Amid record profitability, companies are paying out more and more dividends to shareholders. In 2014, 423 companies in the S&P 500, or 84%, paid dividends. That marks the highest percentage since 1997. Additionally, a whopping 375 companies increased their dividends last year. And 267 firms have already increased so far in 2015. Major Commitment When…
Early last year I gave banking behemoth Goldman Sachs (GS) credit for looking in the right direction for clues regarding gold’s likely performance, which is something that most gold bulls were not doing. In November I again gave them credit, because, even though I doubted that the US$ gold price would get close to GS’s $1050/oz…
EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals produced a just barely profitable winning trade off the pin bar rejection from the identified support at 1.1315. It only gave the minimum required 20 pips of profit. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades may only be taken between 8am and 5pm London time today. Long Trade 1 Go long following…
(Video length 00:01:40) During the session on Tuesday, there will be almost nothing to move the markets as far as economic announcements are concerned, so because of that we anticipate that it will be a fairly calm and quiet session. However, there are a couple of things that we see on the charts that could…
U.S. healthcare isn’t just an historical accident–it is a fatal accident waiting to happen. Many of the systems we take for granted are historical accidents. Either based on legacy systems hundreds of years old (higher education) or assembled in a short-term, ad hoc fashion (post-1940 national defense/ national security), these systems have expanded into vast…
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I heard you on Infowars. I understand how the gold standard would not solve anything for the problem is politicians and not what we call money. Some think that you can create a floating gold standard so gold would be money but not fixed. I really have a hard time seeing where this…
I was never one that anticipated the BOJ to step up its unorthodox easing of monetary policy next week. Talking with officials here I have become even more convinced that there is no strong sense of urgency to act. There are three different considerations that were expressed. The first relates to inflation. The core measure, which excludes…
EUR/USD almost broke 1.13 lows as the focus now shifts on the ECB decision later this week. From a market perspective, the meeting should not provide further clarity but is likely to be seen as an early indication of what we can expect in the December ECB meeting. A change in rates is out of…
Yesterday in “The Truth Behind China’s GDP Mirage: Economic Growth Slows To 1999 Levels”, we pointed out that Beijing may be habitually understating inflation for domestic output, which has the effect of making “real” GDP less “real” than nominal GDP. This is what we’ve called the “deficient deflator math” problem and it raises questions about…
T2108 Status: 64.9%T2107 Status: 31.7%VIX Status: 15.0General (Short-term) Trading Call: Neutral (target of 1996 on the S&P 500 occurred ahead of overbought conditions. See “From the Edge of A Breakout to the Ledge of A Breakdown” for more details).Active T2108 periods: Day #12 over 20%, Day #11 over 30%, Day #11 over 40%, Day #9…
