Thursday, October 08, 2015
Tesco Bank’s new 3.89% two-year Fixed Interest Rate Mortgage / Personal_Finance / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Below is a new product, which has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Moneyfacts.co.uk, the highest rating we award.
Tesco Bank has just launched a new two-year fixed rate mortgage priced at 3.89% until 31.1.18. This deal is for all applicants who borrow from £40,000 at 95% loan-to-value (LTV). A fee of £495 is payable, of which £300 can added to the advance of the mortgage. An incentive package for remortgage customers of free valuation and free legal fees is also offered.
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Thursday, October 08, 2015
Optimistic Natural Gas Forecasts Underreport Risks / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: AnyOption
Gordon Meagher writes: Natural gas prices have not been immune from the broader deflationary forces impacting commodities across the globe. Production gluts and oversupply are testament to the industry’s problems as company’s produce at breakneck speed to stave off bankruptcy after borrowing substantial funds to fund exploration and production projects across the lower 48 US states. Even though an LNG export terminal is expected to come online this quarter, improving the export market capacity, it is unlikely to tackle the problem at its root. Even though the supply-side of the equation can remain very fluid, stimulating demand has proven difficult. Even though certain factors such as the falling rig count are contributing to optimism of a potential rebound, longer-term factors dictate further weakness in prices.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Stock Market Pessimism Still Very High.....Bulls Enjoying The Negativity Off The Lows... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Jack_Steiman
When markets get overly optimistic, meaning too many bulls, they have a tendency to struggle, even if it takes a while before they go down appreciably. See how the market did nothing most of last year except to move laterally. Then we had the strong and powerful move lower that took the S&P 500 down 14%. Now we're dealing with the opposite effect. The bull-bears spread now at minus 4.2%, which is off last week's minus 10% reading, but still below 0, which is very good news for the bulls. The Rydex bear fund is also at three-year highs, which shows you the bears are still quite aggressive, which is a negative for them, of course. The market has shown a few gap ups here over the past couple of days, and may now be headed for a lateral bull-flag type of set up.
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Thursday, October 08, 2015
Moving Stem Cell Research Forward: Bernie Siegel of the Genetics Policy Institute / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Regenerative medicine through stem cell technology is a source of hope for many suffering from ailments including Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, spinal cord injury and cancer. While new therapeutic options are continually in development, progress has, until recently, been hampered by political and medical ethics arguments. Because of patient advocacy, new technologies are now advancing, from development of an artificial pancreas to the hope of culturing intact human organs. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Bernie Siegel, founder and executive director of the Genetics Policy Institute, describes recent progress and developments in the regenerative medicine universe.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Don't Be Fooled: A Stealth Bull Market in Gold and Silver Is Underway / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: MoneyMetals
What gold and silver investors want to know above all is when the bull market will resume. In a very real sense, it already has resumed. Futures market prices aside, evidence abounds that a raging bull market in physical precious metals is now underway.
In the third quarter (ending September 30th), coin demand went through the roof. Mints literally couldn't keep up with demand. The dysfunctional U.S. Mint rationed deliveries of Silver Eagles, failing to fulfill its mandate under law of keeping the market supplied. Even so, investors bought up a record 18.59 million ounces' worth of silver Eagle coins in the past 4 months.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Will Never Achieve Peace in the Middle East / Politics / Middle East
By: Katherine_Smith
The latest development that the experts claim is undermining the Iran deal is Russia’s move to cement its alliance with Iran in Syria during last week’s meeting of 200 world leaders.
The Iran Nuclear Agreement is good for Middle East peace but neither the agreement nor the international unity forged in Vienna will be able to resolve the deep-rooted regional problems in the region.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Stock Market VERY IMPORTANT Turn Date / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It appears that I was closer to the truth than I had imagined when I said that yesterday’s (today’s) Pivot was more important than that on September 17. The Elliott Wave pattern shows today’s Intermediate Wave (B) as the orthodox retracement top, but not the high in the corrective formation. This is an irregular pattern and gives the message that SPX may be ready for a larger decline than previously imagined.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Retirement Fears in China Ageing Economy / Economics / China Economy
By: Rodney_Johnson
The current economic mess in the developed world is easy to explain and hard to fix.
This is a demand-driven downturn, where aging populations choose to save more of what they earn, take on less debt, and generally rotate to a risk-averse world view.
The change isn’t new. It happens to almost all of us as we get older.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
The 5th Convergence…An Economic & Financial Superstorm That Will Devastate America / Economics / Cycles Analysis
By: Harry_Dent
This morning we had to face some hard truths. The economy’s beginning to show its true colors.Last month the economy added just 142,000 jobs. August was revised substantially lower to just 136,000 jobs. Analysts were expecting 200,000-plus jobs growth like it would go on forever.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Summers Grades Janet Yellen's Fed Performance 'Incomplete' / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Bloomberg
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers joined hosts Stephanie Ruhle and David Westin on Bloomberg TV's new flagship morning program, Bloomberg <GO>. He discussed the economy, the 2008 financial crisis, and Janet Yellen's job performance as Federal Reserve Chair.
