing the battle in such heroic fashion, the defenders rallied others to the cause, helping the Tejanos defeat the Mexican army in 1836. Like that, the country of Texas was born. Nine years later, the young nation joined the United States and became the only state to join the union by treaty.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
US Housing Market - It Looks Like the Dumb Money’s at It Again / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Harry_Dent
New home sales just went up a staggering 16.6% in April.619,000 new homes were sold – the most since early 2008 just before the worst of the housing meltdown, and the highest rate of growth in 24 years.
So is this a sign that the economy is back on track?
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Stock Market Rally Appears Complete / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The trendline has been hit at 2117.11. There may be some probing around at that level, but it appears that all but the shouting may now be over.
This rally took 85 hours. The final decline in Wave (B) took 44 hours, so the combined average is divisible by 4.3.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Fed Interest Rate Hikes Lather. Rinse. Repeat / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Peter_Schiff
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A Fed official walks into a bar and says the economy is improving and rate hikes are appropriate. The patrons order another round to celebrate. Then disappointing data comes out, the high fives stop, and the Fed official ducks out the back...only to come back the next day saying the same thing. Anyone who pays even the smallest attention to the financial media has experienced versions of this joke dozens of times. Yet every time the gag gets underway, we raise our glasses and expect the punch line to be different. But it never is. Last week was just the latest re-telling.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Gold Prices Surge After Poor Jobs Number, Increased Risk Of BREXIT / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
Gold prices surged nearly 3% after the very poor jobs number on Friday, have maintained those gains and appear to be consolidating as concerns about the U.S. economy and BREXIT deepen.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Former Bank of England head Mervyn King joins Alan Greenspan in advocating Gold Ownership / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_J_Kosares
In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King, the former head of the Bank of England, writes of central banks’ frustration in dealing with the stagnant global economy. “Central banks,” he says, “have thrown everything at their economies, and yet the results have been disappointing, Whatever can be said about the world recovery since the crisis, it has been neither strong, nor sustainable, nor balanced.”
Similarly, former IMF chief economist, Olivier Blanchard was recently quoted in the Financial Times as saying: “And so the question is why is it, that with no fiscal consolidation and banks in decent shape, at least in terms of lending, and zero interest rates, we don’t have an enormous demand boom? That is now the puzzle.”
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Fed's Interest Rate Normalization Will Be Far From Normal / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Michael_Pento
The Fed traditionally embarks on an interest rate tightening cycle when inflation has started to run hot. This decline in the purchasing power of the dollar will nearly always manifest itself in: above trend nominal GDP, rising long-term interest rates and a positively sloping yield curve. These prevailing conditions are all indications of a market that is battling inflation; and thus prompts the Fed to start playing catch up with the inflation curve.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
EU Referendum - Britain's Immigration / Migrant Crisis Explained / ElectionOracle / Immigration
By: Nadeem_Walayat
One of the primary drivers for triggering the EU Referendum Is immigration and more specifically EU immigration that many deem to be out of control as membership of the European Union means free movement of workers which has prevented the UK from controlling its borders now for over a decade as the UK is buffeted by waves of ever escalating migrant flows from Europe each year. All adding to those that came before with total immigration from the EU since 2000 now having passed the 5 million mark. All whilst both Labour and then the Conservative governments promises to be bring immigration under control having amounted to nothing, as the government has NO control over EU migration, which thus continues on an accelerating trend trajectory. Therefore voting to REMAIN within the EU ensures EU migration will continue to increase putting added pressure each year on housing, jobs and social services such as schools, NHS and the benefits system, virtually all of which are already at critical breaking point levels.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Gold Stocks Be Prepared / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Rambus_Chartology
There are two patterns I'm watching very closely in here on the HUI which will be a proxy for the rest of the PM stock indexes. This first chart is daily chart which shows the three small consolidation patterns that have formed since the January low. The top pattern basically completed its fourth reversal point today which is an expanding falling wedge. One of two things will most likely happen tomorrow. If this is the correct consolidation pattern then we will most likely see a breakout gap above the top rail which should lead to the next impulse move up. The second scenario would be to see the top rail hold resistance and a move down to the bottom rail of the expanding falling wedge where the 38% retrace would come into play around the 183 area. This pattern is complete except for the breakout.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Crude Oil Price Is Due for a Correction / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: The_Energy_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan demonstrates the divergence between oil equity prices and the underlying commodity.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Slow Death Of Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: InvestingHaven
In our May webinar, we discussed how hard markets have become, and how to invest in them. The key trend we identified is that central banks are distorting market behavior and capital flows. As our webinars are actionable, we analyzed several ways to deal with these markets and still be profitable.
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
The Illusion of Falling Official 'Unemployment' Fades / Economics / Economic Statistics
By: MoneyMetals
Friday's employment report featured the headline unemployment rate falling from 5.0% to 4.7% - which is a huge move lower. About the only encouraging aspect of the report is that markets largely ignored the fantasy headline for a change and focused on the ugly details. Nearly everyone acknowledged the report as bad news and markets reacted accordingly.
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