Friday, January 08, 2016

Stock Market Retracement Appears Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It appears that SPX has completed its retracement just 2 points above the 5-year trendline at 1960.47. This amounts to only a 26% retracement of the last decline. The decline must resume today, since this is only a minor Pivot day.

ZeroHedge reports, “This week is simply the worst we had in recent history for markets, RBS exclaims, the worst ever start to the year for The Dow, the worst since 1999 for S&P and the second-worst for credit since 2008. Worst still is, they think there’s more weakness ahead and that many fundamental risks will continue to haunt markets. Why? Simple! Investors drank too much policy kool-aid last year.

Friday, January 08, 2016

Natural Gas Prices Signaling Oil Bottom for Investors / Commodities / Natural Gas

By: EconMatters

Everyone is trying to figure when the oil markets will bottom. Well lost in all the crazy action in markets globally is the nice resurgence off the bottom for natural gas prices. Natural Gas prices have essentially gone from $1.68 per MMBtu to $2.40 per MMBtu rather rapidly in the midst of a mild winter so far. The reason is that all those rig reductions are starting to affect the production of the commodity, less natural gas is coming to market relative to expectations.

Friday, January 08, 2016

That`s the Bottom in the Crude Oil Price, Clear Out Weak Hands in the Market / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: EconMatters

On Wednesday the oil market sold off to $33.77 on large product`s builds, China`s devaluation of its currency, and a substantial selloff in equities. Sure Oil can go a dollar below this low, but for all intents and purposes this is the bottom in the oil selloff that was predicted for the start of the year. This move down was as predictable a move as there is in financial markets, and we called this down move to start the year with a piece we issued in December.

Friday, January 08, 2016

Silver and S&P Stocks Index Similarities – Tops and Bottoms / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: DeviantInvestor

Examine the 30 year log scale chart of the S&P 500.  What I see:

Friday, January 08, 2016

Stock Market Pop-N-Drop? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The SPX Premarket appears to be challenging its 60-minut3e Cycle Bottom resistance at 1971.86, very near the 38.2% retracement level. However, the Employment Situation Summary came out above expectations with a reported 292,000 new hires in December. On the surface it looked good, but average wages posted its first drop since 2014, according to ZeroHedge. So the jobs report is a mixed bag.

Friday, January 08, 2016

Gold Price Higher In Most Currencies in 2015 – Up 4% This Week / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

- Gold acts as safe haven in 2015 … for those who need safe haven
- Gold gains in CAD, AUD, NZD, ZAR, RUB & most emerging market currencies
- Gold essentially flat in EUR (-0.3%) as ECB QE supports gold
- Gold lower in USD, GBP, CNY, INR, JPY, CHF
- Of 18 major currencies, gold was higher in 11 currencies and lower in 7
- Hallmarks of market bottoming and bodes well for 2016
- Gold over 4% higher in USD, EUR and GBP so far in January 

Friday, January 08, 2016

Is this the Wile E. Coyote Moment for Global Markets? Video / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Mario_Innecco

Transcript excerpt: it's been very interesting for a few days for the stock market and the markets in general
for the year 2016 I mean the Dow Jones today dropped three hundred and ninety
two points the Chinese stock market is dropped 7 percent twice this year
already even though the jack Chinese central bank is injected about twenty
billion dollars into the market
yeah you know looking back at last three or four years you know you like relax
and say all this is just a correction you know and I think there's a lot of
complacency still but this use worse than that this fuse bad I think you know

Friday, January 08, 2016

Where Is the Chinese Stock Market Headed? / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: Austin_Galt

The Chinese stock market, the SSEC, has tanked out of the block in 2016 and has investment professionals across the globe running around like headless chickens. So, let's take a deep breath and check out the charts. We'll take it from the top beginning with the yearly chart.

Friday, January 08, 2016

Stock Market Crash Potential - Video / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Gary_Savage

I strongly advise not trying to pick a bottom in the stock market right now. The market is trying to move down into the 7 year cycle low. There is risk this could evolve into an 87 style crash event. Don’t try to be a hero and risk getting caught in that if it were to happen.

Friday, January 08, 2016

China Stock Market Crash Terrorises Global Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Chinese stock market already weak going into the end of 2015 started 2016 off with a BANG, literally crashing on a near daily basis by hitting the 7% circuit breaker daily limit moves prompting a closure of the market, only to resume to the free fall the following morning as investors panic sold on the open attempting to sell before the circuit breaker kicks in, resulting in a market that has locked out most retail participants as they watch their stock portfolio valuations evaporate. This daily 7% limit down crashes prompted the Chinese authorities Thursday to suspend the circuit breaker which should have the effect of alleviating the panic selling going forward.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Bill Gross Warns China Stocks Will Drop Another 5-6% Friday / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Bloomberg

Bill Gross of Janus Capital spoke with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the state of the global economy.

