Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stock Market Retracement High was Made... Prepare for What's Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
SPX clearly made a corrective high beneath Friday’s high before impulsively declining to its low at 1969.25. The 61.8% retracement is at 1991.39, where the bounce may be expected to go. We may see the ensuing decline begin in earnest either in the last hour of the day or overnight. Be Prepared.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Is This The End? Draghi Fires His Bazooka And Markets Turn Away In Disgust / Stock-Markets / Negative Interest Rates
ECB chair Mario Draghi delivered big-time this morning by announcing lower interest rates and a new round of debt monetization. Historically, this kind of thing has sent the financial markets into Pavlovian ecstasy, with stocks soaring and the local currency falling.
Sound money people have for years been warning that such New Age monetary policies are poison and that the markets would eventually wise up and react accordingly. Today, finally, that’s what they did. European stocks popped on the news — then dropped.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Mainstream Media Jihad to Stop Trump / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Bonds, Debt and Gold - Keep The Money Game Churning / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
There is money to be made so the game must be played… It’s always “ShowTime” in the financial markets. What is the game plan?
Levitate the bond market. See chart below. Keep those interest rates dropping so the bond market continues its 35 year climb. Oops – $7 Trillion in bonds with negative interest rates, at last count, with more from Japan this week. Have we reached a limit? Probably not, but what could go wrong lending money to insolvent governments who guarantee they will return less than they borrowed in 10 years?
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Mario Supersized Stock Market Stimulus / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
Mario Draghi supersized his stimulus announcement. EuroStoxx ramped after the announcement, but what will be the follow-through? Will this be another Kuroda, European style?
ZeroHedge Reports, “Well, the people wanted a "bazooka-sized" surprise from Draghi, and they got it.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
SP500 Stocks Index still at 2,000 Mark - Which Direction is Next? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,050, and profit target at 1,900, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish, as we expect a downward correction or short-term uptrend's reversal at some point. Our medium-term outlook remains bearish, as the S&P 500 index extends its lower highs, lower lows sequence. We decided to change our long-term outlook to neutral recently, following a move down below medium-term lows:
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Silver Cheapest To Gold In 7 Years – ETF Holdings Surge / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
Silver hasn’t been so cheap relative to gold for more than seven years and with silver ETF holdings having surged in recent days, silver coin and bar demand very robust and mine supplies forecast to contract this year, there are signs that silver is set to resume its bull market and outperform gold once again.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
The US Dollar, What If Everybody is Wrong ? / Currencies / US Dollar
It’s been awhile since we last looked at the US dollar which has been consolidating its big impulse move up. The reason I haven’t posted it much is because it’s stuck in a sideways trading range going back over a year now.
99.9% of Market participants are either Bullish the Dollar , with all the implications including Lower Gold Prices or Bearish the Dollar, with the opposite implications .
However there are not two but THREE possible outcomes to this present trading range.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
BrExit the Movie: EU Referendum LEAVE or REMAIN | Freedom or London Will Fall / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
The EU referendum debate has resolved into a battle between the establishment on the one hand as represented by Britain and Europe's political elite including the bulk of both mainstream UK political parties (Conservative and Labour), the bankster's, including a scare mongering Bank of England, billionaires, tax dodging corporate giants and of course foreign european governments who are eager for the European Union to further dig its claws into Britain so that they may the european superstate socialist project (EUSSR).
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stock Market Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
Over the weekend, my thinking was we had higher prices ahead of us. I actually ignored the astrological reversal mid-zone of the Sun translating Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter on March 4th. My logic was the powerful, advancing MACD and momentum indicators. My main reservation was the lack of early volume.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Draghi On Deck... Stock Market Waiting On His Decision On Stimulus.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
We have had a bifurcated market for the entire year. The Nasdaq is now down nearly 7% for the year, with the S&P 500 down only a drop over 2%. Why is that you ask? Simple really. The bear market is froth, but still hasn't died as evidenced by the action in the world of the FANG!! Facebook, Inc. (FB), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), all slaughtered big time today, along with all of them losing key, exponential moving averages. Some lost all three in today's action alone. Merciless selling in leaders with high beta and higher P/E's.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Kiss the Gold Bear Goodbye (But Wear a Helmet). . . / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
Friday's morning action in gold has been at once both terrific and frothy, wonderful and scary, and redemptive and soothing, says precious metals expert Michael Ballanger.