On what grade he would give Janet Yellen, Summers said: "I'd give her an incomplete because the term is not yet over. But she's done, as I say, I've got great respect for Janet Yellen."
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Is Another Historic Stock Market Collapse Just Around the Corner? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
This morning’s Premarket shows SPX challenging yesterday’s high. With corporate quarterly earnings reports beginning en masse before the open, there is no telling if SPX opens higher or not.
ZeroHedge reports that the first four out of four earnings reports have been disappointing.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Gold Versus Central Banks Paper Ponzi / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
by David Bryan
The future direction of the planet is a choice between independent money and the central bankers counter-party paper Ponzi. Gold is independent monetary wealth with incredible wealth value that cannot go broke and over time will progress in value.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
QE3 is Over Get Ready for QE4 / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: BATR
As the world economy falters and sinks into the abyss of fiscal deflation, the banksters need a new game plan to rescue their debt created monetary system. Notwithstanding, the Federal Reserve would be hard pressed to introduce negative interest rates in the United States as has been tried and tested abroad. Maybe under circumstances of a total meltdown such desperate measures would be forced upon the public, but as conditions presently exist, another dose of quantitative easing is more likely.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
How to Profit from Government Mandates in Biofuels / Commodities / Bio-Fuels
By: The_Energy_Report
New proposed EPA requirements for the renewable fuel standard program, combined with challenging sugarcane harvests in South America, could increase demand for biodiesel, creating opportunity in a struggling energy sector. In this interview with The Energy Report, Piper Jaffray Analyst Brett Wong names a growing company that could profit from government mandates.
The Energy Report: New proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements for the renewable fuel standards (RFS) program could change the landscape for biofuels. What is the new supply-and-demand picture for corn ethanol, biodiesel and sugarcane ethanol?
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
A Key Oil Price Trend That Everyone Is Missing / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: My friend Rick Rule likes to say, “The cure for low prices is low prices.”
Here’s what’s supposed to happen...
Marginal producers can’t make money at today’s prices. Therefore they shut in wells (turn them off). As supplies get tighter, prices move higher.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Putin’s Lightning War in Syria / Politics / Syria
By: Mike_Whitney
For more than a year, the United States has been playing patty-cake with an army of homicidal maniacs who call themselves ISIS. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he’d had enough of Washington’s song-and-dance and was planning to bring a little Russian justice to the terrorist militias that had killed 225,000 Syrians and ripped the country to shreds. In language that could not be more explicit, Putin said to the General Assembly: “We can no longer tolerate the currents state of affairs in the world”. Less than 48 hours later, Russian bombers were raining down precision-guided munitions on terrorist strongholds across western Syria sending the jihadi vermin scrambling for cover.
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Stock Market Turn Appears to Have Been Made / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX peaked at 10:00, as suggested this morning. I had suggested that last Thursday might be the peak, due to an indication of a Primary Pivot there. However, it was not in the dominant Cycle. Today was day 43 of the dominant Cycle, that is, the one beginning on August 24.
One of the reasons for much of the confusion up to the July 20 high was the lack of dominant Cycles. That is why I had emphasized the July 7 low as being a probable flash crash, which it wasn’t, because it originated on October 15, 2014. Now that we are getting sorted out, it may be easier to follow the next series of declines and rallies.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Designing a Dividend Growth Portfolio for a Specific Retirement Yield Objective / Portfolio / Pensions & Retirement
By: Charles_Carnevale
Managing an investment portfolio is a very personal matter. Consequently, the most important consideration is to design a portfolio that meets your own unique goals, objectives and risk tolerances. Everyone is different, and consequently, every investment portfolio can and should be appropriately different as well. Stated more straightforwardly, I do not believe in cookie-cutter or one-size-fits-all approaches to portfolio design.
In the same vein, I believe that investment portfolios, especially retirement investment portfolios, should be designed and constructed to meet the specific needs of the individual it is built for. In some cases the objective might be current income and safety. In other cases the objective might be the necessity to earn the highest possible rate of return. Importantly, the most appropriate objective for each individual will often be driven by factors that are external to the portfolio itself.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Peter Schiff Predicts Gold Price Breakout - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Peter_Schiff
Standard Wall Street analysis says a Federal Reserve rate hike would be bearish for gold. Peter Schiff debunks this assumption by looking at gold's behavior under the tenure of both Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan. However, after Friday's terrible jobs report, Peter believes the debate over a 2015 rate hike is practically moot. He explains how the latest economic data is more strongly indicative of a looming recession than anything else, and the surge in the price of silver is the first sign that markets may be waking up to this fact.
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Gold Price October High / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Ed_Carlson
Gold lost $8.90/oz. last week to close at $1,137.10 but on Friday printed an engulfing bullish candlestick. Gold gained $22.90 on Friday marking last week's expected cycle low and closed on the 89-dma. The 89-dma is an important marker of regime change but beware past Pinocchio breakouts. Any breakout through the 89-dma will find next resistance close-by from the 8/21/15 high near 1,160.
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