Monday, April 11, 2016

Commercial Gold Traders Appear to be Losing Their Grip! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Peter_Degraaf

For years the best trading strategy in gold and silver has been to buy when the ‘net short’ position of commercial traders was low, and sell when the numbers were high.

Monday, April 11, 2016

UK Government EU Referendum Propaganda Leaflet Backfires as Anger Spurs BrExit Support / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Conservative government's baldrick-esk cunning plan of using £10 million of tax payers money to send out 27 million pro-Remain propaganda leaflets to Britains households looks to have badly backfired as its announcement has increasingly been met with a wall of anger from the electorate at what is seen as blatant attempts to gerrymander the election by the establishment by spending TAX PAYERs money on a leaflet the cost of which is EXCLUDED from the supposed £7 million election spending limits for either LEAVE or REMAIN camps.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Time to Invest for Stagflation / Stock-Markets / Stagflation

By: Michael_Pento

Whether you call it a 1970's style stagflation or, as we call it, a recessflation, investors need to prepare their portfolios to profit from a protracted period of rising prices in the context of zero growth. Here are some facts: Growth in the U.S. has averaged just 2% since 2010. However, Q4 2015 GDP growth grew at a 1.4% annualized rate and the Atlanta Fed model has Q1 GDP growth slowing to just 0.1%. The simple truth is that the rate of growth is slowing towards 0%, just as asset prices continue to rise to record levels due to vast intervention from central banks.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Bank Bail-Ins In EU as Heta "Bailed In" In Austria / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2016

By: GoldCore

Bank bail-ins in the EU are here after Austria’s financial markets regulator FMA imposed a hefty haircut on creditors in an Austrian bank. Creditors in the bank Heta Asset Resolution will receive less than half of their money back according to the country’s financial regulator, the FMA.

Senior bondholders in the so called “bad bank” could expect to receive around €0.46 for each euro which would be paid from the realisation of assets by 2020, according to the FMA statement. It said that this had been calculated using “very conservative” assumptions.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Still No Clear Stock Market Short-Term Direction As Investors Await Quarterly Earnings / 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 11, 2016

Buy-to-let Mortgage Providers Slash Interest Rates / Housing-Market / Buy to Let

By: MoneyFacts

The buy-to-Let (BTL) market has recently been under extra pressure thanks to stamp duty changes and recently-announced affordability tests, so a sudden rise in mortgage rates would not have been unexpected. However, research from Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that, in fact, the opposite has occurred.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Market Manipulation for Dummies - Video / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Mario_Innecco

Transcript excerpt: hi it's Monday April we laugh and 2016 it's about 9:40 London time in the
morning and I'm gonna talk about market manipulation and it's always strange
subject because we can't really prove it because we can't go to the banks warned
treasury departments of countries and say oh did you intervene you know at
such-and-such a time because they say oh we can't divulge exact client private
client information
well I'll start today and not put a link these photos on you know below in the
description because I can't really showed them because they're Getty Images
by you have a link to the website and photos and it says John snow towards

Monday, April 11, 2016

Gold Mining Shares Topping, Drop Due / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Brad_Gudgeon

Either we saw a top in the mining shares Friday or we will see it on Monday. The cycles suggest a low around April 19th and the e-wave pattern suggests a continuation higher after the bottom is put in, likely into early June.

The 8 year low still looms in the fall. I still believe we will see lower prices after the spring rally terminates, and lower stock prices and a strong dollar play havoc with the commodity sector.

Monday, April 11, 2016

As Ukraine Collapses, Europeans Tire of US Interventions / Politics / GeoPolitics

By: Dr_Ron_Paul

On Sunday Ukrainian prime minister Yatsenyuk resigned, just four days after the Dutch voted against Ukraine joining the European Union. Taken together, these two events are clear signals that the US-backed coup in Ukraine has not given that country freedom and democracy. They also suggest a deeper dissatisfaction among Europeans over Washington's addiction to interventionism.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Stock Market Beginning A Topping Pattern? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend: The beginning of a lengthy correction is probably underway!

SPX Intermediate trend: Potential rally top.

