U.S. stocks sold off sharply last week, continuing the rout that began in late-September. Since the market’s peak, the SP500 fell 5.6 percent, the Dow lost 4.7 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 7.3 percent. A panoply of concerning factors combined to send jitters through the global financial markets over the past month: Tightening U.S. monetary policy (the end of QE3 and upcoming Fed[...]
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The Calm Before The Storm In The Gold Market – Insiders Accumulating Bullion in Preparation
Again this week the gold price tested the $1,200 level dropping below it on higher US dollar against most fiat currencies. It is assumed that a stronger US dollar against the euro and other fiat currencies is also negative for the price of gold. However gold is not a hedge against the US dollar but rather against all fiat currencies. Even though gold’s price has been falling, in India and China [...]
Russia’s Gazprom Buys Europe’s Biggest Gas Storage Facility – Western Alliance Breaking Apart? Petro Dollar in Peril?
Russia will acquire Europe's largest underground gas storage facility this autumn from Germany’s BASF, continuing the development of its Nord Stream operations. In return, the Germans will get access to large gas reserves in Western Siberia. Gazprom and the Wintersall subsidiary of German chemical company BASF are putting the final touches to the asset swap, which will see Gazprom getting the[...]
Serious Financial Trouble Is Erupting In Germany And Japan – Stage Being Set for Next Global Crisis
By Michael Snyder There are some who believe that the next great financial crash will not begin in the United States. Instead, they are convinced that a financial crisis that begins in Europe or in Japan (or both) will end up spreading across the globe and take down the U.S. too. Time will tell if they are ultimately correct, but even now there are signs that financial trouble is already[...]
Here Is The Most Frightening Prediction To End 2014 and Enter The Future
Today King World News interviewed a 60-year market veteran who made some absolutely frightening predictions as we head into the end of 2014. He discussed what to expect in the major markets, including stocks and gold, and he warned that despite the propaganda and recent stock market action, the West is literally “destroying” itself. Below is six-decade market veteran Ron Rosen’s remarkable[...]
‘Mediocre and a Bit Worse’: IMF Trims Global Growth Forecast
IMF Trims Forecast for Global Economic Growth to 3.3 Percent The International Monetary Fund slightly lowered its outlook for global economic growth this year and next, mostly because of weaker expansions in Japan, Latin America and Europe. The IMF said Tuesday the global economy will grow 3.3 percent this year, one-tenth of a point below what it forecast in July. World growth should then pick[...]
Total Corruption, Financial Meltdown & Once In 600-Year Event
Long time and highly respected market analyst Richard Russell spoke with Eric King of King World News. In the interview Russell warned of a coming financial meltdown that he says will totally destroy the current financial system. The 60-year market veteran also discussed the fact that the world may now be witnessing a devastating once in 600-year event. Richard further shares his outlook[...]
End Of Empire – The ‘De-Dollarization’ Chart That China And Russia Are Banking On
History did not end with the Cold War and, as Mark Twain put it, whilst history doesn’t repeat it often rhymes. As Alexander, Rome and Britain fell from their positions of absolute global dominance, so too has the US begun to slip. America’s global economic dominance has been declining since 1998, well before the Global Financial Crisis. A large part of this decline has actually had little to [...]
6 Major Flaws in the Fed’s Economic Model – James Rickards
The U.S. dollar is the dominant global reserve currency. All markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and foreign exchange are affected by the value of the dollar. The value of the dollar, in effect, its “price” is determined by interest rates. When the Federal Reserve manipulates interest rates, it is manipulating, and therefore distorting, every market in the world. The Fed may have [...]
US Rules Make Gold the New Green – Financial Times
By John Dizard Financial Times, London Friday, July 11, 2014 Pecunia non olet. (Money has no smell.) — Emperor Vespasian (69-79) to his son, Titus, when Titus protested a tax on urine. * * * There is a fresh wind behind the dollar price of gold, which is also increasing the reported and unreported volumes of physical trading in the metal. Thanks to what one (non-banker) friend of mine[...]