Saturday, November 24, 2018

BrExit WAR - Theresa May's Government Betraying BrExit New Dawn for Britain / Politics / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Where BrExit is concerned the middle path is turning out to be the worst path to follow, the path that pleases neither LEAVERs or REMAINER's, which is precisely the path that Theresa May's government remains determined to put Britain upon as she is wined and dined by Britain's new colonial masters in Europe. If Theresa May gets her way Britain would become a defacto colony of the European Union, subservient to EU Laws and regimes all without political representation. Effectively Britain coming full circle from the world's premier colonial master of a century ago to soon to become an in consequential periphery at the boundaries of a German Economic Empire.

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Trump's America, Front and Center / Politics / US Politics

By: Steve_H_Hanke

Public infrastructure in the U.S. is in bad shape and has been so for many years. Washington has fingered the importance of doing something about the decrepit state of America’s infrastructure for decades. It’s the bipartisan thing to do.

President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers devoted a lengthy chapter in its 2016 Annual Report to the Nation’s infrastructure problems. Enter President Trump in 2017. The first thing out of his box was infrastructure. But, the “i” word faded away as rapidly as it entered President Trump’s lexicon. There was a little problem: the White House didn’t really have a fully developed infrastructure plan and most certainly had no legislative action plan. With last week’s elections, President Trump once again trotted out infrastructure, as did Nancy Pelosi—the most likely Speaker of the House, which will be controlled by the Democrats in the 116th Congress.

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Time to Start Charging Your iPhone and Samsung Galaxy Phones Wirelessly / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology

By: HGR

Here's a review of a relatively low cost phone charger by HBorna bought from Amazon, to see how convenient wireless charging is compared to regular cable charging which we all know is prone to failure of both the cable and the phones charging port. This is the HBorna Wireless Charger, that works for iPhone XS/XR/X/8/8 Plus, Ultra-Slim and Samsung Galaxy Note 9/ S9/S8/S7/S7 Edge/Note 8/5 series of phones, and probably for others that have wireless charging capability, the HBorna currently costs £18.99 from Amazon (Direct amazon page link).

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Don’t Ditch These Traditional Marketing Methods Just Yet / Companies / Marketing

By: Dylan_Moran

It’s no secret that digital marketing has dominated businesses since the turn of the century. With the dawn of computers and smartphones, digital marketing methods have been a huge part of most business strategies and a lot of marketers have abandoned traditional methods thinking they’re already outdated.

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Key factors to take in to account when buying your first home / Housing-Market / UK Housing

By: Submissions

Saturday, November 24, 2018

5 Best Ideas to Get Rid of Throat Infection Overnight / Personal_Finance / Health and Fitness

By: Justin_Weinger

As we near towards winters, we know how this shift in the weather conditions can take a toll on our health. With the changing season people often get fever, cough, and cold.  At this time of the year, the October heat still continues to soar and the rain comes as a relief for the time being but adds more to the humidity and the fluctuations in weather is an open invitation for problems like cold and flu. Often we encounter health problems like viral fever, cough and cold during the flu season.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Silver Mining Stocks Q3’18 Fundamentals / / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Zeal_LLC

The major silver miners’ stocks have been largely abandoned this year, spiraling to brutal multi-year lows.  Such miserable technicals have exacerbated the extreme bearishness plaguing this tiny contrarian sector.  While profitable silver mining is challenging at today’s exceedingly-low silver prices, these miners are chugging along.  Their recently-reported Q3’18 results show their earnings are ready to soar as silver recovers.

Four times a year publicly-traded companies release treasure troves of valuable information in the form of quarterly reports.  Companies trading in the States are required to file 10-Qs with the US Securities and Exchange Commission by 40 calendar days after quarter-ends.  Canadian companies have similar requirements at 45 days.  In other countries with half-year reporting, many companies still partially report quarterly.

