Posted by Steven Vincent on May 14, 2012 at 9:00pm View Blog    High Risk of Near Term Global Financial Market Crash At each juncture, I look at the available information as represented in the market price and technical data.  I approach the body of evidence without preconception and with an open “beginner’s mind”.  I see what I see.  I analyze.  I deve Read More...

By David Galland, Casey Research For pretty much everyone, no matter where they are located in the economic strata, few if any questions are more germane to making plans for the future than whether the US and other major global economies are in recovery. Getting the answer to that question right is of special importance to investors and businesses. Stating the obvious, if the broader economy reall Read More...

Members of my service as well as long time readers know that I do a lot of analysis based on the past. I am constantly looking at long-term historical price charts and data. As a trader, I am always looking for an edge. Obviously the keys to long-term success involve proper position sizing, risk management mechanisms, and ultimately leveraging probability. Professional traders are masters of these Read More...

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Bloomberg’s Jonathan Weil rips the lies emanating from Jamie’s mouth, a new one. What Jamie Dimon Doesn’t Know Is Plain Scary Could Jamie Dimon really be as clueless as he sounded on the phone yesterday? Last month, after Bloomberg News broke the story that JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s chief investment office had, in essence, become a ticking time bomb, Dimon, the bank’s chief execu Read More...

Submitted by Tyler Durden When it comes to question of “who is right” in the market, the debate usually ends with credit (investment grade) or equity (and its high beta equivalents in the fixed income arena: high yield bonds). And since the question is rhetorical we will kill the suspense and cut straight to the answer: always, and without fail, credit. The chart below shows that once Read More...

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Friday saw heavy selling pressure coming into risk assets, specifically equities and oil. However, the real driving force behind the selling pressure is likely the result of several unrelated economic/geopolitical events. Clearly the unemployment report had an impact on price action, but strangely enough it would appear to those more in tune with reality that market participants want lower prices Read More...

Investors and traders just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to economic news. For example Tuesday in the United States we saw strong ISM manufacturing numbers which surprised the market. The numbers were way above expectations and it triggered a feeding frenzy in US based investments like stocks and the green back. The following session Italy reported terrible PMI and unemployment rate Read More...

Gold Stock Trades Treasuries are rallying on fears of a slowing economy in the U.S. after weak economic data was released recently and as  geopolitical uncertainty increases in the Eurozone.  France has an election May 6th, where we may see a possible changing of the regime.  Sarkozy has been one of the central players in this debt crisis. European leaders have been unable to manage debt loads Read More...

Unfortunately I was sick the past few weeks and I am just now getting back into the swing of things. Similar to the demand pull that the warmer than usual spring has had on macroeconomic data, the warmer spring caused me to have an earlier than usual sinus infection as well as some horrific allergies. I suppose I am pushing it a bit far when I am comparing my health concerns to economic data, but Read More...

Four years after we brushed up against “financial Armageddon,” did you think you’d be reading this? Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said…banks need to have more capital at hand in order to ensure the financial system is stable. Bernanke said regulators were taking steps to force financial institutions to hold higher capital buffers… - Reuters, April 9 It appear Read More...

By Marin Katusa, Casey Research There’s a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country’s importance in the world: the demise of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. For decades the US dollar has been absolutely dominant in internatio Read More...

By Elliott Wave International It’s been over two years since the European Central Bank began its open-heart surgery of the eurozone’s anemic economy. So far, the procedure has included an unprecedented $3 trillion-plus in bailouts, monetary transfusions, AND toxic debt transplants. Yet, according to a recent slew of discomforting news reports, the economies across the pond would still Read More...

From Gold Seek / April 23, 2012 Many forces influence the gold markets today, sometimes producing confusing indicators of what may lie ahead. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, John LaForge, commodity strategist at Ned Davis Research Inc., talks about the numerous and sometimes not-so-obvious factors that he considers in his research and how they influence the gold markets and, ul Read More...