Analysis Topic: Currency Market Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, January 06, 2017
Bitcoin Pulls Back After Massive Price Increase / Currencies / Bitcoin
In the last month, bitcoin continued its rise, from $763 to a high of $1,153 yesterday.
Then it fell dramatically on Thursday to a low of $953 on Coindesk and has since been hovering in the $1,000 area.
All of this comes just days after the 8th anniversary of the first piece of the blockchain, known as bitcoin’s “Genesis Block” which was mined by the pseudonym known as Satoshi Nakamoto on the 3rd of January, 2009.
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Thursday, January 05, 2017
China Attempts to Crush Yuan Shorts / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
Yuan shorts suffered a bone crushing short squeeze over the course of this week after it hit an expected Master Cycle low on December 29. The retracement hit Intermediate-term resistance at 23.60 yesterday. Currently CYB is hovering in that zone.
CYB may go higher, but it cannot rally beyond the bottom of Wave 1 at 24.24. If it goes higher, the likely target appears to be the 50-day Moving Average at 23.74.
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Thursday, January 05, 2017
Chinese Yuan: "Manipulated" Currency Does NOT Mean "Unpredictable" / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
"...markets are bigger than governments."
This year's U.S. presidential election brought into focus one market you don't hear about often: the Chinese yuan, or renminbi.
"Donald Trump has been telling us all for a long time now that China is a currency manipulator. It's part of his plan for his first 100 days in office to get on with making sure that China is legally declared to be such a currency manipulator and thus start the process of doing something about it.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017
US Dollar – The Big Picture / Currencies / US Dollar
The U.S. dollar index (DXY) continues to strengthen following very positive long-term bullish price behavior. Although retracements will be seen in the short-term, upward pressure should remain for some time.
Classic bullish trend continuation price behavior:
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Monday, January 02, 2017
Bitcoin Price Breaks Above $1,000 On First Day of 2017 / Currencies / Bitcoin
In the first hours of 2017, bitcoin has surpassed the $1,000 USD mark.
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Sunday, January 01, 2017
Is China About to Demand the US Dollar Lose Reserve Currency Status? / Currencies / US Dollar
The biggest issue in the financial system… the issue that CNBC is completely avoiding… and 99% of professionals are ignoring is the US DOLLAR.
The US Dollar has ripped to 103.
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Bitcoin and Friends in 2017 / Currencies / Bitcoin
Greetings from Planet Krypto. We are the real deal, long-timer cryptographic-currency geeks; and today I’m gonna interview me, because I know what questions to ask. Please pardon the over-simplifications:
One: will Bitcoin continue to rise in price?
Yes, because consciousness of the deterioration of fiat currencies is growing. Three years ago, the notion that macroeconomic events would ultimately be the primary price-driver of cryptocurrency prices was almost unheard of. It’s now a no-brainer.
[And the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF? Nooo era! Feel free to ask me.]
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Bitcoin Breaks Out To New All-Time Market Cap Highs…How High Can It Go? / Currencies / Bitcoin
Bitcoin has had quite a month, rising from $725 to a high of $911 today.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Chinese Yuan: "Manipulated" Does NOT Mean "Unpredictable" / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
"...markets are bigger than governments."
This year's U.S. presidential election brought into focus one market you don't hear about often: the Chinese yuan, or renminbi.
"Donald Trump has been telling us all for a long time now that China is a currency manipulator. It's part of his plan for his first 100 days in office to get on with making sure that China is legally declared to be such a currency manipulator and thus start the process of doing something about it.
"The problem with this is that China really is a currency manipulator. But they're manipulating the value of the yuan up, not down. Thus returning it to the correct free market value isn't going to have the desired effect of closing America's trade deficit with China." (Forbes, Nov. 13.)
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Bitcoin Price Above Resistance / Currencies / Bitcoin
In short: no speculative positions.
If you’re wondering how Bitcoin-based systems might influence the stock market, Overstock has just given you an example. In an article on CoinDesk, we read:
Online retailer Overstock.com has closed the first-ever Series A preferred funding round with shares sold on a blockchain.
Of the total $10.9m raised from existing shareholders, about $1.9m was raised via shares traded on the tØ blockchian platform developed by Overstock.com subsidiary Medici.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Chinese Yuan's Day of Reckoning / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
China's economy and markets have been defying the laws of economics since 2009. Amid a worldwide financial crisis during that year, they managed to grow their economy by 8.7%. But that growth was fueled by a $586 billion dollar government stimulus package, which was followed by an additional $20 trillion dollars in new construction spending over the next seven years.
