Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Creditors: What’s Behind Their Interest in Investing in Your Debt? / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
According to some definitions, debts are financial obligations defined by law, that must be repaid to a creditor or lender who have invested certain amount of money and have decide to take a risk by borrowing money. In other words, they were fully aware that the loan taker might not be able to pay off the debt. But, it is an interesting fact that even though there is great risk involved in this activity and there are many people who fail to repay the money, the number of lenders and creditors is growing. So, why is this happening?Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Central Banks Fool The Markets Again, But Only For A Little While / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: John_Rubino
Over the weekend, the following happened: China’s exports and imports fell by 11.2% and 18.8%, respectively, numbers which, for a trading power, are nothing short of apocalyptic. Japan’s Q4 GDP shrank at an annualized rate of 1.4% which, for a country that had spent the previous three years borrowing and printing record amounts of new currency, is an extraordinary admission of failure. And US allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia appeared to be invading Syria, putting them — and by implication the US — in direct confrontation with Russia.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Three Simple Steps to Beat a 'Rigged' Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: DW
Alexander Green writes:
Monday, February 15, 2016
Devalue or Die; Negative Interest Rate Wars Have Begun / Interest-Rates / Currency War
By: Sol_Palha
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Tuhe “devale or die” currency wars are picking up steam; Japan’s central bankers are not alone when it comes to taking rates into negative territory. A host of European nations are now joining the bandwagon, and the latest victim is Sweden. We alluded to this development a long time ago and published a host of articles on this topic. Central bankers Worldwide understand that the only driving force behind the magical recovery in the U.S s hot money and that is the only weapon that can maintain that illusion. Get ready for negative rate wars; imagine having to pay the banks to keep your money; soon people will start to question the value of banks.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Silver, Gold, the Argentina Peso, and Exponentially Increasing Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: DeviantInvestor
The exchange rate between the Argentina Peso and the US dollar in January 1945 was 4.17 pesos to one dollar. Like the United States, Argentina created substantial price inflation – devaluation of their currency – in the 1950s – 1990s.
According to Wikipedia Argentina devalued their currency by a factor of 100 in 1970, by another 10,000 in 1983, by another 1,000 in 1985, and by another 10,000 in 1992.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
The Retracement In the Price of Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Jesse
Here is a closer look at the retracement of gold we have seen as of this morning.
While the US markets are closed for Presidents' Day, the rest of the world is open for business.
As you can see from the second chart from Friday, gold had become quite overbought short term.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Deranged Central Bankers Blowing Up The World / Interest-Rates / Central Banks
By: James_Quinn
It is now self-evident to any sentient being (excludes CNBC shills, Wall Street shyster economists, and Keynesian loving politicians) the mountainous level of unpayable global debt is about to crash down like an avalanche upon hundreds of millions of willfully ignorant citizens who trusted their politician leaders and the central bankers who created the debt out of thin air. McKinsey produced a report last year showing the world had added $57 trillion of debt between 2008 and the 2nd quarter of 2014, with global debt to GDP reaching 286%.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Consensus Macro Trades Stop Out: Gold Has Made A Near Term Top / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Sam_Kirtley
Macro consensus trades into 2016 have not worked well, at all. This week saw a large flush out in positioning across financial markets. There are three consensus trades that we feel have been particularly squeezed and what we believe was a final clearout of these position sent other assets, such as gold, to extreme levels that present a number of trading opportunities.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Gold And Silver – Will Precious Metals Purchasers Become Terrorists? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_Noonan
A clarification: We tend to use the regular Friday closes for our charts to avoid the closing “fix” that can sometimes be several dollars for gold and several cents for silver away from the end of Friday trade. It is not of much consequence because we are consistent in doing it that way, but two weeks ago, the was a substantial rally after the normal close, and it was not taken into consideration during our analysis.
More people are becoming aware that not all is as it seems with the federal government, but there is still a reluctance, even a refusal, to attribute many of today’s existing problems as a root cause by the federal government, which is not a government of, by, or for the people. Today’s de facto federal government has been a product of the globalists for over a century, starting in more earnest when the Rothschild’s financed both sides in the Civil War, and when Lincoln introduced the Executive Order, now routinely used by presidents to by-pass Congress in the Bread and Circus facade known as the federal government where the globalists are in charge behind the “curtain.”
