Thursday, September 21, 2017

Should Liners Invest in Shipping Software Solutions and Benefits of Using Packaged Shipping Software / Companies / Shipping

By: Submissions

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Stock Market Bubble Last Two Times This Happened Was in 2000 and 2007 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Graham_Summers

The stock market bubble is now so massive that even Goldman Sachs is getting worried.

Let’s be clear here: Wall Street does best and makes the most money when stocks are roaring higher. So in order for a major Wall Street firm like Goldman to start openly worrying about whether or not the markets are going to crash, there has to be truly MASSIVE trouble brewing.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Stocks Hit Aggressive Sell Signals / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

NDX is on an aggressive sell signal. It becomes confirmed beneath the 50-day Moving Average at 5903.02.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

The 5 Biggest Bubbles In Markets Today / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017

By: John_Mauldin

BY JARED DILLIAN : Bubbles aren’t new—they’ve been around since Dutch tulips—but it’s only recently that they’ve worked their way into the average investor’s lexicon. That’s probably because bubbles happen much more frequently these days.

We never used to get a giant speculative bubble every 7–8 years. But that has been the case since the new millennia.

In 2000, we had the dot-com bubble.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Infographic: The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: John_Mauldin

BY JARED DILLIAN : It wasn’t always this way. We never used to get a giant, speculative bubble every 7–8 years. We really didn’t.

In 2000, we had the dot-com bubble.

In 2007, we had the housing bubble.

In 2017, we have the everything bubble.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Americans Don’t Grasp The Magnitude Of The Looming Pension Tsunami That May Hit Us Within 10 Years / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement

By: John_Mauldin

Total unfunded liabilities in state and local pensions have roughly quintupled in the last decade.

You read that right—not doubled, tripled, or quadrupled—quintupled. That’s nice when it happens on a slot machine, not so nice when it’s money you owe.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Stock Market Waiting Game... / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX futures are flat this morning. At this point it appears to be a waiting game between the market and the Fed. There appears to be at least one more probe higher (Ending diagonal). A throw-over above the upper Diagonal trendline is probable. Should that be the case, a decline beneath the Brexit trendline (red) may be an aggressive sell signal while a decline beneath the lower Diagonal trendline near 2495.00 may be a confirmed sell signal.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

AUDUSD Broke Below Trend Line Support At 0.7975 / Currencies / Austrailia

By: Franco_Shao

After failing in its two attempts to break above the resistance of the May 2015 high of 0.8162, AUDUSD pulled back from 0.8124 and broke below a major support trend line at 0.7975 on its daily chart, suggesting that lengthier consolidation for the uptrend from 0.7328 is underway.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Precious Metals Sector is on Major Buy Signal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017

By: The_Gold_Report

Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold and silver markets.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

US Equities Destined For Negative Returns In The Next 7 Years - 3 Assets To Invest In Instead / Stock-Markets / Investing 2017

By: John_Mauldin

BY STEPHEN MCBRIDE : With the S&P 500 up 260% since March 2009, investors have been well rewarded for holding US stocks in the recent past.

However, the prime time of US stocks has come to an end. Here’s why.

In a white paper titled The S&P 500: Just Say No, investment research firm GMO projected that returns on US equities would be -3.9% over the next seven years.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Looking For the Next Big Stock? Look at Design / Companies / Investing 2017

By: Boris_Dzhingarov

When it comes to market analysis, many investors know how to determine value by the numbers. Book value, P/E ratio, yearly revenue - these are all key numbers that value investors use to calculate a company’s intrinsic value. And while these factors are important and more investors should learn to use them, a numbers-first approach to analyzing a company for future growth potential leaves out some important observations. Perhaps most important of these is the company’s visual image, and how easy it is to understand and to use.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Really Bad Ideas, Part 4: US Federal Flood Insurance / Politics / US Politics

By: John_Rubino

As Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wreaked their havoc over the past couple of weeks, several interconnected questions popped up, the answers to which make us look, to put it bluntly, like idiots.

