USD/JPYFalls To The Lowest Since 2014
A negative market mood is the best fuel for the Japanese yen. Safe haven flows are sending the currency to the highest levels against the USD since October 2014, when the BOJ introduced the second round of its QQE program. Oil prices as well as stocks in most of Asia are falling. The Panama Papers, […]
E Will PepsiCo’s New Brands Be Enough?
In the past five years, soda has become less and less of a mainstay in American society. The volume of soda consumed has dropped 1% to 3% per year every year during that time. Diet soda has seen the worst of it, losing 2.5% to 6% annually during that time. “The number one fixation on […]
State Of The Eurodollar System; The Outrageous And The Absurd
The basis for the ongoing economic paradigm shift that seems to be manifesting in a slow, lingering slowdown (that is now more than year into contraction) in the US and global economies can be nothing but the withdrawal of banks from the necessities of the credit-based reserve currency. So far, the updated bank reports for Q4 last […]
Fed Sees Labor Market Worst Since 2009
Cast your mind back to Friday – when payrolls confirmed everything for everyone and enabled more crowing from an establishment clinging to smoke and mirrors. It appears The Fed disagrees with the ‘awesome’ jobs market that BLS proposes as today’s Labor Market Conditions Index continues to push to its weakest since 2009, drastically divergent from the seemingly all-important […]
Rising Markets & Falling Markets
Rising markets include biotech (IBB) which is seen in the chart below. One of the keys to successful trading and investing is knowing which markets are in up trends and which are in down trends. The goal is to be long the rising markets, and on the sidelines for the markets that are declining. The […]
EUR/USD Forex Signal – April 5, 2016
EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals were not triggered as the price never reached 1.1337. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades must be taken from 8am until 5pm London time today only. Long Trade 1 Long entry following a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next touch of 1.1337. Put the […]
Mega Breakout In 3D Printing Bellwether Stratasys
This is how it usually goes: a stock or a sector rises, catches the attention of the masses, gets into a euphoria phase … and right at the moment when everyone thinks the world has changed because of that company or sector it all comes down like a house of cards. And when nobody pays attention anymore […]
Gold Up In Asia Trade
Gold settled slightly lower on Monday as investors continue to digest last week’s strong employment data and the cautious tone of Fed Chair Janet Yellen over raising interest rates. Although Yellen is not in such a hurry to normalize policy, some of her colleagues are ready to raise rates for the second time. Federal Reserve […]
Do Rising Rents, Especially For The Poor, Mean We Do Not Have A Housing Bubble?
by Barkley Rosser (Econospeak) Aggregate housing prices in the US have recently been approaching the levels seen at the peak of the housing bubble back in 2006.Indeed, in some locations they have gone higher than they did then, such as in San Francisco.This has led some to speculate that the US is getting back into a housing bubble […]
Gold Had Its Best Quarter In A Generation. So Where Are The Investors?
Written by Frank Holmes, CEO Of U.S. Global Investors The last time gold had a quarter this strong, Ronald Reagan was a year into his second term as president, the Soviet Union was taking its final gasp and the U.S. was still reeling from the Challenger explosion. In the first quarter, the yellow metal rose 16.5 percent, […]