Friday, November 23, 2018

OECD Recommends Potential Major US National Debt Increases: The Impact On Retirement / / US Debt

By: Dan_Amerman

The Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is urging the nations of the world to be prepared for and have a coordinated plan to simultaneously engage in major "fiscal stimulus" in the event of a downturn in the global economy.

"Fiscal stimulus" is how economists refer to a government substantially increasing spending, while holding taxes constant or even reducing them. By pouring more money into the economy, while not taking more money out (or taking even less money out), the theory is that the economy and employment will get a large and positive jolt, and that this jolt will hopefully create sustainable economic and employment growth rates that persist after the stimulus is gone.

Friday, November 23, 2018

How Will the Rollback of Dodd-Frank Affect Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Arkadiusz_Sieron

This reform will make US financial system more vulnerable, just adding fuel to the fire of easy money. This is what some people worry about. Are they right? We invite you to read our today’s article about the rollback of Dodd-Frank Act and its potential implications for the price of gold.

In May, President Trump signed the rewrite of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law passed earlier by Congress with rare bipartisan support. The bill is the biggest rollback of bank rules since the financial crisis. According to the new law, lenders with less than $10 billion in assets will be exempted from the Volcker rule that bans proprietary trading. Moreover, the bill eases rules on all but the largest institutions, raising the threshold by which banks are considered systematically important and, thus, subject to tighter oversight from $50 to $250 billion in assets. The smallest banks between $50 and $100 billion were immediately freed of stricter regulations, while depositary institutions between $100 and $250 billion in assets will be exempt from them beginning in November 2019, although they could still be subjected to the Fed’s enhanced supervision in times of need. Last month, the Fed just unveiled a proposal for the implementation of several major provisions of the new bill.

Friday, November 23, 2018

U.S. Stock Market’s Volume is Low Around Thanksgiving / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Troy_Bombardia

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s important to remember that this week’s volume is very light, so don’t read too much into price action. The price can be easily pushed around by a few big players.

Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given day, week, or month.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Advice to make it as a professional in the forex market / Currencies / Forex Trading

By: Submissions

The forex market is perhaps one of the most misunderstood markets out there. It’s seen only ever in its simplest form by many holidaymakers and travellers, while for newbie retail investors, it’s sometimes thought of as either too volatile or too complicated. For technical analysts, the heavy focus that many forex publications place on fundamental analysis points such as interest rate rises can seem too much.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Christmas Projector Light Ideas for Holidays 2018! / Personal_Finance / Shopping

By: Anika_Walayat

Christmas is just around the corner and this year many households are looking to go beyond the usual string and icicle light by adding animated projector lights to their x-mas lights aresenel. Not only do the represent something different, but are much easier to put up then string lights.

Here we test out 3 various projector lights all of which can be bought from Amazon.

Friday, November 23, 2018

RedSpottedHanky.com Unreliable Train Travel Evouchers Bookings for Tesco Club Card Customers / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays

By: N_Walayat

Unfortunately it's not just Britain's network rail services that are proving unreliable for Britain's long suffering train passengers, now even booking agents such as Red Spotted Hanky are letting down travelers, leaving them in the lurch for those who use their evouchers system such as Tesco Club Card customers, many of whom had come to rely on this service as a means of utilising their tesco club card points.

Friday, November 23, 2018

XLY – Don’t Count the American Consumer Out Yet / Stock-Markets / Retail Sector

By: ElliottWaveForecast

The U.S. Consumer Measured Via the XLY

“The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.” James P. Gorman

We’re Entering In Negative Territory for 2018

The stock market (measured via the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average) has officially erased all of its 2018 gains. I can see from the headlines like the one pictured below from The Drudge Report that there’s certainly starting to be a bit of panic in the air.

