Friday, June 14, 2019
Three Steps to Making Your Personal Finances More Private in a Digital Age / Personal_Finance / Financial Education
By: MoneyMetals
Imagine a world where every financial move you make gets recorded in databases that are accessible by any number of third parties – from bankers, to government bureaucrats, to data thieves.
It’s the world of the cashless, all-digital economy. And it’s rapidly approaching.
Fortunately, there are some steps you can take to secure your financial privacy – or at least make your wealth less vulnerable to digital prying – before it’s too late.
Friday, June 14, 2019
Soft Inflation Data and Concerned Draghi. How Will Gold Like It? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
U.S. consumer inflation has moderated recently. Trade wars go on. What the Fed will do now? Let’s not forget the recent ECB monetary policy meeting. It carries implications for both EUR/USD and gold. Just what are they?
Inflation Slows Down in May
The CPI rose just 0.1 percent in May, following an increase of 0.3 percent in April, the government said on Wednesday. It was the smallest hike since January. The core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, also increased 0.1 percent, for the fourth month in a row. Although the monthly numbers do not portend a revolution, May indicates eased inflationary pressure, mainly because of falling energy and used-vehicle prices.
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Friday, June 14, 2019
Keeping the Online Gaming Industry in Line / Companies / Gambling
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Friday, June 14, 2019
How Acquisitions Affect Global Stocks / Companies / IPOs
By: Submissions
If you love to keep up to date with market news or you enjoy reading financial forums, you can’t have missed the fact that waves of excitement travel through the investment community every time a big acquisition is expected. Suddenly there’s lots of speculation about what will happen to stock prices and what will be the right moment to buy or sell. The international nature of today’s market means that big company purchases have repercussions around the clock, keeping investors on their toes. In this fast-paced environment, it has never been more important to understand how acquisitions affect stock prices and what this means for global market movements.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, June 14, 2019
Please Don’t Buy the Dip in Nvidia or Other Chip Stocks / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Stephen_McBride
What do an iPhone and Nike sneakers have in common?
Both are made by iconic American companies. Both are also made in China.
American goods used to be made in America. Then cheap labor transformed China into the “world’s factory.”
Today we get 80% of our air conditioners, 70% of TVs, and 60% of shoes from China. But there’s one disruptive area that America still dominates.
Stocks in this area can produce huge profits (or losses) depending on how the US-China trade war shakes out. In fact, I picked a safe chip-making company as one of my three favorite disruptor stocks for 2019.
Friday, June 14, 2019
A Big Thing in Investor Education is Explainer Videos / Companies / SME
By: Submissions
Investor Education has never been an easy task for the professionals out there. However, with the growth of explainer videos in the marketing and promotion world, educating about their finances and the importance of investment has become much easier. Moreover, explaining your services and educating the people through these videos leaves a much deeper impact on the viewers. Not to mention, these are really fun and quick to generate. Let us discuss their characteristics which can assist you to spread investor education and pitch your services.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
IRAN - The Next American War / Politics / US Military
By: Submissions
The hand on the trigger: How an American president wantonly prepares the next war
The great world powers slipped into World War I without really wanting it. But they had been arming themselves for years, so all that was needed was but a spark – such as the assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne – to detonate a powder keg filled to the rim.
A lot of explosives had accumulated
not only in the arsenals of the military, but in the hearts of the people. In the first moment of the declaration of war, many people throughout Europe were seen to be overwhelmed by enthusiasm. “… the war of 1914… was still serving a delusion, the dream of a better world, a world that would be just and peaceful… That was why the victims went to the slaughter drunk and rejoicing, crowned with flowers and wearing oak leaves on their helmets, while the streets echoed with cheering and blazed with light, as if it were a festival”(Stefan Zweig).
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
Boris Johnson Vs Michael Gove Tory Leadership Grudge Match Contest / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The tory leadership contest is converging towards the ultimate grudge match that of Boris Johnson who should have won the 2016 leadership campaign against Michael Gove who should have backed Boris Johnson in 2016 but instead chose to stab him in the back by standing himself a few hours before Boris announced his candidature, instead of heading Boris's campaign for tory leader in 2016.
We'll 3 years on Boris has learned his lessons and thus had deployed a slick campaign to convince MP's and Tory party members to back him as their next leader and thus British Prime Minister as the first round of voting illustrates:
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
UK Savings, Mortgages and Credit Card Picks of the Week / Personal_Finance / Money Saving
By: MoneyFacts
The Moneyfacts.co.uk Pick of the Week showcases the best of the latest products or rate changes to hit the consumer finance market.
Brief product details, together with independent Moneyfacts analysis, can be used with confidence in your finance sections. You can select one or two products to sit beside a relevant story or use them all as a general feature provided they are sourced to our expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk.
This week, our resident Finance Expert, Rachel Springall, has analysed the following deals, and any perks, that have appeared this week:
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
How Socialism Presidential Election 2020 Could Affect the Gold Market / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: MoneyMetals
The 2020 presidential election is already shaping up to be one of the most bitterly contested in history. The outcome could have enormous ramifications for all asset markets, including precious metals.
In the meantime, a lot can happen before November 2020 – especially with the Federal Reserve apparently set to turn dovish and cut interest rates this summer.
Some historical research into presidential election cycles suggests that the stock market tends to perform well heading into an election year. The incumbent administration tends to focus on padding economic statistics.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
Top Best VPN Services You Can Choose For Your iPhone / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology
By: Submissions
Ever wondered if the device in the palm of your hand ever needed protection when streaming movies or videos fromFirestick? However silly it may seem your mobile phone, the iPhone, for example is a marvelous invention offering a wide range of features, from a top-class camera to a highly refined user OS, which seem to contain everything that prevents you from doubting its worth in your hands.
