AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR FUNDAMENTAL FORECAST: NEUTRAL Talking Points: Australian Dollar paid more attention to sentiment last week than relevant economic data Local CPI and US GDP could disappoint, taking the currency one way and then another This opens the door for risk trends to take the spotlight for the Australian Dollar yet again The Australian Dollar was on…
Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts warns that the “financial rape of America” is nothing more than “re-engineering” the debt based economy. This “rape” is happening from earth to space, and it connects to $21 trillion in “missing money” that has disappeared from the federal budget since the late 1990’s….
The difference between success and failure in Forex trading is very likely to depend upon which currency pairs you choose to trade each week, and not on the exact trading methods you might use to determine trade entries and exits. Each week I am going to analyze fundamentals, sentiment and technical positions in order to…
For the last few weeks we’ve used the conditions noted in the graphic below as a guide. Well, the ‘inflation trade’ (IT) popped last week and that included cyclical metals (as well as silver) ramming upward vs. gold and TIP rising vs. TLT & IEF. As for credit conditions, there is little imminently raising caution…
Congressional Republicans would be more willing to stand up to Trump if their major financial backers – big business and Wall Street – had more backbone. Ever since 1971, when the then future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell urged corporations to mobilize politically, corporate money has flooded Washington – most of it into Republican coffers….
Pensions really are in crisis, but the story is so full of large numbers, obscure projections, and dry terms like “unfunded liabilities” that not many people are paying attention. The same is true for a lot of other big trends out there, which is why those sounding the alarm eventually settle on pithy/scary (if not…
Talking Points: A few ‘high’ impact data events, S&P 500 short-term technical outlook murky ECB meeting on Thursday key event for the DAX UK GDP on Friday, FTSE will look to try and hold onto its recent gains S&P 500 Looking ahead to the calendar next week there are a few nuggets of ‘high’ impact data. On Tuesday, we have Consumer…
Are US stock markets over-extended? Are we about to witness a US market crash or a healthy pullback before the rally resumes in the US equity market? These are questions that are keeping many analysts and investors up at night and for good reason. Our article today will answer these questions by reviewing what the Dow Theory…
Time and time again, we’ve discussed how America’s millennial generation is burdened by debt, effectively precluded from home ownership and increasingly disgruntled and pessimistic about their future prospects for disgruntled and pessimistic In its latest Global Wealth Report, Credit Suisse said the millennial generation has faced “a run of bad luck”, much of which was centered around the financial crisis. “The “Millennials” – people…
