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RBA Says Commodity Rally Running Out of Steam and that Spells Trouble for Stocks!
Post Date: 2016-05-04 21:54:34 by BTP Holdings
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RBA Says Commodity Rally Running Out of Steam and that Spells Trouble for Stocks! Boris Schlossberg | Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 4:30 pm Two of the biggest stories over the first four months of 2016 are very closely related: #1: The Fed’s dovish reluctance to raise interest rates, which has crushed the U.S. dollar and … #2: The astonishing rally in commodity markets that has been fueled in large part by the weak buck. First, the Fed’s quarter-point hike in the fed funds rate last December is beginning to look more and more like a “one-and-done” move. Since then, the Fed has blinked every time when it comes to normalizing interest rate policy. Markets don’t ...
It’s Not Random——The Global Economy’s At Stall Speed, Rapidly Loosing Lift
Post Date: 2016-05-04 08:34:13 by Ada
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South Korea’s exports tumbled to $41 billion in April, marking the 16th consecutive month of declining foreign sales. Last month’s result represented an 11.2% decline from the prior year and an 18% drop from April 2014. Moreover, within that shrinking total, exports to China were down by 18.4% last month, following a 12.2% drop in March. Click for Full Text!
HSBC Index Points to Danger for Investors
Post Date: 2016-05-03 22:35:22 by BTP Holdings
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HSBC Index Points to Danger for Investors Image: HSBC Index Points to Danger for Investors By R Williams | Tuesday, 03 May 2016 08:01 AM The “risk-on, risk-off” theme from the years after the 2008 financial crisis is making a comeback, giving headaches to investors who try to beat the market with traditional methods of measuring value, say analysts at multinational bank HSBC Holdings Plc. “Risk-on assets rally when investors are upbeat and fall when the mood turns sour. Risk-off assets do the opposite,” according to MarketWatch, which obtained a copy of the HSBC report. “The tendency of assets to move in lockstep can make life difficult for stock pickers and ...
This ‘Under the Radar’ Recession Warning is Flashing Red – Are You Prepared?
Post Date: 2016-05-03 19:59:28 by BTP Holdings
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This ‘Under the Radar’ Recession Warning is Flashing Red – Are You Prepared? Mike Larson | Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 4:30 pm Job growth. GDP. Retail Sales. Durable goods orders. They’re all worth watching if you’re trying to figure out what’s happening with the economy. But I have one “under the radar” recession indicator I never, EVER ignore. And right now, it’s flashing red. I’m talking about the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. I know the name is a mouthful. But the short version is that the Fed surveys bankers every quarter to ask about loan demand, lending standards, ...
Notes on too-big-to-fail-banks history
Post Date: 2016-05-03 06:01:24 by Tatarewicz
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Here are some interesting numbers. What this tells me is that the USSR had every reason to believe the USA wanted detente as they were just as bankrupt indeed more so than the former Soviet Union which actually showed growth of 1-1.5%. Not even in recession. Autumn 1990: Bank of New England, Citibank and Chase Bankrupt During the Great Depression between the two world wars, the collapse of 1929 had been followed by a US banking disintegration that reached critical mass during the fall and winter of 1932-33. About 3 to 4 years had separated the collapse phase from the banking panic. By a remarkable coincidence, the stock market and dollar crashes of 1987 were followed 3 to 4 years later ...
End of 30 Year 'Golden Age' of Stocks and Bonds Signals Tough Times Ahead
Post Date: 2016-05-03 05:55:15 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... The decline and even reversal of the forces driving exceptional investment returns over the past 30 years means that returns on Western equities and fixed-income investments could be considerably lower in the coming decades, with serious consequences for pension funds and young investors, according to a report from the McKinsey Global Institute. $30 Oil Again? Energy Market Fundamentals Might Suggest Downturn in Prices A so-called "Golden Age" of investment based on a unique set of circumstances has come to an end after 30 years and will be replaced by lower returns on equities and bonds over the next two decades, according to business and economics research firm ...
Dollar Slammed as Data Dives — Does a Major Collapse Loom?
