Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Waning Enthusiasm for Stock Buybacks Signals Major Stock Market Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: EWI
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
U.S. Treasury Shorts Pounded into the Ground / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
This has got to be a decline for the records. There is nothing else like it in this chart. The treasury shorts are getting nailed.
ZeroHedge reports, “Over the past week we have been following a disturbing development in the US Treasury market: while the repo rate on the 10Y has been sliding deep into negative territory for a while, on Friday it finally hit the "fails charge" of -3.00%, suggesting there is a massive shortage of Treasury paper as a result of wholesale shorting by various market participants.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Let's Make the Banks Responsible / Companies / Banksters
By: Rodney_Johnson
It’s no secret I can’t stand most banks, particularly Bank of America. The institution is doing its best to get rid of any customer service that ever existed (fewer tellers, pushing clients to online services, etc.) while airing sappy ads about how much they care. Care about what? Their bonuses? Certainly not their customers.But even with my long-standing grudge against B of A, I’m not joining the chorus calling for greatly increased regulation or busting them up along with the other big banks.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Gold Market Overview / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Despite gold's historical role as money, the contemporary gold market is rather young. Until March 15, 1968, when a two-tier market for gold was established, the price of gold was maintained at a predetermined level (or rather, national currencies were defined as unit weights of gold). From that time, the market forces shaped the price of gold. In 1971, the gold standard was abandoned and the two-tier market came to an end and central banks started transactions in gold at market prices. As the International Monetary Fund pointed out in the paper "The Structure and Operation of the World Gold Market", "since then, a global market for gold as an asset in its own right has developed, remaining open around the clock and using a full range of derivative paper instruments".
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Silver Price Rise Will Be Quick And Sudden / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
The rise of silver and the collapse of the monetary system is inescapably linked, since the monetary system is built upon the suppression of silver. Collapse by definition suggests: to break or fall suddenly. This is exactly what will happen to the international monetary system, very soon.
Therefore, silver's rise will likely be very quick or sudden. It is for this reason that one cannot really trade this coming silver bull market. The best option is to keep on increasing one's silver ounces. When the time comes, silver will explode higher suddenly; for example, it could be possible that it rises $10, $20, $100 a day, until you cannot buy it with fiat money.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Stock Market Myths, and What’s Wrong with the Economy / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Tony_Caldaro
Stock market myths
Over the decades we have all learned to accept that earnings drive stock prices. Rising earnings – rising stock markets and stocks. Falling earnings – falling stock markets and stocks. In fact, there have been numerous studies, using current, future and lagging earnings, to determine an appropriate market price earnings multiple. Then standard deviations from that multiple are used to suggest a risk-on or risk-off investment climate.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Worst Cash ISA Season on Record? / Personal_Finance / ISA's
By: MoneyFacts
Traditionally, this is the time of year when ISA providers boost their offerings to entice savers who have yet to use their full ISA allowance to invest before the current tax year ends. However, Moneyfacts.co.uk research shows that this year’s ISA season has yet to bear fruit, with savers now facing some of the worst ISA rates on record.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
US Dollar, Oil and Bonds Three-way Dance... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The USD closed at the bottom of its trading range today, beneath mid-Cycle support/resistance at 97.17. The Cycles Model suggests the USD may continue its decline through March 25 and possibly longer.
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
FANG Annihilated....Energy Leading....Changes Abound....Again!... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
We have had a bifurcated market for the entire year. The Nasdaq is now down nearly 7% for the year, with the S&P 500 down only a drop over 2%. Why is that you ask? Simple really. The bear market is froth, but still hasn't died as evidenced by the action in the world of the FANG!! Facebook, Inc. (FB), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), all slaughtered big time today, along with all of them losing key, exponential moving averages. Some lost all three in today's action alone. Merciless selling in leaders with high beta and higher P/E's.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
New Gold Bull Market Now Official; Breaking Point in Paper Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
Gold officially entered a bull market in last week’s trading with prices gaining more than 20% from their December lows. The silver price also put on some very nice gains, but the price needs to reach about $16.40 before watchers can make the same claim.
