Friday, December 30, 2016
2016 the Year of BrExit - Exactly Why it Happened / Politics / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Exactly why did BrExit happen in the UK?
It happened because the British Prime Minster David Cameron believed his own fantasy Westminster elite bubble reality to be true, thus in his reality there was ZERO likelihood of the British people voting to leave the European Union 9 months after having surprised the pundits by electing the Conservatives back into office. After all if the rebellious Scottish people had voted to REMAIN within the UK who had the highly vocal and organised Scottish Nationalists in charge of running the Scottish government, then how was possible that the British people, 90% of whom in the 2015 General Election voted for either a Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat REMAIN MP could result in a LEAVE vote outcome.
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Major Stocks Bear Market Still Looms / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Zeal_LLC
The US stock markets spectacularly defied the odds in 2016, soaring after both the UK’s Brexit vote and US presidential election. Both actual outcomes were universally feared as very bearish for stocks before the events. These contrary stock rallies have left traders feeling euphoric, convinced stock markets are impregnable. But with stock valuations hitting bubble levels in an exceedingly-old bull, a major bear still looms.
Friday, December 30, 2016
Gold: No Bold Predictions for the New Year / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Kelsey_Williams
I’m not much of a fan when it comes to New Year’s predictions. There seems to be an almost fanatical obsession with ‘fortune telling’ when it comes to the financial markets. And gold is no exception.
Some twenty years ago when I was advising my financial planning clients to own gold shares as part of a diversified investment portfolio, my focus was more permanent and long-term. Of course, that is the way I viewed other asset classes as well. There were certainly no ‘predictions’ about performance over the next year or so. Since I retired in 2005, I have noticed that the time periods which we consider and focus on with respect to analysis and investing – be it stocks, real estate, etc. – have become increasingly short-term. In fact, the financial markets seem to be more characteristic of casino-type activity. Investing has become speculation.
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Trump, BrExit, Crude Oil, Stocks Bull - Most Popular Market Oracle Videos of 2016 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Nadeem_Walayat
2016 is about to come to an end that featured two unexpected shock political events of Britain's EU Referendum BrExit vote that literally no one in the mainstream press, political elite, markets or bookies saw come, and then there was Trump winning the US Presidency, which again shocked the establishment elite. Whilst in the financial markets, the crude oil prices trend garnered much popular interest as the early year oil price collapse had pushed many oil producers towards the edge of economic collapse. And again the BrExit and Trump factors induced much market uncertainty as the consensus expectations were that both events would result in an end of the 7 year long stocks bull market, which instead resulted in the exact opposite trends to a series of new all time highs.
Friday, December 30, 2016
Gold Surges Above $1,150, Mining Stocks Rocket Higher, Time to Buy the Dip? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Jason_Hamlin
The gold price is showing strength heading into the close of 2016. The gold price has advanced for five straight days and is back above $1,150. The price put in a double bottom around $1,125 during December and the recent really suggests this may have been the bottom. After taking out $1,150, the gold price steadily climbed above $1,160 per ounce today.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
What Markets Trading Opportunities Does the Wave Principle Identify? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Learn how to use the Wave Principle as an effective trading tool
Jeffrey Kennedy talks about how the Elliott Wave Principle helps you identify trade setups. Watch this new interview to learn how the Wave Principle helps you trade with the trend, which waves are Jeff's favorite to trade and how to "keep it simple" when using the Wave Principle.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
These Commodity Markets Resource Sectors Will Soar in 2017 / Commodities / Resources Investing
By: The_Gold_Report
A perfectly timed opportunity and a deep-value contrarian speculation are setting up in the resource sector, says Lior Gantz, editor of Wealth Research Group.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Stock Market Impulse Wave Down... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It now appears that SPX has completed its first impulse down to 2244.56 and appears capable of bouncing either to Intermediate term resistance at 2254.48 or to the trendline near 2260.00 in a partial retracement. It may take another hour or so to complete its bounce, then reverse into a probable Wave 3 in the final hour of the day.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
In 2017 Be the Bank / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: David_Galland
Dear Parader,
In our last edition before the New Year, I share an overview of an interesting and easy way to get a better return on your money. What’s most important, it allows you to largely side-step the risk and volatility inherent in stock and bond markets.
We then conclude with an approach you might want to consider using for difficult people and negative relationships that crop up in your life.
As I write, sitting at the dining table at our family house in Vermont, the snow has kicked up. If I skied, I might want to head to the mountain. But as I don’t, I am content to stay indoors and dream of returning to the sunnier climes of Cafayate, Argentina, which I will do tomorrow morning.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Will the Stock Markets 2016 Bullish Run Continue in 2017? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Nicholas_Kitonyi
After an underwhelming 2015, the global stock markets peaked again in 2016 registering significant rallies across world. This came despite having a series of surprises in the geopolitical spectrum with Britain voting to leave the EU while the US voted Donald Trump to become the country’s 45th president against all odds.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Goldman to Trump: Situation Assessment, Government Bail-Ins and the Precious Metals Threat / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Stewart_Dougherty
Despite its avid support for Hillary Clinton, fewer than three weeks after the election, Gary Cohn, the number two executive at Goldman Sachs met privately at Trump Tower with the President-elect. Ten days later, he was named to one of the most powerful financial positions in the world, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States of America.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
European Commission Threatens Widespread Gold, Asset Confiscation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jeff_Berwick
The “war on terror” continues...
