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2016/05/18 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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2016/05/18 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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TrendView VIDEO ANALYSIS & OUTLOOK: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 (early)

160518_SPM_GLOBAL_0700Global View: All Markets  

As the central banks have obviously hit the end of the (very distended) line on effective influence of NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy) or further Quantitative Easing (QE), the focus now revolves around to the Fed. Is it indeed now inclined to hike sooner than not if the US economic data remains strong? That is obvious from the weaker US equities activity last Friday into Tuesday on what can only be described as very strong US data across many areas. All of this will come into sharp focus on the April 26-27 FOMC Meeting Minutes release at 13:00 CDT this afternoon. This is more important than usual due to the other interpretation of the US equities weakness. That sees the current stronger US economic data in the context of overall global weakness, and the potential for the US data to weaken once again as well.

That may be what is indeed expressed in the FOMC meeting minutes. It has a well-known penchant for respecting both the US data and the global situation since it backed off from the more aggressive view expressed in its first hike meeting back in December. That was reversed in the lowered future rate hike projections for 2016 at its March 16th meeting.

And this would seem wise, even with the recent bout of stronger data. This is because the broader ‘macro’ outlook remains weak for the developed economies. Consider the OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI) that were released last Wednesday morning. The less than optimistic outlook for much of the developed world continues to reinforce our bearish instincts, as you can see in our mildly marked-up version. Especially the weakness of the US, UK and Germany, with stallouts now seeming to start in some of the previously more upbeat European economies, remains negative.

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Video Timeline: It begins with macro (i.e. fundamental influences) discussion of some of the factors noted above as well as key specifics of the US economic data that improved. There has also been quite a bit of weak economic data elsewhere, yet that has recently been buffered by surprisingly (even suspiciously) strong Japanese GDP and also strength in UK Employment figures. There is also the ECB meeting ‘account’ release on Thursday.     

It moves on to S&P 500 FUTURE short-term at 04:00 and intermediate term view at 06:00, with OTHER equities from 08:30, GOVVIES beginning at 13:15 (with the BUND FUTURE at 16:15 including implications of the early March expiration rollover) and SHORT MONEY FORWARDS from 18:30. FOREIGN EXCHANGE covers the US DOLLAR INDEX at 21:15 EUROPE at 23:00 and ASIA at 26:00, followed by the CROSS RATES at 28:30 and a return to S&P 500 FUTURE short term view at 31:30. We suggest using the timeline cursor to access the analysis that is most relevant for you.

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Authorized Gold and Platinum Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion and TrendView Video Analysis and General Update. Silver and Sterling Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion.                                                                                                       Read more...

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2016/05/15 TrendView VIDEO: Special 3 – Weekend

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2016/05/15 TrendView VIDEO: Special 3 - Weekend  

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TrendView VIDEO ANALYSIS & OUTLOOK: Weekend, May 15, 2016 (weekend)

RII_160515_SPEC3_WKNDSpecial 3 - Weekend  

This Special 3 - Weekend edition of the TrendView video analysis is purposely to update the only three situations which seemed more important than any other markets after Friday’s US Close rang down the curtain on last week’s very important macro-technical developments. On the ‘macro’ front the economic data has remained very mixed, even within individual countries. Note last Monday’s very strong German Factory Orders followed by Tuesday’s very weak Industrial Production. UK data remained weak, and even the positive Chinese and German Trade Balances were in the context of very weak Import data. And historically that has been indicative of a weakening global economy. Also reinforcing that was last Wednesday morning’s OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI.) They have been a very useful forward indication for the weakening global economy out of last year in early this year.

They are showing some strengthening from the previous abysmal forward indications for the emerging market economies. Yet their less than optimistic outlook for much of the developed world continues to reinforce our bearish instincts, as you can see in our mildly marked-up version. Especially the weakness of the US, UK and Germany, with stallouts now seeming to start in some of the previously more upbeat European economies, remains negative. The stubbornly upbeat psychology of the monthly report editors shows up once again in a typical ‘rose-colored glasses’ headline trumpeting “Stable growth…” Especially take a look at the highlighted data in the statistical table on page 3 and draw your own conclusions.

The point of all this overall negative background is how it relates to the US equities and govvies response to what was very strong US data on Friday. Everything from the very important strong rebound in Retail Sales to upbeat Business Inventories and especially the ‘over the top’ Preliminary Michigan Confidence (95.8 versus an 89.50 estimate) all should have reinforced the notion there might be a US Q2 rebound from a weak Q1. Counterintuitively the equities dropped to a new low for the week and a one month low weekly Close, and the govvies strengthened right into that strong data.

