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FED has kept interests close to 0% for many years. We went through many rounds of QE. We have inflated assets bubbles in housing and the stock market once again -according to some- to worse levels than 2007. FED has finally increased the rates marginally and the stocks started to come down furiously. After a… Read more Can the FED Go For Negative Interest Rates? |
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How to Survive a Global Financial Crisis
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Gold topped in 2011, oil topped 2014. Various commodities topped within the past few years. Stocks and housing still survived till 2016. Over 3 trillion dollars have been wiped off the value of global stocks since the start of 2016. With that in mind, I urge you to read Robert Prechter’s free report, How to… Read more How to Survive a Global Financial Crisis |
Housing Market Implosion Coming?
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University students live in the lap of luxury The U.S. housing market may be about to implode — again. Before I get into the “why,” know that the residential real estate market never fully recovered. Annualized new home sales this past July stood at 507,000, vs. the July 2005 peak of 1.39 million. The chart… Read more Housing Market Implosion Coming? |
Bear Markets Move Fast!
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With today’s market action, I don’t have a lot of time, and I’m sure you don’t either, but I want to drop a quick note before things get too crazy this week. Here’s the deal: This morning, the Dow crashed 1,000 at the open and has since rebounded. China declined 8.5%. Europe and the S&P… Read more Bear Markets Move Fast! |
Stocks Slide Globally
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Is this the start of a global financial crash? “When the alarm goes off and the dreamers awake, it will be pandemonium in the stock market.” — Bob Prechter, from the just-released Elliott Wave Theorist. You would agree that markets around the world have served investors a lot of surprises lately: Crude oil just fell… Read more Stocks Slide Globally |
Oil Trend Change?
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There is one solution to staying ahead of oil’s trend changes — Elliott wave analysis! You know the expression “God works in mysterious ways”? Well, according to an August 6 CNBC article, the price action of one financial market — i.e., crude oil — has out-mystified even God himself. Or, rather, the well-heeled star of… Read more Oil Trend Change? |
Peak Oil? Oil Price Decline Continues
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Years ago we used to hear the chatter about how OIL price is going through the roof because either the world is about to reach peak production or has already done so. There was talk of the world running out of OIL and the price would inevitable skyrocket and there was no going back as… Read more Peak Oil? Oil Price Decline Continues |
Unprecedented Extremes Indicate Stock Market Bubble
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After the rally from 2009 stock market bottom, stocks relentlessly marched up often without a breather. We have reported complacency has reached extreme levels in the past. But that in itself does not pinpoint a top. But when we have multiple measures lining up, one has to stop and contemplate the possibility that we are… Read more Unprecedented Extremes Indicate Stock Market Bubble |
Volatility in Chinese Stock Market
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“Chao gu” is the Chinese term for speculating in stocks. Roughly translated, it means “stir-frying” shares. Lately, though, for millions of Chinese investors, it means getting fried. Enter the “nerve-shredding,” “whiplash-inducing,” rollercoaster “tantrum” of China’s stock market. After soaring to 7-year highs on June 12, both the Shanghai Composite and Shenzhen stock indexes collapsed in… Read more Volatility in Chinese Stock Market |
Consumers Are Now Savers
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The real reason consumers aren’t spending is not a matter of monetary policy; it’s a matter of psychology. On June 2, the postman rang once — and, boy, did he ring. That day, the Wall Street Journal published a strongly worded letter titled, “Grand Central: A Letter to Stingy American Consumers,” which included these notable… Read more Consumers Are Now Savers |