Thursday, May 18, 2017
Here’s The Truth About Russia’s OPEC Crude Oil Cuts / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: John_Mauldin
By Geopolitical Futures : In December 2016, Russia joined OPEC in a pledge to cut oil production by roughly 1.2 million barrels per day.
And for the first quarter of 2017, OPEC largely made good on its pledge. It produced 1.1 million fewer barrels of oil per day in the first quarter of 2017 than it did in the final quarter of 2016.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Credit and Volatility Signal That Financial Conditions Are Very Overheated / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : Around the summer of 2006, when I was at Lehman Brothers, I started bellyaching in my notes to clients about how the market went up every day.
I am a pretty creative guy, so every day I had very colorful (and irreverent) things to say about how stocks went relentlessly higher and how my life sucked.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Another Stock Market "Minsky Moment" or Will the Markets Calm Down? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
The chart show the best interpretation of yesterday’s decline. The SPX futures declined another 13 points before bouncing early this morning. It has regained about half of the overnight loss. As it stands, this would be an irregular correction, where Wave [c] does not meet the top of Wave [a]. Although unlikely, it is still possible that SPX could bounce back to the 50-day Moving Average at 2369.62.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Gold Investment & The Tech Stocks Bubble / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
by Jan Skoyles, Editor Mark O’Byrne : Tech is the umbrella word for all things fashionable to invest in right now. Take the recent flotation of Snap Inc. (parent company of teen and narcissists’ favourite app SnapChat), everyone wanted in on the $20 billion flotation.
Snap is likely a sign of a tech bubble that will cost a lot of savers and investors huge amounts of money … again.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
WannaCry Ransomware Virus Is a Globalist False Flag Attack On Bitcoin / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Jeff_Berwick
Here’s something I’ve been learning. If something innocuous comes out of nowhere and all-of-a-sudden is covered by the mainstream Fake News media as though it is the apocalypse… it’s all planned and done for a reason.
On May 12th, the “WannaCry” ransomware attack was covered widely in the mainstream media, immediately proclaiming it to be the “the worst cyber attack of all time.”
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Stock Market Blood Bath from the Get-Go / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had an extreme turn-around day today. The day started out with a plunge at the get-go, the futures going sharply lower based on the Trump news, they had a very brief five or ten-minute bounce, and then came down hard and plunged again. By late morning, the market formed bear wedges after rallying back, but could not sustain, and rolled over hard in the afternoon. Late in the afternoon, they formed bear flags, and went even lower. The indices completed a five-wave decline at the end of the day, finishing sharply lower.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Euro, Stocks, Gold Momentum Extremes All Round! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Enda_Glynn
My Bias: short in wave 3 blue.
Wave Structure: downward impulse wave 1, 2 blue
Long term wave count: lower in wave 3 blue
Important risk events: EUR: ECB President Draghi Speaks. USD: Unemployment Claims, Philly Fed Manufacturing Index.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Is This Bitcoin’s Fatal Flaw? / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: John_Rubino
Bitcon has been rocketing higher lately, as it gains widespread official approval and more people figure out how to use it.
As the first of its kind to emerge, bitcoin has become synonymous with “cryptocurrency”. But lately it’s been joined by a lot of others – which together now account for more than half of the cryptocurrency ecosystem:
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
US Stock Market Slumps on Establishment / CIA Trump Impeachment Coup Plan / Politics / US Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream financial press as is nearly always the case in hindsight looked and found the smoking gun for Thursday's stock market Dow plunge of 372 points. As the latest attempts of the ruling establishment elite to entrap President Trump manifested in chaos so that he can be removed from office and replaced with a far more docile Mike Spence at their bidding. And so the establishment press directed by the CIA have been busy pumping out reams of Anti-Trump propaganda that paints a broad strokes picture that Trump really IS Putin's Manchurian candidate, a traitor even who gives America's darkest secrets to Czar Putin of Russia, who is playing his own game with glee.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Sinister NYT Plot to Oust Trump from Office / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
Likely colluding with anti-Trump dark forces, Times editors said his authority as president “does not extend to obstructing a federal investigation.”
No credible evidence proves it - only an alleged Comey memo not seen outside the Justice Department if it exists.
It cites him quoting Trump supposedly saying “I hope you can let this go,” referring the witch-hunt federal investigation into possible improper Michael Flynn connections to Russia - what never should have been initiated in the first place.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Long Knives Out for Trump / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
He’s a longtime establishment figure. How else could he become super-rich, able to be the GOP standard bearer, then president?
