Sunday, January 21, 2018
Why Sometimes, "Beating the S&P 500" Isn't Good Enough / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: EWI
How money managers who beat a benchmark can still "ruin your retirement"
Would you like to invest with a money manager who has a track record of "beating the market"?
"Who wouldn't" you might reply. But, hold onto your horses -- or, in this case, onto your portfolio.
Even a professional manager who "performs" the S&P 500 can financially ruin you.
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
Bunnies and Geckos of Sheffield Street Tree Fellings Protests Explained / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
As the campaign to protect Sheffield's street trees has evolved over the past few years, so have terms emerged to describe campaigners actions such as Bunnies and Geckos, the meaning of which could be lost on those who don't keep track of what is happening to Sheffield's street trees on virtually every week day. This video illustrates what Gecko's and Bunnies are. The key difference being that Bunnies are usually considered to have breached the city council's injunction whilst Geckos have not.
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Jim Rickards: Next Financial Panic Will Be the Biggest of All, with Only One Place to Turn… / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: MoneyMetals
Mike Gleason: It is my great privilege now to be joined by James Rickards. Mr. Rickards is Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a monthly newsletter and Director of the James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics and global capital. He's also the author of several bestselling books including The Death of Money, Currency Wars, The New Case for Gold and The Road to Ruin. In addition to his achievements as a writer and author, Jim is also a portfolio manager, lawyer and renowned economic commentator, having been interviewed by CNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News and CNN, just to name a few. And we're happy to have him back on the Money Metals Podcast.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Kit Kat Joe the Mug Easy to Win Promotion / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
Kit Kat are literally giving away 50,000 'Joe the Mugs' in an easy to win promotion. Find out what you need to do to win your own Joe the Mug(s) in our latest video. And yes, this really is very easy to win promotion so if you like KitKat's it's not one to miss!
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Has the U.S. Dollar Bottomed? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Donald_W_Dony
Following the January 04, 2018: Market Minute titled: U.S. dollar weakness provides short-term lift to commodities, the $US has been declining for the last four weeks, much to the benefit of many commodity prices and gold in particular.
Since mid-December, the $US has fallen about four percent and gold has advanced over seven percent.
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Macro Trend Changes for Gold in 2018 and Beyond - Empire Club of Canada / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Nick_Barisheff
It is a pleasure to speak again at the Empire Club.
I have always believed that the future price of gold is best understood through long-term irreversible trends. Today’s macro trend changes are part of a looming tectonic shift that started decades ago, and have not been adequately reported by the mainstream media.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) introduced new banking rules, to be implemented by 2019, which stipulated that “gold bullion held in own vaults or on an allocated basis can be treated as cash and therefore risk-weighted at 0%.” In addition, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) adopted a new rule on August 30, 2012 that stated “gold bullion held in the banking organization’s own vaults, or held in another depository institution’s vaults on an allocated basis, can be rated zero percent risk.”
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
Top 5 Trader Information Sources for Timely, Successful Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
5 Information Sources All Traders Should Follow and Understand
Investors have no shortage of information available to them. In fact, the sheer magnitude of it all can be overwhelming. The key to informing yourself isn’t just a matter of finding information. It’s finding the right information and doing it quickly and conveniently.
Life is too busy to spend all day trying to sift through all the fluff to discover what you need to know. Moreover, you must understand how to use each source of information to its greatest potential. After all, there’s a big difference between the type of statement you’ll find in a company’s own press release and what you’ll learn from a third party stock analysis.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Bond Market Bear Creating Gold Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Richard_Mills
Gold is climbing as bond yields rise and the dollar falls, over speculation that China is pulling back on buying US Treasuries and Japan signals it is winding down its quantitative easing program. Meanwhile, US debt continues to grow after the Republicans under President Trump pushed a trillion dollars worth of tax cuts through the Senate, that the Congressional Budget Office thinks will add $1.7 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Gold Stocks GDX $25 Breakout on Earnings / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Zeal_LLC
The world’s leading gold-stock ETF is nearing a major upside breakout from key technical levels. GDX is getting closer to challenging and powering above $25. That would accelerate the sentiment shift in this deeply-undervalued sector back to bullish, enticing investors to return. Good operating results from the major gold miners in their upcoming Q4’17 earnings season could prove the catalyst to fuel this GDX $25 breakout.
The classic way to measure gold-stock-sector price action is with the HUI NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index. But the HUI benchmark is being increasingly usurped by the GDX VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF as the gold-stock metric of choice. GDX is used far more often than the HUI in gold-stock analyses these days, both online and on financial television. I haven’t seen the HUI mentioned on CNBC for years now.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
SPX is Higher But No Breakout / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX futures got as high as 2806.00, but could not break higher. It was higher than yesterday’s Wave three peak, producing a fifth of a fifth wave, but may not conquer Tuesday’s peak at 2807.54. Should this happen, the SPX may have made a truncated Wave v of (c). At this point, anything goes…
ZeroHedge reports, “If US and global stocks sold off yesterday on fears of a government shutdown, coupled with a spike in US Treasury yields to the highest level since March and approaching Gundlach's "equity selloff redline"...
