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Head Winds for Global Financial Markets Going Forward

1) Collapsing Oil:

Oil has entered into a free fall post OPEC and is not looking to stabilize anytime soon. This has deflationary implications:

2) A Weak High Yield Market:

Collapsing oil is definitely creating trouble for high yield issuers in the Oil market. Rig counts have almost halved and the high yield ETF is at a 52 week low. While default rates are still below long term averages there could be trouble ahead:

3) Diverging Transports:

Collapsing oil should logically help the transports but this has not been the case and transports have significantly diverged from the S and P 500 with no new highs in the transports in over a year:

4) Volatility on the Up:

The Vix has also positively diverged not making new lows in each of the markets recent up moves in over a year and a half:

Interesting Charts from the World of Economics and Financial Markets-2

The first two charts are from John Rubino at dollarcollapse.com that shows that the Japanese economy hasn't recovered despite the record stimulus from the Bank of Japan:


2) The next chart is from Ashraf  Laidi who compares the Dollar's performance during past Fed tightening cycles and suggests the #Dollar may have peaked already:


3) The last chart is from John Hampson at solarcycles.net that shows that the #SandP500 is in significantly over valued territory:

You can see some more interesting charts here.

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— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 10, 2015

Interesting Charts from the World of Economics and Financial Markets-1

1) The first chart comes from Bloomberg which captures the entire set of events around China’s stock market crash:

2) The second chart is from Craig Hemke at goldseek.com highlighting a death candle on the long term S and P 500 chart that typically forms during major market tops as was the case in 2000 and 2008:

3) The third chart is from Adam Hamilton at Zealllc.com that suggests the recent spike up in the #Vix is a warning that the Fed’s grip on the markets may be reducing:

4) The last chart is from Clive Maund at clivemaund.com that shows the massive 7 year rising wedge in the S and P 500 breaking, suggesting further downside ahead:

You can see some more interesting charts here.

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— samuelR (@RajveerRawlin) September 7, 2015