Monday, January 04, 2016
Saudi Arabia and OPEC Manipulate Oil Prices to Eliminate It’s Competition / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Chris_Vermeulen
About eighteen months ago the international price of WTI Crude Oil, at the close of June 2014, was $105.93 per barrel. Flash-forward to today; the price of WTI Crude Oil was just holding above $38.00 per barrel, a drastic fall of more than 65% since June 2014. I will point out several reasons behind this sharp, sudden, and what now seems to be prolonged slump.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Stock Market Probable Gap Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning and Happy New Year!
What a way to start off the year. The SPX Premarket appears to have gapped down to challenge the 2-hour Cycle Bottom support at 2011.42. It appears the cash market may open beneath that support. However, there could be an attempted bounce there, should support hold. Should the decline break through and exceed the prior lows, the damage may be severe, since there is no visible support to the Head & Shoulders neckline near 1880.00.
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Gold Bullion Price 2016 Upleg / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
Happy New Year. Thank you for all your support in 2015 and wishing you and yours a healthy, prosperous and happy 2016.
Adam Hamilton of Zeal Intelligence has looked at gold’s prospects in 2016 and he thinks the worst may be over for the yellow metal.
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Stock Market 2016, This Time Isn't Different / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: James_Quinn
Last year ended with a whimper on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was down 1% for the year, down 4% from its all-time high in May, and no higher than it was 13 months ago at the end of QE3. The Wall Street shysters and their mainstream media mouthpieces declare 2016 to be a rebound year, with stocks again delivering double digit returns. When haven’t they touted great future returns. They touted them in 2000 and 2007 too. No one earning their paycheck on Wall Street or on CNBC will point out the most obvious speculative bubble in history. John Hussman has been pointing it out for the last two years as the Fed created bubble has grown ever larger. Those still embracing the bubble will sit down to a banquet of consequences in 2016.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Technical Analysis of the Corn Commodity Market / Economics / Agricultural Commodities
By: EconMatters
Corn Market 2015
I have been watching corn prices lately as they are getting low enough to at least pique my interest into looking at a market that usually just gets bypassed with the rest of my agricultural futures prices tab on my trading platform, more out of habit than having anything in particular against the agricultural markets. The March 2016 Futures contract was down about 16% in 2015 along with most of the commodity space on fund outflows, a weak China, and a strong dollar.
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Technical Analysis of the Lumber Commodity Market / Commodities / Lumber
By: EconMatters
Housing Demand Thesis
The last two years rents have been rising primarily due to supply and demand issues. There hasn`t been enough multifamily housing to keep up with the demand, and as the employment levels go up and more millennials move out of their parent`s house, I expect the housing market to continue to be on the slow but steady upswing of the last several years for 2016.
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Stock Market More Correction Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Still a Bull Market
SPX: Intermediate trend - The index may have made a secondary top at the 2116 level and started another decline of intermediate duration.
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, January 04, 2016
Wild Swings in Markets Likely to Continue / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Brad_Gudgeon
Our attention this week will be more to the cycles and planets than to the charts. Last weekend, we were looking for a 4/8 stock market cycle low due early in the week followed by a possible top either December 29 or 30th and then weakness for the rest of the week. December 25th had a Bradley turn with Uranus turning stationary/direct, and December 29th the moon was in Leo/Virgo, where oft times peaks have occurred. With the moon in Virgo and Saturn in Sagittarius, the set up was there for an end of year drop (and a 4/12 TD low).
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Gold Advanced During 2015 in Most Major Currencies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Jason_Hamlin
Sentiment towards gold has been so bearish lately that you might think the yellow metal declined by 50% or more during 2015. In fact, it was only down 11% in U.S. dollar terms and gold actually advanced in most major currencies. Out of the 17 currencies tracked, gold was up in 10 of them and down in only 7 of them.
Gold advanced in both Canadian and Australian dollars, rocketed higher in Argentine pesos and Brazilian real, climbed higher in Mexican pesos, Russian Rubles, South African Rand, Turkish Lira and Ukrainian Hryvnia.
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Monday, January 04, 2016
Sheffield Risk of Rivers Don and Sheaf Flooding, Great Flood of 2016? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain's fifth largest city, Sheffield was hit with a once in a 150 year flood in 2007, but now 8 1/2 years later Sheffield may be about to witness it's next once in a century flood as a consequence of climate change that has seen a conveyor belt of heavy rainfall hitting mostly Northern Britain every few days resulting in a series of floods working their way down Britain's backbone that most recently has impacted major northern cities such as York, Manchester. Leeds and Bradford.
