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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| CPI and Retail Sales in November 2017 and Gold |
| Last week, the reports on U.S. consumer inflation and retail sales were released. What do they imply for the gold market?
Consumer prices jumped 0.4 percent in November, following a 0.1 percent rise in October. However, the move was driven mainly by higher costs of gasoline and fuel oil. The energy index increased 3.9 percent last month. Hence, the core CPI, which excludes food and energy, increased merely 0.1 percent. On an annual basis, the core CPI was 1.7 percent, which means a drop from 1.8Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| We Have Tripled The Number Of Store Closings From Last Year, And 20 Major Retailers Have Closed At Least 50 Stores In 2017 |
| This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse
Did you know that the number of retail store closings in 2017 has already tripled the number from all of 2016? Last year, a total of 2,056 store locations were closed down, but this year more than 6,700 stores have been shut down so far. That absolutely shatters the all-time record for store closings in a single year, and yet nobody seems that concerned about it. In 2008, an all-time record 6,163 retail stores werWednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Online Holiday Sales to Exceed In-Store Sales Death of Malls |
| Adobe Analytics says there were record online sales on TD and Black Friday. Will online exceed in-store sales this year?Adobe Analytics reports record online sales for both Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It believes a cyber-monday record is on the way.
U.S. retailers raked in a record $7.9 billion in online sales on Black Friday and Thanksgiving, up 17.9 percent from a year ago, according to Adobe Analytics, which measures transactions at the largest 100 U.S. web retailers, on Saturday.
Adobe sSunday, November 26, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| A Golden Opportunity in 2018 Awaits as Distrust in Our Fiat Based System Accelerates |
| A Golden Opportunity in 2018 Awaits as Distrust in Our Fiat Based System Accelerates
Written by Nathan McDonald, Sprott Money News
Americans prepare to sit down, feast and give thanks this weekend for what they have, who they have and the good blessing that they have enjoyed over the past year.
This comes amidst a time period when their email boxes are being flooded with Black Friday specials for trinkets, bobbles and cosmetic goodSunday, November 26, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Smartphone Sales and the Reported "Death of Black Friday" |
| Online sales are up and store traffic is down according to some reports. The Street says it's the end of Black Friday.More and more people are buying online, and with phones, not desktop applications. The Street.Com says Black Friday 2017 Will Mark the Death of This Unofficial National Holiday.
The Year Black Friday Died
Black Friday Empty
Online Sales Surge
A couple of anecdotes via twitter does not constitute data. However, it's safe to say online is having an impact on in-store sales.
CNBC rFriday, November 24, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Running of the Sheeple: Videos of Black Friday Brawls and Stampedes in America |
| It’s the most wonderful violent time of the year.
As the Sheeple lined up and mobbed retail stores after Thanksgiving dinner and early Friday morning for deals to kick off the holiday season, one person has already been shot, fights have shut down malls, and a baby (!) was hit with a shoe.
Many people lost all sense of perspective as they got caught up in it at Walmart, Macy’s, and other stores during this grim holiday tradition in American stupidity.
Absolute insanity…
Police had to step in tFriday, November 24, 2017 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| Silver Miners’ Q3’17 Fundamentals |
| The
silver miners’ stocks have really languished this year, grinding
sideways to lower for months on end. This vexing consolidation has
fueled near-universal bearishness, leaving silver stocks deeply out
of favor. But once a quarter when earnings season arrives, hard
fundamentals pierce the obscuring veil of popular sentiment. The
silver miners’ recently-reported Q3’17 results reveal today’s silver
prices remain profitable.
Four
times a year publicly-traded Friday, November 24, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Happy Black Friday |
| Amsterdam | As the financial world happily fixates on who will be the next Fed Chairman, I am in Europe celebrating the 30th anniversary of Black Friday, October 19, 1987. Three decades ago, I was on a trading desk at Bear, Stearns & Co in London along with David, Joey, Gregory, Peter and Paul, among others. We had just finished a remarkable four year run, but the party was over.
That fateful day, our Treasury/MBS trader Matt got his eyes ripped out early in the day. His big mistake was answeFriday, October 20, 2017 |
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| Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| Gold-Stock Volume Divergence |
| The gold miners’
stocks have blasted higher in this young new year, far outpacing the
broader markets. But surprisingly gold stocks’ trading volume has
diverged from their powerful rally. Volume has actually been waning
on balance since gold stocks’ newest upleg was born in
mid-December. While volume is a complex nuanced indicator, this
bullishly suggests that major gold-stock buying hasn’t even started
yet.
Naturally price
action is the most-important technFriday, February 17, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Amazon By the Numbers: Cyber Weekend Spending, Prime Accounts, Online Share, P/E |
| Amazon sports some pretty startling numbers. Let’s dive into various reports for a close look.
Amazon captured 31% of online spending over Cyber Weekend
CNBC reports Amazon captured 31% of online spending over Cyber Weekend
According to new data by Slice Intelligence, which scanned more than 1 million online shopping receipts from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, Amazon accounted for 30.9 percent of sales. It was followed by Best Buy at 7.4 percent, Target at 4.4 percent, and Wal-Mart at 4.1Friday, December 2, 2016 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Running of the Sheep 2016: Black Friday “Getting Scary Now” With 2 Shot Dead |
| Black Friday madness has reached one of its most dangerous points in American history.
