Friday, July 14, 2017
Bubble Update: Stocks Are Now at 1999 Bubble Levels (Guess What’s Next) / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Graham_Summers
Remember the 2007 Bubble?
Remember how everyone said that it really wasn’t that big of a bubble because stocks weren’t as expensive as they had been during the previous bubble (the Tech Bubble).
We all remember how that turned out: the bubble burst leading to the greatest financial crisis in 80 years.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Yellen’s Shocking Announcement:The $USD is TOAST / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Graham_Summers
Fed Chair Janet Yellen just announced that the Fed will be kicking the $USD off a cliff.
She didn’t use those words, but the words she did use weren’t all that different.
But first a little context…
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Global Currency Reserve At Risk / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Within the US borders, the population remains largely ignorant of the true significance of the global currency reserve concept. It is of paramount importance, yet almost never discussed in the financial press. The public within the United States simply assumes the country operates with the USDollar as its currency, with near blindness to its global role in trade and banking. The end of an era is coming, as the change will be powerful in its effect. The shock wave could hit this year in some form, in a manner to highlight its importance.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Picking Great Gold Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
One of the primary keys to success in investment and speculation is picking the right stocks to trade. That’s no mean feat, as it takes great effort, expertise, and time to winnow the whole field down to the likely winners with the best fundamentals. Although deeply out of favor now in the summer doldrums, the small contrarian gold-stock sector has generated truly epic gains for investors and speculators over the years.
I’ve been in the financial-newsletter business for 17 years now, after founding my company Zeal LLC way back in early 2000. I needed to do extensive markets and individual-stocks research to support my own personal speculation and investment, so I figured why not share it so others can benefit as well. Since then I’ve researched and written 765 web essays, 204 monthly newsletters, and 748 weekly newsletters.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
BBC Tree Expert's Verdict on Sheffield Amey / Labour City Council Tree Felling's / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Amey / Labour city council's objective is to kill and remove at least 6,000 of Sheffield's biggest and best tree's in support of which Amey use excuses such as that the trees are displacing curb stones. Here tree expert Jeremy Barrell for the BBC One Show takes a close look at many of Sheffield's trees marked for death, and gives his damning verdict that none of the trees he has looked at need to be felled. In stark contrast to Amey / Labour city council that is determined to kill at least 6,000 of Sheffield's street trees so as to avoid annual tree maintenance costs such as pruning and installation of solutions such as flex-paving.
Friday, July 14, 2017
SPX Cycles, Fed Funds and Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Gary_Tanashian
This “amateur cyclist’s” chart (I am anything but a cycles analyst) of the S&P 500 shows that the 12 month marker (C12) meant exactly nothing as the market remained firmly on trend, after brief pokes down in April and May. We noted that C12 was a lesser indicator than the 30 month cycle, which has coincided with some pretty significant changes ( a few months). That cycle (C30) is coming due at the end of the summer. Will it mean anything? Well, this market eats top callers for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks. But it is worth knowing about to a lucid and well-armed market participant.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Trump’s Trade Policies Are Provoking A Global Trade War— How to Hedge Your Portfolio / Politics / Global Economy
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON :Removing barriers to international trade has both upside and downside. Donald Trump is now president in part because he focused on the downside: lost US jobs, closed factories, blighted communities.
Even more important, he's fundamentally changing the way government looks at trade policy.
Trade negotiations have long had the implicit goal of promoting peace. It’s a fact that nations with active business relationships rarely attack each other, though the security aspect used to stay mostly unspoken.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Should Platinum Be More Expensive Than Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Platinum is one of the rarest elements in the world, much rarer than gold. This is why historically the white metal has been more valuable – just think of platinum credit cards which offer greater privileges and prestige than the gold ones. However, the ‘little silver’ has recently been traded at a discount to gold, as one can see in the chart below.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Subprime Auto Loans Up, Car Sales Down: Why This Could Be Good for Gold / Interest-Rates / Auto Sector
By: HAA
The latest monthly motor vehicle sales report released on July 3 paints a grim picture for US car sales. Overall June sales dropped by 3% compared to June of last year—the sixth successive month of lower year-over-year sales.
