Thursday, May 19, 2016
Stocks Prepare to Crash as the Last Buyer Stops Buying / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Crash
By: Graham_Summers
Stocks are now on borrowed time.
Corporate buybacks have been the single largest driver of stock prices in the last quarter. Institutional investors have been net sellers for 15 weeks. And individual investors have been pulling capital out of stock funds in record amounts.
This leaves corporate buybacks as the sole driver of stocks. But now that is ending.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Yellen’s Talk of Interest Rate Hike Causes Stock Market Plunge / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a really volatile and interesting day today due to the FOMC. The day started out with a very nice run up in a 3-wave, corrective-type move, reaching resistance midday just before the FOMC. When that occur, and indications of a probable or potential raise in rates in June, it took the market back form 4362 down to 4305, a big, 57-point drop. The S&P 500 dropped from 2060 to 2035, 25 points. They backed and filled in a right-handed, extended-V bottom to finish positive, and get the blue chips back down near flat.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Fed Shocks The Stock Market... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
The fed minutes were announced today at 2 PM ET. The market was expecting the minutes to say that things aren't that good economically, and that the prospect was for continued low rates. SURPRISE!!!! The minutes said that Ms Yellen would hike if the data improved in Q2. While that's not very likely, it is interesting that she talked about raising rates in June. She's so far behind of the curve that maybe she's getting anxious about keeping rates too low. Maybe she's preparing the market for the inevitable. It has to happen some year. Maybe this year will be that year, although I wouldn't hold my breath. That said it does seem she wants to hike and maybe the market is simply picking up on that. That it doesn't matter if the economy doesn't recover.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Vauxhall Zafira B Fire Recall Update - Pentagon Dealership Experience / ConsumerWatch / Auto Sector
By: N_Walayat
Vauxhall is just one amongst a growing list of auto manufactures being forced to issue recalls for a myriad of reasons from alleged fraudulent emissions ratings by the likes of Volkswagen to Vauxhall's recall of some 220,000 Zafira B models in the UK that are apparently at a real risk of catching fire and even exploding as is the experience of countless Zafira owners over the past few years hence triggering the recall.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
What This U.S. Presidential Election Tells Us About Her Millennial Generation / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Gordon_T_Long
FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long is joined by Kristin Tate in discussing her book and the outlook of Millennials on the upcoming US election.
Read full article... Read full article...KRISTIN TATE is is a political columnist and author of “Government Gone Wild”.
In her book she says D.C. politicians are shipping our friends and family overseas to fight in wars we shouldn’t be fighting. They monitor our emails, record our phone calls, and peer into our snail mail. They spend our hard-earned cash on things no disciplined family would buy. They tell us who we can marry and what we can put in our bodies. They throw us in overcrowded prisons for smoking pot. They take lavish trips around the world, staying in five-star hotels… and it comes straight out of our paychecks. This isn’t freedom?
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Stock Market Trendline Broken on Fed Announcement / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has now broken its Head & Shoulders neckline and has bounced from its 2-hour Cycle Bottom. A rally above today’s earlier high at 2060.61 implies that it may continue back to the 4.5-year trendline. That doesn’t appear to be the case, but I am just cautioning. On the other hand, a drop below 2034.49 may open the trap door for a panic decline to the Head & Shoulders target of 1967.85, at a minimum.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
An Incredibly Simple, Rarely Used Way to Book 170% Investing Gains / Interest-Rates / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
SPX Bounces off the Neckline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX bounced almost precisely at the Head & Shoulders neckline at 2040.00, after having complete another impulsive decline. It appears to have attempted a 50% retracement of that decline at 2055.00 thus far. The bounce may have relieved the oversold condition enough to attempt another decline, but the bear market doesn’t gain strength until 2040.00 is broken.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Massive Silver Price Rally During The Coming US Dollar Collapse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
I have written extensively about how the current silver bull market is similar to the 70s. Despite these similarities, silver will (ultimately) perform much better than during the 70s.
