Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Gold & Global Financial Crisis Redux / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The Global Financial Crisis, a broader deeper more powerful systemic crisis than the Lehman Event was, has finally arrived in a great redux. It is seen in numerous areas. We have finally arrived at the ten-year anniversary of the Lehman event, a killjob whereby JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs bought a few $billion in mortgage bonds and never paid Lehman Brothers. The firm died, called a financial failure, but was actually a strangulation. Goldman went on to capture AIG, in order to claim 100 cents per dollar on insured mortgage bonds, a second crime. The Wall Street banks, under the leader Henry Paulsen as the managing USTreasury Secretary, completed the third crime, by pitching the $700 billion TARP Fund. They stole it, using the fund for enriching themselves with redeemed preferred stock, instead of making the funds available for lending purposes. Here ten years later, nothing has been fixed. In fact, all the abuses heaped upon the mortgage finance sector have been repeated in sovereign bonds. The USTreasury Bond has become a subprime bond, financed by pure monetization, almost no actual bonds buyers, $trillion annual deficits, auctions rigged, with hidden demand from the derivative machinery. It qualifies as a Third World debt security. The corporate bonds were routinely abused in stock buybacks, hardly ever ploughed back into the business. High yield bonds are the norm now, along with the wrecked Emerging Market bonds. There are many analysts who call the current situation the Everything Bond Bubble.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Flying EasyJet - What to Expect - Manchester Airport to Dalaman, Turkey / Personal_Finance / Travel & Holidays
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's what to expect when flying the budget airline EasyJet, from Manchester Airport, including bag drop, check in, duty free, take off and then the 4 1/2 hours on board to our destination, Dalaman, Turkey, on board an Airbus A320, the mainstay of many budget airlines operating short to medium range routes such as Ryan Air and EasyJet.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Solar Powered LED Waterproof Camping / Garden Light Review - IdeaLife / Personal_Finance / Reviews
By: HGR
This is a review of a waterproof solar powered LED Camping / Garden light that costs £15.99 Amazon. The light is a silver disc with a plastic cover that I presume is what it gets it's waterproofing from. The disc is about 1cm in thickness, populated with 10 LED's and has 2 large solar panels on the back. The light has 4 modes of operation. Low light, medium light, high light, and flashing. And as the video illustrates medium mode setting gives a good brightness.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Wow Your Neighbours With the Best Christmas Projector Lights for Holidays 2018! / Personal_Finance / Reviews
By: Anika_Walayat
It's not too late to buy some of the latest Christmas lights tech delivered in time for Christmas week, tech that goes beyond the usual string lights by adding animated projector lights to ones home Christmas light displays. Not only do they 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 and are reasonably priced.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Stock Market Topping Formation as Risks Rise Around the World / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2018
By: FXCOT
Brexit Woes
British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a critical parliamentary vote on her proposal to leave the European Union, throwing both her government and her plans for the U.K.’s exit from the bloc into disarray. The big problem in brexit is ireland. Ireland is a EU member. Post Brexit, EU argues, that Ireland will be subject to EU rules while UK seeks assurances from them that a last-resort “backstop” guarantee that ensures no hard border appears between the Republic of Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland. But securing such a concession will be a challenge. So we are clearly moving towards a hard brexit and GBPUSD will fall from the current levels of 1.25. One of the best ways to take advantage of the brexit is via trading the GBPUSD via trade copier at fxcot.com
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The Amazing Story of Gold to Gold Stocks Ratios / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Rambus_Chartology
Tonight I would like to show you some charts from the PM complex we haven’t looked at in a long time. Some of these charts will look familiar to some of our long term members as they were very helpful in the past to help us figure out what the PM complex was up to. This first chart is a ratio combo chart which has the GOLD:XAU on top and the XAU on the bottom. When the ratio is rising gold is outperforming the XAU. During the bull market years starting around 1999 or so the ratio would trade between roughly 5.10 on top, blue horizontal line, and 3.70 on the bottom, red hormonal line. When the ratio rallied up to the blue line around the 5.10 area it was a good time to back up the truck and buy your favorite PM stocks and when the ratio got down to the red line around the 3.70 it was a good time to sell your PM stocks.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Stock Market Medium term Bullish, But Long Term Risk:Reward is Bearish / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
Last week’s market outlook was not clearly explained, so I would like to clarify.
Our models have not yet turned long term bearish, although they are getting close to turning long term bearish. But while building new and better models like the Macro Index, I’ve come to realize that at least from a long term risk:reward perspective, it doesn’t favor long term bulls. Market outlook and risk:reward are not the same thing. Here’s an example.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Natural Gas Breaks Lower Towards Our $3.00 Target / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Just about seven days ago we alerted all of our followers to a massive breakdown move that was about to unfold in Natural Gas. At that time, we predicted the price of Natural Gas would break below $4.30 and fall quickly towards the $3.00~3.20 level. Taking a look at that call now, with the price below $3.60, it seems our analysis was perfectly timed.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Why Are You Getting Stock Market Whipsawed / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
This past week was quite interesting, as well as volatile. On Monday, we had a huge gap up right into the initial resistance region we had on our charts in the 2810-15SPX region. In fact, the futures struck a high of 2813ES, and then turned down.