General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler were among the greatest losers with declines between 4.7% and 7%. Japan’s top sellers fared a little better, with Nissan seeing 2% growth and Toyota a 2.1% gain.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Clarion House Social Housing for Grenfell Fire Residents / Politics / Social Issues
By: Submissions
BWTUC CALLS ON CLARION HOUSING (Formerly Affinity Sutton) TO BRING BACK INTO USE 159 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS IN CHELSEA LYING EMPTY AND OFFER THEM AS HOMES FOR GRENFELL TOWER FIRE RESIDENTS
If Kensington and Chelsea Council won't use its powers to force action on this it should be ordered to bring back into commission these flats that the Sutton Trust/Affinity Sutton itself vandalised in 2015 after decanting the residents says BWTUC
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Financial Markets - 3 Videos + 8 Charts = Opportunities You Need to See / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: EWI
Dear Investor,
Our friends at Elliott Wave International (EWI) regularly put out great free content on their site. If you've visited their site before, you may have seen "Chart of the Day," a featured series of videos that take a quick, but close examination of a chart from one of EWI's paid publications.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Can The Dow Trade to 30K or is it Just Another Pipe Dream / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Sol_Palha
Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Friedrich NietzscheOne group of experts state that the markets are ready to crash, another states the markets are ready to soar to new highs. Which group is one supposed to believe? For starters, the naysayers have the odds stacked against them as every so-called stock market crash has turned out to be a long-term buying opportunity. We view stock market crashes as once in a “lifetime buying opportunity” and frankly so should every self-respecting long term Contrarian investor. The smart money always swoops in and buys top quality stocks when there is blood on the streets, and the dumb money sells right at the bottom.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
EURUSD Is Testing Neckline Resistance At Around 1.1450 / Currencies / Euro
By: Franco_Shao
There is a descending trend line from the August 2015 high of 1.1713 to the May 2016 high of 1.1616, with resistance at around 1.1450, acting as the neckline of the double bottom pattern on the EURUSD’s weekly chart. If the price breaks and settles above the trend line resistance, it would confirm pattern, then the price could extend to the measured move target at around 1.2700.
Thursday, July 13, 2017
A Financial Crisis Of Historic Proportions Is Once Again Bearing Down On Us / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2017
By: John_Mauldin
Financial politicians (aka central bankers) have a long history of saying the wrong things at the wrong time.
Far worse, they simply fail to tell the truth. They lie because they’re afraid of the impact the truth will have. This is a problem, because markets can’t function on false information, at least not forever.
They also face enormous pressure to “do something,” even when the right thing is to do nothing and just let the market clear.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
What's Next for US Dollar, Stocks, Bonds and Gold? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Axel_Merk
The Fed’s “balance sheet reduction” may have profound implications for the dollar, gold, stocks and bonds. We provide an outlook.
It is said forecasts are difficult, especially when they relate to the future. Investors might want to pay attention nonetheless, not so much because I believe I have a crystal ball, but because investing is about managing risk. And there’s a risk that I’m right.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
India Gold Imports Surge To 5 Year High – 220 Tons In May Alone / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: GoldCore
– India gold imports in H1, 2017 greater than all of 2016
– India imported 521 tonnes of gold in first half of 2017
– H1 figure for gold imports $22.2 Bln versus $23 Bln in all ’16
– Gold demand was up 15% year- on-year in the first quarter
– June gold imports climbed to an estimated 75 tonnes from 22.7 tonnes a year ago
– Annual total set to surpass 900 tons, strongest year since ’12
– “I trust gold more than the currencies of countries” – 63% of Indians in Survey
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Blockchain: The End of Gold Price Suppression / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: The_Gold_Report
With so many rumors and complaints over the years about flash crashes, overleveraging, taking advantage of clients and overcharging, blockchain could signal the end of big banks having their way on the Comex and paper metals markets, says Tom Beck, founder of Portfolio Wealth Global.
I bought my first gold and silver coins in 2003. I was 21, and well on my way to becoming a proponent of free markets and commodity-based money.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Amey Fells Trees on Whirlowdale Crescent Near Dobcroft School, Sheffield / Local / Sheffield
By: Anika_Walayat
Dobcroft school children were in for a shock when they emerged after lessons to witness the carnage left behind by Amey, leaving two of the streets majestic trees as mutilated towering stumps, devoid of life, zombie trees! A shock for young eyes every morning and afternoon.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Will the Ethereum Crash Continue? / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Franco_Shao
After hitting a highest record at 415, ETHUSD broke below the bullish price channel on its daily chart and fell sharply to as low as 175.50. Will the Ethereum crash continue?
Thursday, July 13, 2017
There Is Only One Gold Fundamental… / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Kelsey_Williams
There have been several articles recently proclaiming and detailing the fundamentals for gold. A few of them have some excellent points. Most of them don’t.
And there have been some polite discussions of applicability, meaning, and intent with regards to specific claims.
Some of the discussions involve protracted technical analysis and are quite lengthy. And some analysts have a special formula or barometer of their own, which they use to justify their claims or indicate correlation between gold and a wide variety of unrelated items.
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