USD Rallies in a Historical Persepctive
Below I’ve analoged the three major rallies the USD (trade-weighted USD vs. major currencies) has enjoyed since the 1970s when the US abandoned the fixed-rate exchange system and linkages to gold that had been employed since Bretton Woods. As mentioned,…...
Additional Signs of Reflation and Implications for Gold
Earlier today in this post I discussed that the Producer Price Index for all commodities, or the PCAC Index (Bloomberg ticker), was signaling the potential for a strong global reflationary event to occur in the intermediate-term. I wanted to build on…...
Does a Major Reflationary Event Stand on the Horizon?
The PCAC Index (US PPI for all commodities) is plotted on a monthly basis below dating back to the early 1900s. As of the last print (Jan-16) and following a significant multi-year decline, it was a hair away from reaching…...
Can Gold Rally Without Commodities in General Also Participating?
Short answer: yes. Below I’ve shown all of gold’s trough to peak rallies dating back to the early 70s, or when Nixon abandoned the gold standard. What you’ll find is that out of six major cyclical or secular rallies in gold’s history,…...
Multi-Decade Break-outs in Gold vs. Various Industrial Commodities Signals Major Monetary System Change Afoot
Proportional end demand by the industrial sector is exceedingly larger for crude (all), copper (all) and silver (~50%) vs. gold (~10%-15%). Keep the above in mind when looking at the three charts below which plot ratios of gold vs. all three aforementioned…...
Should History Hold, USDMXN at Multi-Decade Channel Resistance Signals Potential for Pivot Higher in Risk Assets, Inflation
In the first chart below I show USDMXN (USD vs. Peso). For nearly two decades back to the latter part of the 90s USDMXN has traveled in an upward-sloping channel b/t lines (1) and (2). Over time it has reached…...
This Industrial Company’s Break-Out from Two Years of Consolidation is Bullish, but Also Signals the Potential for a Similar Move in Broader Equities
In the chart below ITW has, as of today (if gains hold), officially broken out from a ~two-year consolidation/flag pattern b/t lines (1a) and (2a). The stock should be bought on this break-out. However, at the same time, note how…...
Gold’s 99.8th Percentile Event Last Week Confirms New, Sustained Bull Market
On 12/17/15 in this post we began stressing the likelihood of a new, emerging macro thematic positing the likelihood of a favorable divergence in gold-specific fortunes vs. other commodities moving forward. At the time of that original post the ratio of gold vs…....
SPX Technicals Suggest Fair Value of ~1,400
Perhaps the simplest, yet most elegant way to think about fair value for the SPX is to view it through the prism of the long-term technical chart below. In that chart you’ll notice the index has traded in an upward sloping…...
GREXIT
If one recalls, one of the first-ever posts on this site provided a framework of what would likely happen to Greek stocks and the Drachma were the country to exit the EU. It’s been nearly four years since that post and Greece has…...