Monday, March 12, 2018
Are The Stock Market Bears About To Fumble? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
Do you think we will ever see a week of market moves associated with news events for which you will not shake your head?
Week after week I think analysts say something so stupid that I just want to scream. As I have pointed out so many times over the years, I keep hoping that some form of sanity will grip pundits one day. I keep hoping that they may wake up and recognize the error of their ways. But, alas, I continue to long for that day.
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Monday, March 12, 2018
Labour Sheffield City Councils Secret Plan to Fell 50% of Street Trees Exposed! / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The mainstream press has finally awoken up to the fact that Sheffield city council and it's contractor had all along planned to fell half of Sheffield's street trees. Having kept the information contained within the Streets Ahead PFI contract with Spanish owned Amey secret for over 5 years, previously only releasing heavily redacted pages that failed to answer key questions raised by tree campaigners. Where even towards the end of 2017 the council in the face of growing public opposition and protests on the streets, the Labour councilors still stuck to their mantra of having a target of felling fewer than 6000 trees, following which the contract was said to enter a maintenance phase.
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Monday, March 12, 2018
China Police Crackdown Following Xi Jinping Vote for Dictator Emperor for Life / Politics / China
By: Submissions
Rongxian Mu writes: China is a one person one vote nation, and that one vote is by Xi Jinping as no one else's vote matters. And so Xi Jinping today voted for himself to become the new Dictator / Emperor for life of the Jinping Republic of China. Meanwhile a heavy police crackdown is underway across major cities of China such as Zunyi as the police crack down hard on the out breaks of unrest in the run up today's vote for himself by Xi Jinping. The people of China are not going to stand for this and thus a growing resistance movement against the rule of the communist dictatorship is taking place and spreading right across China, none of which is being reported on by the official Chinese state controlled media.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Stock Market Uptrend Resuming? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s.
Intermediate trend – The intermediate correction from 2872 could continue until mid-May, but is mostly behind us.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Bond Market Interest Rate Yields Are Rising Again… Stocks Are on Thin Ice / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Graham_Summers
The financial media is awash with claims that Gary Cohn’s resignation as Chief Economic Advisor is triggering a market collapse.
While it’s true that a market collapse is starting again, it has nothing to do with Gary Cohn.
How do I know?
Because Gary Cohn first wrote a resignation letter back in August 2017 in the wake of the Charlottesville mess… and stocks exploded higher beginning one of their greatest rallies in history.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Death of Europe's Greenest City, Police State Sheffield Labour Council to Fell 50% of Street Trees / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
For 5 years Labour controlled Sheffield city council has kept virtually all of the the Streets Ahead PFI contract with Spanish owned Amey secret from the people of Sheffield with only heavily redacted pages being released into the public domain that failed to answer key questions being raised. Where even towards the end of 2017 the council in the face of growing public opposition and protests on the streets that were increasingly met by force, the Council stuck to the mantra of having a target of felling 6000 trees, following which the contract would enter a maintenance stage.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Do All Bull Stocks Markets Need to Have a Bearish Divergence? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
The Medium-Long Term Model states that this bull market has 1-2 years left. As a result, we are tryin to catch the bull market’s top as accurately as possible.
The January 2018 top did not have a weekly bearish divergence. Momentum (RSI 14) peaked at the same time as the S&P 500.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3 / Economics / Inflation
By: F_F_Wiley
—Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke began his oft-cited “helicopter speech” in 2002 with a few kind words about his peers, including the excerpt above. Speaking for central bankers, he took a large share of the credit for the low inflation of the 1980s and 1990s. Central bankers had gained a “heightened understanding” of inflation, he said, and he expected the future to bring even more inflation-taming success.
