Friday, October 16, 2015
Gold and Silver Price Test Initial Resistance / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
The precious metals sector, after failing to breakdown has enjoyed a strong rally in recent weeks. Gold, Silver and junior gold miners (GDXJ) have reached their 200-day moving averages with senior miners (GDX) close behind. While this is a positive development it does not yet signal that the sector is embarking on a new bull market trend. There are a few things to keep an eye on over the days and weeks to come that can help us determine if a new bull market is taking shape.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Walmart’s Ominous Stock Market Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: John_Rubino
Companies like Walmart and McDonalds’s have made their investors rich by squeezing costs and cutting prices. But it turns out that low-cost means low-wage, and as this model spread it contributed to the now-impossible-to-ignore migration of income and wealth from workers to owners of the capital and symbol manipulation skills that such a system demands.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Radical Gold Stocks Underinvestment / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Zeal_LLC
Despite gold blasting higher this month, this metal remains deeply out of favor among investors. They have shunned it for years thanks to extreme central-bank money printing levitating stock markets. This slayed demand for alternative investments, led by gold. But the resulting radical underinvestment in gold today is super-bullish. Vast capital inflows will be necessary to return gold investment to normal levels.
It’s impossible to overstate just how much gold is hated these days. Investors’ opinions on it range from total apathy to fervently believing gold is the worst investment on Earth. You can easily test this out in your own social circles. The next time the markets or investing come up, ask if gold is now a good buy. Everyone will say no, usually emphatically. And if you advocate for gold, they’ll think you’re naive or stupid.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Silver Price Green Light / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: DeviantInvestor
Silver looks like it has bottomed and will move substantially higher. Why?
Long Term – 25+ years: Examine the silver to gold ratio since 1990. The ratio is currently low and appears to have bottomed. Silver bottoms when the ratio bottoms. Expect a multi-year rally.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Mike_Shedlock
Most people believe the Fed can print money. Caught on tape, former Fed chair Ben Bernanke once admitted the Fed prints money.
However, in Hoisington's Third Quarter 2015 Review, economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. Let's take a look, emphasis mine.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Stock Markets Rolling Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX appears to have turned precisely at 9:34 am, 86 market hours after it reversed from its low on September 29. There was a combined PC/TC low due on October 1, so the bottom was 2 days early. It is possible that the perception that SPX could not make a new low that drove the buyers back into the market at the end of September. Once it took hold, the market took off.
Sunday is scheduled as a Primary Cycle high, so the turn is expected. Despite the aggressive nature of the call, you may wish to go 50% to as much as 100% short at this juncture. The market may linger her for the rest of this morning, but I don’t think that the retail options will do as well as the Index option fared this morning.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Donald Trump on Yellen, Clinton Sanders and Having World Leaders Call Him / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Bloomberg
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump sat down with host Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg TV's new flagship morning program, Bloomberg <GO> at Trump Towers in midtown Manhattan. In a wide-ranging interview, Trump discussed China, diplomacy, tech valuations, social security, corporate taxes, campaign finance, and defended his tax plan against criticism from John Kasich. He spoke about Janet Yellen, Carl Icahn, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.
On Janet Yellen's decision to delay hiking interest rates Trump said: "I think she's a very political person...what she's doing, and I'm sure that with the blessing of the president, because he doesn't want to have a recession or worse in his administration. Get him out of here, let him go to my golf courses - because I'm sure he'll be playing because I have the best golf courses, by the way and I have the best one in Washington - But he's going to go play golf and somebody's going to suffer... You know what they're doing, Janet Yellen, for political reasons, is keeping the interest rate so low that the next guy, the poor person who takes over as president could have a real problem because this is a political thing."
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Gold's Inflection Point and Asset Allocation with Butler and O'Byrne / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: GoldCore
- Gold’s Outlook For Year End 2015 and In 2016
- Gold’s Performance in the Coming Years: 2016-2020
- Coming Global Currency Reset
- Asset Allocation – How Much Gold?
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Censoring Books is Suppressing Freedom of Expression / Politics / Social Issues
By: Walter_Brasch
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest trade convention for publishers and vendors.
This year, the six-day convention, which ends Sunday, brought more than 7,400 exhibitors from 100 countries. Attendance was more than 300,000.
But, hundreds of Iranian publishers, editors, and printers didn’t attend.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Gold Stocks: Different This Time / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Gary_Tanashian
The title does not include a (?) after it and that is for a reason. The gold sector’s fundamentals, both sector-specific and macro, are improving and this was not the case during the last exciting upturn in the sector circa summer 2014.
Back then, everything from Russia’s move into Ukraine to the Ebola scare were imagined to be sound drivers of the gold price. This stuff proved, as expected, to be wrong when the whole complex made new lows in November of 2014 (prior to this year’s ultimate lows).