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Game Changer for Bitcoin / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
The last couple of days have been tumultuous and this is reflected by the headlines in the media. In an article on the website of The Guardian, we read:
Bitcoin has all the hallmarks of a classic speculative bubble and even after almost halving in value in a matter of weeks it still has further to fall, according to a leading team of economists.
As regulators in South Korea again signalled on Thursday that they were considering a ban on cryptocurrency exchanges, Capital Economics also dismissed claims that bitcoin and its imitators could replace established currencies as “rubbish”.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Upside Risk for Gold in 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Black swans are very surprising and rare events. As they are beyond the realm of normal expectations, it is impossible to predict them. However, analysts do not care about such details and they outdo each other in forecasts. Our favorite is the list of ten outrageous predictions published by the Saxo Bank. The risk events include: the loss of Fed’s independence for the U.S. Treasury, the plunge in Bitcoin prices as government strike back, the abandonment of the yield curve control by the Bank of Japan, or the harsh division between the old and new EU members.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Money Minute - A 60-second snapshot of the UK Economy / Economics / UK Economy
By: Submissions
What really happens in an economic minute? Is the UK flush with cash or does it need a bad credit loan? How much money does the UK make every 60 seconds? What's the average household income every minute compared to the highest-powered CEOs? It can't be too much in just a minute. Or can it? We crunched the numbers to create a 60-second snapshot of the UK Economy.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
It’s Time To Build The Gold GDX Launching Pad / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
In 2017, the word “disappointment” took on a new spelling – “G-D-X.” After several failed break-out attempts in 2017, there is no question that it provided us a year of frustration.
As of Friday, the metals have now give us another indication that a break out attempt may be setting up yet again. And, just like the others we tracked last year, I am unable to tell you definitively whether the market will trigger that set up. However, after making higher highs off the December support on Friday, the metals have almost completed a 5-wave structure off those lows. That is the initial bullish indication for which we have been waiting in 2018.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Discovery Sport Real MPG Fuel Economy Vs Land Rover 53.3 MPG Sales Pitch / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
In this video I asnwer the question of just how closely Land Rover Discovery Sports fuel economy compares against Land Rovers 53.3 MPG sales pitch. As knowing how a car will actually perform under real world driving conditions is a very important consideration when buying any car. So find out in my latest video of what real world MPG to expect from a Land Rover Discovery Sport as my test of using the Trip computer (A) whilst driving a 15 month old HSE Black TD4 180 for 167 miles over 4 weeks results in -
Friday, January 19, 2018
For Americans Buying Gold and Silver: Still a Big U.S. Pricing Advantage / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: MoneyMetals
David Smith: Two years ago, in this space, I penned an essay discussing how Americans - and other countries that are "dollarized" - where the local currency is either the USD or pegged to it - had a significant advantage when it came to getting the most for their money when exchanging dollars for precious metals.
Lately I looked into this issue again and the good news is - it's still a good deal. In relation to a lot of other folks, even better than before! But the bad news is that this might not be the case much longer...
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Friday, January 19, 2018
5 Maps And Charts That Predict Geopolitical Trends In 2018 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
5 Maps And Charts That Predict Geopolitical Trends In 2018
BY JACOB SHAPIRO : Almost a year ago to the day, we wrote an article titled "The Geopolitics of 2017 in Four Maps." As it turned out, that article was one of our most popular in 2017.
We return this year with a similar concept in mind. Here are some of our best charts and maps from the past year, with an explanation of why each graphic is crucial for understanding the geopolitical forces to watch in the year ahead.
Let’s dive in.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Will Surge in Bond Yields Smash Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Yields on U.S. Treasuries have leaped recently. It will wreck the yellow metal. Or maybe not.
Yields Reach New Heights. Breakthrough for Gold?
Last week, we wrote that concerns emerged that China could stop or slow buying the U.S. Treasuries. The U.S. bond yields reacted strongly. We noted that in theory it should sink gold, but the usual “correlation between bullion and Treasury yields broke down thanks to the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, which supported the gold prices”. Due to the importance of that issue for the gold outlook, we continued to monitor the developments in the bond market to keep investors updated.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
North Korean Quagmire: Part 2. Bombing, Nuclear Threats, and Resolution / Politics / North Korea
By: Raymond_Matison
U.S. bombing crusade
After much experimentation and scientific study by Germany, Britain, and the United States, by 1943 it became clear that “a city was easier to burn down than to blow up.”
George Ball had been a member of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey team that was charged with studying the effects of bombing Germany and Japan. It found that the resolve of both the German and the Japanese population to resist the enemy had not been broken by intensive bombing. Despite this knowledge, what hardly any Americans know or remember is that we carpet-bombed North Korea for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Complete Guide On Forex Trading Market / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Kavinesh_A
Forex rate is highly interrelated with inflation and interest rates. It is a commonly seen phenomenon that countries with low inflation over a period of years see a rise in their currency value. This is the case because as the inflation is less, the purchasing power increases which in turn increases the currency value. Higher interest rates generally tend to attract more foreign capital investment thereby an increase in demand for the currency, but this positive aspect can be negated if the inflation remains high too. It is a widely known fact that a stable government with liberal attitude towards trade will attract more foreign investments which help to increase the currency value and the exchange rate. Another factor of importance is the balance between imports and exports. If a country gets paid more for exports than the payments it has to make for imports, the exchange rate of the country’s currency will be high.Read full article... Read full article...