Friday, November 23, 2018

There is evidence that deflationary forces are already taking hold in America / Economics / Deflation

By: EWI

By Murray Gunn

When I was writing technical analysis reports for the customers of a major global bank, I received some interesting feedback from one of the bank's relationship managers. The customers liked the reports, she said, but it would be good if I made them less "technical." Making technical analysis reports less technical, hmmm. (To be fair, it is actually good advice because striking a balance between technical details and readability is an art.) Sometimes, though, an explanation of a concept cannot help but delve into some detail. So please bear with me on this one.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Factors Behind Why People Move House / Housing-Market / UK Housing

By: Submissions

Friday, November 23, 2018

DNA Breakthrough: Scientists Repair Genes in Human Embryos / Companies / BioTech

By: Andrew_Cioffi

The medical field is set to change tremendously owing to a recent breakthrough by medical researchers. A team of researchers recently managed to use gene-editing tools to remove mutations in embryos which develop into human diseases. The team that comprised of the Oregon Health and Science University and other researchers were able to make breakthrough discoveries. The particular disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, is passed down genetically and is a cause of many deaths especially among young athletes. It is not clear yet as to when the technology will be applied in the real world.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

China Stock Market Preparing New Elliott Wave Bullish Cycle / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: ElliottWaveForecast

The trade war between USA & China had led to a global fear around the stock market and causing a mid-term “bear market” in China which lost 30% since the start of 2018. The latest plan is that the two leaders US President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping would meet for dinner on December 1 immediately after the G20 meeting in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Trump says US is ‘doing extremely well’ with China but deal not done yet. Therefore the next meeting could be critical for this ongoing war trade talk and its result will have important effect around the market.

At ElliottWave Forecast, we believe the market is ruled by technical aspect and the news is an after-fact event to drive the market into the pre-determined direction. Therefore, understanding the Nature of the Market is key for traders to stay in the right side and follow a clear path which have nothing to do with Fundamentals or events.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Facebook Ends Cycle from IPO. What’s Next For The Social Networking Giant / Companies / Social Media

By: ElliottWaveForecast

Even today with the explosion of advancements in quantitative analysis utilizing the most sophisticated algorithms and artificial intelligence available the debate rages on between whether a technical-based trading methodology is superior to a fundamental-based trading methodology and vice versa. That debate is examined below via analysis of individual financial instruments such as Facebook (FB).

The price of Facebook’s stock has pretty much been on bullish rip higher ever since the IPO of 2012 reaching an all-time high over this past July at 218.62. However, the company has been mired in unflattering publicity that the fundamentalists claim has taken the wind out FB’s sails. The first chink in the armor of FB came during US General Elections of 2016 when a Russian company named Internet Research Agency start buying Facebook digital ads to allegedly spread propagandist messages about various politically hotspots that included religion and immigration. This event brought the company into the biggest crises of its short history. I have to say it’s definitely a unique event to see an American company as the tool of a foreign plot to influence a major democratic election. Even so, the stock pushed higher. However, on this very day we read about a seemingly endless series of “events” which are said to have caused the company stock to decline nearly $100/share with its most recent print of 126.85.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Amazon (AMZN) – Highlighting Next Area For Buyers / Companies / Amazon

By: ElliottWaveForecast

We recently wrote an article explaining why Mr Jeff Bezos had nothing to worry about after being down $45B in October’s market sell off and also stated the obvious fact that trend in Amazon (AMZN) is up and pull backs are a buying opportunity. AMZN reached our blue box area starting from $1477 at the end of October and buyers were waiting there as expected. We keep mentioning that once a blue box is reached, two things can happen, either the trend will resume or there will be a minimum 3 waves reaction from the blue box to allow the longs to eliminate risk on the trade by trailing stops or booking partial profits and then trailing stops. Amazon bounce quickly reached 50% Fibonacci retracement of the decline from 9/4/2018 peak which was good enough for the longs from $1477 to get risk free. However, sellers have managed to push price below 10/30/2018 low which creates an incomplete 5 swings sequence down from 9/4/2018 peak. Let’s take a look at the chart below