Thursday, March 03, 2016
Stock Market Faulty Recession Barometer / Economics / Recession 2016
A cacophony of recession chatter is filling the airwaves. Some experts are already declaring we are in one while others are raising warning flags. Their message has not been lost on the masses: Google searches for the word "recession" have risen to the highest level since 2012. Interestingly, many commentators cite the 20% decline in global stock prices as the warning signal, if not the cause. But veteran investor Joe McAlinden believes the U.S. economy will continue to expand in the year ahead.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Fed Stuck Between Hard Place and a Grenade / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. Raymond HullThe Fed is stuck in between a hard place and a grenade, given this option, they will choose the hard place as unless you are looking for a one-way to ticket to nowhere you won’t choose the grenade. The Fed has nowhere to go; there is only one option available inflate the money supply or die trying to.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
SPX Breaks its First Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
SPX just broke its 2-hour Cycle Top at 1980.09, suggesting an end to this swing rally. It is now in a retracement back above that support. When it is broken a second time this may be a good aggressive short entry for any dry powder at hand. Confirmation may not come until SPX declines beneath its 50-day Moving Average at 1937.03. However, the decline has the potential to be massive, so take your best shot.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
What Is Copper Telling Us? / Commodities / Copper
I am going to keep this piece, short and sweet as I believe the charts below will speak volumes about where we are in these markets and more importantly, where we are heading.The world seems to be on the verge of a meltdown but, if so, why are some of the commodities telling a different story?
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
GLD ETF Continues To Add Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
The continued build in the number of reported gold holdings in the large gold ETF, GLD, is nothing short of phenomenal. This week alone, another 22 tons of gold have been added to the ETF bringing the total in storage to 788.6 tons.
Here is a chart showing the sharp increase in holdings.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Stocks Follow Crude Oil Price Higher Towards New All Time Highs 2016 - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
The Dow's latest surge higher has put the stocks index within 3% of setting a new high for 2016, so it's not looking like it's going well for the bears who at least into early February were proclaiming that the Great Bear Market Apocalypse was upon us. Instead for the past couple of weeks or so have been increasingly going silent, into hibernation. Though I have to give it to the perma bears, those who have been wrong for the longest are still out there pumping out bear market and crash rhetoric of 30%, 40% even more than a 50% drops!
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Donald Trump – Bad For US Dollar, Good For Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
Donald Trump’s emergence as the Republican frontrunner and possible future U.S. President is causing some gold and investment analysts to suggest diversifying into gold according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Stock Market Refusing To Fall....Sentiment Peeking Above Zero For Spread.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
The market got a plethora of happy news yesterday, which began with China's central bank deciding it was time for yet another stimulus program. In addition, we heard Mr. Draghi of the Euro zone promise more help on the stimulus front, and lastly we had a better than expected, although still contracting, ISM Manufacturing Report. A triple play of good market news.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Waning Enthusiasm for Share Buybacks Signals Major Stock Market Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
SPX Rally Curbed by the Trendline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
Each successive high has been stopped multiple times at the Broadening Flag trendline. Wave (c) of [y] consists of 17 waves, which is a very extended impulsive wave.
Tomorrow is day 43 from the January 20 low, a Primary Cycle Pivot day. It appears that we may have our Primary Cycle top after all, but measured from a prior low instead of the February 11 low.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
Sprott Global: Minimally Consider 20% in Real Assets Including Farmland and Diamonds / Stock-Markets / Investing 2016
Gordon T Long interviews Jason Stevens of Sprott Global Resources Investment. Stevens has an education background in the natural resources and precious metals field for the past 12 years, and has worked alongside mining engineers, geologists and the industrial industry executives to support his research and work with Sprott Global.
Sprott Global is widely known for providing alternative investments in the precious metals field of economy for investors. Recently, they have created two qualitatively weighted indexes, ETFs, as opposed to market capital ratings that give larger companies a higher rating without any supporting evidence.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
How Does Sam Afford to Buy So Much Stuff? / Interest-Rates / US Debt
Mark Brandly writes: Lately, I’ve wondered how my neighbor, Sam, affords to buy so much stuff. He appears to have an unlimited budget. When I asked him about this, Sam asked, “Do you think I’m spending too much?”
“That depends,” I said, “How much money do you make?”
“I take home $100,000 a year.”
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Stock Market Teetering on the Edge of a Precipice - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
Transcript Excerpt: Its march 2nd 2016 Wednesday it's 11 o'clock here in london where 6 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time in New York or the USS yeah I'd like to talk today about
the stock markets and in my view looking at the technicals quiet worrying in my
opinion I've got done a little bit of analysis on the monthly chart of the Dow
Jones industrial average and to me I don't want to sound alarmist and I know
most people prefer things to work out you know more moderately but in looking
at the picture that you will see soon it looks quite scary you know what could
happen in the next few months six months even less than six months in my opinion
so here we go again so I've gone back as you can see on the chart coming up here
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The Stock Markets Are Misreading the Economic Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
The US markets are in a quandary.
On the one hand, some of the data (GDP growth, unemployment, etc.) suggests the Fed should continue to hike rates. On the other hand, other data points (food stamp usage, labor participation rate) suggest the US never actually entered a real recovery.
More importantly, how can the jobs data suggest such a strong employment situation… when one in seven Americans are on food stamps?
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
That Makes TWO Central Bankers Ringing Bells At Market Top / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
In the last month, we’ve had two major confessions from Central Bankers.
We’ve already detailed the first, which came from the Head of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Understanding the Federal Reserve’s Shell Game / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
Dan Sanchez writes: The Federal Reserve is a key component of the American Transfer State. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The beneficiaries are the government and its elite cronies.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Stock Market Primary Cycle ...in hours! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
SPX closed precisely at the trendline of its Broadening (bearish) Flag formation. The rally from February 11 to the top took almost exactly 86 hours. This was no coincidence.
This would be considered a Primary Cycle in hours. Primary Cycles are often described in superlatives. Unfortunately, my Cycles Model works in days and I have to do the additional calculation for the hours.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Stock Markets Dow, FTSE Tracking Crude Oil Rally Towards New All Time Highs 2016! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
The Dow's latest 350 point surge higher to 16,836 has put the stocks index within 4% of setting a new high for the year, so it's not looking like it's going well for the stocks bears who at least into early February were proclaiming that the Great Bear Market Apocalypse was upon us. Instead for the past couple of weeks or so have been increasingly going into hibernation. Though I have to give it to the perma bears, those who have been wrong for the longest are still out there pumping out bear market and crash rhetoric of 30%, 40% even more than a 50% drops!
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Gold and the US Monetary Base Signals the Greatest Depression / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
Gold is currently trading in excess of $1200 an ounce. This is well above the 1980 all-time high. However, this is an incomplete representation of what gold is trading at relative to US dollars. When you look at the gold price relative to US currency in existence, then it is at its lowest value it has ever been. This is an example of how paper assets are completely out of tune with tangible (real assets).
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Hillary Clinton Loves Goldman Sachs / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
It’s hard imagining a more despicable candidate for any public office, unthinkable for the nation’s highest.
Her presidency, if elected, assures endless wars of aggression, possible confrontation with Russia and China, letting Wall Street, other corporate bandits and war-profiteers continue looting the nation’s wealth, as well as likely advancing tyranny to full-blown, stripping the mask entirely off constitutional governance.
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