Gross said China's stock markets are likely to drop 5-6% on Friday: "Based upon the ETF in the United States, China is predicted to be down 5 percent or 6 percent…But China is an artificial market. All global markets are artificially based. And to the extent that we have a catharsis, I think, depends upon central banks basically giving up in terms of what they do. I don't think that's going to happen."

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Stock Market Major 5-year Trendline Crossed / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It appears that SPX has violated its (nearly) 5-year trendline that appears to be in the mid 1950’s.

I normally would not be watching this since the more technically correct trendline was violated in August. However, there are multiple analysts who have been using this as a “line in the sand.”

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Making Heads or Tails of This Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: EWI

We don't have all the answers. But we do have 30-plus years of market experience on our side.

As the books were closed on 2015, the Chicago Tribune reported:

"After a dismal stock finish to 2015, your natural conclusion might be: Why did I bother?

Thursday, January 07, 2016

My New Year's Resolution: Don't Confuse Debt with Wealth / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: MoneyMetals

Guy Christopher writes: If you don't have a magical crystal ball to see the future, then a good history book will do the job. Understanding the past offers a full color panorama to the dangers and opportunities facing you in 2016.

Unpayable debt is becoming the Big Story of the 21st Century across the globe. Life-altering disruptions will be the norm, with little that mankind has not seen before.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Stock Market Perfect Storm! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: John_Rubino

One of the (many) fascinating things about this latest global financial crisis is that there’s no single catalyst. Unlike 2008 when the carnage could be traced back to US subprime housing, or 2000 when tech stocks crashed and pulled down everything else, this time around a whole bunch of seemingly-unrelated things are unraveling all at once.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Stock Market Inflection Point, Breakouts, Gold, Commodities / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Rambus_Chartology

Today felt like an inflection point in gold and the INDU with both breaking important trendlines. As there is alot of ground to cover tonight lets get right to the charts starting with the daily look at the INDU. Today the INDU finally closed below the bottom rail of the now seven point bearish falling flag and the double bottom trendline at 16,920. This was a big deal IMHO. We may see a little backing and filling in this general area but today's move clearly setup a pattern of lower highs and lower lows. Note the six point bearish falling wedge that formed back in July of last year. As it formed below the previous high it needed an even number of reversal points to complete the pattern to the downside. Because our current seven point bearish falling flag formed at the top it needed to have an odd number of reversal points to make a reversal pattern. One last point on the chart below which shows two red arrows one point up and the other pointing down. As you can see the rally out of the low made in October was vertical only taking three days. The red arrow pointing down shows how it's possible we may see the INDU reverse symmetry back down over the same area as shown by the red arrow pointing up.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

China, Oil and Markets: It’s All One Story / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Raul_I_Meijer

If there’s one thing to take away from this year’s developments in markets and economies so far, it’s that they are all linked, they’re all part of the same thing. If you can’t see that, you’re not going to understand what’s happening.

Looking at falling oil prices as a separate thread is not much use, and neither is doing the same with Chinese stocks, or the yuan, or the millions of Americans who are one paycheck away from poverty, for that matter. It’s all one story.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Why are Gold Stocks Outperforming? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Ned_W_Schmidt

Even a cursory review of U.S. stock market indices over the past year shows sharp differences in the character of the first half of last year and the latter half. A clear discontinuity occurred in the path of that market. That a Part A and a Part B existed cannot be ignored. The fantasies and dreams of Part A were dashed in Part B. For whatever the reason, the character of markets changed.

Table that follows shows end of July 2015 values for a number of market indices and investments, the recent value for the same, and the percentage change for that period. One question comes to mind after reviewing this table. Why are the Gold stocks outperforming?

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Stock Market Bend, Bend, Bend.... Break / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Dan_Norcini

The S&P 500 has been bending over the last three trading sessions ( first three trading days of this New Year) but refused to break down. Overnight however, that has changed, at least during Asian trade and very early European trade.

Notice how the index has dropped below the 2000 level twice to start the year but always managed to close back above that level. On Wednesday, the market broke down below that key 2000 level but rebounded heading into the closing bell to avoid managing to close below the spike lows in December and on Monday of this week.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Perth Mint Silver Coins Sales Surge 56%, Gold Sales Drop 16% In 2015 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

Perth Mint’s sales of silver coins surged 56%, while gold sales fell 16% in 2015, as silver stackers continued to accumulate silver coins and bars and the new silver nugget or kangaroo bullion coin (1 oz and 5 oz) saw very high levels of demand.

The Perth Mint’s gold sales rose in December from the prior month, but annual sales slid by nearly a fifth in 2015. Gold sales in December rose to 40,096 ounces from 31,664 ounces in November, the mint said on its website on Wednesday as reported by Reuters.