My hedges are all getting blown to smithereens with the miniscule damage to my net worth being vastly outdone by the gargantuan damage to my ego as the power of the physical market is beating on the Commercials like rented mules and rag-dolling gold bears like common farm animals. The CNBC crowd are all taking complete ownership of the "gold trade" and everyone here in Toronto is scrambling for last-minute hotel rooms for PDAC inclusion.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Seven Small-Cap Biotech Stocks on the Upswing 2016 / Companies / BioTech
Biotech stocks—and the stock market in general—took a dive at the beginning of 2016, headed down on macroeconomic factors such as financial instability in China. The Life Sciences Report's 2016 Small-Cap Biotech Watchlist was not immune to that movement, heading into negative territory almost from the moment the selected companies were introduced. But as the market has shown signs of rebounding, so too has the Watchlist.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stock Market Smart Money is Quietly Getting Out of Dodge / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
It appears that SPX may close between 1894.35 and 1992.69 as an “inside day.” This denotes uncertainty in the market. However, there is no uncertainty. This is the best it can do to prevent an all-out collapse.
ZeroHedge comments, “One week ago, when looking at the latest BofA client flow trend monitor, we noticed something strange: despite the S&P's surge higher due to either a record short squeeze or because it is merely another bear market rally, the smart money was selling.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
The Gold Bull Market Is Back... Will It Last? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
Stefan Gleason writes: The gold bull is back. After trending downward for more than four years, gold prices have broken out to the upside with a gain of more than 20% off their December lows.
Gold’s crossing of the 20% threshold even caused the financial media to take notice. “Gold is now in a bull market,” reported CNNMoney (March 7, 2016).
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
The Fed is About to Trigger Another Great Depression / Economics / Great Depression II
It’s literally 1937 all over again.
Many analysts have called for the Fed not to repeat its mistake of 1937.
That mistake?
Raising rates when the economy was already weak. Doing this prolonged the Great Depression.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Humans Are Hard-Wired to Value Some People over Others / Politics / Social Issues
Andrew Syrios writes: One of the most persistent — and fallacious — argument against the libertarian or laissez-faire position is that libertarianism is an “atomistic” and “selfish” philosophy that denies the obvious truth that human beings are a “social species” who long for a strong sense of community.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
European Migrants Crisis - Be Careful What You Wish For, Angela / Politics / Refugee Crisis
What is perhaps most remarkable about the deal the EU is trying to seal with Turkey to push back ALL refugees who come to Greece is that the driving force behind it turns out to be Angela Merkel. Reports say that she and temp EU chairman Dutch PM Mark Rutte ‘pushed back’ the entire EU delegation that had been working on the case, including Juncker and Tusk, and came with proposals that go much further than even Brussels had in mind.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Gold and Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax / Stock-Markets / War on Cash
By Justin Spittler
The largest underground currency market in history...how to make huge investment gains from negative interest rates...none dare call it a tax.
Editor’s Note: This is the most important Dispatch we’ve published all year.
You won’t find our regular daily market commentary in this issue. Instead, you’ll find an urgent message from Casey Research director Brian Hunt. Right now, the government is planning a secret new tax. It involves a new way of taking money directly from your bank account…
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Stock Market SPX Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
The impulsive decline in SPX appears to be in need of a correction this morning. Currently the Premarket is higher, but beneath the 38.2% retracement level at 1989.54. We may see a further probe higher after the open to either the 50% retracement level at 1993.28 or the 61.8% retracement level at 1997.02. The retracement may go back to touch the lower trendline of the Bearish Pennant near 2001.00 – 2002.00, but that would be the extreme.
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