China's economy became the envy of the world as the economy expanded through the edict of government to build massive cities that were mostly vacant. In fact, estimates are that 52 million homes in China are currently vacant and 90% of those empty units were purchased for investment purposes.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
From Unloved & Unwanted to George Washington on Steroids: The U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
From Unloved & Unwanted to George Washington on Steroids: The U.S. Dollar
Chart of the Day
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Friday, December 16, 2016
The War on Cash Rages On in India and Venezuela / Currencies / War on Cash
Imagine you roll out of bed tomorrow to find out that US $100 and $50 bills were outlawed and deemed worthless? Hard as it is to believe, this is now taking place in both Venezuela and India.
It’s a war on cash. And it’s coming soon to your doorstep.
This past Sunday, President Maduro, the tyrannical leader of the socialist paradise of Venezuela gave a three day warning that he was eliminating his country’s 100 bolivar bank note.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
War on Cash Spreads to India / Currencies / War on Cash
Over the past year, central banks, commercial bankers and prominent economists have expressed the view that digital money and transfers should replace large denomination cash and cash transactions. This dramatic transition has been fostered under the guise of the public interest in an effort to curb terrorism, tax evasion and criminal activity. Many observers contemplate more sinister motives that involve increased government control of economic activity. The latest country to engage in this 'war on cash' is India.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Forget about Fake News – Worry about Fake Money / Currencies / Fiat Currency
Post-election airwaves and publications today are filled with bad news, good news, and fake news.
The bad news is ‘fake news’ is very real. The good news is fake news is nothing new. The even better news for gold and silver stackers is they have learned to live with decades of fake news about sound money.
You already know all about fake news. It used to go by other names – lies, propaganda, false advertising, and brainwashing, to name a few. Now we can add polling results and agenda-driven predictions to that list.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Euro Crisis and Contagion Almost Certain In 2017 / Currencies / Eurozone Debt Crisis
A euro crisis and contagion is almost certain in 2017, Irish economist and writer David McWilliams has warned:
Read full article... Read full article...“It is almost certain that there will be another euro crisis in 2017. The last time we had a euro crisis, the focus of attention was Greece; today the vortex is Italy.
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Euro Devaluation Accelerates – Millions Of Europeans Wishing They’d Bought Gold / Currencies / Euro
ECB Chairman Mario Draghi’s announcement of bigger and better QE this morning should have surprised no one. The fact is that the eurozone is coming apart at the seams and the only tool left to delay the inevitable is easier money. As the following chart illustrates, the euro has been declining since 2008, with the descent accelerating lately.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Plunge of Nigerian Naira and the New US Dollar Volatility / Currencies / Africa
While OPEC production cuts could slow the plunge of Nigerian naira, the real headwinds are ahead, thanks to the impending Fed rate hike, the incoming Trump administration and US dollar as the new fear index.In Africa, some 14 countries have been using the CFA franc that is pegged to the euro, while three have been pegged to the South African rand. Before the Trump triumph, the conventional wisdom was that as the US dollar would weaken against the euro in the short term, this will reduce inflationary pressures in these countries. However, skeptics argued that inflationary pressures were already low in most countries with a euro peg and a stronger currency would affect their competitiveness.
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Monday, December 05, 2016
India’s Demonetization Could Be the First Cash Domino to Fall / Currencies / War on Cash
BY PATRICK WATSON : Just recently, millions of Americans voted against Hillary Clinton because, among other reasons, we thought she would raise taxes or otherwise take our money.
Most of us didn’t notice what happened on the other side of the world that very same day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi really did take everyone’s money.
Citizens of India learned, with only a few hours’ notice, that their 500 and 1,000-rupee notes were no longer legal tender. Those are—or were—the country’s largest-denomination bills and the foundation of a huge underground economy.
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Thursday, December 01, 2016
Blockchain Technology – What Is It and How Will It Change Your Life? / Currencies / BlockChain
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Blockchain technology – What is it?
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Latest developments – Royal Mint Gold & CME, Goldman Sachs and Santander
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Why do we need it? It’s about value
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Blockchain is an extension of economics
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Blockchain allows us reduce uncertainty and risk
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How will it change your life?