Saturday, December 31, 2016
Gold and the SPX Stocks Bull Market / Commodities / Stock Market 2017
By: Tony_Caldaro
The market started the week at SPX 2264. On Tuesday the market rallied to SPX 2274 in the opening minutes and then started to pullback. The pullback lasted all week, with one 9 point rally along the way, and hit SPX 2234 on Friday before bouncing to end the week at 2239. For the week the SPX/DOW lost 1.0%, and the NDX/NAZ lost 1.5%. Economic reports for the week were slightly positive. On the downtick: pending home sales, the Chicago PMI, plus the trade deficit increased. On the uptick: Case-Shiller, consumer confidence, the WLEI, plus weekly jobless claims decreased. Next week economic highlights: monthly payrolls, FOMC minutes and the ISMs. Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Bitcoin and Friends in 2017 / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Submissions
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 31, 2016
Barack Obama’s Legacy: War, Debt and Poverty / Politics / US Politics
By: Jeff_Berwick
As 2016 winds down, so does Barack O’Bomber’s $80 million in paid vacations and his legacy of war, debt and poverty.
It’s quite amazing how much one man can ruin a country while playing so much golf.
WAR
Just 12 days after being elected, Barack Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He accepted the prize in Oslo on December 10, 2009.
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Ready for New Year 2017 Massive Rally in Gold and SIlve rand Junior Miners / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: Jeb_Handwerger
The Trump presidential election win has pushed capital into a major risk on rally, benefiting stocks, energy and the US dollar.
Interest rates are soaring in line with the Dow breaking 20k indicating major inflationary pressures.
Commodities such as industrial metals, copper and oil are rallying.
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Stock Market Dow Closes 2016 Up 13.4% Confounding Perma Bear Doom Merchants For 8th Year! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Dow Jones stock market index closed 2016 up 2338 points at 19,763, up 13.4% for year confounding the doom merchants who saw every surprise event of 2016 from Januarys oil price collapse to Britain's Brexit EU Referendum vote to America's very own self professed Mr BrExit, Donald Trump shocking the American establishment elite by winning the US Presidential election, all and more were apparently definite harbingers for a stock market apocalypse, reaching their most vocal just as the stocks bottomed and surged higher.
Friday, December 30, 2016
SPX Stock Market Flash Crash May be Developing / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Crash
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX cleared and retested Intermediate-term support/resistance now at 2256.83 this morning. It was a pleasant surprise to see it begin a new impulse lower. Although shallow, the new impulse tells us that there is room to decline. It is also a prime candidate for a flash crash as early as today. If the decline remains impulsive and gains momentum, we may see a low as early as Tuesday mid-day. SPX is on a sell signal.
Friday, December 30, 2016
FTSE Stock Market Index Ends 2016 at BrExit New All Time High, Clueless Financial Press / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The FTSE ended 2016's last day of trading at a NEW ALL TIME high of 7,142, which according the mainstream financial press's reporting for virtually the whole year was an IMPOSSIBLE outcome. After all the surprise BrExit EU Referendum vote result was supposed to have heralded a crash, collapse, recession new bear market, NONE of which materialised!
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.