As the Sheeple lined up and mobbed retail stores after Thanksgiving dinner and early Friday morning for deals to kick off the holiday season, there have been at least three shooting incidents at stores across the United States – and at least two people were shot dead in the resulting frenzy and mayhem.
Many people lost all sense of perspective as they got caught up in it at Walmart, Macy’s and other stores durFriday, November 25, 2016 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Perpetual Black Friday |
| Whatever numbers the retail association posts this weekend for Black Friday (typically overoptimistic assessments) are likely to be skewed this year even more.
The New York Times expects a Less Frenzied Black Friday as Millennials opt to stay away.
If you’re in the retail business in the United States, you probably really care about these two things: millennials and Black Friday.
But more and more, these two big drivers of the industry don’t mix inside stores — a dynamic that is reshaping one tThursday, November 24, 2016 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
 A Reversal in the Trend of International Reserves |
| In the reasoning that follows, the statement "all other things being equal" must be understood.
What produces increases in the world total of International Reserves?
Increases in International Reserves take place when the Reserve Currency issuing countries (RC) effect payments to the rest of the world (ROW).
Typically, RC payments to ROW take place when:
a) The RC countries are purchasing more stuff from the ROW, than the ROW is purchasing from the RC. In other words, when the RC as whole run tTuesday, November 8, 2016 |
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 | Chris Vermeulen - GoldandOilGuy |
| The Markets Read it Wrong! |
| The European markets, the British pound, and Euro had rallied for six days
prior to its' meeting based on political polls. These polls were showing that
the vote was too close to call. The market incorrectly interpreted this as
meaning that the "Remain" side would prevail. The British pound hit a new a
year-to-date high last Thursday, June 23rd, 2016, the day of the election.
Banks had done especially well in the rally, some being up by almost double
digits during their best days. AfSunday, July 3, 2016 |
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 | Wolf Richter |
| ECB Blows €400bn on “Brexit Black Friday” for Bank Bailouts |
| Dealing with a Financial Crisis under cover of Brexit Chaos
Remember TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program that the US Congress approved to bail out banks and other companies during the Financial Crisis? $700 billion were authorized, later reduced to $475 billion. The Treasury eventually dispersed $432 billion. I bring this up because the ECB bailed out the European banks with more than TARP, in just one day: on Brexit Black Friday.
The ECB saw what was happening to the shares of the largest bMonday, June 27, 2016 |
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 | Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis |
| 2016 - Gold and Silver Rising |
| A GOLD AND SILVER BOTTOM MAY BE INWe see the surface yet think it the whole; then discuss for hours what we think that we knowIf a stock has "bottomed out", it means it might have reached its low point and could be in the early stages of an upward trend. Investors usually see a bottom as an opportunity to purchase securities when they are potentially underpriced.The bottom is used in technical analysis by defining the lowest level of support when charting a stock, commodity, index or economic cySunday, February 21, 2016 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| WELL JANET…WE’RE WAITING! |
| It’s early Saturday morning, and I have compiled nine pages of “horrible headline” in the past 48 hours alone; which I must condense, to summarize this week’s collapse of global trade, economic data, and financial markets – notwithstanding Thursdays half-hearted, pathetically obvious attempt to “slow the tsunami” via PPT-stock goosing and Cartel Precious Metal attacks. Which I can easily accomplish with four simple words; i.e, “well, Janet…we’re waiting.” For the “Yellen Reversal”, that is – tMonday, January 18, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Yahoo |
| SILVER 7:05 am Coeur d'Alene Mines reports FY15 silver production at the high end of guidance; sees FY16 production of 33.8 - 36.8 mln silver equivalent ounces |
| 7:57 am On The Wires (:WIRES) : The Medicines Company (MDCO) initiated study sites and begun enrolling patients in the ORION-1 Phase 2 study to compare the effect of different doses of ALN-PCSsc given as subcutaneous injections in a quarterly or bi-annual dosing regimen in subjects with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or risk equivalent ASCVD and elevated LDL-C. Co expects completion of this Phase 2 trial by the end of 2016Caladrius Biosciences (CLBS) to out-license the patent and commerMonday, January 11, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Yahoo |
| COAL 4:29 am Arch Coal files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, agrees on terms of debt restructure deal with Senior lenders |
| The S&P 500 futures trade ten points above fair value. The start of the second week of 2016 bore a striking resemblance to the first week of the year as all of the major indices in the Asia-Pacific region ended the day in negative territory. Once again the focus was on China with the Shanghai Composite falling 5.3%, which puts the index back near its September low. Investors did receive the latest inflation data from China, but the numbers were not that far away from expectations. Furthermore, tMonday, January 11, 2016 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| Markets Are Correcting Hard |
| The long-awaited global financial market correction has arrived. We are seeing collapses in all major markets and across all major categories.
As usual, the pain has started at the edges, in the weaker elements (emerging markets, junk bonds, weak companies, etc.) and is rapidly spreading towards the center.
How far this goes before the central banks overtly step in (you can be sure they are covertly doing whatever they can to stem the damage) is anybody’s guess. Our assessment is “not too long"Friday, January 8, 2016 |
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