Monday, January 04, 2016

Gold Advanced During 2015 in Most Major Currencies / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: Jason_Hamlin

Sentiment towards gold has been so bearish lately that you might think the yellow metal declined by 50% or more during 2015. In fact, it was only down 11% in U.S. dollar terms and gold actually advanced in most major currencies. Out of the 17 currencies tracked, gold was up in 10 of them and down in only 7 of them.

Gold advanced in both Canadian and Australian dollars, rocketed higher in Argentine pesos and Brazilian real, climbed higher in Mexican pesos, Russian Rubles, South African Rand, Turkish Lira and Ukrainian Hryvnia.

Monday, January 04, 2016

Sheffield Risk of Rivers Don and Sheaf Flooding, Great Flood of 2016? / Local / Sheffield

By: N_Walayat

Britain's fifth largest city, Sheffield was hit with a once in a 150 year flood in 2007, but now 8 1/2 years later Sheffield may be about to witness it's next once in a century flood as a consequence of climate change that has seen a conveyor belt of heavy rainfall hitting mostly Northern Britain every few days resulting in a series of floods working their way down Britain's backbone that most recently has impacted major northern cities such as York, Manchester. Leeds and Bradford.

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Saudi Arabia Beheadings Illustrates that ISIS are Amateurs When it Comes to State Executions / Politics / Social Issues

By: John_York

It's Happy New year from Saudi Arabia's royal family that kicks off the year by offing 47 people of their heads as enemies of the state. Which was met with widespread condemnation from not just the usual suspects such as Iran and human rights activists but also a number of allies have frowned on the blood bath as on the one hand the West is engaged in a war on Islamic State for its barbaric beheadings of prisoners whilst on the other hand Saudi Arabia repeats the same in the interests's of the Saudi mafia family ruling over it's population by means of fear.

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Top 10 US Stocks Per Sector Ranked For Price vs 1-Year High / Companies / Investing 2015

By: Richard_Shaw

These tables present the 10 stocks in each US sector of the total US stock market ranked by how close they are to their 1-year trailing high price as of December 24, 2015. To be included in the filter universe, each stock had to have a 3-month average Dollar trading volume of at least $10,000 per minute.

This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of these stocks. It is merely a snapshot of where we are at essentially year-end 2015.

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Will 2016 Bring Another 2008-Type Financial Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2016

By: Graham_Summers

The world is lurching towards another Crash.

Japan, which has been ground zero for Keynesian insanity, is back in technical recession. This comes after the Bank of Japan launched the single largest QE program in history: a QE program equal to 25% of GDP launched in April 2013.

Sunday, January 03, 2016

USDJPY Pullback Continues  / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Austin_Galt

The 2015 high at 125.85 played out as expected we now have a bear trend playing out. Let’s review the daily and monthly charts.

USDJPY DAILY CHART

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Mass Saudi Executions Reflect Regional Violence of Pro-Western Despotic Regimes / Politics / Middle East

By: Stephen_Lendman

Most Arab League states are run by pro-Western despotic regimes - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Egypt the worst of a bad lot.

Palestinians get rhetorical support only, nothing meaningful done on their behalf. In March 2011, League members backed UN Resolution 1973 - prelude to US-led NATO war on Libya, a devastating conflict creating endless violence and chaos continuing unabated.

Sunday, January 03, 2016

More Ominous Economic and Market Charts For 2016 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: John_Rubino

If 2015 was the year in which no investment strategy worked , 2016 is looking like the year in which all economic policies fail. Already, at what should be the blow-off peak of a long expansion, US corporate profits are instead rolling over:

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Nabru Self Assembly Sofa Extensive Review and Guide / ConsumerWatch / How to Guides

By: Adnaan_Walayat

This is our extensive review and how to guide for the Nabru and similar self assembly sofa's that allow prospective buyers to purchase sofa builds that match their near exact requirements, not just in terms of material but also in fitting awkward spaces and also given the self assembly nature are not constrained by doorways, stairs other obstacles when moving furniture and that assembly is a straight forward process of slotting and covering, and NO gluing or nailing!

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Saudi Arabia Executes Four Dozen Prisoners ISIS Style / Politics / India

By: Stephen_Lendman

Riyadh and Washington are close allies, partnering in each other’s high crimes - both countries notably supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups, used as US imperial foot soldiers.

Domestically, Riyadh’s human rights record is abominable. Fundamental freedoms don’t exist. Criticizing ruling authorities risks arrest, imprisonment or death.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

The Fed’s Academic-Based Theories Are Creating a BRUTAL Economic Reality / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank

By: Graham_Summers

One of the most frustrating aspects of today’s financial system is the fact that the Fed is being lead by lifelong academics with no real world banking or business experience.

Consider the cases of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen.

