Investment & Finance End of 2014 Q3 into Q4 Thread Edition

Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | Sept. 26, 2014 | Freeper Investors

[expat_panama]

Investment & Finance End of 2014 Q3 into Q4 Thread Edition

Comodities				Stock Indexes
	now	3 Mo. Chg.	Annualized return		now	3 Mo. Chg.	Annualized return
gold	$1,220.26	-7.2%	-25.9%	S&P500	1,982.85	1.2%	4.7%
silver	$17.71	-16.2%	-50.7%	DJIA	17,113.15	1.7%	7.0%
oil	$512.66	-6.2%	-22.6%	NASDAQ	4,512.19	2.4%	9.8%
U.S. $	$85.62	6.7%	29.8%	Rus2k	1,119.33	-6.2%	-22.5%

 

Here's what happened with the third quarter investments: 

Looks like the dollar soared (so much for Fed printer devaluations), metals tanked (so much for safe havens), and while big cap. stocks have done best this past quarter the current status is "market under pressure" (read: under a cloud)

 

Looking forward to Q4 2014:

OK so while the future is anyone's guess we do know that these plotted guesstimates are what the Fed (FOMC) is planning on

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The new-quarter homework reading assignment.  Note: this material will be on the Final Exam:

• Facing Hostile Government, Adobe to Close China R&D Arm California-based company will maintain China sales offices, but research and development operations will cease by end of December More
• US Economy Rebounds Faster Than Expected in Second Quarter It's a positive sign for rest of year, after a disastrous first quarter saw country’s domestic output shrink by more than two percent More
• Money Forever One man's journey to save his retirement from the crisis economy [h/t Abb]
• Wealthy Elites Want Their Money Out of China Leading US financial expert says rich Chinese want to get money out before financial collapseMore
• Microsoft Offers First Look at New Windows Tech giant will unveil a new name for its best-known product Tuesday when it offers first official glimpse of latest operating system More
• S. Africa Gives Cuba $31 Million Economic Aid South African President Jacob Zuma pledged the money to Cuba in 2010, but its implementation was delayed for several years More
• Ford Motor Company Boosts Hiring Automaker says 1,200 new employees part of total of 14,000 company has hired in US as improving economy, lower costs increase sales  More
• Insightful Ways to Make the Fourth Quarter Incredibly Productive
  
• What Successful Leaders Do in Challenging Times

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.

 

 

[Wyatt's Torch]

Food CPI:

Energy CPI:

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

CNN’s fear and greed is at 3. Can’t get much lower.

http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/

[expat_panama]

hi & happy Friday! My 2 main ISP’s both went off line yesterday and I’m logged on thru my cell fone but fortunately nothing’s happening —except stock futures are up today & metals are down. Oh, and big report day today (unemployment ha ha ha...). cheers!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Happy Jobs Day!

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Distribution of NFP estimates:

[Wyatt's Torch]

NFP +248K

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UE 5.9%

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Private +236K

Participation Rate 62.7% (vs 62.8% previous)

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By industry:

[grania]

Only three drug stocks are connected to Ebola

What about sanitation clothing and masks? One of those I know of is APT. It's way up the past few months, but I believe lost some steam yesterday.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

LAKE makes hazmat suits.

[Wyatt's Torch]

View of the part-time vs full-time jobs discussion:

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Longer term view:

[catfish1957]

5.9%???? LOL, they have as much credibility as the CDC director.

[krunkygirl]

Bkmk

[Wyatt's Torch]

BLS Jobs Chartapalooza

[Grampa Dave]

More reasons to sell the BOND ETF.

The new managers of Bond have drastically sold their Canadian Bonds and are buying Mexican and ? bonds.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/life-gross-bond-adjusts-portfolio-190031199.html

[BipolarBob]

What about sanitation clothing and masks?

I agree. There's all kinds of derivative plays. But I personally believe this will all blow over (until next time). Wait for a pullback in price on your targeted stock start accumulating if that's your strategy. Cheers!

[catfish1957]

My first thought was Purell, then I found out it was a private company. :(

[Grampa Dave]

Metals are not safe haven ... they represent speculation.

NED DAVIS: Gold Will Plunge To $660

Business Insider
By Myles Udland

John LaForge, commodities strategist at Ned Davis Research says gold is going to $660 an ounce.

In an appearance on CNBC on Thursday, LaForge said that the end of the current “supercycle” for gold could push the precious metal down to $660 an ounce, or about 40% lower than where it is currently trading.

LaForge said that in the 1980s, the price of gold fell about 65% from peak-to-trough as the precious metal enduring a 20-year bear market.

And after hitting $1900 an ounce in 2011, gold should see a similar peak-to-trough decline in current cycle.

“We know that commodities run in supercycles, and they eventually die. And gold looks like it’s dying,” LaForge said.

“So $660 is certainly in the cards.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ned-davis-gold-plunge-660-211412410.html