Monday, February 06, 2017

Prognosis Of Financial Markets For 2017 And Beyond / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017

By: Raymond_Matison

The right time to consider our future financial markets for investing

Since the presidential election there have been many reports as how the financial markets of 2017 and beyond may evolve.  Given the acrimonious post election environment, it would be wiser to forecast the direction of markets after we see Mr. Trump’s full team in action for at least a few months, and more fully understand or experience his actual policies.  However, it is clear that at no time in history will a president’s fiscal, trade, national security, or FED’s monetary policies affect our financial markets more, which will determine the future wellness of America’s citizens.  At the same time, however, no policies can fully extricate us from our overbearing debt, and the painful economic consequences which we are to experience in the very near future.

Monday, February 06, 2017

Absolution, Deceit and Renewables / Politics / Renewable Energy

By: Raul_I_Meijer

It’s been a while since the Automatic Earth featured an article from Energy Matters, the site run by our longtime friend Euan Mearns, Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Aberdeen, and his co-conspirator Roger Andrews, a British engineer/geophysicist, semi-retired in Mexico. But I read a piece by Roger yesterday that I like, because it allows me to rant against all the false claims emanating from countries and companies about the share of renewable power in their total energy consumption.

Roger focuses on the railway system in the Netherlands, run by NS, which recently claimed that it operates on 100% wind power. This is of course, if you know anything about electricity generation and the grid, a preposterous claim, and that the company has the guts to make such a claim can only serve to prove how little the general public knows about the topic. Or they wouldn’t dare. Green is still so sexy in certain circles, and actual knowledge so poor, that companies like the NS feel no scruples about stretching their ‘greenness’ into absurd theater territory.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Retail Prices at wholesale Prices – Next Hot Stocks Sector / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis

By: Chris_Vermeulen

As we close out the first week of February, I’m writing to illustrate the types of great opportunities waiting for all of us.  All the trades we share are based on our Momentum Reversal Method (MRM) trading system.

There are two key components of this trading strategy; A. identifying recent price rotation, or B. identifying price resumption of existing momentum.  Both examples, today, will focus on two unique examples of the Momentum Reversal Method and two unique setups.  Today’s examples are XRT and AIQ, setups that we believe will result in tremendous opportunities for traders over the next 2-3 weeks.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Stock Market Testing the High / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend: If the market strength persists, the long-term trend may need to be re-evaluated.

SPX Intermediate trend: SPX intermediate P&F count to 2300 has been reached. A reversal should now occur.

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 discuss longer market trends.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Why Trump’s Economic Justice Warriors Will Crash The US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Jeff_Berwick

For the last eight years we’ve seen the rise of the Social Justice Warriors (SJW’s), as they had lobbied their man, Obama, for the political power required to direct the force of government in the name of their own peculiarly relativist brand of “social justice.”

While they are still busy demonstrating the violent soul of what is inherent in all brands of statism by breaking storefront windows (masked), under the Trump epoch a new type of statist “warrior” has emerged… let’s call them the Economic Justice Warriors (EJW’s).

Sunday, February 05, 2017

S&P 500 Pivots Off Support Into New Stock Market Upleg / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Mike_Paulenoff

In our Wrap last Friday, we noted to expect the S&P 500 to pullback further to support before continuing its next up-leg. The index bounced slightly below our expected target in the 2270 range, and ended the week again challenging 2300.

A big catalyst was Friday's positive reaction to the Jobs Report and to the prospect of repeal of financial regulations, which thrust the S&P 500 into a new upleg.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Stock Trade-of-the-Week: Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (AAR/UN) / Companies / Investing 2017

By: Donald_W_Dony

Company Profile: Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust is an independent equity real estate investment trust. The firm acquires, owns, and operates a diversified portfolio of income producing industrial properties in primary industrial markets. It invests in the real estate markets of Canada. Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust was founded in June 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Walkers Crisps Snap & Share Top Tips for Winning Prizes, PS4, Match Tickets / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: Anika_Walayat

Walkers Crisps have just started a new promotion in conjunction with UEFA Champions League where you can win prizes including 40 pairs of match tickets, 500 play stations and 7000 footballs. Here are our top tips for how you can maximise prizes whilst minimising costs i.e. it is not necessary to buy loads of crisp packets for codes to win prizes! Find out in our top tips video.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

US Dollar Bulls Surrender? / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Rambus_Chartology

The US dollar has now closed lower for 6 weeks in a row which is testing the patience of the bulls. This week the price action cracked the top rail of the horizontal trading range which is a negative, but not confirmation yet the trend has reversed down. There are several more layers of support that will need to be hit before I throw up the white flag and surrender to the bears.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Pope Francis and the Poverty-Ridden Catholics / Politics / Religion

By: Dr_R_M_Mathew

- A New Development Strategy for the Catholic Church
In spite of the increasing charity and missionary works in terms of billions all over the Christian world, especially of the Catholic Church for the last 2000 years, poverty and backwardness in the Christian World have been growing at an alarming rate. It is estimated that while over 38% of the world Christians lives in ignorance, poverty and backwardness, the share of the Catholics comes around 30%. However, more than 60% of the world Muslims belongs to this category despite the importance given to zakat by Islam.