Neither of these individuals has ever created a job based on generating sales of any kind. Neither of them has ever had to make payroll. Neither of them has ever run a business. What are economic realities for business owners (e.g. operating costs, capital and profits) are just abstract concepts for Bernanke and Yellen.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Iraq’s Longstanding Nightmare Continues / Politics / Iraq War

By: Stephen_Lendman

Washington bears full responsibility for the Middle East’s longstanding nightmare, partnered with rogue Israeli, NATO and Arab regimes. Call it the curse of oil - Iraq Exhibit A.

From America’s orchestrated Iran/Iraq war to Operation Desert Storm, to years of genocidal sanctions, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, to ongoing out-of-control raging violence and chaos, its imperial madness destroyed the cradle of civilization, replacing it with endless dystopian harshness - one of history’s greatest crimes, accountability nowhere in sight.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Will 2016 Be the End of the Current Skyscraper Boom? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: MISES

Mark Thornton writes: With more financing in place, the world’s tallest skyscraper is moving forward.

Recent media reports indicate that the final segment of financing has been obtained for the $1.2 billion Jeddah Tower project in Saudi Arabia. This is the financing that would be necessary to bring the project to record heights. Media reports also show that the structure has risen to more than seventy-five meters (246 feet) and construction is proceeding at an uninterrupted pace.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Dollar Collapse Gold Price Forecast 2016, Monetary Experiment - Audio / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015

By: John_Rubino

Gold is down in the US but rising in most other places. Could this be the start of the next bull market in precious metals and mining stocks? Meanwhile, the shape of next year's monetary policy is becoming more clear, and it's unlike anything seen since, well, biblical times. You'll be amazed and probably shocked.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Semi Bearish? - A Technical look at Semi Stocks and the Semiconductor Index / Companies / Tech Stocks

By: Gary_Tanashian

I must be bearish the Semi Equipment sector because I am short both LRCX and AMAT; the former a successful NFTRH+ long position that hit target and found resistance as anticipated by this chart originally included with the update.  I am not so worried about the gap because it changed the trend and gaps that alter the trend of a stock can take a long while to fill.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Gold and Silver Price Manipulation to Melt Away Soon - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Mario_Innecco

Transcript Excerpt: hi in my first video this year just like to talk about a couple of things I've seen on the Internet
first one of course I talked about it was the webpart video by Cliff high
about a week or so ago he talked about how it would reach $650 and gold would
be making a new high alongside silver and that would probably happen sometime
at the end of January this year and maybe beginning of February I just
listened to video on the internet with Bo pony I put the video to it the link
sorry to the video below at the you know below my video and basically both pony
is saying that his cycle work indicates that a lone goal should have been hit

Saturday, January 02, 2016

7 Market Predictions for 2016: Gold, Energy, Stocks, Bitcoin / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Jason_Hamlin

Despite my hesitation in writing another piece like this, people seem to love prediction articles. It used to be an easier task to simply identify and go with the trends, but so much is now up to the whims of central planners that it is nearly impossible to have much accuracy. These are just my best guesses and I will make sure to revisit them in another 12 months to see how well they held up. Here are my seven predictions for 2016:

Saturday, January 02, 2016

A 'Witch's Brew' Bubbling in Bond Market ETFs / Interest-Rates / Corporate Bonds

By: Gordon_T_Long

We believe the Credit Cycle has turned and with it will come some massive unexpected shocks. One of these will be the fall out in the Bond Market, centered around the dramatic growth explosion in Bond ETFs coupled with the post financial crisis regulatory changes that effectively removed banks from making markets in corporate bonds. It is a 'Witch's Brew' with a flattening yield curve bringing it to a boil.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Stock Market Risk On? Risk Off? Find Out Where Your Money Lies / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: EWI

A peek at the new free report from the editors of our Financial Forecast Service

It's almost Christmas, "the hap-happiest season of all." Yet, here's a sobering fact for U.S. investors: S&P 500 stocks are actually lower now than at the end of last year (chart: Google Finance):

Friday, January 01, 2016

Stocks Bull Market Continues With 9% Risk / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Tony_Caldaro

A choppy week to end the year. The market started Monday at SPX 2061. After a gap down opening on Monday, and drop to SPX 2044, the market rallied to 2082 with a gap up opening on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday were all downhill, aided by a gap down opening Thursday, and the market ended the week at SPX 2044. For the week the SPX/DOW lost 0.75%, the NDX/NAZ lost 0.70%, and the DJ World lost 0.60%. Economic reports for the week were light and negative. On the downtick: the WLEI, Chicago PMI, pending homes sales and the weekly jobless claims were higher. On the uptick: consumer confidence. Next week’s reports will be highlighted by the FOMC minutes, monthly Payrolls, and the ISMs. Happy New Year!