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Video Timeline: It begins with macro (i.e. fundamental influences) discussion of how the ineffectiveness of central bank QE and very low interest rates remain a real problem along with how the strong US economic did not bring the anticipated response on Friday.

It moves on to S&P 500 FUTURE short-term at 04:30 and intermediate term at 07:45, the GOVVIES (mostly on the T-note future) at 11:45 (with a brief look at the Bund at 16:15), and the FOREIGN EXCHANGE beginning with the US DOLLAR INDEX at 17:30, EUR/USD at 20:45, AUD/USD at 22:30 and USD/JPY at 24:00, returning to S&P 500 FUTURE at 25:30.

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Authorized Gold and Platinum Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion and TrendView Video Analysis and General Update. Silver and Sterling Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion.                                                                                                   Read more...

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2016/05/12 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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2016/05/12 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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TrendView VIDEO ANALYSIS & OUTLOOK: Thursday, May 12, 2016 (early)

160512_SPM_GLOBAL_0500Global View: All Markets  

The central banks have obviously hit the end of the (very distended) line on effective influence of NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy) or further Quantitative Easing (QE.) That is obvious from the weaker economic data (even if that has moderated of late) like the soft US Employment report. That is no longer bringing a ‘bad news is good news’ response from the equities. It is also the case the broader ‘macro’ outlook remains weak for the developed economies. Consider the next set of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI) that were released Wednesday morning. They have been a very useful forward indication for all of the weakening global economic tendencies out of last year into early this year.

They are showing some strengthening from the previous abysmal forward indications for the emerging market economies. Yet their less than optimistic outlook for much of the developed world continues to reinforce our bearish instincts, as you can see in our mildly marked-up version. Especially the weakness of the US, UK and Germany, with stallouts now seeming to start in some of the previously more upbeat European economies, remains negative. The upbeat psychology of the monthly report editors shows up once again in a typical ‘rose-colored glasses’ headline trumpeting “Stable growth…” Especially take a look at the highlighted data in the statistical table on page 3 and draw your own conclusions.

The OECD CLI are rarely a near term trend decisive influence. As such, we are hesitant to ascribe Wednesday’s June S&P 500 future selloff to them when other influences better explain it. Yet the market did fail once again from Tuesday’s test of the key 2,075-78 range prior to heading right back down to next interim support at 2,060-58. With it higher again this morning the question is which of those important near term areas gets violated first.

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Video Timeline: It begins with macro (i.e. fundamental influences) discussion on the factors noted above as well as some of the key specifics of economic data that actually strengthened a bit in the US but with weakness out of China and the UK.

It moves on to S&P 500 FUTURE short-term at 03:00 and intermediate term view at 06:00, with OTHER equities from 08:00, GOVVIES beginning at 10:30 (with the BUND FUTURE at 12:45 including implications of the early March expiration rollover) and SHORT MONEY FORWARDS from 14:15. FOREIGN EXCHANGE covers the US DOLLAR INDEX at 17:00 EUROPE at 18:45 and ASIA at 21:15, followed by the CROSS RATES at 24:00 and a return to S&P 500 FUTURE short term view at 28:15. We suggest using the timeline cursor.

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Authorized Gold and Platinum Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion and TrendView Video Analysis and General Update. Silver and Sterling Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion.                                                                                                    Read more...

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2016/05/05 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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2016/05/05 TrendView VIDEO: Global View (early)

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TrendView VIDEO ANALYSIS & OUTLOOK: Thursday, May 5, 2016 (early)

160505_SPM_GLOBAL_0645Global View: All Markets  

The central banks are obviously hitting the end of the (very distended) line with the move into NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy.) On the ‘macro’ front the first week of May brings important data and almost final corporate earnings. Yet even more critical coming out of last week were indications of whether central bank influence was still sufficient to buoy US equities at the top of a very significant rally. That was accentuated by June S&P 500 future selling off from 2,103-10 two weeks ago after what was a still very accommodative ECB press conference, with even more ineffective central bank influence on the BoJ’s refusal to dive deeper into NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy) last Thursday morning.

And the late week market failure after a still very accommodative FOMC statement on Wednesday afternoon meant the short-term Evolutionary Trend View was weak (amply illustrated by the initial upper left chart.) Note the DOWN Breaks from multiple projections up near the 2,078 area. While those are indeed short term, they are also very near the far more major 2,078 major weekly channel UP Break that appears to have been Negated by that recent weakness.