Why, for instance, are there suddenly so many Cat 4 and 5 hurricanes? Is this due to man-made climate change and is this summer therefore our new normal? The answer: Maybe, but that misses the point. There have always been huge storms (like the one that wiped Galveston, TX off the map in 1900, long before global warming was a thing), and barring another ice age there always will be. So the US east coast will remain one of Mother Nature’s favorite targets.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Armed Police Sheffield Following Asian Men Around Meadowhall Shopping Centre / Local / Sheffield

By: N_Walayat

The raising of the terror alert level following the attempted mass killing on a London tube train has resulted in machine gun armed police on patrol in public places, not just in London but across Britain, and so has been the experience of shoppers at Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Former Wall Street Trader: Here’s The Biggest Mistake People Make With ETFs / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds

By: John_Mauldin

BY JARED DILLIAN : Pretty cheap to trade these days—$7 or whatever. Costs less than lunch. Some online brokers will give you the first 50/100/200 trades free. What a deal!

But there are consequences.

Have you ever gotten nervous about one of your positions, sold out of it, then watched helplessly as it shot up 40% in six months?

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

In 10 Years, Your State May Well Be in the Same Place Where Puerto Rico is Now / Politics / Debt Crisis 2017

By: John_Mauldin

This is the first time on record that two Category 4 hurricanes have struck the US mainland in the same year.

Worse, Harvey and Irma landed on some of our most valuable and vulnerable coastal areas. So now, besides all the problems, the US economy has to absorb the cleanup and rebuilding costs for large parts of Texas and Florida, as well as our Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands territories.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Self Employed? Understanding Business Insurance / Companies / SME

By: Submissions

Joanna Stovic writes: The number of people choosing to become self-employed is gradually rising. Those people strive for independence, control and freedom from the stress inflicted on them by their previous employers. Since the start of the economic downturn, there has been a 10% growth in the self-employment sector. While venturing into self-employment has its own challenges, it can be rewarding if you know the right steps to take.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Stock Market Bubble Fortunes / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017

By: Raul_I_Meijer

A few days ago, former Reagan Budget Director and -apparently- permabear (aka perennial bear) David Stockman did an interview (see below) with Stuart Varney at Fox -a permabull?!-, who started off with ‘the stock rally goes on’ despite a London terror attack and the North Korea missile situation. His first statement to Stockman was something in the vein of “if I had listened to you at any time after the past 2-3 years, I’d have lost a fortune..” Stockman shot back with (paraphrased): “if you’d have listened to me in 2000, 2004, you’d have dodged a bullet”, and at some point later “get out of bonds, get out of stocks, it’s a dangerous casino.” Familiar territory for most of you.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

USD/CHF – Verification of Breakout or Further Declines? / Currencies / Forex Trading

By: Nadia_Simmons

At the end of the previous week, the greenback moved lower against the Swiss franc, which resulted in a comeback to the previously-broken support/resistance line. Will we see a verification of the earlier breakout or rather further declines in the coming week?

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Blockchain Tech: Don't Say You Didn't Know / Currencies / BlockChain

By: The_Gold_Report

Lior Gantz, founder of Wealth Research Group, discusses blockchain technology and one company that is harnessing its power.

"You can't stop things like the blockchain. It will be everywhere, and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust" – John McAfee, Founder of McAfee

As you're aware by now, the world's largest corporations and most governments are already testing the incredible potential of it.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Pointless / Economics / Inflation

By: Kelsey_Williams

Within the Federal Reserve sometime in 1996, a discussion took place among FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) members regarding the subject of inflation targeting. Federal Reserve District Governor (San Francisco) Janet Yellen believed that a little inflation “greases the wheels” of the labor market. Her preferred “target” was 2%. She asked Chairman (at the time) Alan Greenspan his preference. 

The Chairman replied.  “I would say the number is zero, if inflation is properly measured.”