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Market Talk – October 13, 2015

The import numbers released from China early this morning was the last thing the commodity based countries wanted to see, especially after having found some...

China Still Heading Lower

The latest economic news from China shows that, in dollar terms, imports collapsed 20.4% in September from a year earlier to $145.2bn. This is one of the sharpest...

IMF Warns That We Have a New Crisis Coming

  QUESTION: Marty; You mentioned that you met with a board member of the IMF. It certainly seems you are having a much larger impact than you may realize. The...

Belgium to Introduce 33% Tax on Investments

The Belgium government wants to introduce what they are calling the “speculation tax” that will impose a 33% tax on investments liquidated within 6...

Merkel’s Dream

QUESTION: What is going through Merkel’s mind with this immigration? Is she just insane? What is happening here in Germany is unbelievable. HS...

Market Talk – October 12, 2015

In Europe, despite the positive Asian market with the Shanghai Index exceeding 3% (on the back of weekend government vocal support), we had a lack luster session...

How to Convert ECM Dates

  Note: Because this was over .5 of a day, we refer to this target as September 30/October...

Austerity: Good or Bad?

QUESTION: Martin, The ‘Austerity’ argument seems a bit confusing. Surely,  “Austerity” means reducing the size of Government and is an...

U.S. Shares & Slingshot Move

The potential for a slingshot move has not been negated. To negate a slingshot, we need a daily closing in the Dow above 17735. If we have the slingshot and trap...

Belgium Riots Reach up to 100,000 People Against Austerity

Major protests have broken out in Belgium over AUSTERITY, according to Le Monde. According to the police, up to 100,000 people demonstrated in the center of the...