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Saudi Arabia Beheadings Illustrates that ISIS are Amateurs When it Comes to State Executions / Politics / Social Issues
By: John_York
It's Happy New year from Saudi Arabia's royal family that kicks off the year by offing 47 people of their heads as enemies of the state. Which was met with widespread condemnation from not just the usual suspects such as Iran and human rights activists but also a number of allies have frowned on the blood bath as on the one hand the West is engaged in a war on Islamic State for its barbaric beheadings of prisoners whilst on the other hand Saudi Arabia repeats the same in the interests's of the Saudi mafia family ruling over it's population by means of fear.
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Sunday, January 03, 2016
Top 10 US Stocks Per Sector Ranked For Price vs 1-Year High / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Richard_Shaw
These tables present the 10 stocks in each US sector of the total US stock market ranked by how close they are to their 1-year trailing high price as of December 24, 2015. To be included in the filter universe, each stock had to have a 3-month average Dollar trading volume of at least $10,000 per minute.
This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of these stocks. It is merely a snapshot of where we are at essentially year-end 2015.
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Sunday, January 03, 2016
Will 2016 Bring Another 2008-Type Financial Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2016
By: Graham_Summers
The world is lurching towards another Crash.
Japan, which has been ground zero for Keynesian insanity, is back in technical recession. This comes after the Bank of Japan launched the single largest QE program in history: a QE program equal to 25% of GDP launched in April 2013.
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Sunday, January 03, 2016
USDJPY Pullback Continues / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Austin_Galt
The 2015 high at 125.85 played out as expected we now have a bear trend playing out. Let’s review the daily and monthly charts.
USDJPY DAILY CHART
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Mass Saudi Executions Reflect Regional Violence of Pro-Western Despotic Regimes / Politics / Middle East
By: Stephen_Lendman
Most Arab League states are run by pro-Western despotic regimes - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Egypt the worst of a bad lot.
Palestinians get rhetorical support only, nothing meaningful done on their behalf. In March 2011, League members backed UN Resolution 1973 - prelude to US-led NATO war on Libya, a devastating conflict creating endless violence and chaos continuing unabated.
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Sunday, January 03, 2016
More Ominous Economic and Market Charts For 2016 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: John_Rubino
If 2015 was the year in which no investment strategy worked , 2016 is looking like the year in which all economic policies fail. Already, at what should be the blow-off peak of a long expansion, US corporate profits are instead rolling over:
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Nabru Self Assembly Sofa Extensive Review and Guide / ConsumerWatch / How to Guides
By: Adnaan_Walayat
This is our extensive review and how to guide for the Nabru and similar self assembly sofa's that allow prospective buyers to purchase sofa builds that match their near exact requirements, not just in terms of material but also in fitting awkward spaces and also given the self assembly nature are not constrained by doorways, stairs other obstacles when moving furniture and that assembly is a straight forward process of slotting and covering, and NO gluing or nailing!
Saturday, January 02, 2016
Saudi Arabia Executes Four Dozen Prisoners ISIS Style / Politics / India
By: Stephen_Lendman
Riyadh and Washington are close allies, partnering in each other’s high crimes - both countries notably supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups, used as US imperial foot soldiers.
Domestically, Riyadh’s human rights record is abominable. Fundamental freedoms don’t exist. Criticizing ruling authorities risks arrest, imprisonment or death.
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Saturday, January 02, 2016
The Fed’s Academic-Based Theories Are Creating a BRUTAL Economic Reality / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Graham_Summers
One of the most frustrating aspects of today’s financial system is the fact that the Fed is being lead by lifelong academics with no real world banking or business experience.
Consider the cases of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen.
Neither of these individuals has ever created a job based on generating sales of any kind. Neither of them has ever had to make payroll. Neither of them has ever run a business. What are economic realities for business owners (e.g. operating costs, capital and profits) are just abstract concepts for Bernanke and Yellen.
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Saturday, January 02, 2016
Iraq’s Longstanding Nightmare Continues / Politics / Iraq War
By: Stephen_Lendman
Washington bears full responsibility for the Middle East’s longstanding nightmare, partnered with rogue Israeli, NATO and Arab regimes. Call it the curse of oil - Iraq Exhibit A.
From America’s orchestrated Iran/Iraq war to Operation Desert Storm, to years of genocidal sanctions, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, to ongoing out-of-control raging violence and chaos, its imperial madness destroyed the cradle of civilization, replacing it with endless dystopian harshness - one of history’s greatest crimes, accountability nowhere in sight.
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