Today was a bad day for the US stock market https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/04/us-st... Is this just a correction or is the next big stock market crash (finally) here? Read More
Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports 02/05/2018 Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets. -->Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.Gold sector is on a short-term sell signal. Short-term signa...Read More
By Ira EpsteinGold closes steady off but caught an after settlement bid as stock indices had a sharp sell-off.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
Jon Boyar, president of Boyar Research, joins the team to discuss opportunities in U.S. equities that are not eligible for the major indices.1:45 Jon's approach to finding #value5:40 Patience is a virtue11:55 Jon's investment process and a few of his favorite #stocksJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of t...Read More
Not strong, not weak but strategically benignBy Michael J. KosaresTrump-Mnuchin qualifiers in dollar statements tell all"While it's [a strong dollar] described as a desirable and intended thing, it might not be a choice. The size of dollar holdings of reserves (in dollar-denominated debt) and the dollar's role as the dominant world currency are anachronisms and large relative to what one would w...Read More
By Clint Siegner The meteoric rise of crypto-currencies, including Bitcoin, captured the attention of many precious metals investors last year. Crypto's potential to serve as private and decentralized currency - beyond the reach of bankers (central and otherwise) to corrupt and control - is an alluring combination for some speculative members of "honest money" crowd. Investors are currently tr...Read More
It happened. Bitcoin, which only ever goes up, is near $7000, down over 60% from its high of nearly $20,000. If you've been listening to this show, there should be no surprise. It was inevitable. The DJIA lost 666 last Friday. Another inevitability, but predictions of this bull market's death have been greatly exaggerated, for now. John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial w...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengths? Despite the headwinds of rising interest rates, gold was the best performing metal this week, although down slightly by 1.24 percent. Gold traders are bullish for the fourth week in a row after the yellow metal posted its biggest monthly advance in five months in January, according to Bloomberg's weekly survey. The government of India is presenting a p...Read More
By Avi GilburtFor those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I think we can see it in occur in early 2018. But, that will depend if the ma...Read More
The last time the U.S. Congress pushed back against the Imperial Presidency and the over-reach of the nation's Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975.Continue...Read More
Special 5-day event (free): "Best Commodity Opportunities to See Now"Dear reader,Volatility is picking up steam -- and it's more than just Bitcoin and U.S. stocks that deserve your attention. A recent report by Goldman Sachs concludes that right now is,"...the best backdrop to own commodities since at least 2004... History says commodities will outperform stocks [in 2018]"Well, it so happens that...Read More
By David HaggithThe sweet grande dame of the central bankster world sees nothing but the brightest future to the furthest horizons for the markets she has been nurturing with her benevolent "wealth effect," as one of her close colleagues called it. While Grandpa Greenspan routinely warns now that stock and bond markets are in bubbles, Grandma Yellen says,I don't want to label what we're seeing a...Read More
As you are, or should be, aware the big market plunge on Friday came as no surprise to us - it was predicted just a few days before in the article BROAD US STOCKMARKET MELTUP update, in which the point was made that habitual victims Mom and Pop were at last getting stuck into the market, making the danger of a violent reversal even greater. So what now? - does Friday's savage drop mark the star...Read More
During her last news conference in December, Janet Yellen stood firm on her record stating, "The global economy is doing well. We're in a synchronized expansion. Continue...Read More
In the August 2017 edition of the Market Overview, we analyzed the hawkish turn among major central banks. We pointed out that “Europe has recently been among the most surprising positive economic regions in the world”, which should induce the ECB to taper its quantitative easing program in the fall, supporting both the EUR/USD exchange rate and the price of gold. This is exactly what...Read More
The risk-parity fund market rig is officially over.Throughout 2017, I noted that "someone" was slamming the VIX lower to force risk-parity funds to buy stocks.If you're unfamiliar with risk-parity funds, they are meant to achieve "risk parity" for investors by buying or selling stocks and bonds based on the perceived risk in the markets via the VIX.If the VIX is falling, meaning the perceived "ris...Read More
Most Americans have spent the last few years pressed up against the proverbial bakery window, watching the 1% enjoy a life of ever-increasing wealth and seemingly total indifference to the multitudes who aren't favored by zero interest rates, big trust funds and political/corporate connections. The one consolation for the have-nots has been that, by owning few stocks and bonds, they would suffer...Read More
I sent this update to paid subscribers on Friday. It's critical, so I'm sharing it here with ALL Economy & Market readers today...Continue...Read More
On Friday, the market finally woke up to the reality of rising rates.The truth is that Central Banks have been printing money for too long, maintaining "emergency" levels of QE despite the fact the global economy is growing.This has unleashed inflation, which is forcing the bond market to drop. On Friday, stocks finally "got the memo" that conditions are too loose and the US Dollar is falling too...Read More
On the campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to invest as much as $1 trillion in U.S. infrastructure if he were elected. Last week during his first State of the Union address, now-President Trump added half a trillion dollars more to that figure.The hefty price tag likely raised some eyebrows among Congress members, but Trump is right in aiming high to fix the country's...Read More