Tuesday, April 19, 2016
UK Savers Loyalty Doesn’t Pay / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Loyalty savings products are often marketed as exclusive deals that are only available to the select few who hold the right products. If you fit the criteria, this can be a tempting offer, but these deals don’t necessarily offer the best rates on the market.
Moneyfacts.co.uk analysed products that are only available to customers who hold existing accounts with the provider and found that they would actually be better off shopping around, something that is clearly illustrated in the table below.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Gold and Crude Oil - What Can We Infer from This Relationship? / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadia_Simmons
Although the world's largest oil-producing countries met this weekend in Doha, they failed to reach a deal to freeze output at Jan levels as Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman sustained earlier statement that Saudi Arabia would freeze the level of its oil production only if all other major producers (including Iran) did the same. Although Iran supported the freeze, the country didn't agree to cut production until it raises its output to around 4 million barrels per day (to the pre-sanctions levels). What does it mean for crude oil? In our opinion, such developments suggest a renewed battle for crude market share, which would likely translate into lower values of the commodity in the coming days or even weeks. Will our interesting ratios confirm this scenario? Let's jump right into charts (chart courtesy of http://stockcharts.com) and find out.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
UEFA Champions League 2016 Final Walkers PepsiCo Prizes Delivery (5) / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Find out in our final tally of prizes won in the UEFA Champions League Pepsi/Walkers easy to win promo. See what arrived in delivery no5, and what my overall impressions are of the promo and what to expect for future comps in terms of actual delivery of prizes against wins.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
UK Treasury Dodgy Dossier Claims 6% BrExit Price for Freedom, But Bank Bailouts Cost 16% / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The UK Government (Treasury) has released its latest 200 page dodgy dossier as part of the REMAIN establishment camps FEAR campaign on the forthcoming EU Referendum / Vote for Freedom (June 23rd). Today the Chancellor George Osborne led the charge of the light brigade by publishing a report that concluded that leaving the EU would cost the UK potential future GDP growth of 6.2% (Canada model) per annum by 2030 in relative terms i.e. that if BrExit happened annual GDP whilst still growing would be 6% lower by 2030 than if Britain had Remained within the EU.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
British Pound Caught In Strong Trading Range / Currencies / British Pound
By: Richard_Cox
Currency markets have had some difficulty in establishing trends for most of the year, and this has made it harder for traders to establish a strong stance when dealing with the majors. The Euro, US Dollar, and the Japanese Yen have all shown themselves to be clear examples of this but when we look at recent activity in the British Pound it is looking as though some different conclusions can be drawn.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Stocks, What Oil Problem?...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
There was a much anticipated meeting on whether the world's oil producing countries would put a freeze on future oil production since there was a glut due to decreasing demand. If the freeze was to be accepted, it was likely that oil would soar and take the market with it. If the freeze was not accepted, then it was likely oil would tank and yes, take the market with it. The news was bad as the freeze was turned down. The result was a very nasty move lower in oil and in our futures last night. It looked like the market was ready to give it up. To lose the breakout over the trend line at 2075. It had trouble for a few days putting that level away with force. failure seemed to be in the cards. Seemed to be, but in the end it wasn't.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
7 Gold And Silver Mining Investment Tips For 2016 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: InvestingHaven
This article is based on a live webinar which was hosted by InvestingHaven.com on Wednesday April 13th during which 15 questions where answered by panelist Rob Tovell, market analyst at RobTovell.com and investor/trader for 4 decades covering all markets including precious metals, and panelist John Newell who manages the “Global Precious Metals Program” fund at Field House Capital. The first part of the webinar was focused on gold and silver mining questions, and the second part about the gold/silver price as well as gold futures market.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Rousseff Impeachment Neoliberal Coup Attempt in Brazil / Politics / Brazil
By: Stephen_Lendman
Washington still thinks of Latin and Central America as its backyard. Colonial thinking never fades.
