Monday, January 22, 2024
Is Natural Gas a Complete Failure? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Submissions
Thanks to the last week’s declines, natural gas lost 32% and approached the support area. What are the implications?
Major Decline in Natural Gas Prices
Last week, natural gas recorded its biggest decline in months. Could this have been predicted? What technical factors encouraged the bears to attack? What changes did this movement leave behind on the chart? You will find answers to these questions in today's article. Have a nice read!
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Keep Calm and Carry on Buying Quantum AI Tech Stocks / Companies / Investing 2024
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My focus for much of 2023 was to what degree one would get lucky in ones target stocks during the year, as it can be a case of playing with fire to heavily trim ones holdings, especially the primary and secondary AI tech stocks, all because one thinks one can then rebuy on the next dip. In which respect 2023 proved to be a great year because we got lucky TWICE during the year! Firstly March's correction to S&P 3800, can you imagine that the S&P traded down to 3800 in March! And then again following the July high of 4600 all the way down to 4100! Which even I had started to give up on happening given support at 4200.
Furthermore these corrections resulted in huge draw downs in target stocks i.e. we had Google in March that prompted many to ask if they should sell their Google to buy something else because all of the news was bad, to which my response was I AM BUYING MORE GOOGLE! This is another problem with most investors, for some reason they imagine that stock prices fall on good news, if so then buying the dips would be EASY! Instead stock prices tend to plunge on BAD NEWS! YOU DO NOT GET GOOGLE TRADING DOWN TO $86 ON GOOD NEWS! And this is why most investors fail to buy when stocks are cheap!
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Which Countries Have the Most Gold? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2024
By: MoneyMetals
Which countries have the most gold?
Central banks around the world have aggressively added gold to their reserves over the last several years.
In 2022, central bank gold buying came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It was the 13th straight year of net central bank gold purchases.
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
S&P 500: What to Make of Fear Versus Greed / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2023
By: EWI
This sentiment index combines seven indicators into one useful trend measure
That is -- market participants generally go from feeling deeply pessimistic all the way to feeling highly optimistic -- and then back again.
These swings in investor psychology tend to produce similar circumstances at corresponding points in the Elliott wave structure of the main stock market indexes.
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
What’s Next for Exxon Mobil? / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Submissions
The sellers hit a fresh multi-week low during yesterday’s session, testing important supports.
Pushing to a New Low
As I mentioned at the beginning, the bears managed to push the price to a new low - to the lowest level since mid-March 2023! What events contributed to this deterioration? What can we expect next week? Answers to these questions you’ll find in today's article. Have a nice read!
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Kubet: Thailand's Love Affair with Online Casino Magic / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Introduction
In the vibrant landscape of online casinos in Thailand, one platform has managed to capture the hearts of many—Kubet. This article delves into the love affair that Thailand shares with Kubet, exploring the emotional connection that transcends traditional gaming experiences.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Stock Market 2024 Rally to the MOON! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2024
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
Understand this if you invested in the stock market to any significant degree during 2023 then you went AGAINST the herd because the herd (Institutions and retail investors) plowed most of their money into money market accounts having been talked into by the likes of the clowns on the CNBC cartoon network, MSM and the blogosfear. In fact it is even worse than that as Equity Funds experienced a net outflow of about $250 billion during 2023. so not only did investors not invest, they actually sold stocks. So what is going to happen when they see rates on their money market accounts drop? They are going to BUY STOCKS! Which will be NEAR ONE AND HALF YEARS LATE TO THE PARTY!
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Friday, January 19, 2024
Toward China's Soft Economic Rebound / Economics / China Economy
By: Dan_Steinbock
Last year, international observers charged China for global inflation, deflation and economic collapse. In reality, Chinese economy is inching toward a soft rebound, despite the dire global landscape.As global business and political leaders swarmed to Davos for the World Economic Forum, Chinese Premier Li Qiang took the podium. Chinese economy has rebounded and moved upward, Li noted, and was estimated to have grown around 5.2% in 2023. That’s slightly better than the official target of around 5%.
No matter how the world’s situation changes, Li added. China will adhere to its fundamental national policy of opening up, and its door will only get wider and wider.” he said.
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Friday, January 19, 2024
U.S. Real Estate Market: A 24% Problem / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: EWI
"...24% of U.S. single family homes are owned by investors."
A big reason that U.S. home prices have skyrocketed is that big investors like corporations did a lot of buying.
As a Redfin.com headline noted nearly two years ago (Feb. 16, 2022):
Real Estate Investors Are Buying a Record Share of U.S. Homes
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Friday, January 19, 2024
SoftBank: A Possible Stock Market Omen for What's Ahead / Companies / Stock Markets 2024
By: EWI
Here's what happened to the once most valuable U.S. startup
SoftBank, the multinational holding company which is heavily involved in the technology sector, has had a tough go of it.
Its stock price has been in a steady decline for the past few years and one has to wonder if this is a preview of what may be ahead for many other firms, especially those in the technology sector.