Post Date: 2016-05-02 19:41:06 by BTP Holdings
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Dollar Slammed as Data Dives — Does a Major Collapse Loom? Mike Larson | Monday, May 2, 2016 at 4:30 pm The U.S. dollar can’t catch a break. Lousy data on GDP, retail sales, durable goods and industrial production in recent weeks have pushed it relentlessly lower. Then this morning, the ISM Manufacturing index came in at 50.87 for April. That was down from 51.8 a month earlier and weaker than economists expected. Sub-indices that track new orders, production and order backlogs all declined from March, while one that tracks manufacturing employment remained below 50 for the fifth month in a row. That suggests we’re still plagued with layoffs in the factory sector. Result: ...
Trump or Clinton? Buffett Sees Business as Fine With Either
Post Date: 2016-05-01 16:05:10 by BTP Holdings
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Trump or Clinton? Buffett Sees Business as Fine With Either Image: Trump or Clinton? Buffett Sees Business as Fine With Either Sunday, 01 May 2016 07:23 AM A Donald Trump presidency wouldn’t be the blow to U.S. business that some fear, according to Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. “If either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton becomes president, and one of them is very likely to be, I think Berkshire will continue to do fine,” Buffett, 85, said at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. The outcome of November’s presidential election is unlikely to change the fact that the U.S. is a ...
Senegal, Mauritania bet on oil and gas in perilous climate
Post Date: 2016-05-01 03:13:43 by Tatarewicz
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Dakar (AFP) - While petro-states reel from plunging oil prices and gas producers brace for American exports to hit the market, two west African nations are forging ahead with potentially massive extraction projects others might fear to touch. Energy firms say Senegal and Mauritania's current oil and gas ventures will transform them into net exporters by 2020, betting on long-term demand and the eventual recovery of the slumped market, as well as their proximity to Europe. Located off Africa's western extremity, three oil wells drilled by Scottish firm Cairn Energy have yielded a "significant resource base" in Senegalese waters, its chief executive Simon Thomson said in ...
The Fun Ends When Socialism Runs Out Of Other People's Money
Post Date: 2016-05-01 02:15:32 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaMainForum... (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, America sinking like the Titanic.) This Is The End: Venezuela Runs Out Of Money To Print New Money Zero Hedge: Back in February, when we commented on the unprecedented hyperinflation about the be unleashed in the Latin American country whose president just announced that he would expand the “weekend” for public workers to 5 days… … we joked that it is unclear just where the country will find all the paper banknotes it needs for all its new physical currency. After all, central-bank data shows Venezuela more than doubled the supply of 100-, 50- and 2-bolivar notes in 2015 as it doubled monetary liquidity including bank ...
LOCKHEED MARTIN Only One of Six Air Force F-35s Could Actually Take Off During Testing
Post Date: 2016-04-30 08:18:26 by Ada
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Software glitches continue to dog the nation’s newest fighter jet. Five of six Air Force F-35 fighter jets were unable to take off during a recent exercise due to software bugs that continue to hamstring the world’s most sophisticated—and most expensive—warplane. During a mock deployment at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, just one of the $100 million Lockheed Martin LMT -0.15% F-35s was able to boot its software successfully and get itself airborne during an exercise designed to test the readiness of the F-35, FlightGlobal reports. Nonetheless, the Air Force plans to declare its F-35s combat-ready later this year. Details surrounding the failed exercise were ...
9 Oil Analysts, 9 Different Explanations - 'Nobody Knows Anything'
Post Date: 2016-04-30 03:54:29 by Tatarewicz
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RI... "Still confused? You should be." The invaluable Pepe Escobar breaks it down in layman's terms. The famous Hollywood adage – 'nobody knows anything' – seems to perfectly apply to the current turbulence in the oil market. So in an effort to clarify where the global oil economy is heading to, let’s engage in a Battle of the Oil Analysts. Relying on these Oil Analysts (OA) does not necessarily mean you will be handed straightforward answers, but perhaps with some luck you will see a ray of light. Saudi Arabia is saying that they are raising oil production to 12 million barrels a day. That’s highly debatable. Russia is saying that they can ...
Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street's Renegade Blog The veil is lifted on a secretive website.
Post Date: 2016-04-29 09:04:20 by Ada
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Colin Lokey, also known as "Tyler Durden," is breaking the first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. He’s also breaking the second rule of Fight Club. (See the first rule.) After more than a year writing for the financial website Zero Hedge under the nom de doom of the cult classic’s anarchic hero, Lokey’s going public. In doing so, he’s answering a question that has bedeviled Wall Street since the site sprang up seven years ago: Just who is Tyler Durden, anyway? The answer, it turns out, is three people. Following an acrimonious departure this month, in which two-thirds of the trio traded allegations of hypocrisy and mental instability, ...
