by Kimble Charting One of the over-looked commodities and economic indicators is Lumber. And more specifically the price of lumber. The price of lumber has been on the rise since the 2008 financial crisis, but Lumber futures prices went haywire following …
by Kimble Charting As inflation concerns remain in the headlines, today we look at the potential of food inflation by looking at cattle futures prices (i.e. beef). Earlier this week we analyzed hard commodities Copper and Silver, as they are inputs and …
Who really believes in the Biden economy? No one of course. It was just a matter of time before the wheels came off. We don’t know if this is the big one, but we do know the big one is …
by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC Gold was crushed this week following the latest Federal Open Market Committee decision. While the Fed didn’t taper quantitative easing or hike interest rates, Fed officials’ predictions of future rates proved more hawkish than expected. That ignited …
by confoundedinterest17 U.S. lumber futures rallied as much as 4% to $1,541 per 1,000 board feet Wednesday, the highest ever for a most-active contract. The surge came as voracious home-construction and renovation demand sends builders scrambling to secure the wood they need. Prices have …
I guess the recent taxes on PM’s in many states is also a part of keeping the demand low. Make it unattractive to hold. State Dept. Cable Confirms Gold Futures Market Was Created for Price Suppression https://goldbroker.com/news/state-dept-cable-confirms-gold-futures-market-was-created-for-price-suppression-1070 TO THE DEALERS’ …
BY JOHN RUBINO Early 2019 looked like a great set-up for gold, but failed to live up to its billing. A nice December-through-March run took the price back to the $1,350 resistance that had repelled it four times in the past five …
https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1118336736525017088 Off the chart 👇🏻 Retail sales rose 8.7% 📈📈YoY from (exps 8.4% YoY); FAI rose📈 6.3% from 6.1% ; IP rose 📈📈8.5% from 5.9% (exp 5.6%) Q1 GDP rose📈 6.4% YoY (exps 6.3% from 6.4% in Q4) So retail …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open Global stocks are flat this morning amid tariff threats and US stocks index futures are FLAT with front-month Dow Jones minis -0.03%, S&P 500 minis -0.06% and Nasdaq 100 minis -0.09% President Trump has vowed …
via themarketear: Note that despite VIX falling to new recent lows, the ratio between 2 vs 8 mths refuses coming much lower. People have the October sell off in “fresh” memory and front month hedges are in relatively high demand. Bloomberg …
by Tom McClellan VIX futures contracts have only been a thing since March 2004, and they were not a big thing when they first started. In more recent years, they have become an important tool for a lot of hedge funds …
by John Ward We are beginning to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the term ‘Brexiteer’. Only Francois, Cash, Redwood, Hoey and a handful of others still deserve the monniker. The Prime Minister’s “deal” will produce fractious …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/u-s-core-inflation-unexpectedly-cools-on-autos-drug-prices https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1105450217430831105
by kit8642 Shoshana Zuboff talks about her new book on Survallence Capitol. Pretty interesting stuff, and essentially what Googled said they would do in 2016 with an internal video that was leaked last year. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino returns… Like the much vaunted butterfly affect, so too with financial markets and debt. We go merrily along out way thinking everything is fine, only to discover that we were wrong. While we totally mis-called the …
by Chris After drifiting higher immeidately after the painful close on Tuesday, US stock futures went a bright shade of red immediately upon opening back up again at 6:00 pm. EST (~15 minutes ago). The reason? I think it’s related …
by Chris As usual, if you are not a savvy participant playing the rigged futures game, you are pretty much locked out of the bounces. So far today 100% of all the “gains” were locked in the futures market. None …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are declining this morning with bond yields inching up higher as traders await the release of September’s payrolls data US stocks index futures are pointing to a neutral open in NY with the Dow Jones …
sour mood into the weekend for global equity futs pic.twitter.com/F9q5sQxv4F — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 7, 2018 “Quiet cooling” in services/housing/autos h/t @LizAnnSonders pic.twitter.com/vnBcqARd8l — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 6, 2018 https://twitter.com/FerroTV/status/1037994065009274880 Happy Trade War Friday! After midday HKT, we expect decision …
Dow Tops 25k As “Trade War Delay” Sends Industrials Into Green For 2018 Even after the overnight spike, investors panic-bid stocks at the cash open, sending The Dow back into the green for 2018…
https://twitter.com/movement_cap/status/996038696049807360?s=11 Amazing how many things are linked to the #LIBOR rate! #GC_F $GLD
China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products, in a move likely to heighten global concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s biggest economies. The new charges are targeted at U.S. products including soybeans, cars and whisky. The …
via Anne-Marie Baiynd Broad Stock Market Futures Outlook for April 2, 2018 For the fifth day, we sit in a range of motion and though the range is a bit wide, it is still a bit of a messy patch that requires …
From Birch Gold Group Since 2015, we have been reporting about China’s new gold-backed petroyuan and its imminent unveiling on the world stage. In fact, earlier this month we wrote: On March 26 China will finally launch a yuan-dominated oil futures contract. Over the …
China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market Yuan-denominated contract begins trading in Shanghai Monday Domestic futures start 25 years after idea was first mooted It’s taken a quarter of a century, but China finally has its …
The omnibus bill has been signed by Trump, this bill is 2230 pages long and it is not a budget plan it is a spending bill, the same spending bill Obama used throughout his presidency. This bill allows the president …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The markets’ man in the White House is on the way out. It didn’t take long for the futures market to react. After it was reported Tuesday evening that Gary Cohn plans to resign, Dow futures …
by Chris https://finviz.com/futures.ashx Be sure to also visit their very handy main page as well as their super handy a market heat map. Very useful for detecting issues: https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec
by Chris What a wild ride! Those failed rescues are gonna cost. Not as much as over pumping these “”markets”” in the first place, of course, that’s where all the trouble began. Since the market closed I’ve seen the futures …
