Friday, January 17, 2020
What Expiring Stock and Commodity Market Bubbles Look Like / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Gary_Tanashian
The Nasdaq bubble popped in 2000 after motoring upward on increasing volume in two separate phases. Volume rammed upward and RSI diverged. Like shootin’ fish in a barrel it was, except that at the time I was too inexperienced to see it. It was a steep slope and blow out.
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Platinum Breaks $1000 On Big Rally - What's Next Forecast / Commodities / Platinum
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Certain precious metals, Gold, Silver, and Platinum, have shown moderate upside price trending over the past 20+ months while Rhodium and Palladium have skyrocketed higher. These more precious metals, Rhodium and Palladium, have many industrial and consumer uses. Rhodium is used in electronics and plating and Palladium is used in a variety of consumer products from Automobiles to Medical Devices.
Still, the rally in Rhodium (over 300%) and Palladium (over 70%) over the past 12 months has been more than impressive. Whey are we not seeing a similar rally in Gold, Silver, and Platinum yet?
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Precious Metals Set to Keep Powering Ahead / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: MoneyMetals
Precious metals got off to an explosive early start to 2020 as tensions between the U.S. and Iran drove safe-haven buying.
Of course, gold and silver markets will need more than a geopolitical flare up to drive a long-term bull market advance.
The question for investors is whether the fundamental picture now looks promising or fleeting.
In our view, the fundamentals are turning in favor of higher gold and silver prices.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Stock Market and the US Presidential Election Cycle / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The US Presidential cycle pattern has proved REMARKABLY ACCURATE for 2019, where the basic pattern for the US Presidential cycle is for a strong election year and post election year, followed by weak Mid-term then a strong pre-election year which is what we saw with 2019 as the chart from my September update illustrates. That implies to expect similar strength for 2020 as we had for 2019!
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
There Is Still Time To Get Silver / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Hubert_Moolman
Silver appears to be very close to an even bigger move higher. Most of the hard work of the double-bottom since 2015 is done.
The coming leg higher is the one that will likely take prices to all-time highs. Below, is a long-term Silver chart:
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Another Repo Market Liquidity Injection for Gold Bulls to Cheer / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Last Thursday, the New York Fed added more than $80 billion in fresh temporary liquidity to the financial markets. Move over folks, nothing to see here – but what does it mean for gold prices?
Repo Crisis Is Not Over
Last week on Thursday, the New York Fed added $83.1 billion in temporary liquidity to financial markets. And banks’ demand for liquidity flared up again on Tuesday. If you haven’t heard of it, don’t worry – almost no one did. After all, journalism is about covering important stories… with a pillow!
The Fed not only injected some fresh liquidity, but also noted that it “may keep adding temporary money to markets for longer than policy makers had expected in September,” at least through April. So much for the normalization of monetary policy…
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Shifting Undercurrents In The US Stock Market / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Even as we write this post, the US Stock Market continues to push higher as global traders and investors pour capital into the continued US rally. The strong US Dollar continued to attract capital from around the globe and with fresh earning about to hit from Q4 2019, investors are expecting another round of solid income and earnings growth.
Yet, underlying all of this is the undercurrent of shifting capital into safe-havens like precious metals, Cryptos, and under-valued foreign markets. This shift started to happen late in Q4 2019 and accelerated early in 2019.
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
America 2020 – YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (PART TWO) / Politics / Social Issues
By: James_Quinn
In Part One of this article I detailed my inability to predict the timing of events during this Fourth Turning, while maintaining the catalysts of debt, civic decay, and global disorder continue to drive the world towards a cliff.
“Every schoolchild will know what happened next, from the Oh-Ohs to the 2020s, as the Fourth Turning unfolded—but academics will surely debate how and why it came to pass. In his history, this great-great-grandson of today’s baby girl will reflect on what the Fourth Turning came to mean for his own time and generation. His history is not yet written. What will it be?” – Strauss & Howe
The Trump team is now poised to go on the offensive as this Constitutional crisis intensifies and hurtles towards a violent conclusion. Barr and Durham are busy building a case against the Obama administration and their illegal activities before and after the election. As the election approaches and Durham concludes his investigation, indictments handed down on Clapper, Brennan, Comey or any of the other conspirators would lead to turmoil not seen since the Civil War. No matter the result of the upcoming election, neither side will accept the outcome.
