Thursday, July 25, 2019

Will Powell Cutting US Interest Rates Triggering Gold Price Rally? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

Yesterday we wrote about Draghi, so today Powell is our hero. Only one week separates us from the pivotal FOMC meeting. What should gold investors expect?

First Fed Cut Since 2008

In a week, the Fed may deliver its first interest rate cut since 2008. Given the market odds, the move is practically a foregone conclusion. Futures traders assign a 100-percent probability of a cut. The bone of contention is the size of the reduction: there are 76.5-percent chances of a standard 25-basis point cut and 23.5-percent odds of a 50-basis point slash. As Powell did nothing to alter these expectations, the U.S. central bank now has to deliver a cut, if it does not want to upset the financial markets. However, the 50-basis point reduction sounds be a bit too much. The economy is not yet in recession, and you do not fire a bazooka as an insurance just in case!

Thursday, July 25, 2019

How to Raise Brand Awareness Without the Help of Professionals / Companies / SME

By: Submissions

Absolutely all companies take actions pursuing the increase in brand awareness because solid brands guarantee a great number of loyal customers, high level of sales, and substantial profits. When the management of companies realizes that high brand awareness is the key to success, they start planning measures to increase it. Here we offer several recommendations on how to raise brand awareness and boost revenues of any business.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

AMAZON Web Services Tensor Flow Machine Learning Stock Investing - Video / Companies / Amazon

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Are you ready for the exponential machine intelligence mega-trend?

In this series of videos I present my Top 10 AI stocks to invest in to profit from the exponential machine intelligence mega-trend.

My Top 10 AI stocks are ranked in terms of risk vs reward and volatility. So I consider my Top 5 stocks as primary, then the next 3 as secondary and the last 2 as far more risky tertiary stocks. And remember that when investing in the stock market that your capital is at risk. There are NO SURE BETS!

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Financial Media Elite Defensively Bash “Useless” Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019

By: MoneyMetals

At least the Financial Times now has come clean about its hostility to gold – as well as to free markets and elementary journalism.

Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) friend Chris Kniel of Orinda, California, sent to the newspaper's chief economic columnist, Martin Wolf, the excellent summary of gold and silver market manipulation just written by gold researcher Ronan Manly.

Wolf replied derisively and dismissively: "This is a matter of absolutely no importance whatsoever. Who cares about the prices of useless metals?"

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed / Politics / Climate Change

By: Ellen_Brown

Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science. The author explains:

As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New research estimates that a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Why Exponential AI Machine Learning Future Trend Will Change EVERYTHING! / Politics / AI

By: Adnaan_Walayat

We are currently galloping full speed along an exponential curve that unlike the neural nets of the 1990's, that promised a lot but delivered very little, this time it really looks like we are on the verge of AI success, not only that but it heralds changes in every aspect of our lives most of which we cannot even imagine today, hence the term the singularity is often used, the AI event horizon beyond which we cannot see.

“Success in creating effective A.I.,” said the late Stephen Hawking, “could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know.” Are we creating the instruments of our own destruction or exciting tools for our future survival? Once we teach a machine to learn on its own—as the programmers behind AlphaGo have done, to wondrous results—where do we draw moral and computational lines?

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Kids Summer Holidays Fun Activity Growing Giant Sunflowers (3) / Personal_Finance / Gardening

By: Eliza_Walayat

Here 3 year old Eliza shows how kids can have lots of summer fun by planting and growing giant sunflowers from planting seeds and then watch as they germinate and grow as the rate of growth of giant sunflowers is truly spectacular! Something that the kids will enjoy!

Our third video in this series covers what to expect in terms of growth from Day 37 to 50. Specifically why you need to support the sunflowers once they start passing 1 foot in height else risk them flopping over. Though if they do bend over then all is not lost as this video shows.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Student Finance: What Parents Need To Know / Personal_Finance / Student Finances

By: Submissions

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Self Driving Cars - Google’s World Domination Has Just Begun / Companies / Self Driving Cars

By: Stephen_McBride

At a $1.04-trillion valuation, Microsoft (MSFT) is the biggest public company in the world

Its stock has shot up 480% in the past decade...

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Risk:Reward over the next few months Doesn’t favor Stock Market Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019

By: Troy_Bombardia

The past 7 months saw stocks and bonds surge together (bond yields fell). With stocks trending sideways, bond yields are also bottoming. Today’s headlines:

1. Yield curve un-inverted
2. Leading indicator for the economy & industrial production
3. Put/Call ratio tanked
4. Consumer Staples surge
5. This defensive sector is no longer outperforming
6. Silver’s golden cross

Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given day.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Black Hole In Global Banking Is Being Exposed / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2019

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Almost a decade ago, the global financial crisis of 2008-09 exposed billions of people to the risks within the global financial/banking sector.  With all this money flowing around the globe and with banks able to facilitate greater and more diverse risk/derivatives investments, the central banks and insurance companies are left with an incredible “black hole” of exposed risk that is almost impossible to quantify.  When we add the shadow/gray market banking risks into this equation and begin to understand the complexity of commodity-backed or Purchase Order backed financing that has become commonplace throughout the planet, we have to ask ourselves one question – “what would it take for these risks to become another crisis?”