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Gold Holdings in GLD ETF Continue to Climb / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dan_Norcini
A quick update on GLD for the readers and by request…
GLD reported another nice build in reported gold holdings today – about 5 tons. That comes on the heels of a nice increase the previous day of some 7+ tons.
Since October 1, gold holdings have climbed from 689.2 tons to 700 tons. While not a huge build, nonetheless, this is what one wants to see if the gold price is moving higher as it shows investment demand from Western-based investors.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Gold Companies That Create Extra Value Will Always Reward Investors / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: The_Gold_Report
Even in the worst resource market in history, companies with good management teams can increase in value. In this interview with The Gold Report, U.S. Global Investors CEO Frank Holmes talks about whether this is the right time to get back into gold, and Portfolio Manager Ralph Aldis reports on the performance of companies in the portfolio and shares some of the names in Australia that have done so well he almost feels guilty about how easy it is to make money off them.
The Gold Report: A number of thought leaders in the larger investing community have come out lately in favor of gold. How do you know it is time to move into the resource?
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Friday, October 16, 2015
The Most Important Thing in the World / Stock-Markets / Taxes
By: John_Mauldin
By Jared Dillian
As I write this, I am watching the Mets play the Dodgers and not watching the Democratic debate. I can catch the highlights on Twitter. I am half expecting someone to propose a tax rate of over 100%.
Something I’m sure will be suggested at some point is a financial transactions tax, a tiny tax placed on every single financial transaction: stocks, bonds, and derivatives.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Stock Market Bearish Topping Formation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Another Orthodox Broadening Top appears to be forming. Whether it makes a new high or not, it appears to be valid and has a potential target of 1532.00.
A reversal here that has not formed a new high has a 65% probability of follow through to the downside as it reverses from the top. Those are fair odds for a short position, although I would still call it an aggressive one. The odds of failure of this formation drop to 4% beneath the lower trendline at 1985.32. That corresponds to the 50-day Moving Average, where the sell signal in SPX would be confirmed.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
How to Profit From America’s Growing Natural Gas Reserves / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: Once every two years, a little-known committee conducts a very important study. The Potential Gas Committee (PGC) estimates how much natural gas we can recover from U.S. deposits.
Currently, the U.S. uses 26.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf) each year. That’s a lot of gas. Fortunately, the PGC’s 2014 year-end estimate for recoverable gas is 2,515 tcf... or 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
What the 'Junk-Bond Crisis' Means for Muni Bonds / Interest-Rates / International Bond Market
By: DW
Dr. David Eifrig writes: It could happen next week... or next month...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
The Third Wave of the Global Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2015
By: Michael_J_Kosares
Massive artificial stock, bond wealth will be looking for a place to go. By the time Goldman Sachs published its widely referenced warning of a third wave in the global financial crisis (mid October), the physical precious metals' markets were already feeling the strain of very strong demand against a rapidly dwindling supply. China, the country seemingly at the epicenter of the developing emerging market crisis, by itself had taken 911 tonnes of gold off the market in the first half of 2015 – a number when annualized that represents nearly two-thirds of the world's mine production. India, another of the so-called BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) was a strong second at 400-500 tonnes. In the Occident, gold demand was strong, but silver demand was even stronger. Global mints were reporting off-the-charts demand for silver bullion coins. Coin premiums were on the rise in extremis at one point reaching almost $6 per ounce on the popular silver American Eagle.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
The "Personality" of Stock Market Waves / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Are movements in the markets just prices or is there more to it?
Elliott waves don't merely reflect prices plotted over time. Each wave has its own "personality." Watch this video by EWI's Wayne Gorman to learn more about the psychology behind the waves and how it affects your investment decisions.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Are The Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) On The Verge of a Major Breakout at $23? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2015
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Junior gold miners may be on the verge of a major breakout past three month highs after The Federal Reserve continues to push back interest rate increases. There is a stealth rally underway for junior miners as gold tests resistance after bouncing off its lows in late July. Investors appear to be rotating from the Dow into precious metals as investors may be anticipating even greater easing efforts globally due to China's recent weakness and Yuan devaluation. This could continue to push precious metals, the large miners such as Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) and mid-tiers such as Alamos Gold (NYSE:AGI) higher. The fear of rate increases that pushed precious metals down is decreasing. The recent rally in precious metals and junior miners may be just beginning as I expect to see increased mergers and acquisitions off of these depressed low prices.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Gold Surprise / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Bob_Loukas
The surprises are going to the upside for gold, and that is obviously a change in behavior. The miners are roaring higher and are outside of their Bollinger Bands for multiple days, a sure sign of strength. Up until very recently, the Investor Cycle had showed us relatively little to get excited about. But suddenly, eleven weeks into the Cycle and right where you would have expected it to turn lower, gold has found yet another gear.