Bonds & Interest Rates

Whither Bonds, After the Demographic Dividend?

imagesDeficits, levels of debt, and demographics are deeply interrelated. Demographics have a major impact on GDP growth as well as on investment returns. The long-term headwind that can be expected in the 21st century compared with the demographic dividend, or tailwind, of the 20th century has serious implications for bond investing. But there are still investment opportunities that can be found today.

.…read this detailed analysis HERE

Divisions Remain as Eurozone Finance Ministers Meet Over Greece Deal

Screen Shot 2015-06-24 at 4.33.55 AMGreece at June 24, 2015 6:53 a.m. ET

Uncertainty sparked an outflow of deposits from its banks that reached about €1 billion per day late last week before slowing Monday.

 Key points of disagreement are corporate taxation, the overhaul of Greece’s pension system and value-added taxes. For instance, Greece had planned to increase corporate taxes to 29%, but in the document creditors limited the increase to 28%.

That may cause new budget shortfalls that need to be plugged with other measures.

….Updated June 24, 2015 6:53 a.m. ET, read more of the Wall Street Journal article HERE

Three Charts That Convey A Lot Of Information About The Stock Market

Stocks Peak in 2000

The chart below shows the 2000 peaking process in the NASDAQ. The index made a lower high, a lower low, and then dropped below the 50-day moving average shown in blue.

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Stocks Peak In 2007

The chart below shows the 2007 peaking process in the NASDAQ. The index made a lower high, a lower low, and then dropped below the 50-day moving average shown in blue.

 

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How does the same chart look today?

The NASDAQ recently made a higher high, which for now negates the possibility of a lower high and lower low. The index is still above the 50-day moving average and the slope of the 50-day is positive (bullish).

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Taking It Day By Day

Could the major indexes begin to fade in 2015? Sure they could, but under our approach, there is no need to anticipate, forecast, or guess. At some point, stocks will experience a correction, but it all must start with a lower high, something we do not have on the 2015 chart of the NASDAQ.

New Highs In 2015 vs. Lower Lows In 2007

On Twitter, we have recently shown new highs in small capsconsumer discretionary, and healthcare. This week’s video showed lower highs that were made in small capsconsumer discretionary, and healthcare in late 2007 before the ugly returns of 2008.

New Highs Speak To Probabilities

Are lower highs and lower lows always a big deal? Not necessarily, since they happen frequently. The point is a lower high and lower low is one of the easiest bearish thresholds to cross. Said another way, not too many bad things can happen if you can avoid lower highs and lower lows by making new highs.