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Draghi or Lagarde: A Meaningful Difference for Gold? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

In November, Christine Lagarde will replace Mario Draghi as the ECB President. Will gold warm up to her more than to Draghi? It remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Super Mario will not leave his position just like that. Gold investors should be prepared for his Grand Finale.

Mario’s Grand Finale?

In June, the ECB became more dovish, as it postponed the possible beginning of the interest rate hiking from the end of 2019 to the mid-2020. Shortly after the central banks’ monetary policy meeting, at the annual conference in Sintra, Portugal, Draghi delivered a mini ‘whatever it takes’ speech, sending even more forceful signal about the upcoming monetary accommodation. Last month, we wrote in the Gold News Monitor that “the European central bankers are getting more worried about the state of the Eurozone economy and may adopt an even more dovish stance in the near future”.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

7 Motivating Tips That Will Help You Overcome Difficult Times in Business / Companies / SME

By: Submissions

Introduction

Business is dynamic, and so, there are constant shifts every time. You may be doing well today and face a stumbling block the next day. It is, therefore, imperative to know how to deal with the difficult moments that emanate from it from time to time. This is especially challenging for students who have businesses because then you have to balance the shackles and education. All the same, you have to develop a strong spirit in life as not everything turns out as you wish or expect always. The following stories can give you the impetus to carry on with business when you are on the verge of losing it all:

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Silver Outlook Is 'Excellent' / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019

By: The_Gold_Report

The silver market is on the upswing but consolidation could be in the offing, according technical analyst Clive Maund. Some weeks back we had correctly surmised that gold's gathering strength would rub off on silver and cause it to start catching up, so we bought a range of silver ETFs and stocks, a move which has paid off well as they have spiked quite dramatically in the recent past.

Starting with silver's 10-year chart, we can see that its presumed giant double bottom is starting to look more and more like the genuine article, with the price starting to advance away from the second low of the pattern.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Why The Coming Silver Rally Might Be The Greatest / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019

By: Hubert_Moolman

In the last one hundred years there have been some great silver rallies. Some have been greater than others though.

The economic conditions underlying the different silver rallies were not all the same. Obviously those that occurred during conditions most conducive to silver rallies were the great performers.

The coming silver rally could be the greatest especially since it potentially has most conditions in common with the great silver rallies.

Gold/Silver Ratio (GSR)

The most ideal time for a silver rally relative to the Gold/Silver ratio is after a major peak in the GSR and as close to the all-time high as possible. This is because the Gold/Silver ratio is to silver rallies much like cycling down a hill is compared to cycling up a hill is to a cyclist. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

We Are in for Decades of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policy / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing

By: Jared_Dillian

President Trump recently nominated Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is the United States director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which I had never heard of until her nomination.

Shelton is a Republican and believes in the adoption of a gold standard. She currently believes in lowering interest rates, after spending the Obama years criticizing the Fed for lowering interest rates.

You may wonder how a person can be in favor of a gold standard and also for lowering interest rates at the same time.

I am wondering that, too.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Gold & Gold GDX Stocks Ripping. What’s Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2019

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

It was a huge week for the gold stocks. GDX gained nearly 7% while GDXJ surged over 10%.

Gold hit $1450/oz after Thursday before selling off Friday. Silver met the same fate on Friday but managed to close the week up over 6% and at a new 52-week high.

Let’s take a look at the current technicals.

Gold closed the week just below $1427/oz. If it remains above $1420-$1425, then it is likely to trend towards $1475/oz, which is the only resistance between $1425 and $1525.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Stock Market Breadth Warning Signs for the Stock Market’s Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019

By: Troy_Bombardia

As the stock market trades on light volume, various breadth indicators are flashing short term warning signs. Today’s headlines:

1. A real breadth divergence.
2. Weaker than average economic growth
3. Lagging margin debt
4. Baltic Dry Index surge
5. Gold:silver ratio
6. Netflix

Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given day.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

U.S. Recession Watch: The Six-Cycle Forecast / Economics / Economic Theory

By: F_F_Wiley

It’s usually a bad idea to stand too close to something—whether an object, a problem you’d like to solve or any number of other things—which could mean seeing all of the pixels but none of the patterns. That’s why we populate albums, frames and holiday cards with bird’s eye views and sweeping vistas. It’s why every city that aspires to “destination” status advertises this or that Tower, Arch, Needle or Eye.

But if we look from too far away, we run a different risk of missing important information. That’s why we send probes, ships and occasionally scientists into outer space. It’s why we don’t Facetime our doctors, we hop on the examination table and show them exactly what’s bothering us.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

US Dollar Index tightly wound between: US Bond Yields down on safety flows / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2019

By: QUANTO

As markets begin a new week, there are interesting opportunities. SPX ended the week in a state of uncertainty. Weekend news from Iran seem to suggest there is no truce visible as Iran has not yet let go of the Oil tanker captured. It was flying a UK flag. US has not fully involved itself in the spate and thus market are waiting on a US response. However bond market seem to have made up its mind that they will not wait for a strike but rather exercise caution before its too late.

USDJPY has opened the week above 108. Above 108.4 the pair may look to extend gains to 109.2. The lack of impetus suggest we will fall to 105 on USDJPY.