South Korea's crude oil importsrose 3.0 percent in December from a year earlier to 96.8 millionbarrels, preliminary data from the Ministry of Trade, Industryand Energy showed on Monday.Final data will be released later this month by state-runKorea National Oil Corp (KNOC).Details of preliminary imports and previous actual figuresare as follows:(In millions of barrels) Dec 2017 Nov 2017* Dec 2016*...Read More
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Featured GuestsBill Murphy & CEO Dylan SenterShow HighlightsHappy New year. Spectiv CEO Dylan Senter and colleague Nick make their show d?but appearances. Spectiv is at the cutting edge of the 3D / Virtual Reality (VR) phenomenon, the future of YouTube video and gaming.VR is considered by many technologists as a key sector of the next 10 years. Proviso - Due to unforeseen technical issues, confe...Read More
By John MauldinObjects in MotionFed Pops Its Own BubbleThe Trump EffectWhat Could Go Wrong?What to Do Black-Eyed Peas, Hong Kong, Sarasota, and BostonIn addition to popping champagne corks and black-eyed peas (at least in the South) on New Year's Day, year-end brings something else for economists and portfolio managers: annual forecasts. People want to know what the coming year will bring. I wou...Read More
We have seen an unusually steady uptrend in copper this month, that has resulted in it appreciating by about 10%, which might not sound like much, but makes a big difference if you are a producer with fixed costs. What is remarkable about this uptrend is not only that it came hard on the heels of a high volume smackdown in the early days of the month that at the time looked bearish, but that we...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video provides a comprehensive examination of the expected price performance of the stock, energy, precious metals and currency markets in 2018. https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
Featured GuestsBill Murphy & CEO Dylan SenterShow HighlightsHappy New year. Spectiv CEO Dylan Senter and colleague Nick make their show d?but appearances. Spectiv is at the cutting edge of the 3D / Virtual Reality (VR) phenomenon, the future of YouTube video and gaming.VR is considered by many technologists as a key sector of the next 10 years. Proviso - Due to unforeseen technical issues, confe...Read More
By John MauldinObjects in MotionFed Pops Its Own BubbleThe Trump EffectWhat Could Go Wrong?What to Do Black-Eyed Peas, Hong Kong, Sarasota, and BostonIn addition to popping champagne corks and black-eyed peas (at least in the South) on New Year's Day, year-end brings something else for economists and portfolio managers: annual forecasts. People want to know what the coming year will bring. I wou...Read More
We have seen an unusually steady uptrend in copper this month, that has resulted in it appreciating by about 10%, which might not sound like much, but makes a big difference if you are a producer with fixed costs. What is remarkable about this uptrend is not only that it came hard on the heels of a high volume smackdown in the early days of the month that at the time looked bearish, but that we...Read More
By Gary SavageThis video provides a comprehensive examination of the expected price performance of the stock, energy, precious metals and currency markets in 2018. https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/ Read More
By Michael J. KosaresWith such a solid end to 2017, it prompts the question what we might expect of gold in 2018. The most immediate question is whether or not it will pick up where it left off 2017 and continue its climb into the New Year, or fizzle and spend the year going sideways or worse, down. I have refrained from the perennial turn of the year prediction sweepstakes for a number years, b...Read More
In this final podcast of 2017, Chris sits down with Robert Helms and Russell Gray, better known as The Real Estate Radio Guys. They run one of (if not the most) popular podcasts on real estate investing.Chris and I got to know Robert and Russ well during this year's Summit At Sea, their week-long investing seminar, at which Peak Prosperity received a featured spot among the faculty. It was a prett...Read More
What are the real driving forces behind Bitcoin's volatile price? Why haven't gold & silver participated so far in this dramatic action? What are we most likely to see in 2018 for crypto-currencies vs. gold & silver? Will the central banks and governments be able to shut cryptos down? How can ordinary people position themselves to survive and thrive in the transition from our risky debt-bubble to...Read More
By now you know that my swing trading approach is to focus on the 5-6 Month Intermediate Cycle Low (ICL) to establish positions.It seem’s that everything that I track has the 5-6 month low to low cycle.Sometimes the ICLs come sooner at 4 months or later at 7+ months but the average is 5-6 months.Everything also has a Yearly Cycle Low (YCL) which is nothing more than two 5-6 mont ICLs. Cycles...Read More
Bullish commodity traders and investors in the likes of oil and gold also saw positive returns for the year as Oil ended at a strong high of $60 and Gold at $1310 both inline with my bullish expectations for these commodities for 2017. Gold had a bumpy but positive year, ending at $1310, up a healthy $160 pr 14% on the year which is inline with my bullish expectations for the precious metal. In fa...Read More
Bullish commodity traders and investors in the likes of oil and gold also saw positive returns for the year as Oil ended at a strong high of $60 and Gold at $1310 both inline with my bullish expectations for these commodities for 2017. In terms of the immediate outlook for oil, the price has broken out of a year long range capped at $56 that it will likely revisit (test) during the next few weeks....Read More