This country is irretrievably broken and there will be no compromise or negotiated agreements. With Virginia Governor “Blackface” Northam attempting to overturn the 2nd Amendment and forcefully confiscate lawfully owned firearms from his citizens a modern-day Harper’s Ferry confrontation could be in the offing. There are no viable political solutions to our current dilemmas. It’s just a matter of when and where the conflict goes hot and blood is spilled.
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Yes, China Is a Currency Manipulator – And the U.S. Banking System Is a Metals Manipulator / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: MoneyMetals
The U.S. Treasury Department announced Monday that China is no longer on a list of countries deemed to be “currency manipulators.” The timing was awfully convenient, coming just ahead of an expected Phase One trade deal between the two powers.
Nobody actually believes China has stopped manipulating the value of its yuan versus the U.S. dollar.
But the Trump administration is apparently willing to accept a certain degree of currency rigging in exchange for other concessions on trade.
It’s not as if the U.S. government has a stellar record when it comes to heeding principles of free and fair currency markets. It (through the Exchange Stabilization Fund and other vehicles) is constantly trying to manage the value of the dollar versus the currencies of trading partners, too.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
MICROSOFT Stock Investing in AI Machine Intelligence Mega-trend 2020 and Beyond / Companies / Microsoft
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The juggernaut that is Artificial Intelligence continues to rumble along towards an inexorable future, one that most still fail to grasp the magnitude of the changes that are just around the corner as humans think in linear terms whilst the AI trend is EXPONENTIAL. Where developments that even the proponents of AI thought would take several years are taking place in mere MONTHS! That is the power of the unfolding AI MEGA-TREND!
AI has already CHANGED THE WORLD! EXPONENTIALLY! You have an AI super computer right in your pocket for likely less than £1000!
Especially, when one marries AI with other big world changing tech mega-trend "Quantum Computing"! Put the 2 together and we are literally going to see an explosion in SUPER INTELLGENCE that would soon far exceed that of human intelligence, following which it won't be that many years before the AI exceeds the intelligence of the sum of ALL humans! For better or worse, that's the path we are on.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Silver Traders Big Trend Analysis – Part II / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
This, the second part of our Silver research article suggesting Silver may be forming a massive price base in preparation for an explosive upside move, will continue from Part I of this research series.
Our research team believes Silver is setting up in a price pattern that may already be “ripe” for an explosive upside move. Our researchers have poured over the data and believe the disparity between Gold and Silver is already at excessive levels.
Historically, anytime the disparity between Gold prices and Silver prices (rationalized into comparative Gold price levels) breaches 30% to 60% and Gold begins an upside price advance, Silver typically begins to move higher with 4 to 8+ months. This setup pushes the Gold to Silver ratio back below 50 or 60 as Silver rallies substantially higher, and faster than the price of Gold.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Silver Short-Term Pullback Before Acceleration Higher / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver's progress in comparison to gold's following recent world events.
Silver's recent rally looks diminutive and stunted compared to gold's, but that's normal at this early stage of a new bull market, when silver typically underperforms gold due to investors being risk-averse and silver being perceived as more risky and volatile than gold.
Nevertheless, as we can see on its latest 6-month chart, silver did manage to break out of its reactive downtrend in force from early September. Last week, at the time Iran lobbed missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq, it had a go at breaking above its late September highs. But it was not up to the task and fell back, putting in a reversal candle on big volume, which suggests that it probably has further to fall short term—perhaps back to the upper boundary of the downtrend channel shown. But with the overall tenor of this chart positive, it should then turn higher again.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Gold Overall Outlook Is 'Strongly Bullish' / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund examines the effects of recent geopolitical events on the precious metals markets.
It has been a week of surprises since the last updates were posted. First, I had not expected Iran to retaliate following the murder of its top general by a U.S. drone—but it did, despite the risks, as it was politically necessary to assuage the extreme anger of its population who demanded revenge.