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, April 10, 2016

“Pope” Francis and the Disintegration of Europe / Politics / Religion

By: Antonius_Aquinas

Despite being rebuked and humiliated by the Republican presidential front runner over his inflammatory statements about U.S. illegal immigration policies, Newpope Francis of the Vatican II sect has continued to opine about the migration crisis.

In an address to a Newcatholic French group, Bergoglio admitted the obvious: “We can speak today of [an] Arab invasion. It is a social fact.” Yet, despite the horrific consequences of this fact, mostly orchestrated by New World Order groups and organizations of which his church is a part, Newpope amazingly contends that this will eventually be a positive thing for Europeans: “How many invasions has Europe experienced in the course of its history! But it’s always been able to overcome them and move forward, finding itself complimented and improved by the cultural exchange they brought about.”*

Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Curious Case of Iran’s Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Iran

By: Dylan_Waller

The recent removal of sanctions against Iran will prove to serve as a major economic catalyst for Iran, and investors should begin to start noting the opportunities of Iran’s stock market and economy.  Iran is by no means a small contributor to the global economy, and apart from the country’s ability to thrive amid low oil prices, it is also a key global contributor in the following areas:

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Deportations to Begin - Headlines from Trump's America 2017 / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Michael_T_Bucci

These are headlines from the Boston Globe, April 9, 2017:

“DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN — President Trump calls for tripling of ICE force; riots continue.”

The $400 billion deportation program promises to be one of the most disruptive government actions attempted since desegregation. Economists estimated ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] would need more than 900,000 agents to complete the deportations in the next two years.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Apple (AAPL) Stock Price Set To Fall / Companies / Apple

By: Austin_Galt

Apple Inc (AAPL) is involved in the design, manufacture and marketing of mobile communication and media devices, personal computers and portable digital music players. It is listed on the NASDAQ with a market capitalisation of around $600 billion. Price last traded at $108.66.

Let's take a top down approach beginning with the quarterly chart.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

EU Referendum UK Government Propaganda Leaflet Facts Check / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The Conservative government over the next few weeks will send out a propaganda leaflet to 27 million households at a cost to British tax payers of over £9 million in an attempt to convince the electorate to vote to remain in the European Union that this video attempts to facts check whether the claims stand up to close scrutiny or not.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Archbishops Father is Not God! What if Jesus had a DNA Test? / Politics / Religion

By: N_Walayat

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby following a DNA test to put press rumours to rest was instead shocked to discover that his real father turned out to be someone other than the man who had raised him from birth, as apparently his mother had slept with Winston Churchill's last private secretary whilst drunk resulting in the conception of Justin, all of which was just days before her marriage to the man who Justin would think was his father for 60 years.

Saturday, April 09, 2016

U.S. Real Estate & Fed, Systemic Risk is Rising Quickly / Housing-Market / US Housing

By: Chris_Vermeulen

The Federal Debt:

The current amount The U.S. Government owes is over $19 trillion and therefore it is mathematically impossible to pay back. They will never be able to pay this back.  Central bankers are in uncharted waters. They do not know how to create economic growth and fight deflation in some areas of the market.  They do not know how to even return to a time of “normal” monetary policy.   Their pretense of knowledge, of being able to effectively control currencies used by billions of people, is coming to an end.

Saturday, April 09, 2016

The Minimum Wage Debate – So What? / Economics / Wages

By: Andy_Sutton

There has been an incredible amount of posturing, debate, and arguing over the minimum wage situation – particularly surrounding recent events in California and New York where legislation was recently signed into law that would effectively double the nominal minimum wage over the next several years – 6 years in California, and 3 in New York City. The rest of New York will see the changes phased in over a longer period of time.

Instead of diving headlong into the useless arguing and name-calling, I think it is important to take a step back from the dogmatic rhetoric we hear on television, from the media, our legislators, and those in academia and take a hard look at the economics behind the idea of having a minimum wage to begin with. This going to take a bit of a leap for pretty much all of us since we’ve either grown up with a minimum wage in place or have had a job that paid minimum wage at some point – myself included.

Saturday, April 09, 2016

Is Silver a Long Term Buy or Bull Trap / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Submissions

Vimal Patel writes: Conflicting charts patterns suggest we may be entering a long term Bull market

Saturday, April 09, 2016

Gold and Silver: Ripe for a Recovery! / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Peter_Zihlmann

China May well Change the Game