Anything Trumps Hillary
Post Date: 2016-04-28 20:56:13 by BTP Holdings
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Anything Trumps Hillary By David Stockman It’s all over except the shouting. The primary election season effectively ended two nights ago. Now the actual shouting match between Hillary and The Donald begins. This will surely be the most entertaining election in U.S. history. Probably the most pointless, too. After all, Hillary wants to use government to make Government Great Again. And Trump promises to use government to make America Great Again. But government doesn’t make anything great, including itself. It is a necessary evil that always and everywhere is driven toward self-aggrandizement and mission creep by the politicians and special interest lobbies which control its ...
Japan Throws in the Towel on Useless “Stimulus” as U.S. Growth Slows Sharply
Post Date: 2016-04-28 19:47:47 by BTP Holdings
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Japan Throws in the Towel on Useless “Stimulus” as U.S. Growth Slows Sharply Mike Larson | Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 4:30 pm Completely useless. That’s what all the so-called “stimulus” from policymakers in Japan has been. The central bank there literally printed up hundreds of trillions of yen to buy everything from government bonds to stock market ETFs to Real Estate Investment Trusts. It kept interest rates near zero for many years, and just cut them into negative territory. It launched the biggest currency devaluation effort in the world. It pledged to do anything and everything to eliminate the nation’s “deflationary mindset.” The ...
Decade-Old Dream Realized as Russia to Price Its Own Oil
Post Date: 2016-04-28 03:22:14 by Tatarewicz
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RI... Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the verge of realizing a decade-old dream: Russian oil priced in Russia. The nation’s largest commodity exchange, whose chairman is Putin ally Igor Sechin, is courting international oil traders to join its emerging futures market. The goal is to increase revenue from Urals crude by disconnecting the price-setting mechanism from the world’s most-used Brent oil benchmark. Another aim is to move away from quoting petroleum in U.S. dollars. If Russia is going to attract international participation in Russian-based pricing, the Kremlin will need to persuade traders it’s not simply trying to push prices up, some energy analysts said. ...
Capitalism and the Minimum Wage: “I Got Mine, Screw You.”
Post Date: 2016-04-27 13:21:26 by Ada
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To understand the arguments of capitalists against the minimum wage, follow the money. In all the thickets of pious reasoning about the merits of capitalism and the market, and of freedom of contract, and of allowing this marvelous mechanism to work its magic, and of what Adam Smith said, the key is the dollar. The rest is fraud. Carefully ignored is the question that will be crucial in coming decades: What to do about an ever-increasing number of people for whom there is no work. There is of course much hypocrisy in the theoretical edifice. For example, businessmen arguer that the minimum wage constitutes intolerable interference by the government in the conduct of business—meanwhile ...
Bank Heist Exposes Staggering Security Flaws
Post Date: 2016-04-27 06:58:12 by BTP Holdings
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Bank Heist Exposes Staggering Security Flaws Published Wed, Apr 27, 2016 | Greg Miller, Senior Analyst bangladesh-central-bank-hacked If you like stories about daring bank heists, you’re gonna love this. One of the greatest thefts of all time occurred earlier this year – one where the robbers managed to escape with an impressive $80 million haul. And yet, it could’ve been avoided so easily. The story is an unusual combination of sophisticated genius and a grossly negligent lack of security and oversight by bumbling bankers. In fact, the robbers could’ve actually made off with $900 million more. So what happened? The Most Ridiculous Thing You’ll Hear All ...
It's All About the Money, Honey
Post Date: 2016-04-25 18:41:38 by BTP Holdings
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It's All About the Money, Honey by Adam English Posted April 25, 2016 at 8:30PM It never fails. If you want to know who is behind anything, simply follow the money. Earnings aren't looking good, sales and revenue are shrinking, and central bank policies are wreaking havoc across all types of equities. Corporate cash is piling up, but heavily concentrated in a handful of large corporations. The rest of the market is issuing debt for cheap as fast as it can while the risk vs. reward balance is broken for investors. Companies are borrowing from their future, yet making no plans for when cheap debt will inevitably end. And through all of this something keeps pushing share ...
