Sunday, September 27, 2015

Stock Market Primary Wave IV Inflection Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Tony_Caldaro

The market started the week at SPX 1958. After a short-lived gap up opening on Monday to SPX 1980 the market headed lower into Thursday when hitting SPX 1909. Then after a morning low the market rallied into Thursday’s close and gapped up on Friday to hit SPX 1953. If that wasn’t enough, the market then dropped to SPX 1922 before rallying to close the week at 1932. For the week the SPX/DOW were -0.9%, the NDX/NAZ were -2.6%, and the DJ World index was -2.3%. On the economic front, reports for the week were mixed. On the uptick: Q2 GDP, consumer sentiment, the WLEI, new home sales and the FHFA. On the downtick: GDPN, durable goods, existing home sales and weekly jobless claims were higher. Next week, a busy schedule, will be highlighted by monthly Payrolls, the PCE and the Chicago PMI.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Coffee Price Surges / Commodities / Coffee

By: Austin_Galt

Previous analysis outlined that while price was in a potential bottoming zone, without any signs of price turning back up then further downside must be favoured. That changed today in a big way. Let's see exactly what that is beginning with the daily chart.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Most Interesting Story In Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015

By: John_Rubino

Or: Gold Miners’ Doom Is Streaming Companies’ Boom.

The gold and silver miners are in crisis, as metal prices hover around break-even for many and capital dries up for most. Dozens of companies are one or two quarters away from running out of cash and closing down, and their executives are ready to deal.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Violent Stock Market....Fed Tries To Protect Those 401K's... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

Ms. Yellen knew she made a terrible mistake last week by not raising rates. She made a speech to the world last night and did her best to correct that error in judgment. She said she would be raising rates this year. The banks would be the biggest beneficiary in that scenario, and it was a way to bring the averages up. It worked early on today as those futures exploded higher and held for the most part allowing a large gap up that started to run. And then it stopped running and went into reverse. A massive quick move down had the Nasdaq down over 100 points from its intraday high at one point before bouncing some. It was very ugly for the market overall. The market is unable to find leadership in enough areas to hold things up. Biotech stocks are in a strong bear market, with one after another falling hard day after day.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

3 Ways the Elliott Wave Principle Enhances Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory

By: EWI

Learn practical ways in which Elliott wave analysis sets you apart from the herd

In this new interview, the head of Elliott Wave International's Educational Resources, Wayne Gorman, tells you about 3 practical benefits of trading with the Elliott Wave Principle: setting realistic price targets, finding ideal entry points -- and squeezing the most out of the trend.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Two Real Reasons Crude Oil Prices Are Currently Slipping / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: ...

Dr. Kent Moors writes: The Energy Information Administration just released its latest report on oil. And although I’m no conspiracy theorist, what’s going on in oil pricing has all the earmarks of a setup.

Each week, the report tells us what the crude oil and oil product markets looked like as of the previous Friday. It is usually the yardstick by which analysts appraise everything from oil supply through refinery utilization to the markets for processed products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, and low sulfur content heating oil.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Road to Tech Stocks Wealth Begins With These 3 Plays / Companies / Tech Stocks

By: ...

Michael A. Robinson writes: Last week, I responded to your questions asked about tech investing.

But there was one question I decided to save because it deserves its very own conversation. It comes from “Gwynne B,” who describes herself as being 70 years old and an investing “true novice” -and wants to know how to get started as a tech investor

I get this question all the time from everyone from college students to retirees.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Central Banks Don't Dictate Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / Central Banks

By: Frank_Shostak

According to mainstream thinking, the central bank is the key factor in determining interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates the central bank, it is argued, through expectations about the future course of its interest rate policy influences the entire interest rate structure. (According to expectations theory (ET), the long-term rate is an average of the current and expected short-term interest rates.) Note that interest rates in this way of thinking are set by the central bank, while individuals in all of this have almost nothing to do and just mechanically form expectations about the future policy of the central bank. (Individuals here are passively responding to the possible policy of the central bank.)

Friday, September 25, 2015

The Simplest, Most Effective Strategy For Getting Wealthy in Hi-Tech Today / Companies / Tech Stocks

By: ...

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Today’s financial markets are more complex than they’ve ever been, leading many investors to believe their investment strategies have to be equally complicated to work.

That’s simply not true.

In fact, simple is always better… and potentially one whale of a lot more profitable, too.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Donald Trump Is Dead Wrong - Fact or Opinion? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Investment_U

Alexander Green writes: Donald Trump believes foreign competitors are leaving America in the dust. He says they “are killing us.”

My column rebutting this charge ranked among the top Google News articles yesterday.

But it prompted a sharp response from some quarters.

Friday, September 25, 2015

How to Force Your Boss to Give You a Pay Rise / Personal_Finance / Wages

By: DailyWealth

Mark Ford writes: Over the years, I've had the awkward duty of declining raises to dozens of employees.