Yet he’s portrayed as an outlier. Undemocratic Democrats and media scoundrels despise him for preventing Hillary from getting the nation’s top job.
An unrelenting blitzkrieg persists to demonize, weaken and delegitimize him, a softening up process aimed at ousting him from office by forced resignation, impeachment or more sinister means.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Brick-And-Mortar Retail Adopts New Tactics In The Battle With Online Retail / Companies / Retail Sector
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : Starbucks (SBUX) is doing something unique to improve sales. It is using mobile technology to increase repeat customers. Now, the online retail vs. brick-and-mortar conflict isn’t as clearly defined as it might seem.
Magical App Makes Coffee Headache Free
Starbucks has a very handy smartphone app that will guide you to the nearest store and hold your gift card balances. At the register, they just scan your phone and you’re done.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
SPX Gapped Beneath its Trendline / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
At critical times I check the daily against the hourly and 2-hour charts. To my surprise, the Diagonal trendline had drifted lower than it should have. I have corrected it because I had discovered that on the daily chart the SPX gap down had opened beneath the trendline! That suggests that the potential retracements may not go back above trendline resistance near 2390.00.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Gold Prices Spike On Heavy Volume On Trump Risks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
Gold prices rose for a fifth day to a two week high in early European trading on increasing U.S. political risk pertaining to the Trump Presidency and the increasing risk of impeachment and a U.S. political civil war.
Stocks and U.S. Treasury bond yields tumbled as investors moved cash into safe-haven gold amid a global market selloff.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Stock Market Support/resistance Broken. Probable Aggressive SPX Sell Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX gapped down to 2380.72, beneath the probable Wave [b] low. There is likely to be an attempt to fill the gap, a mighty undertaking at this level. I would rate this morning’s decline as an aggressive sell signal, subject to some blowback. A partial short entry may be advisable.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Tory Landslide, Labour Bloodbath - Will Opinion Pollsters Finally Get a UK Election Right? / ElectionOracle / UK General Election
By: Nadeem_Walayat
As Britain counts down to voting in the general election on June 8th 2017, the opinion pollsters who have badly gotten virtually every major election wrong for at least the past 5 years have been busy putting up a propaganda smoke screen across the mainstream media from the BBC's Newsnight to the broadsheets, peddling propaganda of margins of error and how they were only out by 2-4%. Whilst deliberately forgetting that the margin of error meant the difference between getting the election outcomes RIGHT or VERY BADLY WRONG! Thus making polls commissioned by the mainstream media propaganda machine at the cost of hundreds of millions of pounds WORTHLES! Literally even a coin toss would have proved far more reliable than the opinion polling industry.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The stock market sectors which are breaking out in 2017 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Submissions
Over recent times it has been reported that the stock market is once again proving to be quite volatile.It's for this reason why sources such as the JCRA group website are in immense demand; volatility prompts a lot of question marks that the average Joe just doesn't have the experience to answer.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Gold $10,000 May Be Reasonable; Or Wishful Thinking; Or Meaningless / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Kelsey_Williams
Is $10,000 gold reasonable?
Right now, from gold’s current price point of $1240.00 per ounce, we are speaking of an eight fold increase to get to that gloriously celebrated (at least by some) number. Even if the specific price target is more modest – say $7000.00 per ounce – it is still a huge jump from where we are today.
It is, however, a reasonable possibility. Between August 1976 and January 1980, gold rose from $100.00 per ounce to over $800.00 per ounce.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Stock Market NDX Reached New All-Time High / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a mini volatile session as they opened sharply high, came down sharply, held support, rallied sharply midday, pulled back in the afternoon, and closed very sharply on the Nasdaq 100, reaching new all-time highs. Although the S&P 500 was dissimilar in that it made two consecutive lower highs verses the Nasdaq 100 making two higher highs, that was decidedly negative divergence. We’ll see whether or whether not that plays out tomorrow.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Is It A Bull Market Or Bear Market In Precious Metals? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Avi_Gilburt
By Avi Gilburt : First published on Saturday May 13 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net: Without fail, each and every time the metals have dropped since bottoming over a year ago, many panic and proclaim the bear market to have returned. Moreover, many have looked to the USD as their guide to what the metals will do, and are completely befuddled when the dollar trades in tandem with the metals, as we have seen for almost two months.
As for me, well, since I was taught at a young age not to “ASSUME,” I only listen to price and try to ignore emotion as much as humanly possible. For this reason, I rely on my analysis to make decisions, as relying upon emotion often puts you on the wrong side of the market at the exact worst time.
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