How Wartime Washington Lives in Luxury
Post Date: 2016-04-25 08:38:23 by Ada
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Meet the new class profiting from the growth of the national-security state. In no place in America are the abrupt changes in the nation’s security posture so keenly reflected in real estate and lifestyle than the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In the decade after 9/11, it has grown into a sprawling, pretentious representation of the federal government’s growth, vices and prosperity, encompassing the wealthiest counties, the best schools, and some of the highest rates of income inequality in the country. “People hate Washington but they don’t really know why,” says Mike Lofgren, a longtime Beltway inhabitant and arch critic of its culture. But show them what ...
Gold Stalls, Silver Surges, Currency Wars
Post Date: 2016-04-23 20:58:51 by BTP Holdings
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Gold Stalls, Silver Surges, Currency Wars Written by Gerardo Del Real Posted April 23, 2016 Silver was the story in the metals space this week, hitting an 11-month high of $17.69 on Thursday and a 5% gain for the week. Copper surprised and rose by approximately 6% this week amid optimism of a healthier economic outlook for China — an outlook that I feel will be short-lived. China accounts for approximately 45% of global copper demand. It’ll be interesting to see if copper can hold the gains. Gold continues to fail to breakout. After hitting a five-week high — also on Thursday — of $1,270 an ounce, it’s retreated once more to the $1,228 level. I continue to ...
Debt Bomb to Cripple America...
Post Date: 2016-04-23 13:23:15 by BTP Holdings
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The next couple of days could be the worst in American history. We just hit a dangerous economic "stress point," and now America is facing a system-wide collapse that could begin without police or firemen on duty. Are you ready for food riots? Gas lines? Bank runs? Armageddon, basically. Click here for a FREE Survival Kit. click2.wallstreetdaily.com/t/GA/Nc8/QtY/ACVruA/AAIcqA/MzI3NzczfGh0dHA6Ly9wcm8xLndhbGxzdHJlZXRkYWlseS5jb20vNDkxNjkxLz9lbWFpbD1qLmJldGtlciU0MHlhaG9vLmNvbSZhPTI0Jm89MTM3NzUmcz0xNzExMCZ1PTI0NTI0MDgmbD0zMjc3NzMmcj1NQzImdmlkPWtOZmJ1WiZnPTA./AQ/HW-j
Case Study: Looking Back at Cyprus
Post Date: 2016-04-23 12:36:53 by BTP Holdings
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Case Study: Looking Back at Cyprus By TK McDonald Cyprus is a small island nation in the eastern Mediterranean that is split between the north and south. The northern portion is a Turkish-occupied zone and puppet state, The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, while the southern portion is the Republic of Cyprus and is culturally Greek. No other country except Turkey recognizes the northern portion, while the southern portion has been a European Union member since 2004 and part of the eurozone since 2008, before the global financial crisis that occurred in that year. Lead-up to Failure The Cypriot banking failure of 2013 took place in the Republic of Cyprus. Before the subprime ...
Negative Interest Rates Mean Your Government Is Betraying You
Post Date: 2016-04-23 09:57:02 by BTP Holdings
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Negative Interest Rates Mean Your Government Is Betraying You Michael Lewitt Email Michael February 18, 2016 24 Nearly 500 million people now live in countries with official negative interest rate policies, and the United States may be next. I say “may be” because Janet Yellen is talking out of both sides of her mouth. In one breath, she’s trying to reassure us that she expects “continued” economic growth – and then in the next, she acknowledges that she wouldn’t rule out lowering interest rates to negative territory. Meanwhile it’s left to the public to try to sort out just how bad things are, and it is my job, as always, to help. The fact that ...
Put Soapy Smith on the Twenty Dollar Bill, Not Harriet Tubman
Post Date: 2016-04-22 10:08:37 by Ada
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Well, I hear tell it’s official: They’re going to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Then supposedly, move the portrait of Andrew “The Architect of the Trail of Tears” Jackson to the flip side, effectively making the proverbial “double- headed coin” of nickel-and-dime bunco scams a reality. But why should we expect less than this from the United States government? I suppose this move will satisfy the need to have chicks on the money. Every progressive will feel swell and celebrate over quinoa crunch and circle the Priuses for an LED “bonfire” and sing-along. Ok, that’s cool and all, but what’s this going to cost? Aside from that, ...
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