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Friday, January 19, 2024
Gold Builds Support at $2,000; What's Next? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2024
By: MoneyMetals
Gold appears to have built solid support above $2,000 an ounce, but momentum to move higher in the short term has eased with uncertainty about the timing of Federal Reserve rate cuts.
But short-term sentiment aside, there are plenty of reasons to remain bullish on the yellow metal.
The Fed appeared to surrender to inflation at its December meeting. While the central bank held rates steady, it signaled three rate cuts for 2024 with another four cuts in 2025. That would lower rates to between 2 and 2.5 percent.
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Friday, January 19, 2024
Bitcoin Is No Substitute for Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2024
By: MoneyMetals
With Bitcoin making the news last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally approved exchange traded funds, it’s a good time to review the topic again.
Bitcoin still offers the potential to serve as a form of honest money and to end-run the central bankers and politicians who have abused the fiat system so badly.
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Sunday, January 07, 2024
Investing in the Stock Market is Like Boxing With Mike Tyson / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Most market participants soon learn that stock market investing isn't as easy as the clowns on the CNBC cartoon network sales pitches present it to be. Investing is like getting into a boxing ring with Mike Tyson, become arrogant and you will get knocked out in the first round. Whilst all those fund managers and analists on the financial cartoon networks never even fund set foot in the ring. Think of the stock market as Mike Tyson, it will knock you out! All one can do is to learn through experience to dodge as many as those punches as possible, that is the way to win in the stock market.
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Sunday, January 07, 2024
Bank Borrowing From Fed Bailout Program Has Surged / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2024
By: MoneyMetals
Is a U.S. banking crisis still bubbling under the surface?If activity in the Federal Reserve’s bank bailout program is any indication, the answer to that question is yes.
Over the last two months, the balance in the Fed Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) has surged, and the pace of borrowing appears to be increasing.
Since Nov. 19, the amount of outstanding loans in the BTFP has increased by $27.3 billion. The balance in the bailout program grew by nearly $5.4 billion in just the last week.
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Sunday, January 07, 2024
Financial Markets 2024 Outlook / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2024
By: Michael_Pento
This year promises to be one of the most interesting years economically, politically, and market-wise in history. We have two significant global conflicts/wars ongoing, just as President Xi of China is reiterating his promise to annex Taiwan, and Kim Jong Un of North Korea threatens to wipe the US off the map. Meanwhile, we have the most likely Republican candidate getting thrown off state ballots under the disgusting guise of trying to preserve democracy. The US is sadly in the process of becoming a banana republic. Wars and revolutions are not a tail risk. They are happening now and are likely to metastasize in 2024.
With this backdrop, we have the most expensive stock market in history prior to 2020. The price-to-sales ratio is 2.62, and the total market cap of equities is 176% of GDP; both figures are near record highs and dwarf the historical averages prior to the pandemic. And the equity risk premium is zero. Meaning the earnings yield of stocks is less than that yield offered by simply owning a risk-free T-bill. In other words, investors are not getting compensated at all for the extra risk of owning stocks over bonds.
Sunday, January 07, 2024
Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Benefits of USDT in Forex Trading / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: S_N_Chatterjee
For traders looking for safety and efficiency in their transactions, USDT (Tether) has emerged as a popular choice in the volatile world of forex trading, where stablecoins have gained substantial support. In this post, we'll look at the benefits of using USDT in FX trading: its ability to provide cheap and quick international money transfers within the decentralized blockchain ecosystem.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Prepare for a Stock Market melt-up in 2024? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2024
By: Stephen_McBride
I’m a proud papa this morning.
I attended my daughter’s school nativity play yesterday. We practiced her lines together for the past few weeks and it was great to see her hard work pay off on stage.
All the kids aced it.
As an aside, the quality of parents is far higher these days. It’s probably because couples aren’t churning out 10 kids each anymore, so they put more effort into nurturing each one.
One of the many reasons I’m optimistic about the future.
Kids rock!
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Where Can You Find Maximum Growth for Your Investments in 2024? / Stock-Markets / Investing 2024
By: Mark_Adan
If we could all predict the way our investments will perform over the course of a year, I am pretty sure we would all be very wealthy by now. Unfortunately, we can’t, so instead, we rely on advice from blogs, fund managers, financial commentators, and analysts. And, for those of us who are a little more well versed in investing, we study the markets to give us the information to help us make what we believe to be an informed decision.
2023 though has been a year where the world has encountered such turmoil that it has been hard for many to have a firm grasp on where their money should be and where it could work at its best.
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
What are Surebets and how to operate with it? / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Surebetting or arbing is a situation where a player can place bets on opposing outcomes of a specific event in such a way as to get income regardless of its final result.
Surebets arise due to differences in the odds offered by various bookmakers and are categorized into several types: based on the timing of the event and the number of outcomes.
Simple sure bets consist of two outcomes, but three-outcome arbs, which are more complex to work with, are also quite common.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Score Big with These Must-Try Strategies for Football Online Live Stream Bliss! / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Introduction
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, football enthusiasts are increasingly turning to online live streams for an immersive and convenient way to experience their favorite matches. This article explores various strategies to enhance your football online live stream bliss, including key terms like "truc tiep bong da" and "xoilac." Let's dive in!