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.
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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: ...
That’s simply not true.
In fact, simple is always better… and potentially one whale of a lot more profitable, too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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].
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
Friday, September 25, 2015
Mistakes to Avoid When Selling your Business / Companies / SME
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Once you have made the decision to sell your business you will probably be eager to get on with it and complete the process as soon as possible. But what you have to remember is that if you rush things you are bound to make mistakes. Whether you have decided to handle the sale yourself or use the services of a business broker, you can help yourself by following these suggestions to avoid the pitfalls.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, September 25, 2015
Gold / Stocks Ratios are Starting to Breakout / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
The vicious and ever enduring bear market in precious metals has coincided, amid a strong negative correlation, with a bull market in equities. The negative correlation is nothing new as it occurred and persisted from 1973 through 1978 and also from 1996 through 2002. We've said Gold could not begin a new bull market until the correlation flips in favor of Gold. For the first time in three years various Gold/equities ratios are trading above the 80-week moving averages. This is an important development as it indicates the bear market in precious metals is very close its end.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Coffee Prices Are on the Verge of Soaring... / Commodities / Coffee
By: DailyWealth
Brett Eversole writes: Today, investors hate commodities... and coffee is no exception.
The last time we saw a setup like this, coffee prices rocketed nearly 72% higher in just four months. And over the past decade, these opportunities would have led to 25% average gains in just more than four months.
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
Why I'm Never Going to 'Two-Bit' China / Politics / China
By: Mike_Shedlock
I would never go to China, even if someone paid for the trip and all expenses.
My reason can be explained in one headline: China Arrests US Citizen for 'Endangering National Security'
Read full article... Read full article...An American businesswoman has been formally arrested in China on suspicion of "endangering national security" just days before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the US for his first official state visit.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Germany’s Immigration Challenge / Politics / Refugee Crisis
By: John_Mauldin
This immigration crisis in Europe is a big deal, and it’s a bigger deal for Germany than for any other European country. Germany is directly in the firing line, both geographically and in terms of how many of the migrants want to settle there. Nearly 40% of migrants choose Germany as their preferred final destination, while the only other nation that is chosen by more than 10% of migrants is Hungary, at 18%.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
The Stocks Bull Market is Over / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
Stocks had a horrible day Tuesday…
The S&P 500 lost 1.23%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.09%.
Indices around the world also fell…
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