Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The Stock Markets Are Misreading the Economic Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
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
By: Graham_Summers
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
By: MISES
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.
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Stock Market Primary Cycle ...in hours! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
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
By: Nadeem_Walayat
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!
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Gold and the US Monetary Base Signals the Greatest Depression / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
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).
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Hillary Clinton Loves Goldman Sachs / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Stephen_Lendman
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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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Fantasy Ceasefire in Syria / Politics / Syria
By: Stephen_Lendman
I’ve explained many times. Syria is Obama’s war. There’s nothing civil about it. Scoundrel media regurgitated state-sponsored propaganda falsely claims otherwise.
Endless war rages, US policymakers committed to replace its sovereign independence with US-controlled puppet governance - one of history’s greatest crimes toward this end of no consequence.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Spectacular Day on Wall Street / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market definitely had a turn-round Tuesday as the indices exploded from the get-go. They ran very sharply higher until midday when they consolidated, and then stair-stepped their way higher at a shallower angle, but still continued strong until the close when they spiked right into the close to finish at the highs for the day going away.
Net on the day, the Dow was up 348.58 at 16,865.08. The S&P 500 was up 46.12 to 1978.35. The Nasdaq 100 was up 132.50 to 4333.61, up 132% and more than 3% for the day.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Energy Foreign Ownership Translates into Higher Electric Bills / Companies / Electricity
By: BATR
What exactly is a public utility? If you listen to the government officials in New York State, a foreign company is just dandy and will qualify from the Public Service Commission as a provider of electricity. While this may be old news, the continued adverse fallout from foreign ownership can no longer be flittered away. The latest approval of rate increases goes as an example of how the entire political favoritism system operates. The Buffalo N.Y. News reports, You’re likely to see higher electric bills soon.
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Stock Market In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
"In like a lion, out like a lamb" is a proverb describing the month of March. The month of March usually starts with cold, unpleasant weather, but ends mild and pleasant. Seasonality in equity markets during the eighth year of a Presidential term had led me to expect quite the opposite but it now appears equity markets may more closely resemble weather expectations. My Hybrid Lindsay forecast for a high on February 29 (or very close to it) is outlined below.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
SPX Makes a Broadening Flag / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It appears that SPX is completing a Broadening Flag formation at 1970.19. Its average target appears to be 1504.10. These are different from a Broadening Top, since they are reversal formations, while a Broadening Flag is a consolidation formation indicating a resumption of the previous move and may be more potent in terms of its ultimate target.
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Is the Gold Price Manipulated? Part IV / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
We have examined the major theories of manipulation in the gold market, so let’s deal with other interesting problems: high-frequency trading, declining inventories in Comex, London bias and gold leasing.
First, some people accuse big banks of suppressing gold prices by not only using ‘naked’ shorts, but also engaging in high-frequency trading (HFT). The HTF is a type of algorithmic trading characterized by the large number of orders at very fast speed (they operate in milli – or microseconds). Many investors believe that bankers using HFT create massive volumes of artificial traffic, or place and quickly cancel orders in order to create waterfall declines in the price of gold.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Stock Market, Gold Topping Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Brad_Gudgeon
The charts below were sent out to my subs last night. The SPX is in a bearish rising wedge formation and it looks like a top on March 2 near 1980 is in the offing. Gold and GDX are breaking down. The GDX charts below are just a possibility, but often times tops like this take longer than that projected in the charts below. March 14th is the new projected low for the stock market. A minimum of around 1840 SPX looks likely by that date. A rally into or around March 24 at this point looks likely for the stock market.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
U.S. Demographics - The Affluent Market Is Fading FAST / Economics / Demographics
By: Harry_Dent
About 30 years ago, I was able to predict the U.S. would see a major generational spending peak in 2007, all from my demographic indicator, the Generational Spending Wave.On a 46-year lag from the time they were born, that’s when the peak number of baby boomers would peak in spending for the average household.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
UK Fixed Bond Savings Interest Rates Fall Through the Floor / Personal_Finance / Saving Bonds
By: MoneyFacts
As far as the savings market was concerned, 2015 was the year of the challenger provider, and as a result rates crept up and positivity started to make a welcome return. However, research from Moneyfacts.co.uk shows that since the start of the year rates on fixed bonds have free-wheeled downhill to new lows.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Gold's Rise: Head Fake or is it the Real Deal? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Bob_Kirtley
The downtrend that has dominated this sector for the last 3 years has been broken by golds sudden and almost vertical rise from its recent lows.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Is the Most Hated Stocks Bull Market in History Over? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Sol_Palha
"An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains." ~ Dutch Proverb
Throughout this bull-run, a plethora of reasons has been laid out to indicate why this bull should have ended years ago. Mind you most of those reasons are valid, but that is where the bucket stops. Being right does not equate to making money on Wall Street. In fact, the opposite usually applies. The Fed recreated all the rules by flooding the markets with money and creating and maintaining an environment that fosters speculation.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
The Great Corporate Earnngs Fraud / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: James_Quinn
"What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions -- if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong." - Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Corporate earnings reports for the fourth quarter are pretty much in the books. The deception, falsification, accounting manipulation, and propaganda utilized by mega-corporations and their compliant corporate media mouthpieces has been outrageously blatant. It reeks of desperation as the Wall Street shysters attempt to extract the last dollar from their muppet clients before this house of cards collapses.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Why Oil Booms And Busts Happen / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: OilPrice_Com
What if I told you that there was a period in history where oil demand declined by 5 million barrels per day and non-OPEC supply increased by 5 million barrels per day, yet oil price rallied more than 50 percent? Would you believe me? If your answer is yes, then you guessed right. This was the period from 1979 to 1985; it was a period during which global oil demand declined from over 61 million barrels to 56 million barrels and non-OPEC supply increased from 32 million barrels to 37 million barrels. Yet prices rallied from $17 a barrel in 1979 to $26 a barrel in 1985, while reaching as high as $35 in 1981.