The fractal analysis of the US Dollar Index (below) shows some more similarities and differences between the 70s era and now. I believe that these further supports the expectation that silver will perform much better than it did during the 70s.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Statistically Significant Stock Market Death Cross? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ashraf_Laidi
Will skeptics and backers of Death Cross finally unite? The S&P500 is currently showing a pattern seen in June 2008 and March 2001, both cases in which the index lost more than 30%. The 50-week moving average is crossing below the 100-week moving average, a pattern whose importance has been highlighted by its rarity and consequence.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Nasdaq is Not Topping, It's Forming a Huge Bull Flag / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Gary_Savage
The Nasdaq is not topping. It’s forming a huge bull flag (or cup with handle) that will ultimately breakout of this 16 year consolidation.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Precisely Wrong on US Dollar, Gold? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Axel_Merk
Since the beginning of the year, the greenback has shown it's not almighty after all; and gold - the barbarous relic as some have called it - may be en vogue again? Where are we going from here and what are the implications for investors?
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
What You Can Gain From One Tech CEO's $355 Million Loss / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: EWI
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"How to lose $355 million in two weeks" -- it's a lesson tech CEO Jack Dorsey just learned the hard way. This from a recent MarketWatch article:
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The ‘Tide’ has turned… NEGATIVE For STOCKS!!! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Currently, a ‘sharp fall’ is now anticipated within the equity markets! This decline will be accompanied with ‘new volatility’. There is a great deal of ‘uncertainty ‘within the U.S. markets. Currently, we are viewing a ‘textbook’ ‘head and shoulders pattern’ in the SPX and is going to be a big inflection point we look back on months from now.
There are less and less stocks that are participating in the recent move upwards which suggest a technical breakdown is likely to happen.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Stock Market on the Precipice / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
For over three weeks equities have been pulling back from the high on April 20; a high that tested the same level seen in the S&P 500 at the August and November highs – 2,110. A break of 2,033 will confirm that the herd has turned. The 200-dma and horizontal support converge near 2,012-2021. However, a break of 2,040 will trigger a bearish head-and-shoulders pattern that measures a minimum decline to 1,970.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Goldman Sachs's - Regulatory Climate is Chilling Deals; Hatzius Not Worried About a Recession / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Bloomberg
Bloomberg Television talks to Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs and Gregg Lemkau, co-head of global M&A at Goldman Sachs at the Goldman Sachs Leveraged Finance Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
Hatzius discusses the risks associated with the Federal Reserve overshooting full employment, why he's not worried about a U.S. recession, and corporate America's constructive view of the U.S. economy.
- "I'm not very worried about a recession. I think the risk of recession -- if I look at the indicators that seem to predict recessions the best -"
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Dumb Debt's Of America , Gold And Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Vimal_Patel
A Solution to this big problem .Assuming everything is manipulated - Stock markets , Gold and Silver paper contracts , treasuries
Assuming anyhow this debt cannot be ever repaid by conventional means
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Bitcoin Price Remains above $450 / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: short speculative positions, target at $153, stop-loss at $515.
Banks are looking into the possibility to come up with their own versions of Blockchain. At the same time, none of these emerging solutions are as tested in real life as Bitcoin itself. So, the Bitcoin network has its advantages, even if you are not a Bitcoin believer. On the Bitcoin Magazine website, we read:
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
George Soros Buying Gold ETF And Gold Shares In Q1 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
George Soros, who once called gold “the ultimate bubble,” has resumed buying the gold ETF and shares after a three-year hiatus.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Crude Oil Price Trend Forecast 2016 Implications for Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Nadeem_Walayat
At the start of the year the prevailing mood in the oil market was not just one of gloom and doom but of catastrophe as the oil price sunk below $30, skidding by the middle of February to virtually touch $25, a period during which many prominent analysts and investment banks such as Goldman Sachs all of whom were bearish on the prospects for oil prices this year some even suggesting that the oil price could sink to as low as $10 (Standard Chartered) which meant that the oil producers large and small, the frackers and even a string of nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Venezuela were on the fast track towards going bust as their oil profits that financed their state spending budget deficits evaporated.