The next surprise was that Israel and the U.S. did not use this retaliation as an excuse to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, which is what they really want to do. As we know, the long-term goal of Israel and the U.S. is to subjugate Iran, and they will not stop until they attain this goal.
And so it goes on. It appears that there was a bit of theater involved in Iran's retaliation, as it clandestinely signaled its intentions which allowed U.S. forces to get out of harm's way. Perhaps U.S. forces did not then launch a blitzkrieg out of consideration for this courtesy.
Regardless of the muddled and unpredictable fundamental situation, which included the accidental downing of a passenger plane by Iranian defensive missile batteries, the charts allowed us to make a reasonably accurate prediction regarding what was likely to happen to the gold price. The call for a near-term top in the precious metals (PM) sector made on the site on Monday looked incorrect the following evening, when gold suddenly surged about $35 on news of the retaliatory Iranian missile strike. But when it later became apparent that there were, strangely, no U.S. troop casualties and no further action against Iran, gold and silver reversed dramatically and dropped quite hard, as the tension then looked set to ease, at least over the short-term.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
AMD is Killing Intel - Best CPU's For 2020! Ryzen 3900x, 3950x, 3960x Budget, to High End Systems / Personal_Finance / Technology
By: HGR
Intel has well and truly lost it's consumer CPU market dominance to AMD. So what are the best AMD CPU's for new system builds froim budget to mid to high end systems in 2020 ?
Find out in our latest video for gaming streaming and heavy workloads in 2020. The best Budget, Mid and High end CPU, how much should you spend on your processor? and how many cores are needed for gaming in 2020 etc? Those are some of the questions im going to answer in this video.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Acceleration Mode for Stocks Bull Train / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Ricky_Wen
Monday’s session played out as a grind-up during the regular trading hours. Price action confirmed it was finished with the high-level consolidation structure, breaking out above last week’s high of around 3287. This meant acceleration mode for the bull train per our projections of 3280/3300 and beyond. The methodical upside grind closed at the dead highs signifying resilient strength and the same old higher lows and higher highs pattern on the micro.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Importance Of Keeping Invoices Up To Date / Companies / SME
By: Submissions
Every company, whether you run a large corporation or small business, needs an efficient invoicing system. An invoice is a piece of paper or electronic file that you issue to your customers for sale transactions.It should be a comprehensive document that provides details on the products and services you offered to the client and their corresponding prices as well as quantity. You can find free invoice templates online so that you don’t have to create one from scratch and choose one that suits your business’ needs.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Stock Market Elliott Wave Analysis 2020 / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Elliott wave Pattern suggest to expect a correction during the 1st quarter of 2020 before the Dow can once more target new highs during the new year.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Walmart Has Made a Genius Move to Beat Amazon / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Stephen_McBride
I ordered Powerbeats earbuds from Amazon the other day. As a Prime member, I got them to my doorstep in Stowe, Vermont the next day for free.When I unpacked the box, one of the accessories was missing. I called Amazon’s customer service to get a replacement sorted out. But what I was told raised my eyebrows:
“We’ll make a one-time exception. Keep the earbuds and we’ll issue you a full refund right now.”
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Deep State 2020 – A Year Of Living Dangerously! / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.” Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
The shocking crime being committed during this century under the unscrupulous initiative of a few evil men is ongoing and no longer hidden from those willing to open their eyes and see the truth. As conspiracy theorists have proven to be right through the sacrifice of Snowden, Assange, and other patriots for truth, the Deep State psychopaths have double downed and are blatantly flaunting their power and control over the levers of government, finance and media.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The End of College Is Near / Politics / Student Finances
By: Jared_Dillian
I predict that 20% of colleges and universities will shut down or merge in the next 10 years, and probably more.It was a good run.
Most people fail to understand that higher education is in itself countercyclical. When the economy is bad, and people lose jobs, many of them will go back to school.
You have probably heard about the for-profit education boom and bust. That is old news. You might not have heard that total enrollment has been declining for the last eight years as the economy has improved.
What comes next will pulverize nearly every institution of higher learning in the country, private and public.
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