However stable and secure the iOS may seem, it tends to have its disadvantages that make it vulnerable to threats concerning security and privacy of the user. For this reason, the best iPhone VPN needs to be sought after in order for you to enjoy entertaining streaming services on your iOS.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
Tory Leadership Contest Betting Markets Forecast - Betfair / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The worst Prime Minister in British History who has literally clung onto power by her finger tips for the past 6 months is set to resign as Tory party leader tomorrow, Friday 7th of June in the wake of the disaster that were the EU elections, which will mark the start for a 6 week long tory leadership contest with the objective of whittling down a wide field of 11 candidates to just 2 from whom the 100,000 or so tory party members will vote to choose to become the next Tory Leader and thus British Prime Minister set to take office late July as Britain counts down to the 31st October 2019 deadline. A deadline that most candidates have already declared they will seek to extend as a remainer parliament continues to do its utmost to subvert Brexit by taking a NO DEAL Brexit off the table and thus wasted the last 3 years instead of just declaring Independence as I concluded several years ago is what Britain should do to win the Brexit War.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
US Stock Market Setting Up A Pennant Formation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2019
By: Chris_Vermeulen
As we’ve been warning over the past few weeks and months, the current price rotation in the US stock market is very much related to the strength of the US Dollar and the continued Capital Shift that is taking place as trade issues and currency valuations drive investors into the US equity and debt markets as protection against risk. We talk about some of these new Super-Cycles starting and how we can take advantage of them in this new guide.
The US Dollar stalled today after a recent price decline from just above $98 to a current level near $96.60. Over the past 15+ months, the US Dollar has risen from lows near $88 to highs near $98 – an 11.2% price rally. Meanwhile, many other foreign currencies have collapsed over this same span of time.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
Which Stocks Will Lead The Cannabis Rebound? / Companies / Cannabis
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
The Privatization of US Indo-Pacific Vision - Project 2049, Armitage, Budget Ploys and Taiwan Nexus / Economics / Asian Economies
By: Dan_Steinbock
In the Shangri-La Summit, the Trump administration introduced a new, muscular Indo-Pacific strategy. It is fueled by private interests of corporations, defense contractors and foreign governments - not by the interests of the United States, China or emerging Asia.Recently, the Pentagon and State Department informally notified Congress of a potential $2 billion deal with Taiwan, which includes the first-time sale of one of the US Army’s top tanks, drawing protests from China.
In the Shangri-La Dialogue, which took place only days before, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan pledged the United States would no longer "tiptoe" around Chinese behavior in Asia and warned about the new US “toolkit of coercion.”
Here’s the real key to the new Indo-Pacific stance, however: While emphasizing US commitment to the region, Shanahan urged US allies and partners to increase defense spending. What the Trump administration calls “burden sharing” is predicated on the idea that Asian economies should increasingly "buy American" military hardware from Pentagon contractors, even if it would split the region and undermine the promise of the Asian Century.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Perfect Storm Brewing for Price Inflation / Commodities / Inflation
By: MoneyMetals
A “perfect storm” is brewing for midwestern farmers. Unending rains have led to the flooding of tens of millions of acres of farmland. The deluge comes on the heels of years of low crop prices.
It has the makings of an agriculture disaster on a scale never seen before.
The nation may see a “perfect storm” in terms of food inflation. Prices for some farm commodities figure to be a lot higher in the months ahead as markets adjust to dramatically lower crop yields. This will be coupled with price hikes associated with tariffs on all manner of goods from China and elsewhere.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Gold Price Breaks to the Upside / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Michael_J_Kosares
COMEX speculator positions post largest single gain on record
Gold suddenly broke to the upside on the morning of Thursday, May 30th, 2019. After rising nearly $70 – a 5.4% gain and eight-straight days of posting gains, it took a breather on news that Mexico would take steps to stem migrant flow to the United States, thus avoiding the imposition of new tariffs. We asked Zac Storella from Counting Pips, a widely-acknowledged expert on the COMEX Commitment of Traders reports, what he saw in last week’s numbers. His response is worth noting:
Read full article... Read full article...“This week’s change in speculative positions (Commitment of Traders) for gold jumped by a total of +69,427 net contracts. This is the largest one-week gain on record, according to the CFTC data dating back to 1986. The current net position (long positions minus short positions) is now at the most bullish level in over a year – showing that sentiment for gold is coming back into favor.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Top Publicly Traded Casino Company Stocks for 2019 / Companies / Gambling
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Silver Investing Trend Analysis / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Silver price reluctantly followed the Gold higher early in the year to a late February peak of $16.20, following which it abruptly gave up all of its hard won gains for the year by making a new low early March at $15, breaking the preceding low of $15.45 and thus entering into a downtrend of a series of lower highs and lows where it remained until the Gold price came alive at the end of May 2019. Following which the Silver price busted out of its 2019 downtrend by hitting a recent high of $15.15 before succumbing to selling to bring the price down to its last close of $14.74 DOWN 5% for the year which compares against the Gold price up 4% for the year which illustrates the persistent under performance of the Silver price against the Gold price.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Why Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks Aren’t as Safe as You Think / Companies / Dividends
By: Robert_Ross
A man pulled a gun on me last week.I was in the Ipanema neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
Ipanema is one of the wealthiest areas of Rio. You get iconic views of the Brazilian shore line and white sand beaches.
I was two blocks from Ipanema Beach when a man on a bike pulled in front of me.
At first, I thought he was going to sell me something. Then I saw him starting to pull a gun out of his backpack.
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