If the white metal can exceed last week’s gains of more than 5%, the silver market will reach official bull territory too.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Gold and Lithium Companies Are Sizzling Hot / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
There wasn't much sizzle in the gold equities space in recent years, but that has recently changed. Paul Renken, chief geologist and analyst with London-based VSA Capital, says the recent uptick in the gold price—which he says should stay near current levels for a while—will boost the margins of already profitable gold producers. Renken is even more bullish on lithium, while remaining optimistic about uranium. In this interview with The Gold Report, Renken provides the gold, lithium and uranium names with sizzle.
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
The Great Quickening - Finance & Currency / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The quickening has begun in earnest. The end game might have begun in November with events picking up speed, remedy engaged in progressive steps, and geopolitical balance of power shifting in serious manner. The following are major events and factors in the Global Currency RESET in progress. The sequence of future events might become frightening, as the new financial structure comes into view. The potential for disruption to the USDollar- based supply chain and inventory system remains a high risk. The onset of the return of the Gold Standard to trade, banking, and currencies is upon us. The following are frequent topics within the Hat Trick Letter, within each and every monthly report.
Monday, March 07, 2016
Is This Whole Stock Market Bounce Just One Big Trap? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
I don’t trust this rally.
Few analysts realize that the sharpest, most aggressive rallies occur during bear markets. The reason for this is that during bear markets, investors tend to go short (borrow shares to bet on a collapse).
So when the market rallies even a little bit, it often will go absolutely vertical as these individuals panic and cover their shorts (which increases the buying).
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Free Trade Is the Path to Prosperity / Economics / Economic Theory
By: MISES
Georgi Vuldzhev writes: The political circus of the 2016 presidential election has revived and reinvigorated popular belief in age-old protectionist fallacies. Currently both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, are both in favor of expanding protectionist trade policy, with both of them arguing that free trade “destroys” jobs and hurts domestic workers and producers by exposing them to foreign competition. Both candidates espouse an utterly misguided zero-sum view of economics, in which one side to an exchange wins only when the other side loses. Both men are, of course, completely wrong.
Monday, March 07, 2016
The Rebound in Stocks Won't Last / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Michael_Pento
After taking a beating in January the S&P 500 has rebounded by about 5% in February, and this uptrend has continued into March. But before you think it's safe to jump back into long positions, it's important to realize why the market went down in the first place, and why February's rebound won't last.
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Gold Price Next 10% Move is Down, Not Up / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Gold has been on a tear since the start of this year. It is the best performing asset with a 16% rise in 2 months, however, if you are planning to enter gold at these current levels, you are likely in for a big surprise. Gold is overbought and technical analysis is pointing to a drop in gold price to the $1150/oz. level, a good 10% lower from the current levels.
The equity markets are in a bounce/rally mode and likely to remain buoyant till end of March. Oil prices, which were causing a scare worldwide are also on the mend, the bottom is likely in place at $26/barrel.
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Stock Market SPX Index Below Key Supports / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The SPX Premarket declined beneath the 2-hour Cycle Top at 1994.33 and the weekly mid-Cycle support at 1993.04 this morning.
ZeroHedge Reports, “In the aftermath of last week's disappointing G-20 Shanghai summit, there was much riding on this weekend's start of the China's People's Congress, and specifically what if any stimulus announcement Beijing will make; sadly for stimulus addicts Chinadisappointed and after the unimaginative scope of growth proposals none of which it will come remotely close to hitting, it is hardly surprising that European stocks and US equity futures have taken a leg lower, even if Chinese stocks rose and certain commodities such as Iron Ore soared overnight on hopes China will either "rationalize" capacity or at least build some more roads to nowhere. Others, such copper were less lucky.”
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Future Gold Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: DeviantInvestor
The internet is filled with predictions for the price of gold, from $500 to $50,000 per ounce. It depends on your world view.
If you are a central banker or a powerful financial player which often supplies loyal employees to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, the low gold numbers look good.
Or, if you understand the incredible $200+ Trillion of debt the world has accumulated and realize it can’t be repaid, then gold at $10,000 probably looks inevitable. Crashes occur and sovereign debt markets look like paper bubbles with disastrous potential to send gold much higher.
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Gold ETF Suspends Issuing Shares Due To “Surge” In Demand / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
Gold ETF, the iShares Gold Trust, had to stop issuing new shares in its $7.7 billion on Friday as a “surge” in investment demand for gold caught out the provider of the ETF and the world’s largest money manager, BlackRock Inc.
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