Friday, October 28, 2016
How Could Shift in Monetary Regime Affect the Gold Market? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Some economists, including San Francisco Fed President John Williams, have recently suggested raising the FOMC’s 2-percent inflation objective or implementing monetary policy through alternative frameworks, such as price-level or nominal GDP targeting. It is not a mere academic debate, as the Bank of Japan increased its inflation target in a sense, as it committed “itself to expanding the monetary base until the year-on-year rate of increase in the observed consumer price index (CPI) exceeds the price stability target of two percent and stays above the target in a stable manner”. What are these frameworks and how could they, if implemented in the U.S., affect the gold market?
Friday, October 28, 2016
Nasdaq 100 Takes Out Support, S&P 500 Hangs on by a Thread / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very strong gap up at the opening today, they reached resistance, and then they came down pretty hard the rest of the session to finish negative on the day and near the session lows going away.
Net on the day, the Dow was down 29.65 at 18,169.68, but was 85 points higher at one point in the day. The S&P 500 was down 6.39 at 2133.04, 14 points off the high. The Nasdaq 100 was down 24.15 at 4836.45, nearly 50 points off the high. So you can see how that nasty reversal affected the market.
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Friday, October 28, 2016
How Big Is Your Gold and Silver Picture? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
Whether you surf the Internet for information about the precious metals and mining stocks or receive newsletters by snail mail, you're exposed to predictions by all and sundry:
- How high will prices go?
- How long will it take?
- Will they remain elevated if/when they reach record nominal and/or inflation-adjusted highs?
Friday, October 28, 2016
Gold and Silver Connecting the Dots / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: P_Radomski_CFA
The USD Index confirmed the breakout above March highs, silver outperformed temporarily, miners underperformed and... Despite this bearish combination, precious metals didn't decline. Why wasn't that the case? Will they still slide or will they rally from here? Let's take a closer look at the charts and find out (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).
Thursday, October 27, 2016
The Next Big Shoe to Drop – Student Loans / Interest-Rates / Student Finances
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
More than 40 million young Americans carry federal and private student loan debt – amounting to over $1 trillion. Defaults are on the rise and the issue has grown to become a nasty wealth transfer mechanism, as well as sad example of the failure of finance in general.
This week, President Obama announced a new initiative framed as a way of addressing the issue. Sadly, it is far from the mark, and just one more indication that monetary masters are the real puppeteers.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
The Twists and Turns of the Greenback / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Steve_H_Hanke
At a monetary conference in Vienna back in 2014, the distinguished Frenchman, friend, and occasional collaborator Jacques de Larosière proclaimed that the current world monetary order should be termed an “anti-system.” He has a point – an important point. Among other things, such an anti-system invites an enormous amount of instability, as well as uninformed loose talk that influences public opinion and policy.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Gold Chart of the Day / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Savage
The first retest of the 200 DMA is the second best buying opportunity in a new bull market.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Obamacare Is Draining Our Financial Reserves / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: John_Mauldin
Barack Obama will stop being president on January 20. He will leave behind the signature accomplishment of his eight years in office: Obamacare. Some see it is a disaster, and others see it as a triumph. But I think everybody agrees that there needs to be changes.
Yes, millions more people now have access to health insurance. That’s a very good thing—but access to health insurance is not the same as access to healthcare. And access to healthcare is not the same as access to affordable healthcare.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
The US Is an Island of Stability in a Destabilizing World / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
Yet more proof that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Despite Americans’ pessimism, world-famous strategic analyst George Friedman thinks that the US is in pretty good shape while “the entire Eurasian landmass is in a state of failure.”
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Stock Market Short-Term Uncertainty Following Economic Data, Earnings Releases / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,210, and profit target at 2,050, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook is neutral, following S&P 500 index breakout above last year's all-time high:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral
Thursday, October 27, 2016
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Brexit Edition / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: John_Rubino
In June the UK shocked the world – or at least the world’s elites – by voting to pull out of the European Union. Economists predicted disaster, EU leaders threatened pain for British exporters and tourists, and the media settled in to watch the UK shrivel and die.
