Saturday, February 20, 2016
Silver Price Trend Forecast - Silver has more work to do.. / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Submissions
Goldvybe writes: While I primarily analyze and trade gold, I do tend to look at the action in silver as the sister metal can provide us with some very interesting clues about where gold is headed next. Over the years the Commitment of Traders (COT) report which is released at the end of each trading week by the CFTC can alert us to some very interesting developments in the precious metals markets.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
OPEC Lost the Shale-Oil-War: Deflation Looms / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_Butter
In the unspoken plan to shut down what the oil-aristocrats called, “high cost producers”, let’s call that the Shale-Oil-War, the war-word was never mentioned. But it was war and there were casualties, Big-Time. There will be more bankruptcies in the Exploration and Production (E&P) sector and painful write-downs by the banks who supported it; many once oil-rich countries have been pushed into recession and the ripples are traveling down the value chain...there are long lines of cold-stacked brand-new drilling barges built on credit, closed steel plants and the mines that fed them, all the way through to the FAO Food-price Index that tracks oil prices. No wonder China is in some sort of recession, they were the final assembly point for a good part of the stuff you need to get oil out of the ground.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
Stock Market Sentiment...Looking At The Technical World..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
The market is showing some very interesting pattern set-ups on the daily index charts. The oscillators on the attempted pullback on those daily charts are holding nicely with many of the bear market stocks not showing a move lower on those oscillators as their price pulls back. A sign of many bear-market stocks bottoming? It could very well be, but that answer only comes with certainty when we experience the next strong down move. So far so good. Many stocks are in very deep bear markets, even though our indexes are not. Individual stocks from all over the stock-market world are experiencing some horrific moves lower. There are some signs based on positive divergences that this process may be in the very beginning stages of turning around.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
When Will Gold and Gold Stocks Correct? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Wednesday evening we raised a question in a subscriber update. We wrote: The current question for Gold and gold stocks is if they will push to higher targets before or a correction or if a correction has already started. We should know the answer in the next day or two. The gold stocks exploded higher on Thursday. GDX gained 6% while GDXJ surged 7.4%. Meanwhile, Gold solidified its support at $1200/oz. Markets that become overbought within strong trends can become extremely overbought before they correct. Recent price action in the precious metals complex argues that the path of least resistance in the short term continues to be higher.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident And Emergency Walk-in Not Fit for Purpose / Local / NHS
By: N_Walayat
The across the board relentless deterioration in the quality of NHS healthcare is not just limited to adult services but as illustrated by the Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident and Emergency Walk-in facilities is literally an across the board manifestation of healthcare paralysis for reasons that go beyond the usual tendency for the public sector to be inefficient.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Rising U.S. Interest Rates? Never Mind / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: John_Rubino
It was always a matter of when, not if, the financial markets would tell the Fed to stop raising interest rates. And it appears the message has been received:
Friday, February 19, 2016
Stock Market Danger Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
You may ask, “Why the rally back to the zero line?”
The first answer is, “Because it can.” That’s what support and resistance lines are meant to portray. They represent pockets of buying power or selling pressure, depending on which side you are coming from.
There is another reason. Computer algorithms can be trained to “sense” these areas and use them to the owner’s advantage. In this case, it may be to the owner’s advantage to maintain the market at this level so that certain options will pay off.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Gold Mining Stocks Thrive in Bleak Q4 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold miners’ stocks have soared this year as investors flock back into this long-abandoned sector. Many traders wonder if these eye-popping gains are merely the product of fleeting sentiment that could reverse anytime, or are supported by strong underlying fundamentals. With the gold miners reporting their latest quarterly operating results, this extensive new data offers great insights into gold mining’s fundamentals.
By law, publicly-traded companies must file quarterly earnings reports four times a year. These yield a treasure trove of valuable information for traders, and are easily the single-most-important contribution to financial-market transparency. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies traded on the US stock markets to file quarterly earnings reports no later than 45 days after their quarters end.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Equity Outflows Resume... It’s Time to be All-in Short / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX bounced off Intermediate-term support at 1904.40 this morning. There are a couple more supports that must be taken out today so progress may be slow, but steady on the downside. This assumes no catalyst rears its ugly head to spark the panic decline today.
