Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More
We rang in 2017 predicting that it would be the year of TRUTH BOMBS, and Bill Holter joins SGT Report once again to ring in the new year. Bill predicts 2018 will be the year of the PERP WALKS. Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked a...Read More
The western Canadian province of Alberta is planning to give police the power to charge charge drunk drivers in a move that is being blasted by defense attorneys.Continue...Read More
The sale of marijuana for recreational is now legal in California, but what does that mean for air travelers who attempt to bring small amounts of marijuana with Continue...Read More
The investigation into possible collusion between Trump presidential campaign and Russia was reportedly begun by a conversation Continue...Read More
Click Here to Listen to the InterviewAs we wrap 2017 and look toward 2018, the topics are:Interest rates, QE and the global bond marketThe accelerating movement toward de-dollarization and risks to the petrodollarHow geo-politics and war are impacted by #2 aboveClick Here to Listen to the InterviewJim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in S...Read More
While bitcoin dominated the headlines of 2017, many altcoins have far surpassed it in terms of gains against the US dollar. Furthermore, fees for transactions on the bitcoin network have increased to three or four dollars' worth of coin a piece, sometimes more. Add to this the fact that the average person can hardly afford more than a few hundredths of a bitcoin or less, and it's not difficult...Read More
(Adds context, detail from PBOC release)BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - China's central bank said it will gradually raise the reserve funds ratio of third-party payment firms to 50 percent by April 2018 from a current rate of 20 percent, as it continues to ramp up regulation of the industry. The bank will increase the rate by 10 percentage points a month from February to April, it said in a statement...Read More
BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - China's central bank said it will gradually raise the reserve funds ratio of third-party payment firms to 50 percent by April 2018 from a current rate of 20 percent. The bank will increase the rate by 10 percentage points a month from February to April, it said in a statement released on its website on Friday evening. It said the move will reduce seasonal risks around C...Read More
TOKYO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Japan's top government spokesman said it was too early for the country's central bank to exit from ultra-loose monetary policy, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday."The Bank of Japan has just started (its easy monetary policy), so it's too early" to debate an exit from its massive stimulus programme, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told the paper in...Read More
BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - China's securities regulator has approved three initial public offerings to raise a total of up to one billion yuan ($153.70 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.Two of the approved IPOs will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and one will be listed on the ChiNext at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, said Xinhua, citing the China Securities Re...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed lower today, yet still finished 2017 on a high note by securing monthly and quarterly wins. For the year, the Dow tacked on 25% on its way to 71 record closes and its ninth straight month in the black -- the longest monthly winning streak in 60 years. Both the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) also faltered in thin trading today. How...Read More
The consolidation pattern in the $90-$95 area over the past three months by drug stock AbbVie (ABBV) appears very similar to that of June through July (in the $70-$75 area), which was followed by a rapid 30% rally.Reasons to believe the most recent consolidation has been completed include: support that manifested at the 50-day moving average on a pullback earlier this month; ongoing "micro-moves"...Read More
Stocks are trading mixed during the last trading day of the year. A few names making big moves are tech issue Energous Corp (NASDAQ:WATT), biotech Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ATRA), and bank stock Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). Let's see what's moving shares of WATT, ATRA, and GS. WATT Stock Honeymoon Comes to an EndAfter two gigantic up days, Energous stock is trading 15.2% lower at $...Read More
Today we are taking a closer look at volatility -- specifically, what it means when there is an abundance or lack of volatility, as well as the two primary types of volatility each options trader must know. In the simplest terms, volatility is defined as the propensity of the underlying stock's market price to change in either direction... but there's much more to the topic than that. Below, we wi...Read More
Vehicle components supplier BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE:BWA) this morning received a price-target hike to $52 from $48 at Evercore ISI. However, the shares were last seen trading 1.6% lower at $51.27, and are set to snap a three-month win streak after pulling back from their Nov. 30 record high of $55.86. However, data suggests this recent weakness could be an opportunity to catch long-term outperformer...Read More
Despite its forays into bitcoin, payments platform Square Inc (NYSE:SQ) has struggled to translate that buzz into stock momentum. Still, Square shares have added 154% in 2017, even though they're down 2% today to trade at $34.42. The SQ pullback could be a buying opportunity, however, as it's now within one standard deviation of the 80-day moving average, a trendline that has offered support si...Read More
(Adds details, quotes, context)MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Russian coal and steel producer Mechel said on Friday that talks with banks on restructuring a $1 billion syndicated loan had concluded successfully.Mechel, which is controlled by businessman Igor Zyuzin and came close to bankruptcy last year, had circulated the final draft of a restructuring proposal among its creditors last week. It need...Read More
It's been a banner year for the U.S. stock market, even as the American social and political climates swirled with controversy. The major market indexes rallied to record highs amid the lowest volatility in years, and a strengthening economy triggered a trio of Fed rate hikes. So-called "FAANG" stocks and bitcoin were all the rage, and the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) -- or Wall Street's "fear gaug...Read More
U.S. stocks are trading lower at midday, quickly reversing early gains. More specifically, the Dow can accredit most of its losses to Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple (AAPL) stocks, the latter of which is lower after the company apologized for slowing older iPhones. The major market indexes are still pacing for their best year since 2013, however, with the Dow eyeing its longest monthly win streak in...Read More