Of course, Bernanke’s cohorts took a few knocks in the boom–bust cycle that followed his speech, but their reputations as masters of inflation (and deflation) only grew. Today, the picture he painted seems even more firmly planted in the public mind than it was in 2002, notwithstanding recent data showing inflation creeping higher.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Online Stock Trading Tips - Tips about Online Trading & Day Trading / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Kavinesh_A
Want to know all about online stock trading? Online stock trading is currently blooming with more people getting actively involved and participating in it for making profits. When you plan on entering trading stocks business it is basically because of the heavy bucks it promises that you can earn. However it is a risky venture or you can even say it is a risk oriented business or trade where you must constantly plan and strategize to minimize on the risks to make huge profits. A smart trader is always the one who controls risks and makes huge profits for which discipline and proper planning is essential. The secret of stock trading is being aware about the right time for both buying and selling the stocks which are buying them when the price is low and selling when the price is high. Then again there are the dividends that you earn and even the returns which make stock trading quite promising for those who are looking for extra income. Know more from the Admiral Markets.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 10, 2018
NDX makes a new high. What does that mean? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The big question being asked is what’s happening with the NDX. I spent a considerable time re-analyzing the NDX at all degrees to see what insight I might get. All of the Waves up to January 26 were impulsive. So, how could a complex double zigzag fit in? The answer lies in the fact that a Wave (B) may exceed the length of its corresponding Wave (A). So, while the SPX and DJIA are still making lower highs, the NDX may simply be giving a non-confirmation top.
There is a precedent for this. In January 2000 the DJIA made its top at 11750.20 while the NDX did not make its high of 4816.24 until March 24. However, 17 market days later the NDX was at a low of 3107.42 (35.5% lower). The point of this is that we may be expecting a severe low in approximately the same time period.
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Saturday, March 10, 2018
Blue Chip Companies on Track for $800 billion Buyback Record in 2018 / Companies / Investing 2018
By: Richard_Mills
Donald Trump's tax cuts are already paying dividends... well, actually the companies that are benefiting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by the Trump Administration in December are not only returning cash to shareholders in the form of dividends, but are presiding over what could be the largest share buyback program in history.
The legislation slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and the top individual tax rate shrunk to 37%. It also cut income tax rates, doubled the standard deduction and eliminated personal exemptions. All told, the Trump tax cuts are the eighth largest since 1918, and represent just over 1% of GDP – in other words, how much federal revenue the government will forego as a percentage of the economy.
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Saturday, March 10, 2018
Cheap Gold Stocks Basing / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Zeal_LLC
The small contrarian gold-mining sector remains deeply out of favor, universally ignored. Thus the gold stocks are largely drifting listlessly, totally devoid of excitement. But that’s the best time to buy low, when few others care. The gold stocks continue to form strong technical bases, paving the way for massive mean-reversion uplegs. And they remain exceedingly cheap relative to gold prices, which drive their profits.
Being a gold-stock investor feels pretty miserable and hopeless these days. The gold stocks have been consolidating low for 14.2 months now, stuck in a seemingly-endless sideways grind. There are still gains to be won, but they are mostly within that low-trading-range context. We haven’t seen one of the huge uplegs gold stocks are famous for since the first half of 2016. So most traders have given up and moved on.
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Saturday, March 10, 2018
J.P. Morgan’s Executive Director Shares Her Secret for Investing in Emerging Markets / Currencies / Emerging Markets
By: John_Mauldin
By Patrick Watson: At the Strategic Investment Conference 2018, Gabriela Santos, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, compared the potential of the US and international markets in terms of equity returns.
J.P. Morgan projects 5.5% annualized for US equities over the next 10 years. Meanwhile, Japan is projected to return 6% and emerging markets (EM) around 8%. But that’s assuming today as a starting point.
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Saturday, March 10, 2018
An Introduction to Online Forex Trading / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Kavinesh_A
Forex stands for foreign exchange, the currencies. Forex trading is the process of buying and selling of foreign exchange or currencies. Statistics indicate that the online forex trading is increasingly getting more popular and that the forex market has grown at least 20% in the last five years. Grab more information about trading from the Admiral Markets.
