Gold failed at resistance Wednesday but remains in position to breakout anywhere from very soon to in the summer. Its increasing relative strength has brought it very close to a breakout. Meanwhile, the stocks are trading in tighter and tighter ranges and are set to move up aggressively and sustain it if Gold can close…
BTC/USD Bitcoin rallied significantly during the trading session on Thursday, breaking above the 7600 level and gaining 10%. This is a major move as the market has been so soft. However, when you look at the daily chart you can see that even if we bounce from here, in the big scheme of things it…
NVIDIA (NVDA Stock): Buy Rating, $360+ Target. We recently spoke with the company. Our take is that core gaming can offset all the crypto-NVIDIA bear fears. And lookie-lookie; Bitcoin just broke a downtrend. Crypto-NVIDIA bears: you’ve been warned. Let’s get into it. One Thing Matters This Quarter: The Gaming Line Item In looking at our model the main…
The monetary distortions, imbalances and perverse incentives are finally bearing fruit: trade wars. What ignites trade wars? The oft-cited sources include unfair trade practices and big trade deficits. But since these have been in place for decades, they don’t explain why trade wars are igniting now. To truly understand why trade wars are igniting and spreading,…
Houston is quickly becoming the new benchmark for oil, while Cushing is losing its relevance to the industry. Cushing wasn’t just relevant to the industry for storage purposes, but also for sector-wide data purposes. According to Reuters, it “got its distinction in the early 1920s when tanks sprung up to store oil en route from Oklahoma…
After opening the day on a positive note, stock markets in India have continued their momentum. Sectoral indices are trading on a positive note with stocks in the metal sector and healthcare sector witnessing maximum buying interest. The BSE Sensex is trading up 168 points (up 0.5%) and the NSE Nifty is trading up 45 points (up 0.4%). The BSE Mid Cap index is trading up by…
In June 2008, ICAP actually launched a US-based alternative to LIBOR. It ended up as nothing more than one very minor footnote lost in a sea of more pressing problems and events. Still, that they even tried is somewhat significant and relevant to today. Before the whole cheating scandal came out, there were questions surrounding…
Technology sector has been the cynosure of all eyes, both for bad and good reasons, in the first quarter of 2018. The sector received a lot of flak over a number of issues including Facebook’s data fiasco, Apple’s iPhone-battery slowdown and President Trump’s tariff imposition on Chinese imports. The hallowed FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple,…
Stories about the death of the bond market have been circulating since 1992. Every one of them has been wrong. Deflationary Period Over? At Mauldin’s latest conference, Gavekal’s Louis-Vincent Gave stated: “The deflationary period we’ve been in has come to an end.” He produced this chart. As told through the words of Steve Blumenthal ……
Gold prices fell $17.75 an ounce yesterday, erasing the gains made in the previous session, as the dollar and stocks gained after U.S. President Donald Trump backtracked on his suggestion of an imminent missile attack on Syria, which could lead to wider conflict between Washington and Moscow. XAU/USD extended its losses and returned to the…
