Wednesday, April 06, 2016

The Outlook for Crude Oil Prices / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Donald_W_Dony

Light crude oil prices (WTI) has remained in a downward trend since mid-2014. With its fresh new low in Q1, 2016 and price resistance now building at $42.40, the outlook remains negative.

The U.S. dollar's impact continues to play out against the commodity.
With the improving economic status of the U.S. coupled with a Fed agenda of gradual interest rate increases this year, the currency remains with a steady tailwind (Chart 1).

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Central Bank Demand & Emerging Market Demand Are, To Me, The Bit Under The Gold Market! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Gordon_T_Long

FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long is joined by Jordan Eliseo in discussing the value of precious metals as an investment.

Jordan Eliseo is a much sought-after and respected financial commentator and economic analyst with close to 20 years experience in the financial sector. After working for some of the biggest names in the global financial marketplace including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and AMP Capital, Jordan has amassed a wealth of experience analyzing investment markets.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Does the Dow Sport a Triangle Formation? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Followers of the Dow see a potential Triangle formation in their analysis.  They suggest that there will be one more decline, possibly to new lows, in a Wave [E] before the Dow rallies to new highs in 2017. 

It is a credible claim, based on Elliott Wave guidelines.  However, the triangle form does not appear in any other major indexes. 

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Gerald Celente Speaks Out on Election-Year, Middle East, and European Chaos -- and GOLD! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: MoneyMetals

Mike Gleason: It is my privilege to speak with Gerald Celente, published of the renowned Trends Journal. Mr. Celente is a frequent and highly sought after guest on news programs throughout the world, and has been forecasting some of the biggest and most important trends before they happen for more than 30 years now, and it's a real honor to have him speak to our listeners and readers today.

Mr. Celente, welcome back and thank you for joining us again.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

USD Breaking Down / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

USD made a new low at 94.25 in what may be the last probe lower in wave 3.  There is a strong likelihood of it declining further to its Bearish Pennant minimum low of 93.93.  The USD/JPY pair has sunk below 110.00 for the first time since last October. 

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

How to Prevent Hackers from Stealing Your Bank Account / Personal_Finance / Cyber Crime

By: Casey_Research

By Justin Spittler

If you use the Internet, your bank account is at risk...

On Monday, “terrorists” attacked a major U.S. hospital.

They didn’t set off a bomb or fire a single bullet. They infected the hospital with a computer virus.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

The Janet Yellen Stock Market Rally! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Currently, we are experiencing the SPX topping formation. Again, it is dangerously overextended.  The SPX staged a strong rally due to the repeated actions of Central Bankers, during the month of February 2016.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Gold & Silver Trading Alert: Gold’s Inconsequential Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: P_Radomski_CFA

Gold moved higher yesterday, but it doesn’t seem that it had a major impact on even the short-term outlook as even the short-term resistance line wasn’t broken. Consequently, the previous trends remain in place. Let’s take a look at the details, starting with the long-term gold chart (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Currency Wars, The Truth About Currency Devaluation, Why They Fail / Currencies / Currency War

By: Steve_H_Hanke

In 2010, Brazil’s Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, coined the phrase “currency war” when he complained about the “cheap” Chinese renminbi (RMB). Mantega claimed this gave China an unfair trade advantage. As he put it to the Financial Times, “we’re in the midst of an international currency war, a general weakening of currency. This threatens us because it takes away our competitiveness.”

That was then. Now the Brazilians are conspicuously silent, because the shoe is on the other foot. The Brazilian real has lost a whopping 25% against the RMB since January 2015. The currency wars continue and are every bit as intense as they were back in 2010, when Mantega coined the phrase.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Perth Mint Silver Coins Have Second Highest Monthly Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

The Perth Mint’s sales of silver coins and especially Silver Kangaroos surged again in March and saw the second highest levels of silver coin demand on record as silver buyers in the western world continue to accumulate silver at what they believe to be depressed silver prices.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Crude Oil Price One-Day Rally or Something More / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Nadia_Simmons

Trading position (short-term; our opinion): No positions are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

On Tuesday, crude oil moved lower after the market’s open weakened by an unexpected decline in monthly U.S. gasoline demand. Despite this drop, the commodity reversed and rebounded in the following hours. As a result, light crude gained 3.10% and invalidated earlier breakdown. What does it mean for oil bulls?

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Forex Trading Alert: EUR/USD – Time for Correction? / Currencies / Forex Trading

By: Nadia_Simmons

Earlier today, official data showed that German factory orders dropped by 1.2% in Feb, which weighed negatively on investors’ sentiment and pushed the euro lower against the greenback. As a result, EUR/USD slipped under the Feb high. What does it mean for the exchange rate?