Most of them simply sulked and disappeared. But a few of them took the experience as a wake-up call and fought back.

They didn't see themselves as losers, and they weren't going to let me view them that way, either.

If you get turned down for a raise, arguing with your boss won't do you any good.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Gold’s Dead Wrong Psychology / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: Zeal_LLC

Gold has lapsed deeper into pariahdom this year, becoming the most-hated investment class in all the markets.  Traders are avoiding it like the plague, utterly convinced gold is doomed to spiral lower perpetually.  But this wildly-bearish psychology is dead wrong.  Financial markets are forever cyclical, and gold is no exception to history’s ironclad rule.  The best time to be heavily long anything is when few others are.

Gold’s universal disdain today is the natural result of dismal price action.  This precious metal has not seen a new secular high since August 2011, 4.1 years ago.  Between that latest bull-market peak and early August 2015, gold fell 42.8% in a brutal secular bear market.  With the flagship S&P 500 stock index up 86.8% over that same span, it’s easy to understand why many consider gold the worst investment.

Friday, September 25, 2015

SPX is Abount to Begin its Strongest Decline Yet / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

A visit to the cardiologist resulted in an overnight stay at the hospital. I was experiencing vertigo and the doctors have been trying to pinpoint the source. I may be in for another night, so my email will be brief.

The plunge hasbegun and there is now enough information to identify the pattern. This may be safely called an Intermediate degree Wave (C) of a Primary ‘degree Leading Diagonal Wave [1].

Friday, September 25, 2015

The Fed’s Alice In Wonderland Economy - What Happens Next? / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank

By: Casey_Research

By Nick Giambruno

After the president of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet is the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Ask almost anyone on the street for the name of the U.S. president, and you’ll get a quick answer.

But if you ask the same person what the Federal Reserve is, you’ll likely get a blank stare.

Friday, September 25, 2015

No U.S. Interest Rate Hike Until 2017, It’s Always 1982 Somewhere / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: John_Mauldin

By Jared Dillian

First, let’s get the gloating out of the way. I said that the Fed would not hike rates here and here. Nobody likes a chest pounder, so that’s the end of the discussion.

So now, what is the trade? Not only did the Fed not hike rates, but the directive was so dovish, it was far outside the range that any reasonable person thought was possible. Should be bullish, right?

Friday, September 25, 2015

Silver: Victim of Motive, Means, and Opportunity / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: DeviantInvestor

Silver gets little respect, but that is sensible in a world dominated by paper assets and pretend values.  Similar to a murder investigation, let’s examine the motive, means and opportunity used to “manage” silver prices.

MOTIVE:  The price of silver is important to industrial users, since there are thousands of uses for silver, many of which have no alternative except silver.  If the price of silver rises too rapidly, people notice.  Worse, a price rally in silver probably will spread to the gold market, which is watched globally by banks, institutions, and people.  A rapidly rising price of gold informs the world that central banks are “printing” to excess, governments are creating too much debt, and the financial elite are mismanaging by “skimming” too much from the global economies.  A rising gold price is worrisome to many.

Friday, September 25, 2015

U.S. Housing Market Two Outs in The Bottom of The Ninth / Housing-Market / US Housing

By: James_Quinn

The housing market peaked in 2005 and proceeded to crash over the next five years, with existing home sales falling 50%, new home sales falling 75%, and national home prices falling 30%. A funny thing happened after the peak. Wall Street banks accelerated the issuance of subprime mortgages to hyper-speed. The executives of these banks knew housing had peaked, but insatiable greed consumed them as they purposely doled out billions in no-doc liar loans as a necessary ingredient in their CDOs of mass destruction.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Negative Interest Rates and Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: Alasdair_Macleod

I shall briefly address the impact of negative interest rates, should they occur, at the end of this report, after looking at this week's trading.

The week started with a slow downwards drift for precious metals on Monday and Tuesday before a sharp two-day rally, taking the gold price up $33 (nearly 3%) by yesterday afternoon. There was very little gold-related news to trigger this rally, only the deterioration of other markets. For bulls of precious metals it really has been a case of patience being rewarded.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Elliot Wave Analysis of Long Term SPX Stock Market Chart / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory

By: Submissions

Imad Ahmed writes: An Elliot Wave analysis of the long term SPX chart provides some guidance on where the markets may be heading over the next few months.

If this multiyear rally has finally topped, what we should be seeing next is a confirmation of the location of the blue X below.

Friday, September 25, 2015

From ZIRP to NIRP Sudden End of Fed's Ambition to Raise Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Alasdair_Macleod

The sudden end of the Fed's ambition to raise interest rates above the zero bound, coupled with the FOMC's[1] minutes, which expressed concerns about emerging market economies, has got financial scribblers writing about negative interest rate policies (NIRP). Coincidentally, Andrew Haldane, the chief economist at the Bank of England, published a much commented-on speech giving us a window into the minds of central bankers, with zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) having failed in their objectives.[2]