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Is Stock Market Phase Low in Place? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Severe correction underway.
SPX: Intermediate trend - Possible phase low. Needs confirmation.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Ron Paul on What the Stock Markets Are Telling Us / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week US stock markets tumbled yet again, leaving the Dow Jones index down almost 1500 points for the year. In fact, most major world markets are in negative territory this year. There are many Wall Street cheerleaders who are trying to say that this is just a technical correction, that the bottom is near, and that everything will be getting better soon. They are ignoring the real message the markets are trying to send: you cannot print your way to prosperity.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Soybeans Commodity Trading Weekly Setup / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Submissions
Sasafuturestrading writes: Remember that there is one open position in the COPPER market.
SOYBEANS WEEKLY SETUP:
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Monday, February 15, 2016
UEFA Championship League Easy to Win Walkers Crisps Prizes - Tickets, T-Shirts and Footballs / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Walkers crisps are currently running a promotion that’s giving away about 50 tickets to UEFA Champions League football matches for 2016 and also 40,000 other prizes such as t-shirts, footballs and sharing bowls.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
Don’t Keep Your Personal or Financial data on a Windows 10 Machine! / ConsumerWatch / Microsoft
By: Paul_Behan
Well not if you want to keep it private. Like many people I was surprised at the Edward Snowden revelations a few years ago. Nothing has seemed to change and in many cases things have got worse. Some corporations are in partnership with government agencies in regard to collection of data. Whilst the government has the right to collect data to try and protect is citizens from harm, in my opinion this data collections has gone way too far and is now breaching personal liberties.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Financial Meltdown 2008-style in 2016? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2016
By: Clif_Droke
As the global market crisis continues, the danger posed by this crisis to the U.S. economy continues to be underestimated by economists and central bankers. A report recently showed that U.S. job openings surged in December and the number of American voluntarily quitting work hit a nine-year high. According to the report, this data points to “labor market strength despite a slowdown in economic growth.”
Further commenting on the supposedly improving labor market, Reuters stated: “The signs of a robust jobs market could ease concerns about the health of the economy, which were underscored by other reports on Feb. 9 showing a drop in small business confidence in January to a two-year low and further declines in wholesale inventories.”
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
Is this the start of a run in Precious Metals? We think not / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Donald_W_Dony
On the backs of a short-term weakness in the U.S. dollar, precious metals have made a sizable advance in the last few weeks.
Gold prices have jumped 17% and silver has increased over 12%.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
What is Gold Telling Us? MAP WAVE ANALYSIS / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Marc_Horn
Cycle analysis is something that is not well understood and reinforces that markets are not propelled by any form of intrinsic value of anything, including gold and money! They are propelled by expectations of the future and nothing else!
So starting with that we will look at what the analysis says, and then we can look at how that fits in with human behaviour, because that is what drives prices which reflect nothing more than investors future expectations!
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
GOLD In Two Words - BULL MARKET / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Denali_Guide
BULL MARKET = 2 Words
We know it bottomed in Jul 2013. Really !!!
Lets go back to October of 2015 when this appeared on this blog.
GOLD NOW IS U$D 1336 - FIGURED IN COIN SHOPS FRIDAYS CLOSE WAS 1310 U$D, SO IT CORRELATES TO THE REAL WORLD, SINCE THE COIN SHOP PRICE IS F.O.B. COIN SHOP
Saturday, February 13, 2016
France CAC40 Stock Market Technical Outlook / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
By: Austin_Galt
The French stock index, the CAC40, has traded more or less as outlined in analysis produced back in May 2015. That analysis called the top in place and outlined expectations of a bear market to play out.
Price hit a low this past week at 3892 which was just over 26% down from the May 2015 high and I believe that may well represent the final low to the bear market.
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Stock Market Rally Time Off Retest?.......Still Some Positive Divergences... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
If we study the market charts we can see quite clearly that we're seeing bear-market action. That said, you can't go straight down forever. The Nasdaq fell 18% in just six weeks. By any bear-market measurement this is too much too fast. Price isn't the problem. It's the speed of the move along with price. Such a short time frame to have that size of a loss without some type of exhaustion. One would think anyway. There are missing ingredients to a short-term bottom, such I have recently discussed. Nothing with regards to a high put-call ratio for several hours over 1.5. No trin at 3.0 or higher, and clearly no dramatic VIX spike.
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