Monday, September 28, 2015
The One Stocks Indicator to Watch as More Bubbles Burst / Companies / BioTech
Michael E. Lewitt writes: One by one, the bubbles are bursting…
First it was the commodities bubble that blew up in mid-2014, which caused the collapse of energy and commodity stocks -they are now down between 40-80%.
It also caused the end of the corporate credit bubble in high yield bonds and bank loans over the second half of 2014 and into this year.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
France Bombs Syria / Politics / Syria
France is part of the problem, not the solution, in Syria. It supported Obama’s war from inception. It partners in all US imperial wars, a key member of NATO’s killing machine, smashing one nation after another.
On Saturday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius lied, blaming Assad for four-and-a-half years of war, ignoring Obama’s full responsibility and French complicity, backing his aggression on another independent country, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists to do his dirty work.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Markets Gone Mad / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Imagine your doctor put you on a daily dose of oxycontin, phenobarbital and Quaaludes for six years straight. Then he suddenly cancelled your prescription.
Do you think your behavior might become a bit erratic?
This is what’s going on with the stock market. It’s trying to shake off six years of overmedication brought on by the Fed’s zero rates and liquidity injections.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Fed Custodial Gold Continues to Decline in the Post-Bretton Woods II Monetary Interregnum / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
The avalanche of gold that fled the Second World War is going home.
This is a return to a more 'normal' currency regime, and a move towards monetary autonomy in the aftermath of the of Bretton Woods era.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Why I'm Thrilled Stocks Are Crashing / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Dan Ferris writes: I'm praying for another couple of months like August in the stock market.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Why Stock Investors Should Be Praying for a Interest Rate Hike / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Bob Creed writes: A little over a week ago, the Fed announced it wasn’t raising rates. Our next chance of a hike is October... more likely, December.
Perhaps you breathed a sigh of relief when you heard the news. But we ask... Would an increase be so awful?
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Stock Market Going Down, Gold Chop Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Two weeks ago, I warned that September 17th would be a critical date: the perfect storm coming together with Mercury going retrograde and Jupiter opposing Neptune on the date that the FED announces its intents regarding interest rates. I also warned that gold stocks would take a dip into September 22/23.The stock market as measured by the S&P 500 made its low on Sept 24 falling over 111 points in one week (down over 5%) and gold stocks made their low on September 23 (down over 10%). Now we have Pluto going direct while the super moon eclipses on September 27. The set up is there for a huge rally in stocks on September 28 (to knock out the shorts) followed by a sharp drop into October 5th (especially after September 29/30). Gold stocks should rally into September 30 and then fall hard to new lows into October 5/6.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
A Look At The Dow Jones Industrial Average - Hauntingly Familiar / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Just as it did exactly 4-months following its print high in October of 2007, the Dow (within the few trading days remaining in September) is once again on path to breach its cyclical uptrend from a previous bear market low. Although the outcome may be better or worse this time around, the pattern unfolding is nonetheless hauntingly familiar.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Stock Trade-of-the-Week: JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM/PM) / Companies / Banking Stocks
Company Profile: JPMorgan Chase & Co. provides various financial services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking, Corporate & Investment Bank, Commercial Banking, and Asset Management. The Consumer & Community Banking segment offers deposit and investment products and services to consumers; lending, deposit, and cash management.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Stock Market Primary Wave IV Inflection Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
The market started the week at SPX 1958. After a short-lived gap up opening on Monday to SPX 1980 the market headed lower into Thursday when hitting SPX 1909. Then after a morning low the market rallied into Thursday’s close and gapped up on Friday to hit SPX 1953. If that wasn’t enough, the market then dropped to SPX 1922 before rallying to close the week at 1932. For the week the SPX/DOW were -0.9%, the NDX/NAZ were -2.6%, and the DJ World index was -2.3%. On the economic front, reports for the week were mixed. On the uptick: Q2 GDP, consumer sentiment, the WLEI, new home sales and the FHFA. On the downtick: GDPN, durable goods, existing home sales and weekly jobless claims were higher. Next week, a busy schedule, will be highlighted by monthly Payrolls, the PCE and the Chicago PMI.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
Coffee Price Surges / Commodities / Coffee
Previous analysis outlined that while price was in a potential bottoming zone, without any signs of price turning back up then further downside must be favoured. That changed today in a big way. Let's see exactly what that is beginning with the daily chart.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
The Most Interesting Story In Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
Or: Gold Miners’ Doom Is Streaming Companies’ Boom.