Make no mistake. Its dirty hands are behind the attempt to oust democratically elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
She’s not neoliberal enough to suit US policymakers. Her social justice programs have to go.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Brazil Impeaches President Rousseff; Where to for Brazil and its Currency? / Stock-Markets / Brazil
By: Mike_Shedlock
In a 367-137 vote with two absent and seven abstentions, Brazil's lower house of Congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
342 vote were needed. To reach that total, members of her own party had to abandon Ms. Rousseff.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
The Fed Rapidly Losing Control, Creating an Inflationary Storm / Commodities / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
The Fed is rapidly losing control.
Core inflation has already broken above 2% despite a complete collapse in commodity prices (the cost of living for many household items).
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Markets - When In Doubt Inflate Financial Paper / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Jesse
Here are the basic stock and precious metal and economic charts as of about 2:00 EDT.
The economic news this morning was rather poor, and the luster with which Wall Street attempted to paint the financial sector in light of the 'great results' from JPM were fading as the 'better than expected' results over lowered expectations from CITI were not so lustrous year over year. I think we might be in the midst of another handoff of long positions from the pros to the 'others.' But only time will tell as we bang against an obvious overhead resistance point. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 18, 2016
Negative Interest Rates May Be Positive for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: John_Browne
As 2015 came to a close, most investors believed that 2016 would be a year dominated by a series of Fed rate hikes. That conviction solidified in mid-October when comments from multiple Fed officials convinced many that prior hints that the Fed would stay at zero percent rates had been false alarms. The Fed delivered on its promise in mid-December by actually raising rates by 25 basis points. Based on this, gold declined by 10% from October 14 to the end of the year, nearly matching its six year low. Many on Wall Street thought the declines would continue into 2016. They were decidedly wrong.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Stock Market Premarket is Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
SPX futures declined to short-term support at 2062.36 in the overnight session. The Premarket is down, but partially recovered from its earlier plunge. The overnight bounce at Short-term support indicates the probability that it may not hold the second time. The rally trendline and mid-Cycle support at 2056.35 may be the next challenge later today.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Stock Market More Uncertainty Ahead Of Quarterly Earnings Releases / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,100, and profit target at 1,950, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook remains bearish, as the S&P 500 index extends its lower highs, lower lows sequence:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): bearish
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral
Monday, April 18, 2016
Loan Rates on the Rise for the First Time this Year / Interest-Rates / Debt & Loans
By: MoneyFacts
Personal loans have become increasingly competitive over the last few years with considerable rate cuts resulting in some of the lowest rates ever seen. However, it now appears that some providers can no longer sustain such low prices, so rates are once again on the rise.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Helicopter Money to the Rescue / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Frank_Hollenbeck
Following the unconventional monetary policy of negative interest rates, central banks are now considering an even more desperate measure: “helicopter money.” Milton Friedman is credited with this idea:
Read full article... Read full article...Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated.
Monday, April 18, 2016
The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer, A Morally Sound Tax Reform Proposal / Politics / Taxes
By: Antonius_Aquinas
This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18. As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of taxes to all levels of government with some $3.3 trillion to be forked over to the federal government and $1.6 trillion to state and local jurisdictions.*
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Trump Is No Peace Candidate / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
Throughout its sordid history, all US presidents supported war, not peace - including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts.
Traditional US policy from inception refutes the notion of a peace candidate becoming president - Jack Kennedy the one exception.
He entered office a warrior, transformed himself into a peacemaker, was killed for wanting all US forces out of Vietnam by end of 1963, normalized ties with Soviet Russia, nuclear disarmament, and the CIA disbanded, among other anti-establishment views.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
What Did Fed Chairman Yellen Tell Obama? / Politics / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
This week, President Obama and Vice President Biden held a hastily arranged secret meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the one paragraph statement released by the White House following the meeting, Yellen, Obama, and Biden simply "exchanged notes" about the economy and the progress of financial reform. Because the meeting was held behind closed doors, the American people have no way of knowing what else the three might have discussed.
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