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Friday, March 09, 2018
Sheffield Police State as Tree Protesting Citizens Are Snatched off the Streets! / Local / Police State
By: N_Walayat
Following the thawing of the 'Beast from the East' snow Sheffield's streets have seen a huge expansion in the level of force deployed against street tree felling protestors, with now at least 35 police officers attending felling sites, accompanying 20 or so SIA security and a dozen or so Arb's, as has been the case on many of Sheffield streets this week such as Thornsett Road, Kenwood Park Road and Abbeydale Park Rise.
Sheffield increasingly resembles an eastern european totalitarian police state with police snatch squads in operation literally grabbing people off the streets, then barring them from returning to the street tree protests under threat of prosecution / breach of police bail. The way it appears to work is that SIA security or Arbs snap a picture of an innocent protestor and then later forward an allegation to the police who then grab the invidual off the street at the next street protest, probably identified to the police by the SIA / Arbs. However, so far not one Sheffield tree protestor has been prosecuted for any crime, therefore the objective is to prevent peaceful protests from taking place in Sheffield.
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Friday, March 09, 2018
Riding the Bitcoin Wave / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In a move surprising to some, the SEC has announced that a number of cryptocurrency exchanges must register with the agency. Without naming names, the race has begun to determine if a specific platform meets the definitions put forward by the SEC. As our readers are aware, this is actually not surprising at all. In fact, it is only one small step in a broader trend recognizable in the Bitcoin market. How this specific event translates into the current trading conditions is what’s most interesting from a trader’s perspective. And we have indeed seen one specific change which may influence your profits.
Friday, March 09, 2018
Are We in Late Cycle? Implications for Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
In the previous edition of the Market Overview, we explored the fascinating history of bull and bear cycles in both the U.S. dollar and gold. Since then, the idea of cyclicity doesn’t lead me to drop off, disrupting my sleep cycles. Let’s then dig into the topic. We start with the business cycles, as in the recent Gold News Monitor we wrote that “we are in the late stages of the economic cycle – as the cycle matures, volatility increases and investors start to buy more gold as a hedge.” Why do we believe so? And what are the implications for gold’s future?
As a short reminder, cycles exist throughout our lives. From the weather’s seasons to circadian rhythm. Business activity is no different here. The economy does not grow evenly, but experiences ups and downs. There are many theories of business cycles – our favorite is that formulated by the Austrian school. But now, let’s focus not on reasons, but on stages of business cycles. Knowledge is where we can improve investors’ returns.
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Friday, March 09, 2018
US Bond Market 3 Amigos Bottom Line / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Gary_Tanashian
You thought I was done with the Amigos shtick, did you? Not by a long shot ma’am. They are the happy-go-lucky riders in play as the stock bull market churns on. They are the rising SPX/Gold ratio and stocks in general vs. gold (Amigo #1), rising US 10yr & 30yr yields (Amigo #2) and the flattening 10-2 yield curve (Amigo #3). On their current trends these goofy riders have signaled “a-okay!” to casino patrons playing the stock market and other risk ‘on’ items.
Taking our macro indicators out of order, let’s start with Amigo #2, who we have been noting to be bracing for something…
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Friday, March 09, 2018
Here’s What The Trade Tariffs Really Mean / Economics / Protectionism
By: Rodney_Johnson
Every day, you plunk out cash to support your neighbors. And they support you. That’s how economies work.I buy from my local store, which employs people, and I use local services. Even when I buy from Amazon, the stuff has to get here somehow.
We also pay taxes, much of which goes to services that employ and support people in the community. In this instance, you can think of the entire nation as your community.
So, how much of your cash are you willing to give to your neighbors?
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Friday, March 09, 2018
Best 7 Worst U.S. Population Change / Politics / Demographics
By: Harry_Dent
The Dems shut down government because of the ongoing immigration impasse.Only for a couple of days, sure.
But it’s THAT big of an issue across the political spectrum right now.
Trump wants a wall.
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