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Market Talk – January 21, 2016

January 21, 2016

All core Asian Indices suffered as concerns surrounding the oil price continued to drive market sentiment. Late rumours that Saudi’s Aramco were in talks with Hong Kong’s Sinopec of a possible refinery investment within China. This news certainly helped their share … →

Crude – Equities – Euro

January 21, 2016

We will post a 35-minute video update to the World Economic forum (see “Helpful Video” thread) that will cover key markets. We have warned that January looked like a correction all around. Wall Street rallied after a hesitant start on … →

China to Move to Electronic Currency

January 21, 2016

The People’s Bank of China held a seminar yesterday to discuss the issuance of a digital currency. The Chinese central bank said issuing a digital currency would have positive implications as it would reduce the high printing and circulation costs of … →

The Dow

January 21, 2016

The Dow has fallen back to retest last year’s low. The number we gave is weekly, not daily. So that comes into play for Friday’s close.

Why Pegs to the US$ Will Break

January 21, 2016

Speculation is, at last, starting to rise that the HK$/US$ peg could break. The all-powerful governments are suddenly being seen as no so powerful. The massive dollar rally that our model has been forecasting is rather straight-forward. The higher the … →

Real Estate Cycles & International Value

January 21, 2016

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, your real estate cycle turned up from 1955. It does not match the Case-Shiller index which peaked in 1890s and bottomed in 1920 and then began to rally after 1940 into the 1955 period. Something seem strange with … →