California Governor Jerry Brown inherited a $27 billion deficit from Arnold Schwarzenegger eight years ago. This month he's leaving his successor a $13.8 billion surplus and a $14.5 billion rainy day fund balance. Pretty good right? Approximately 48 other governors would kill for those numbers. Unfortunately it's all a mirage. California, as home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, lives and dies w...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. Weary investors who endured the September and October stock market "crash season" felt they should be richly rewarded for their incredible patience... with a wondrous Santa Claus rally. 2. Please click here now. The traditional Santa Claus rally has morphed into a hideous Santa Claws mauling of millions of US stock market price chasers.3....Read More
It's hard to imagine AAPL not bouncing from the 145.66 target shown. (It was proffered here earlier as a minimum downside objective.) Monday's plunge came within 45 cents of this Hidden Pivot support during the holiday-shortened session close enough for us to infer that a bottom of at least short-term importance is in. If so, expect the stock to lead the broad averages higher when trading resu...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1266.20-$2.80Silver$15.03+$0.26XAU69.98-0.81%HUI159.81-1.23%GDM580.69-0.94%JSE Gold1359.59+42.78USD97.04+0.55Euro113.52-0.69Yen89.97-0.71Oil$46.22+$4.6910-Year2.770%+0.036T-Bond144.53125-0.90625Dow22878.45+4.98%Nasdaq6554.36+5.84%S&P2467.70+4.96% The Metals: Gold gained $10 to a new 6-month high at $1279.00 by late morning in New York before it sold of...Read More
Silver has punched through $15, nearly erasing all losses from the August 15th beat-down. The gold chart isn't too shabby either. Here are the details...Silver has just punched through the $15 price level:This is even before the opening bell.Let's see if silver can get put in a close above this psychologically-important whole number.The last time one ounce of silver cost $15 was on August 15th, 20...Read More
While it's easy to find articles that suggest a Santa Claus rally isn't taking place this year, the Power of the Patterns would disagree!This chart looks at the performance from several assets in the metals sector the past 30-days.Even though all of these metals assets are lower in 2018, each of these is experiencing a nice rally this month!So maybe ole Santa didn't disappoint everyone this year....Read More
The Gold Bugs Index could be sending some good news to this out of favor sector of late!The Gold bugs index has struggled for the past 7-years compared to the S&P 500, as it has created a series of lower highs. This decline reflects that Gold miners have been much weaker than the S&P 500. The weakness in the ratio has been suggesting to be long the S&P and short the Gold bugs index.Of late the rat...Read More
RAPAPORT... US retail sales increased 5.1% this holiday season, buoyedby a rise in online purchasing, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. Revenues across all retail categories climbed to more than $850billion for the period from November 1 to December 24, recording the strongestgrowth in six years, the report said Wednesday. Online purchases jumped 19% forthe same period. "From shopping a...Read More
RAPAPORT... The US saw a sharp increase in imports and exports of polisheddiamonds in October, according to data from the US Census Bureau. Inboundshipments hit a record level for any month other than May,which is boosted by preparations for the annual JCK Las Vegas fair, Rapaport archives show. Rough tradingslowed.US Diamond Trade Data for October 2018 Millions unless stated otherwiseRead More
RAPAPORT... A five-year dispute between diamond manufacturer Pluczenik and broker W. Nagel is set to continue, despite a recent court ruling. Pluczenik has submitted an appeal to the UK Supreme Court, seeking to overturn a directive for its Belgium-based business to pay Nagel $3.3 million over a breached pact made nearly 25 years ago. The sides had different interpretations of the nature of a 1994...Read More
RAPAPORT... Two of the largest suppliers of better-quality, small polished diamonds have combined their operations, signaling further consolidation in the diamond-manufacturing sector. A joint venture between Niru Group and EZ Diamonds will bring EZ's supply of round diamonds below 0.70 carats into Niru's infrastructure, the companies announced this week. Niru will adopt EZ's online portal, a...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Diamond firms Niru Group and EZ Diamonds are combining their polished diamond operations into a joint business. Both manufacturers are specialists in small high-quality diamonds typically used by watch and jewelry makers with thousands of calibrated assortments. EZ Diamonds' round stones of 0.70 carats and below will move into Niru's The companies say they...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers has announced its sales dates for next year, while ALROSA has published its sales results announcements for 2019. De Beers Sales Cycles 2019: Sight 1: January 21-25 Sight 2: February 25 - March 1 Sight 3: April 1-5 Sight 4: May 13-17 Sight 5: June 17-21 Sight 6: July 22-26 Sight 7: August 19-23 Sight 8: September 23-27 Sight 9: November 4-8 Sight 10: December 9-13 &...Read More
The VIX Index spiked on Monday on increasing equity market volatility.The Nikkei Average plunged 5.0% to 19,156 on Christmas Eve completing a double top pattern. Trader's CornerEquity Indices and related ETFsDaily Seasonal/Technical Equity Trends for December 24th 2018 Green: Increase from previous dayRed: Decrease from previous day CommoditiesDaily Seasonal/Technical Commodities Trends...Read More
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. And I hope you got the chance to look at that potentially life-changing video... though if you didn't don't worry. I made sure to get you some extra time, just click here to take a look before it comes down tonight!After that, let's back to the story.What's Your Game?If you didn't already know, rugby is one of the most physically demanding sports there is, far...Read More
In addition to The Northern Miner's full podcast episodes that can stretch beyond an hour, we also produce bonus, short, single-topic podcast segments, called a "Miner Moment". The following are the best Miner Moments of 2018, as selected by Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming, in chronological order:________________________________________1. Miner Moment #9: Artisanal cobalt mining in th...Read More
On Thursday, December 31, 2015, at around 4:30 p.m. Central time, a floating city named the Theo T departed the Port of Corpus Christi in southeast Texas.The Theo T's destination was kept a secret by its owners, but we do know the contents it was holding below its deck were worth an estimated $24 million.Later, marine shipping records revealed the Theo T was on a three-week journey eastward across...Read More
As I mentioned in my post on lessons investors learned in 2018, most investors will want to forget 2018. However, the turmoil we are experiencing now across markets could Continue...Read More
Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More
In my video update on Friday, I outlined three strong support levels for the broad markets. For the S&P 500, the support was 2,430. For the Dow is was 22,275. And for the Nasdaq it was 6,300.Continue...Read More