  1. I realize that most analysts in the gold community are nervous about gold, and nervous about China’s stock market. In contrast, I think this is the greatest time in history to own both gold and the Chinese stock market.
  2. Within a few years, I expect the mantra “Don’t fight the Fed” to be about as important as a rotary phone. I’m not predicting that the Fed will fail as an entity, but the new mantra of global money managers will be “Don’t fight Beijing”.
  3. Please click here now. Chinese A-shares are widely followed by amateur analysts. The H-share market is dominated by professional investors, analysts, and major money managers. H-shares are Chinese companies that trade on the Hong Kong market, and that’s my focus.
  4. Chinese financial shares are not overvalued. They are undervalued and I would describe them as a “roaring buy”. Globally, the financial sector has a P/E ratio of more than 15 . In China, it’s less than 8.
  5. Please click here now. That’s a snapshot of President Xi Jinping. He was apparently born in the “year of the snake”. My suggestion to the gold bears and Chinese stock market bears betting against him is to… cancel their bets.
  6. The drivers of higher Chinese stock prices are monetary easing/fiscal stimulus, reform in Beijing, and a structural change in small investor focus from real estate to the stock market.
  7. Chinese stocks that are listed in Hong Kong sport an average P/E ratio of about 11. Also, Chinese stock market indexes comprise less than 2% of global indexes. Morgan Stanley creates the biggest indexes, and there are strong rumours that they are going to soon increase China’s share significantly.
  8. Institutional money managers would be mandated by the index shuffling to reduce holdings in other markets, and buy China. That could cause a gargantuan surge in Chinese stock prices, and I think most of the Western gold community should be poised to profit, when that happens.
  9. I think Beijing wants slower GDP growth, a yuan that becomes a major global reserve currency, and higher stock prices for Chinese and Hong Kong markets.
  10. As Chinese citizens and institutions build wealth, they will buy more gold. I’m predicting that within five years, Chinese mining companies will control 70% of the world’s gold production.
  11. On that note, please click here now. A week ago, I highlighted this bull wedge pattern, and predicted that an upside breakout was imminent.
  12. The breakout occurred, as did a “textbook” pullback. The appearance of the bull wedge isn’t a guarantee of higher prices. It’s simply one of many positive events occurring in the precious metals sector.
  13. Western gold community investors should probably decide if they are invested in precious metals to benefit from the next $100 gold price event, or if they are focused on the “bull era” that is unfolding in China and India. My focus is the bull era.
  14. Please click here now. That’s the ratio chart of silver versus gold. Gold is the ultimate safe haven for investors when financial system risk is high. Silver is the ultimate asset when inflation rises without posing immediate risk to the financial system.
  15. Silver now looks poised to outperform gold in all time frames.
  16. Please click here now. That’s a long term US money velocity chart. Velocity has been in a downtrend since about 1995.
  17. Silver has generally underperformed gold during that time. There have been periods of outperformance, but that’s been short-lived. It could be argued that M2V has broken its downtrend, and is set to begin a major uptrend.
  18. From a fundamental perspective, there’s no question that global wage pressures are building, and rising wages in China could bring inflation to America that is higher than expected.
  19. Silver is the asset that will benefit most in this situation. India’s citizens are the world’s largest buyers of both gold and silver. As eager as Chinese citizens are to hold these mighty metals, India’s “titans of ton” spend an average of 400% more of their income on gold and silver, than China’s citizens do!
  20. Incredibly, the average wage of hundreds of millions of Indians is only about two US dollars a day. Over the next five years, I expect a tenfold change in those wages. The ramifications of that wage price inflation for America, and for the price of silver, needs to be given serious consideration.
  21. The Bank of China has joined the new ICE/LBMA gold fix in London, and Zijin Mining, the largest gold miner in China, has launched an aggressive mine acquisition program in Australia. These facts are much more important than anything that short term timers see on their gold charts.
  22. Charts don’t predict fundamentals. Fundamentals make charts, and the gold bears have a choice of learning that the hard way, or the easy way. As a nation, America is more than 200 years old. The sun is setting on the aging empire of the West, and rising in the East. That is creating a bull era for gold and silver enthusiasts around the world!
  23. Drawing arrows on the gold and silver charts to prices that many Western analysts appear to fear, is not a professional way to build wealth. Please click here now. That’s the monthly chart for gold. Note the huge support zone created between the late 2009 highs near $1228, and the lows near $1045 in early 2010.
  24. The entire price range of $1045 – $1228 is a major accumulation zone for gold. Rather than using questionable tactics to predict whether gold moves a bit higher or lower now, all members of the Western gold community should now be focused on the theme of accumulation, especially for silver!

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It’s a Small, Small Handheld World

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Of course, this has huge implications for every part of the Internet food chain.

 

  • Social media connectors: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
     
  • Content providers: Yahoo, Netflix, Google
     
  • Smartphone manufacturers: Apple, Samsung
     
  • E-tailers: Priceline, eBay, Amazon
     
  • Infrastructure: Cisco, Juniper Networks

 

And don’t forget about the Chinese Internet giants either, like Tencent Holdings Ltd. (TCEHY), Baidu, Inc. (BIDU), Rakuten, Inc. (RKUNY), NetEase, Inc. (NTES), Sina Corporation (SINA), Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), Weibo Corporation (WB), Ctrip.com International Ltd. (CTRP), and Sohu.com, Inc. (SOHU).

Prediction: I bet the above Chinese stocks will deliver TWICE the gains you can make on the above-listed American Internet kings.

….read entire article HERE

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