This is all that much more important in the context of other extensive background factors which indicate the potential for recent aggressive trend reversals to repeat if US equities weaken much further from current levels. All that additional background is available in previous posts, like last Thursday morning’s Special Alert: Equities Critical. And the activity in other asset classes was most prominent in foreign exchange, where US Dollar Index violated the .9325 Tolerance of important .9400-.9350 support. Yet that was not on typical euro strength, but sharp weakness of USD/JPY after BoJ’s ‘no action’. Of course, all of that is also consistent with the govvies return to strength last week after several weeks of atypical weakness on overall disappointing economic data.

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Video Timeline: It begins with macro (i.e. fundamental influences) discussion on the factors noted above as well as some of the key specifics of economic data that actually strengthened a bit in the US but with more weakness out of China and the UK. We suggest you listen to the early part for the summary on the central bank psychology failure.

It moves on to S&P 500 FUTURE short-term at 03:30 and intermediate term view at 07:45, with OTHER equities from 11:30, GOVVIES beginning at 16:30 (with the BUND FUTURE at 19:00 including implications of the early March expiration rollover) and SHORT MONEY FORWARDS from 21:15. FOREIGN EXCHANGE covers the US DOLLAR INDEX at 24:00 EUROPE at 25:30 and ASIA at 27:45, followed by the CROSS RATES at 30:30 and a return to S&P 500 FUTURE short term view at 34:45. As this a longer than usual video analysis, we suggest using the timeline cursor to access the analysis most relevant for you.

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Authorized Gold and Platinum Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion and TrendView Video Analysis and General Update. Silver and Sterling Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion.                                                                                                   Read more...

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2016/05/01 TrendView VIDEO: Special 3 – Weekend

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2016/05/01 TrendView VIDEO: Special 3 - Weekend  

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TrendView VIDEO ANALYSIS & OUTLOOK: Weekend, May 1, 2016 (weekend)

RII_160501_SPEC3_WKNDSpecial 3 - Weekend  

Anyone who has not already read Thursday morning’s Special Alert: Equities Critical should do so right away.

This Special 3 - Weekend edition of the TrendView video analysis is purposely to update the only three situations which seemed more important than any other markets after Friday’s US Close rang down the curtain on last week’s very important macro-technical developments. On the ‘macro’ front the last week of April’s important data and almost final corporate earnings were important.

Yet even more critical was the decision on whether the central bank influence was still sufficient to buoy US equities at the top of a very significant rally. That was accentuated by June S&P 500 future selling off from 2,103-10 two weeks ago after what was a still very accommodative ECB press conference, with even more ineffective central bank influence on the BoJ’s refusal to dive deeper into NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy) on this week Thursday morning. And the late week market failure was after a still very accommodative FOMC statement on Wednesday afternoon. The short-term Evolutionary Trend View is amply illustrated by the initial upper left chart, with its DOWN Breaks from multiple projections up near the 2,078 area. And while those are indeed short term, they are very near the far more major 2,078 major weekly channel UP Break that appears to be failing.

This is all that much more important in the context of other extensive background factors which indicate the potential for recent aggressive trend reversals to repeat if US equities weaken much further from current levels. All that additional background is available in previous posts, and we refer you back to those rather than attempt to repeat that here. And the activity in other asset classes was most prominent in foreign exchange, where US Dollar Index violated the .9325 Tolerance of important .9400-.9350 support. Yet that was not on typical euro strength, but sharp weakness of USD/JPY after BoJ’s ‘no action’. And that rounds out the three markets that required further video analysis where most were still very consistent with Friday morning’s Global View TrendView video analysis.

However, the Market Observations write-up below that video analysis reflects all of the current technical trend evolution for the three markets covered in this analysis as well.

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Video Timeline: It begins with macro (i.e. fundamental influences) discussion of how the ineffectiveness of central bank QE and very low interest rates are now a real problem along with a brief mention of how the US economic data remained weak on Friday.

It moves on to S&P 500 FUTURE short-term at 03:30 and intermediate term at 08:00, the US DOLLAR INDEX at 10:45, USD/JPY at 12:45 and return to S&P 500 FUTURE at 14:15.

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Authorized Gold and Platinum Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion and TrendView Video Analysis and General Update. Silver and Sterling Subscribers click ‘Read more…’ (below) to access the balance of the opening discussion.                                                                                                    Read more...

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