In our opinion, the following forex trading positions are justified – summary:

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Tough Day for the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices had a tough session today and closed down on the day. The day started out with a big gap down, they rallied and recovered about 50% of their losses, and then rolled back down and retested those lows by midday. They managed to hold on for two occasions, first midday when they rallied back, but couldn’t get through the rally-back highs, and then they pulled back down again. The last hour wasn’t pretty as the markets gave it back and ended the day down sharply.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

SunEdison Green Power Bankruptcy Inevitability / Companies / Solar Energy

By: BATR

For all those sun baked brains that see salvation in renewable nirvana, the imminent demise of SunEdison is the latest case that creative green economics is the path to insolvency. After studying the tangled web of cross collateralization and rehypothecation of debt, the WSJ announcement is inevitable, SunEdison Said to Be Preparing to File for Bankruptcy. “Solar-energy company SunEdison Inc. plans to file for bankruptcy protection in coming weeks, a dramatic about-face for a company whose market value stood at nearly $10 billion in July.”

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Big Banks, Hedge Funds Key Factors in 2016 Gold Price Surge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Michael_J_Kosares

Quietly though the advantage goes to private investors

I can remember only one other time when market factors lined up as favorably for gold as they do now and that was in the spring of 2008. There are a great many similarities to gold market dynamics between now and then, but there are also great differences. One of those differences is the huge influx of interest from institutional investors led by hedge funds and big banks. In 2008, institutional interest was light.

Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Iceland's Tax Dodging PM Resigns, David Cameron Next? Insidious Banking Crime Syndicate / Politics / UK Politics

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The 'Panama papers' leak of 11.5 million documents on the tax affairs of the world's elites at just one of thousands of tax dodge facilitating firms which thus represents a mere fraction of the tax dodging that goes on in the world's tax havens, many of which are British dominions. So whilst the Panama papers are making the headlines today, however virtually EVERYONE already well understands that the rich and political elite DODGE TAXES, usually paying just a token amount that tends to be a lot closer to 0% than even 1% of earnings. Whilst the gullible workers, the sheeple pay 20% or 40% of their earnings to the state, which compares against less than 1% tax paid by those who earn hundreds times more, much of which is through ill gotten gains such as by criminals and dictators and their henchmen, the likes of Czar Putin who has probably funneled $10's of billion's of the Russian peoples wealth out of the country and into a myriad of tax haven front companies, and then we have the Al brigade, thousands of Sheiks who have siphoned off the Gulfs oil wealth over many decade, with the so called communists of China not far behind.

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Stock Market 21-Week Cycle High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Ed_Carlson

An examination of all US Presidential election years shows a peak in equity markets in early April followed by a drop into early June. The June low serves as a launching pad for equities to rocket to new highs by year-end not-withstanding the typical Sept/Oct weakness. A low in June matches the Lindsay forecast.

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Cash Banned, Freedom Gone / Politics / War on Cash

By: Thorsten_Polleit

Some politicians want to ban cash, arguing that cash is helping criminals. The first steps in that direction are the withdrawal of big denomination notes and the limits imposed on cash payments.

Proponents of a ban on cash claim that this will help fight criminal transactions — involved in money laundering, terrorism, and tax evasion. These promises of salvation are used to get the general public to agree to a society without cash. But there is no convincing proof for the claim that the world without cash will be a better one. Even if undesirable behavior is indeed financed by cash, you still need to answer the question: will the undesirable behavior disappear without cash? Or will those who commit the undesirable acts take to new ways and means to reach their goal?

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Fort Knox Gold Paradox / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: DeviantInvestor

Officially the Fort Knox Bullion Depository contains 147.3 million ounces of gold.  However, the last audit was performed over 60 years ago.  According to reliable sources “audits” since then have been incomplete and inadequate.

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

SPX May be back in the Red for 2016 Before Long / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The SPX decline stopped so far at 2044.92, just a point above last Friday’s low at 2043.98 and the December 31 close at 2043.94.  The bounce may challenge the trading channel trendline near 2057.00 before the next decline. 

ZeroHedge reports, “"Still No Confidence In The Rally" - that's the title of the latest weekly BofA report looking at the buying and selling by its smart money clients (institutional clients, private clients and hedge funds), which finds that not only were sales by this group of clients last week the largest since September, and the fifth-largest in our data history, but this was the 10th consecutive week of selling as absolutely nobody believed this fakest of fake "rebounds" in recent history.”