Despite the three-day rally, we have seen the longest streak of equity outflows since 2008.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Is the Gold Price Manipulated? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The belief in manipulation in the gold market is associated with the notion of discrepancies between the paper and physical price of gold. The latter is artificially set lower by futures markets creating tons of synthetic gold. Hence the price of gold does not reflect its fundamentals. But the divergence between paper gold and ‘real’ gold cannot last forever; therefore the day of reckoning will finally come, and the paper gold market will collapse and the price of gold will skyrocket.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Ego and the U.S. Presidential Primaries / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Walter_Brasch
Like millions of Americans in the middle of February I have the flu.
Unlike millions of Americans I have a deadline.
Forced to stay at home, sucking Vitamin C drops, I have read newspapers, listened to radio, and watched television as a source of diversion.
Dominating the media is the campaign for the presidency.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Premarket Stock Market Decline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has fallen to its 2-hour mid-Cycle support in the Premarket. This is unusual for OpEx in the Index Futures. It suggests some turmoil that may carry over to the open. OpEx Fridays are usually more volatile than normal, but this type of activity before the open is unusual.
ZeroHedge reports, “Not even this morning's mandatory European open ramp has been able to push US equity futures higher, and as a result moments ago the E-mini hit session lows on rising concerns about Brexit as talks drag on in Brussles, but mostly as a result of overnight confusion about China's loan explosion and whether the PBOC has lost control over its maniacally-lending banks.”
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Marc Faber Warns “Own Some Solid Currency, In Other Words … Gold” / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
“Leave a million dollars with a bank, and in a year, you get only something like $990,000 back,” Marc Faber, respected publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, told Bloomberg by phone yesterday.
“I would rather want to own some solid currency, in other words … gold” warned Faber.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Stocks, Commodities, Bonds, Gold and Currencies Weekly Views / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Gary_Tanashian
It occurs to me that in public writing I tend to bludgeon people with macro fundamentals (like gold vs. positively correlated markets, yield relationships and even confidence in global policy makers), market indicators (VIX, Equity Put/Call, Gold-Silver ratio, Sentiment, Participation, etc.) and other views beneath the surface of things. So much so that I sometimes forget that people might like to see simple nominal charting as a frame of reference.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Support for Stock Market Indexes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Donald_W_Dony
The recent downward slide for North American indexes appears to have found a floor.
After declining for much of the last six weeks, the key U.S. indexes have all reached their 200-week moving averages (m/a) and stopped.
Only the commodity-heavy TSX went right through its 200-week m/a and settled on the lower support level of 12,000.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
How Rogue Market Price Spikes Can Make You Money / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Stocks are taking a breather today from the recent rally off our cycle lows and support level. As explained and shown in this morning’s video we are expecting stocks to stall out over the next 5 days and become choppy.
Any weakness in stocks means money will flow into metals and that is what happened on Thursday afternoon.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
2016 Tax Tips for Landlords and Real Estate Investors / Housing-Market / Global Housing Markets
By: Larissa_James
As a landlord or real estate investor, one of the most important tasks you face each year is filing your tax return. Even the smallest slip-up can result in major losses or penalties. As such, you wan to be very careful in how you proceed. Let’s take a look at a handful of the top tips for 2016.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Marc Faber Warns “They Will Bankrupt the World!” / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2016
By: Gordon_T_Long
Dr. Marc Faber joins FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long in an exciting discussion of monetary malpractice, negative interest rates, the influence of current geopolitical risk and much more. Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics.
Friday, February 19, 2016
EU Commits Suicide as BrExit Referendum Leave Vote Looks Inevitable / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Today the European Union looked down the barrel of a gun and then pulled the trigger, as the self interest of individual nations prevailed, and most evidently by the Visegrad-4 (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic) that continued to put short-term greed ahead of long-term economic and political commonsense leaving David Cameron to emerge Friday Chamberlain style waving a piece of paper of "Reforms in Our Time".
Friday, February 19, 2016
Fascinating Gold Charts With Hidden Trendlines / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: InvestingHaven
Gold had another very strong day, closing the day 2% higher. After a strong run over the last couple of weeks, the question is where gold stands, and how much upside potential it has. Let’s revise the charts and leading indicators in this article.
First, our daily gold chart (since gold peaked) shows that gold recently broke out of its downtrend. Interestingly, the gold price retraced this week to just below the resistance line, and closed today 1% above it. So far so good, this is strong price action without any doubt.
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