The US and the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) attacked Libya and Syria and began transporting Muslims to Europe as a means of destabilization. They have also conducted numerous other false flag attacks, such as Charlie Hebdo, by which to further confuse and imprison the local population.
The most recent was the so called “terror attack” which occurred several days before Christmas in Berlin, Germany. A truck was deliberately driven into a crowded market killing 12 people and leaving 48 injured.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Surging US Dollar in 2017 a Catalyst for Gold Bottom / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Gold has suffered recently in the wake of higher real interest rates while the US Dollar, thanks to higher yields has reached a 14-year high. Stronger real rates hurt Gold but so does a stronger US Dollar, which remains the dominant global currency. In addition to falling real interest rates Gold likely needs the US Dollar to approach a major peak. It may sound perverse to gold bugs but the sooner the US Dollar climbs and the stronger it gets, the closer Gold could be to the start of a new bull market.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Will Trump Bring Inflation to America’s Shores? / Economics / Inflation
By: MoneyMetals
By Stefan Gleason: Something is brewing in the economy. Since the election of Donald Trump, interest rates have spiked, copper prices have surged, and various sectors of the stock market have swung “bigly” on speculation of what “Trumponomics” will bring.
Scores of triumphant Republican commentators are already painting a bullish picture of the Trump economy. The GOP – which will control the White House, Congress, and most state governments – has a rare opportunity to implement a pro-growth agenda.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
The Trump Reset, US Empire's Coming Economic, Cyber and Military War With China (2/2) / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is Part 2/2 of my comprehensive analysis on the implications of the Trump Reset of why Trump will War on China both economically and militarily. Part 1 dealt with why Trump represents regime change in the US, and the role Putin's Russia, the Fake News SuperPower played in his election victory and what Russia can expect in gratitude going forward - Regime Change, Russia the Over Hyped Fake News SuperPower (1/2)
ECONOMIC WAR - JOBS
The reality is that the United States and much of the rest of the West have effectively been employing hundreds of millions of low paid chinese slave workers for decades, all without the labour laws or environmental consequences resulting in very cheap goods in western shops, low inflation maintenance of purchasing power for the western masses mostly for the purpose of buying the latest junk imports from Chinese factories designed by western corporations, and by doing so have completely transformed the Chinese economy from inconsequential GDP of $300bln 30 years ago to $12 trillion today, and thus exponentially strengthening a totalitarian state ruled by a communist dictatorship that increasingly seeks to spread its tentacles beyond its borders.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Investing for Max Commodity Market Profits During a Trump US Presidency / Commodities / Investing 2017
By: Peter_Degraaf
By listening to President-elect Trump we can anticipate the effect his administration will have on the US economy.
Here is what we know: Mr. Trump plans to beef up the military, and improve US infrastructure, including a wall at the southern border.
While there are other priorities, such as improving on healthcare, just his two main goals will require many billions of dollars.
Being a successful businessman is his asset, and no doubt the new president will surprise us with funding that will be new and novel, such as enticing US companies with overseas assets to repatriate those funds and put them to work in the USA.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Stock Market Extremely Strong Pop to Start the Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started the week off with a very strong move up with an extremely strong pop in the first thirty minutes, reaching the highs for the day. The DOW closed just underneath 20,000 at 19,980. However, in the afternoon, they pulled back in a 3-wave decline, particularly in the last hour, and finished barely ahead on the day.
Net on the day, the Dow was up 11.23 at 19,945.04, 35 points off its high. The S&P 500 was up 5.09 at 2268.88, 5 points off its high. The Nasdaq was up 25.78 at 4965.81, but still 27 points off its high.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Market Trends Generated By Jubilee 2016 Will Continue Into 2017 And Beyond / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Jeff_Berwick
There were numerous trends established or maintained in 2016. In fact, the seeds planted in 2016 from Jubilee Year are bound to sprout in 2017 or 2018 with the kind of chaos and economic destruction that will give rise to further globalism.
Gold, silver and bitcoin as we have regularly commented, are the assets to consider as we approach grimmer times. (A little more on repercussions at the end of this analysis.)
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Financial Markets 2016: A Year for Contrarians; 2017 Shaping Up That Way as Well / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2017
By: Gary_Tanashian
2016 was the year I finally decided to codify my niche as a psychology-focused market contrarian, putting the Alice, Red Queen and Rabbit components of NFTRH’s logo right there on my inner forearm, forever.
This is because I love the imagery and themes of NFTRH’s guiding metaphorical story, Alice in Wonderland, and because the weird technical tools I use are generally in service to one thing; being right when the herds are going the wrong way. The concept originally came to me as the markets were beginning their descent into the crash of 2008 as the newly launched market management service needed a view that was apart from the emotional herds then preparing to go down the drain. Alice’s quote (Lewis Carroll), a portion of which occupies my other inner forearm was perfect in this regard…
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
2017: Where The Truth Lies / Politics / Social Issues
By: Raul_I_Meijer
I was surprised to see how surprised I was, like I’m sure millions of people were, to see the term ‘fake news’ pop up in what are still called ‘respectable’ (which is by now really just another word for ‘old’) news outlets.
Because a huge part of what they have been feeding their readers and viewers for years is that very thing: fake news. Who needs a bunch of bored highschool kids in small town Montenegro when you have the offices of America’s ‘official’ news sources at your disposal?
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