Four months later, the appropriate response is a yawn rather than a scream.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Brexit II: Is Donald Trump a False Flag? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Jeff_Berwick
I saw a video of Michael Moore promoting Donald Trump today and I wondered what was happening.
The Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs are in the World Series… and now Michael Moore, the democratic shill who glossed over 9/11 on behalf of the elites is supporting Donald Trump?
What is going on!
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Not a Pretty Day for the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a volatile session, first gapping lower and snapping back sharply to fill that gap, only to roll over, retest, and slightly take out the lows before a late rally brought them back.
Net on the day, the Dow was up 30.06 at 18,199.33. The S&P 500 was down 3.73 at 2139.43, 8 points off its low. The Nasdaq 100 was down 30.86 at 4860.59, 11 points off its high.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
“Chindia” Buying Gold on Dips, 20% Corrections Are “Non Events” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
Mike Gleason (Money Metals Exchange):
Frank, it's good to have you back on. Congratulations on another well-deserved award and thanks for joining us again today.
Frank Holmes (U.S. Global Investors):
Well, thank you for that recognition, but I want to make sure that your listeners know that portfolio manager Ralph Aldis is also key in that whole thought process and director of research and oversees the gold funds with myself. He's a geologist. He has a master’s in mineral economics, a master’s in geology. I like to tease him he has more degrees than a thermometer.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
4 Incredible Market Forecasts You Have to See to Believe / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Consider the common thread among these four market calls:
Read full article... Read full article...Forecast 1: A two-month, double-digit rally in a blue-chip stock index, even as investor sentiment hit a negative extreme last seen at the epic market lows of March 2009.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Globalization Faces Challenges / Economics / Global Economy
By: John_Browne
For much of the second half of the 20th Century, and even into the new millennium, "Globalization" was the dominant theme used to describe the drift of the world economy. It was widely considered both natural and inevitable that the world economy would continue to integrate and that national boundaries would become less constraining to commerce and culture. And with the exception of the eternal "anti-globalization" protesters, who robotically appeared at large gatherings of world leaders, the benefits of globalization were widely lauded by politicians, corporate leaders and rank and file citizens alike. But a casual glance at the world headlines of 2016 suggests that the belief in globalization has crested, and is now in retreat. What are the consequences of this change?
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
3 Reasons Ex-Wall Street Trader Jared Dillian Is Stock Market Net Short Today / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: John_Mauldin
BY MAULDIN ECONOMICS : Take profits and batten down the hatches. That’s the advice of former head of ETF trading Jared Dillian. He believes equity markets are likely to see a rough ride in the next few months.
In a recent interview with Mauldin Economics, Dillian elaborates on three red flags that make a case for a near-term pullback in stocks. Dillian first notes that “the price action is really not that good” in various financial markets.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The US Sent a Warning Message to Putin / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
BY JACOB L. SHAPIRO : US Vice President Joe Biden went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently and said the US was sending a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden’s words come after the US released a statement that it was “confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.”
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Aging of the Microchip Industry Is the Reason Behind This Economic Malaise / Stock-Markets / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN : Classical economics argues that as capitalism matures, competition causes both wages and profits to decline. Wages go down because the early successes of capitalism cause more workers to compete for jobs. Profits decline because more businesses enter markets, causing business failure.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Imprisonment or Impeachment – The Dirty Turn of the American Election / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Dr_R_M_Mathew
Never in her official life, had Hillary Clinton imagined that her secret and corrupt dealings, without any legal loophole, would be proclaimed at the roof of the building, as has been written in the Bible. The Biblical prophecy is getting fulfilled in the twenty first century in the case of Hillary Clinton as the WikiLeaks has been exposing her several sensitive e-mails, giving light to her shady deals, corruptions and bribing in terms of not in millions but in billions, sometimes trillions.
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