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TOP NEWSStocks Could Fall Sharply In 2022 Warns Latest Technical Data & Volatility Indicators | Sven Henrich
This video is the middle of three videos cut from a 2-hour long recording session with stock market technical analysis expert Sven Henrich. Here, Sven walks through the latest charts and key patterns he sees with the VIX (the volatility index) and the major stock market indices: the S&P 500, the Dow, the NASDAQ & the Russell 2000.
Caution! Markets Now At Record Risk Levels | Sven Henrich
Looking at markets from the macro view helps us estimate what "should" happen next. But to improve our overall understanding, we also need to take into account what "is" happening right now.
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Jeff Clark: Why is Silver so Cheap Compared to Other Commodities?
Jeff discusses his recent article on silver in which he compares silver to other asset classes' performance since 1980. Silver and sugar are the only ones that remain below their 1980 peak. Everything else today is overvalued and this will change when the mainstream returns to this market. He says, "Focus on what you can control."
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Gold Rises 1% as Virus Jitters, Lower Yields Lift Demand
Gold prices rose nearly 1% as uncertainty sparked by the Omicron coronavirus variant and a dip in U.S. Treasury yields boosted the safe-haven metal's appeal.
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Russian Finance Ministry to Buy $6.8Bn Worth of Gold, FX in Month Ahead
The finance ministry said its regular FX and gold purchases on the market will total 502 billion roubles ($6.81 billion) over the month. A Reuters poll of analysts predicted that FX buying would total 475 billion roubles.
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Central Banks Register Marginal Net Purchases in October
Today we’ve published our closely-watched central bank statistics, updated through October 2021. And the latest data shows that central banks bought 2t of gold in October, as decent buying was counteracted by sales from a handful of banks.
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Saxo’s Outrageous Predictions 2022: Revolution
The SaxoStrats are back with 10 Outrageous Predictions for 2022. As culture wars rage across the world, it’s no longer a question of if we get a socioeconomic revolution, but a question of when and how. But which revolutionary prediction do you think is most likely?
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Next Economic, Financial “Crisis” Begins in 2022: Econimica
The fuel for economic growth, particularly in a nation running gargantuan trade and budget deficits, is population growth. Not any population growth, but working age population growth. It is the growth of this cohort that drives potential employment growth, potential consumer growth, potential homeownership growth. Absent that growth, the means to continue "growing" is to substitute cheaper debt, more debt, more stimulus, etc. and claim those substitutes as real growth.
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Elizabeth Warren Is So Very Wrong About Inflation
In fact, according to Warren, there is no inflation, only corporations arbitrarily raising prices in their relentless pursuit of … profits.
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Turkish Inflation Soars Above 21% in Challenge to Erdogan
Turkey's annual inflation jumped more than expected to a three-year high of 21.31% in November, data showed on Friday, further exposing the risks of recent aggressive rate cuts that prompted a historic slide in the lira.
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Sec Chairman Gary Gensler: Bitcoin Competes With The U.S. Banking System
Gary Gensler said on Wednesday that Bitcoin was created “as a reaction” to the U.S. monetary system and its worldwide consensus.
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'Between A Rock & A Hard Place': The Fed Is Being Crushed
Attempting to micromanage human economic life by counterfeiting money and manipulating interest rates is a fool's errand. Ultimately, those who attempt it must corner themselves into an impossible situation. Nothing they do works. Everything they do fails. The costs of keeping the illusion going become overwhelming. Don't miss today's Liberty Report!
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Biden Signs Bill to Prevent Shutdown as Congress Turns to Debt Ceiling, Social Spending Bill
The government will keep running through Feb. 18, buying Democrats time to address the debt ceiling and the Build Back Better Act.
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Ray Dalio Predicts a 30% Chance of US Civil War in the Next 10 Years
Ray Dalio predicts there is a 30 per cent chance of US Civil War in the next ten years because of 'emotional' political polarization, but says the Constitution is 'likely' to save the nation from war.
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ISM Services Survey Explodes To Record High (And So Does Cost Inflation)
After the mixed final data for US Manufacturing in November (Markit PMI down, ISM up), expectations were for both Markit and ISM to show the Services sector weakened modestly in November.
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Growth Bounce, Then Deflation
Despite a moderate pick-up in growth during Q4, the leading indicators of the economic growth cycle suggest we are nearing a period of stagflation and potentially disinflation as growth resumes in deceleration. Beginning with the long leading indicators, they have for some time been telling us that 2022 will be very different from what we experienced during 2021.
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The Fed Is Trying Reloading Its Bazooka For Next Time
Inflation is a scary bogeyman for voters and politicians, Fed tightening will force prices down across the board. Ultimately, deflation is still the long-term demographics, debt and tech driven bogeyman the Fed will fight again. Yeah, 2022 could be a crummy year in the stock market. So, raise some cash while you can and then get your golden bucket ready because it's going to rain finally.
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IMF Urges the Fed to Speed Up Monetary Policy Tightening amid Mounting Inflation Fears
It would be "appropriate" for the Fed to accelerate tapering and bring forward the path for rate hikes, the International Monetary Fund said.
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The IMF Warning Of “Economic Collapse” Should Get Headlines: Michael Every of Rabobank
The IMF are warning of “economic collapse”, which should get headlines. Not because the IMF have any kind of track record of being timely or right about anything, but because the Fund so rarely says anything negative for fear of being seen as precipitating the crises which the policies it imposes always end up creating anyway. Besides a total lack of surprise on first seeing the headline, my initial thought was “Yes, but where?” There are so many candidates as:
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Fed Chair Powell Delivered the Perfect Storm to a $54 Trillion Bubble Stock Market
“I realize that no one is clairvoyant but I think it’s fair to say that the experts who have been advising you about the future rate of inflation have pretty much the same credibility as those late-night psychic hotlines that you see on TV. Is the Fed considering increasing the pace of its tapering? We’ve got to get control of inflation. It’s ravaging our people.”
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Oil Futures Climb Sharply to End Tumultuous Week After OPEC+’s Latest Move: MW
Oil futures on Friday were trading sharply higher for a second session, but set for lackluster weekly move, capping a turbulent stretch of trade in energy trading, amid the emergence of omicron, a concerning strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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