Saturday, February 04, 2017

SPX Stocks Bull Market Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Tony_Caldaro

The week started at SPX 2295. After a gap down opening Monday the market traded down to SPX 2267 on Tuesday. Then Wednesday’s opening was a gap up, followed by a pullback, then another gap up opening on Friday ending the week at SPX 2297. For the week the SPX/DOW were mixed, and the NDX/NAZ were mixed as well. Economic reports for the week were again mostly positive. On the downtick: the Chicago PMI, consumer confidence, construction spending, auto sales, ISM services, the WLEI, plus the unemployment rate rose. On the uptick: personal income/spending, the PCE, pending home sales, Case-Shiller, the ADP, the ISM, NF Payrolls, factory orders, the Q1 GDP estimate, plus weekly jobless claims were lower. Next week’s reports will be highlighted by the trade balance, the budget deficit and export/import prices. Best to your week!

Saturday, February 04, 2017

The Future of Cannabis Investing / Companies / Cannabis

By: The_Gold_Report

The cannabis industry attained new highs in 2016, paving the way for some big changes this year, says Tom Beck, senior editor of Portfolio Wealth Global.

Four states in the U.S. voted in favor of legalization on November 8^th of 2016, and it was expected that the cannabis market would rake in over $6.7 billion from the U.S. alone in 2016.

Saturday, February 04, 2017

XAU/Gold Ratio : The Deep Dive / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017

By: SurfCity

Still waiting patiently for another possible nibble at some Miner positions. In the meantime, what is the XAU:Gold ratio and why is it important?

The Ratio clearly shows you that If you are going to invest or trade Gold/Silver Mining stocks you had best have some kind of time horizon to harvest profits. Why? The Ratio peaked in favor of the XAU all the way back in 1983. Yes the miners have underperformed Gold as a long term investment over that long period of time.

Saturday, February 04, 2017

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - How to USB Smart Switch Transfer App's, Data and Settings (E4) / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology

By: Adnaan_Walayat

Here's a quick way to get your new samsung phone setup with data and software and settings easily transferred over form your old samsung phone using the smart switch USB transfer dongle that comes with many if not most new samsung phones such as the S7. It really does work as this video illustrates, and can even get most of the stuff off of dying old phone! Though there will be some app's it won't achieve transfer of settings over for instance Whatsapp will need a little more work.

Saturday, February 04, 2017

KitKat Easy to Win Personalised Packs Promotion, 1000 Prizes Every Day! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: Anika_Walayat

KitKat has just launched a very, very easy to win promotion where the prize is a personalised 4 finger KitKat bar with your own picture and message on it. KitKat are making 1000 prizes available EVERY DAY which is why this really is an easy to win promotion i.e. so far we have won EVERY entry we have made.

Friday, February 03, 2017

US Mint Gold and Silver Bullion Coin Sales / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: Zeal_LLC

Gold’s first new bull market since 2011 last year was overwhelmingly driven by stock investors flooding into gold ETFs.  Traditional physical bar-and-coin demand was actually quite weak, falling considerably year-over-year.  Nevertheless, it’s still important to stay abreast of classic gold and silver investment demand.  One key microcosm of that comes in the form of the US Mint’s sales of its popular American Eagle coins.

When American investors buy physical gold and silver bullion, it’s often in the form of these American Eagle 1-ounce coins.  They have a really interesting history.  Back in the early 1980s, foreign national gold coins led by South Africa’s famous Krugerrand were soaring in popularity.  The US Congress didn’t want the States to be left out of the prestigious national-gold-coin business, so it finally acted in 1985.

Friday, February 03, 2017

Shocking Fact in Today's US Jobs Report: Employment Stalls / Economics / Employment

By: Mike_Shedlock

Initial Reaction

Today's employment report shows a robust increase of 227,000 jobs. The good news stops there. The rest of the report was horrific.

The big news is in employment where the three-month trend worsened.

In the last three months, employment has only risen by a grand total of 33,000. Employment in January declined by 30,000. For the entire year, employment rose by only 1,548,000. The average increase from a year ago is only 129,000 per month.

Friday, February 03, 2017

SPX Challenging its Cycle Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX is challenging its 2-hour Cycle Top at 2296.60. This move is corrective and appears to be a retracement with the added feature of filling the gap left on January 30. Wave 2 reversals often come off the Cycle Top resistance, so this is not abnormal. This is the 43rd hour from the 2300.99 top. It strongly suggests a reversal may ensue thin the current hour.

Friday, February 03, 2017

US Jobs Report Spikes Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

SPX futures are higher, taking out the 2289.14 high. The bearish count suggests another double zigzag that does not take out the 2300.99 high. A possible target may be the Cycle Top high at 2295.95.

Friday, February 03, 2017

Ignore Trump Sabre-Rattling and Buy Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: GoldCore

• Gold hits 12-week high
• USD Gold price up 4.85% in last month
• Sabre-rattling from Trump administration set-to benefit gold
• Iran upset and Middle East tensions could drive oil and gold prices up.
• Financial Times foresees “not only currency wars but a fully fledged trade confrontation that could be disastrous for the world economy.”
• Royal Mint producing 50 % more gold bullion coins and bars compared to 2016
• Utah moves to hold public funds in gold
• WGC report demand for gold hit four-year high in 2016
• Investment demand climbed by 70% last year fuelled by geopolitical uncertainties