Well, when the trading day opened on Monday, analysts and market participants were quite certain that the “cause” of the rally was due to the dinner discussions the US President had with the Chinese President. And, based upon that dinner (and nothing more than that), everyone assumed that the market gapped up “bigly.”
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Is a Deleveraging Event about to Unfold in the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As 2018 draws to a close and the global equities markets continue to find pricing and valuation pressures driving prices lower, a few questions come to mind for all investors/traders – Is a deleveraging event about to unfold? What will it look like if it does happen and how can I protect my investments from such an event? This research article is going to help you answer those questions and should help to resolve any lingering questions you may have regarding the true nature of this market rotation and volatility.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Silver Investors See Palladium as the “Canary in the Coal Mine” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: MoneyMetals
The precious metals sector has just one standout performer this year, and that is palladium. Lately the market for that metal has gotten more than just hot. Developments there could have implications for the LBMA and the rickety fractional reserve system of inventory underpinning all of the physical precious metals markets.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Making Money through Property Investment / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Submissions
When it comes to making money, there are various ways in which you can invest in order to get returns. People have their own preferences when it comes to the most suitable investments for them but one type of investment that has always proven popular and lucrative is property investment. Whether you are in it for the short term or the long haul, property investment provides a great means of making money.
People have their own ideas and preferences when it comes to making money from property investments. The great thing about this type of investment is that you can opt long term and short term investments with property. You should think carefully about which of these options is going to be right for you depending on your finances, preferences, and long terms goals.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Brexit: What Will it Mean for Exchange Rates? / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Submissions
There’s a lot of confusion around exactly what’s happening with Brexit, which seems to be more and more complicated. Whatever you think is the best solution, if you’re in business you’re likely to be facing difficulties because of all the uncertainty. How can you make long-term predictions in this situation? How can you organise your overseas business, whether you’re trading with foreign partners or managing distant franchises, when you don’t know what the exchange rates are going to do? In fact, there are some predictions you can work with where that’s concerned. This isn’t the first such uncertainty the international markets have experienced, and models exist that can take it into account. This article explains what the experts think will happen and what we can learn from events so far.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 10, 2018
Silver Fails Miserably To Meet Expectations / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Kelsey_Williams
No matter how harsh it sounds, it is true. Unfortunately, too many people don’t want to hear it and refuse to listen.
Acknowledgement of the facts doesn’t seem to deter its supporters. We are told that silver’s ongoing underperformance relative to gold makes it “a better buy” with “more profit potential”.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Does Wall Street Now Have a Powell Put / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Michael_Pento
First let’s explain exactly what a “Fed Put” is. A Fed put is defined as: The confidence of Wall Street that the Fed will lower interest rates and print money to support the market until economic strength will be strong enough to carry stocks higher. The term “Put” is ascribed to this because a put option is basically a contract that offers a buyer protection from falling asset prices. It was first coined under the Chairmanship of Alan Greenspan when he lowered interest rates and printed money to rescue Wall Street from its 22% Black Monday crash back in 1987. The practice of bailing out stocks was institutionalized by Ben Bernanke; and then became a bonafide tradition perpetuated by Janet Yellen.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
United States Facing Climate Change Severe Water Stress / Commodities / Climate Change
By: Richard_Mills
Whisky is for Drinking; Water is for Fighting Over
The problem of severe water stress in the United States - and elsewhere - is serious and getting worse. Water stress is what happens when the demand for water exceeds the amount available, or when poor quality restricts its use. It most commonly occurs in areas where available water supplies have been over-exploited, often due to agriculture or urban development.
Depending on diet and lifestyle, a person needs between 2,000 and 5,000 litres of water a day to produce their food and meet their drinking and sanitation requirements
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Monday, December 10, 2018
First Time Buyer Mortgage Fixed Rates Tumble to Record Lows / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data, not yet published, shows the average two-year fixed rate at max 95% loan-to-value (LTV) is at a record low while the choice of all fixed rate products available at max 90% LTV is at its highest on record.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Waiting for Gold Price to Erupt / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As we are watching the US and global markets rotate dramatically lower over the past few days, we have been advising our members that we believe this rotation is an over-reaction to economic impetuses and trade issues – not a massive downside price break. Overall, some of our longer-term technical indicators are currently bearish, as one would think technical indicators would react to price activity and trends. Our ADL, predictive modeling system, is still suggesting upside price activity and we believe our research team has hit on something that helps to put this end of year turmoil into perspective.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Stock Market Key Support Being Re-Tested / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend – Bullish, but correcting within the long-term bull market trend.
Intermediate trend – bearish correction has started which could retrace as low as 2200 before it is complete
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends.
Monday, December 10, 2018
May BrExit Deal Tory MP Votes Forecast, Betting Market Analysis / Politics / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Theresa May's government is now certain to lose the critical vote in the House of Commons on her "EU Withdrawal Act" at around 6pm on Tuesday the 11th of December 2018. Theresa May requires 320 MP's to vote for her deal to get it through the House of Commons, with the mainstream media consensus pointing towards Theresa May only being able to secure support from between 190 to 240 MP's, the wide range as a consequence of 50 undecided Tory MP's. Therefore the level of uncertainty presents a betting markets opportunity.