Investing.com Weekly Wrap-Up 06 September 2013
by Investing.com Staff, Investing.com
U.S. stocks end flat on Syria concerns, soft jobs report; Dow down 0.10%
U.S. stocks finished Friday largely flat
after a volatile session that saw concerns brew over a U.S. standoff
with Russia over Syria, while a weak jobs report left the fate of
monetary stimulus programs
up in the air.
At the close of U.S. trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished
down 0.10%, the S&P 500 index rose 0.01%, while the Nasdaq Composite
index rose 0.03%.
Unconfirmed New Syria Gas Attack Moves Markets Lower
Closing Market Commentary For 09-06-2013
Well this was an interesting session with
extreme movements to deal with. I wouldn't want to be holding any longs
this weekend with loose canons like Putin roaming around. I do not
think Mr. Market knows what will happen at this point either, I sure
don't.
Markets closed mixed, flat and weak as the DOW led the pack with a minus 15 points after unconfirmed gas attacks in Syria.
What We Read Today 06 September 2013
Econintersect: Click Read more >> below graphic to see today's list.
The top of today's reading list
reports on the Swedish model for economic recovery from a financial
crisis ........ and the last article reveals an indicator that
predicted each of the last 13 recessions clearly in advance, but also
gave the same signal 9 times when no recession followed.
Markets Flash Crash, Just A Test, If This Was Real . . .
Midday Market Commentary For 09-06-2013
Talk about blatant market manipulating,
today is an excellent example of how the powers to be can move markets
at will. Today's averages started out at point A, flash crashed to point
B and have since moved back to point A as volume sinks to abysmal
levels.
What a joke, unfortunately the joke is on
the little guy and the sheeples who were talked into this casino house
of cards while the bankers are laughing.
Pre-paid Strike: Arab States Ready To Pick Up US Tab For Syria Attack
While
the US is rallying support for a military intervention in Syria at home
and abroad, Secretary of State John Kerry has said some Arab nations
have offered to bear the cost of a US-led campaign.
30 August 2013: ECRI's WLI Growth Again Declines Marginally
ECRI's
WLI Growth Index declined, but remains positive. A positive number
predicts positive growth to come within the next six months. ECRI also
issued this week their inflation guage which shows continued
deflationary pressures (see below).
Markets Crash As Soviets Threaten USA
Opening Market Commentary For 09-06-2013
The futures were actually quiet until 30
minutes before the jobs report when they started climbing, which smacks
of pre-disclouser to some and not to the general public, but why an I
not surprised. This casino market is so rigged with the bankers getting
all the ice cream leaving the rest of us with sour milk.
Some investors got really burned this morning when the SP500 fell 22 points after Soviet leader Putin did his saber rattling.
Crisis Chronicles: Tulip Mania, 1633-37
by James Narron and David Skeie - Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
As Mike Dash notes in his well-researched and grippingTulipomania,
tulips are native to central Asia and arrived in the 1570s in what's
now Holland, primarily through the efforts of botanist Charles de
L'Escluse, who classified and spread tulip bulbs among horticulturalists
in the late 1500s and early 1600s. By the early 1630s, the tulip was a
fixture in Dutch gardens. But Tulip Mania didn't begin until the summer
of 1633, when a house in Hoorn was exchanged for three rare tulips and a
Frisian farmhouse was traded for a number of tulip bulbs. The lure of
profit enticed novice florists to enter the tulip trade with minimal
investment and small parcels of land, harkening back to the days of
farmers taking up coin clipping during theKipper und Wipperzeit. In this
edition ofCrisis Chronicles, we exchange the trading floors of today for the
alcohol-fueled exchanges of the past as we dig up Tulip Mania.
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BLS Jobs Situation Is Not Excellent in August 2013
Written by Steven Hansen
The August 2013 BLS jobs report was below expectations, and even our analysis of the unadjusted data was disappointing.
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Collar Your Risk
Written by Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructor
Recently the equity
indexes reached all-time highs and then pulled back (as of August 22) by
about 4%. Meanwhile, the price of gold seemed to have bottomed out at
multi-year lows in June, and has recovered about a quarter of what it
had lost since it made its 2011 highs.
Investors in both gold
and equities had reason to be bullish but cautious. Options strategies
give us multiple ways to take advantage of further upside moves while
limiting our risk. When choosing a strategy, we should be aware of the
different ways to accomplish what we're trying to do.
The Leveraged Buyout of America
by Ellen Brown, Web of Debt
Giant
bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control
power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all
sorts. They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the
essential lifelines of the economy. How have they pulled this off, and
where have they gotten the money?
In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke dated June 27, 2013, US Representative Alan Grayson and
three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of large banks
into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial spheres.
Specifically:
[W]e are concerned about how large
banks have recently expanded their businesses into such fields as
electric power production, oil refining and distribution, owning and
operating of public assets such as ports and airports, and evenuranium
mining.
Nasdaq: A Real Swinger
by All About Trends, AllAboutTrends.net
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Android Accounts for 70% of Smartphone Sales in China
by Felix Richter, Statista.com
The latest smartphone sales data from
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals how dominant Android's lead in the
Chinese smartphone market has become. More than 70 percent of
smartphones sold in China between May and July were Android phones, up
from 62 percent in the same period last year. Meanwhile, Apple's iPhone
accounted for 22 percent of smartphone sales, a number that Apple is
apparently looking to increase.
Investing.com: Technical Analysis 05 September 2013
Investing.com Technical Analysis (as of Thu, 05 September 2013 05:00pm EDT)
by Investing.com Staff, Investing.com
Below, technical overviews and analysis for key stock indices, commodities and
currency
pairs, based on market activity at the close of the 05 September 2013
U.S. session. This information is a comprehensive summary derived from
simple and exponential moving averages along with key technical
indicators shown for specific time intervals.
Campaign Starts to "Restore" Dow
Written by Wim Grommen
The start of an international campaign,
DOWDIVISOR30, is imminent. This campaign is intended to convince the
people responsible for the composition of the Dow Jones to restore the
Dow Divisor in the formula used to calculate the Dow Jones to its
original value of 30. The people responsible are a number of journalists
of the Wall Street Journal, and the owner of the Dow Jones Index, the
company S & P Dow Jones Indices LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill
Companies.
My Two Favorite Picks in the Speculative Oil and Gas Sector
Written by Mitchell Clark, Profit Confidential
Precious
metals stocks have been slammed by the weakness in spot prices for gold
and silver. The strongest sector for resource speculation
remainsoil.Oil prices are firmly holding above $100.00 a barrel;
profitability among junior producers is solid.
In virtually all cases, resource stocks
move with spot prices. Many junior oil stocks are trading right near
their highs, but they aren't accelerating with spot prices in
consolidation around $105.00 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
crude. But the numbers are still good, and it's not just those companies
with exposure to the Bakken oil region; many junior producers are
posting solid production and financial growth, and should continue to be
good investments.
Fed's Balance Sheet 04 September 2013: Another Record but Growth Slowing
Total Fed Balance Sheet
Fed's Balance Sheet is
$3.610 trillion (up from the last week's record $3.601 trillion). The
complete balance sheet data and graphical breakdown of the cumulative
and weekly changes follows the "read more".
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Fatal Work Injuries Continue to Fall in the U.S.
by Felix Richter, Statista.com
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, 4,383 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States
in 2012, a substantial decrease on previous years. Fatal occupational
injuries are down a massive 25 percent from 2006 when 5,840 people lost
their lives at work across the country.
Infographic of the Day: Star Wars Occupation Chart
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