The gold and silver miners are in crisis, as metal prices hover around break-even for many and capital dries up for most. Dozens of companies are one or two quarters away from running out of cash and closing down, and their executives are ready to deal.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
Violent Stock Market....Fed Tries To Protect Those 401K's... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
Ms. Yellen knew she made a terrible mistake last week by not raising rates. She made a speech to the world last night and did her best to correct that error in judgment. She said she would be raising rates this year. The banks would be the biggest beneficiary in that scenario, and it was a way to bring the averages up. It worked early on today as those futures exploded higher and held for the most part allowing a large gap up that started to run. And then it stopped running and went into reverse. A massive quick move down had the Nasdaq down over 100 points from its intraday high at one point before bouncing some. It was very ugly for the market overall. The market is unable to find leadership in enough areas to hold things up. Biotech stocks are in a strong bear market, with one after another falling hard day after day.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
3 Ways the Elliott Wave Principle Enhances Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Learn practical ways in which Elliott wave analysis sets you apart from the herd
In this new interview, the head of Elliott Wave International's Educational Resources, Wayne Gorman, tells you about 3 practical benefits of trading with the Elliott Wave Principle: setting realistic price targets, finding ideal entry points -- and squeezing the most out of the trend.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
The Two Real Reasons Crude Oil Prices Are Currently Slipping / Commodities / Crude Oil
Each week, the report tells us what the crude oil and oil product markets looked like as of the previous Friday. It is usually the yardstick by which analysts appraise everything from oil supply through refinery utilization to the markets for processed products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, and low sulfur content heating oil.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
The Road to Tech Stocks Wealth Begins With These 3 Plays / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Last week, I responded to your questions asked about tech investing.
But there was one question I decided to save because it deserves its very own conversation. It comes from “Gwynne B,” who describes herself as being 70 years old and an investing “true novice” -and wants to know how to get started as a tech investor
I get this question all the time from everyone from college students to retirees.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Central Banks Don't Dictate Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / Central Banks
According to mainstream thinking, the central bank is the key factor in determining interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates the central bank, it is argued, through expectations about the future course of its interest rate policy influences the entire interest rate structure. (According to expectations theory (ET), the long-term rate is an average of the current and expected short-term interest rates.) Note that interest rates in this way of thinking are set by the central bank, while individuals in all of this have almost nothing to do and just mechanically form expectations about the future policy of the central bank. (Individuals here are passively responding to the possible policy of the central bank.)
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Friday, September 25, 2015
The Simplest, Most Effective Strategy For Getting Wealthy in Hi-Tech Today / Companies / Tech Stocks
That’s simply not true.
In fact, simple is always better… and potentially one whale of a lot more profitable, too.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Donald Trump Is Dead Wrong - Fact or Opinion? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
Alexander Green writes: Donald Trump believes foreign competitors are leaving America in the dust. He says they “are killing us.”
My column rebutting this charge ranked among the top Google News articles yesterday.
But it prompted a sharp response from some quarters.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
How to Force Your Boss to Give You a Pay Rise / Personal_Finance / Wages
Mark Ford writes: Over the years, I've had the awkward duty of declining raises to dozens of employees.
Most of them simply sulked and disappeared. But a few of them took the experience as a wake-up call and fought back.
They didn't see themselves as losers, and they weren't going to let me view them that way, either.
If you get turned down for a raise, arguing with your boss won't do you any good.
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