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"The U.S. economy closed out 2015 with a huge round of job creation. Nonfarm payrolls grew 292,000 during December, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday that showed employment momentum as the year wound down. The unemployment rate was 5.0 percent... The one disappointment from the report came in wages, which actually fell slightly".

• Jeff Cox, www.CNBC.com,

January 8, 2016. "Yet there is a Silver lining. On January 7, during this same period, Jupiter turns retrograde... Given that Jupiter is in Virgo, and Virgo rules the work force, there might be positive news about employment and the work force. The monthly payroll reports of the USA work force will be released on Friday. The employment situation may continue its expansion. But there is another side to Jupiter too, especially when it is highlighted during a week that also highlights Uranus and Neptune. In the other view on Jupiter, hope can be exaggerated and turn into hysteria and panic. If announcements are made that lead to utter confusion and sudden revolt, financial markets could over-react. The bottom line is that this coming week may exhibit very strong price moves, but they could be up or down, or both, in short fashion". - "MMA Geocosmic Market Outlook" for week of January 4 (this column, last week).

Last week was a rough beginning to the New Year. Three of the first four trading days witnessed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down over 200 points, By Friday, January 8, the DJIA had fallen to 16,314, its lowest level since October 2, and down another 167 points. For the week, it was off 1078 points, the greatest decline in the first week of the year in the history of the DJIA. Since its primary cycle crest of 17,977 on Nov 3, the DJIA is now down 9.2%. To put this in perspective, the decline into the low of August 24 was down 16.4% from the high in May.

Analysts are pointing to the weakness in the energy sector and the panic in China's stock market as the primary cause of this current plunge. This is interesting - and confusing, which is not surprising, given that Saturn is fully at work on its 36-year cyclical square with Neptune, the planet that has dominion over illusion, delusion, and confusion. On Friday, crude oil prices broke to a new 12-year low as they fell to 32.10, below the low in December 2008 that was 32.48. However, for analysts to claim that lower energy prices are a drag on the economy is like saying higher taxes are a positive for the economy. Lower gasoline and energy prices put more money into the hands of the consumer, and it is the lack of consumer spending that is one of the retardants to growing this economy. As the jobs reports demonstrated, wage growth has been stagnant. Thus, even though more people are getting jobs, the jobs are not good paying jobs, or they are part time jobs, and thus the most anemic recovery in memory continues. And along with it, the income inequality that politicians (and so many others) rail about continues to grow. Yet, to Financial Astrologers, it is interesting that Jupiter changed directions last week (January 7), and Venus translated the Saturn/Neptune square (January 5-8), as crude oil broke its modern day low. Jupiter and Neptune co-rule crude oil.

In China, the government appears to be totally lost on what to do now, another correlate to Saturn square Neptune. Neptune is the delusion, Saturn is the principle of control. When your efforts to control matters tightly don't work, the result is panic. The Chinese government suspended the newly created circuit breaker system for their stock market, "... which cut short two trading sessions this week after the index fell 7%". It didn't work. The Chinese Shanghai Composite Index started the year off at 3536 on Monday. By Friday it had fallen to 3056, a loss of 13.5%. In comparison, the DJIA's weekly loss was 6.2%, less than half that of China. Yet the sense of panic here is probably just as real as in China.

So once again, there was chaos in China that caused a major disruption in world equity markets as Mercury turned retrograde on January 5. In our weekly column last week, we pointed out, "As an example, the last Mercury retrograde cycle began on September 17, the day the Federal Reserve Board was expected to announce their first rate hike in several years. However, when China de-pegged its currency parameters to the USA Dollar just a couple of days before, the Fed backpedaled and stunned investors by deciding not to raise rates... One wonders what surprises are in store these next three weeks as Mercury turns retrograde once again in an air sign, and this time in the sign of the unexpected- Aquarius". Circuit breakers and their consequent disruption to natural market forces are both within the domain of Mercury retrograde and Aquarius. Thus, once again, we see the remarkable correlation between cycles in the cosmos (geocosmic cycles), and the nature of events affecting human activity on earth - including economics and financial markets.

However, chaos and confusion are like nutritional supplements to Treasuries and the gold market. Both soared in last week's trading, with gold closing above $1100 for the first time in two months. It is all about Mars in Scorpio, combined with Saturn square Neptune. When traders are frightened (and Mars in Scorpio can be frightening), they go to the "safe havens". I am not sure what is so safe about Treasuries, which - like the dollar and stocks - is based mostly upon the value of paper and the good will and trust of government and banking leaders. But nevertheless, when you are also confused (Neptune) and things seem to be spinning out of control (Saturn), you run to those areas that you think provide safety. What people seem not to understand or want to accept, however is that all assets may be in the throes of devaluation, just on different time schedules (cycles). I don't want to accept it either, but a few more powerful down days in the stock market and it will be clearly a bear market. And, as explained in the Forecast 2016 book (now sold out), if stocks are bearish, the 6.5-year cycle low could end up witnessing a loss of 28-50% from last year's all-time high.

But don't jump off the ship yet. After all, geocosmics point to the possibility of reversal shortly. No one is going to believe it because it certainly doesn't feel like it. But that's Neptune. You can't trust what you see, hear, or feel. With Neptune, it is all about who or what you can trust.

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Short-Term Geocosmics :

Mercury has begun its first retrograde cycle of 2016, January 5-25. The trickster must be watched carefully, for he has a tendency to get you all worked up about something, and then suddenly shifts your focus to something completely different. Today you think the market is crashing. The week before you thought it was ready for another bull market run. Next week will be the middle of its retrograde cycle, and just when you think you have him figured out, the trickster is likely to reverse again by next Friday, especially in those markets that didn't reverse this week. That is, if a market doesn't reverse when Mercury turns retrograde, it will likely reverse within a day or two of the middle of its retrograde motion, which just happens to be next week, January 15. It could also reverse right here, because Venus was in conjunction with Saturn on Friday, January 8. Any market that is declining into a hard aspect between Venus and Saturn is a good candidate to end that decline and start to rally. The stock market has fallen hard into the Venus/Saturn conjunction, so we can't rule out a reversal, even though Saturn and Neptune seem to offer no solid ground beneath here.

Longer-Term Thoughts and mundane astrology :

will resume next week.

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR JANUARY 10, 2016! That is when a live webinar of Raymond Merriman's "Forecast 2016 speech" will take place. This webinar will examine the world and national economy for 2016, based on cyclical and geocosmic studies. It will then discuss the outlook for Gold, Silver, the USA stock market, Crude Oil, and the U.S. Dollar as of January 10, 2016. In the event you are unable to see the presentation live as it is being broadcast, you will be able to receive an MP3 audio of the event. The cost of the live webinar or MP3 is $45.00. Reservations to attend the live webinar must be received by Friday, January 8, at 6:00 PM. The speech will begin at 3:30 PM, EST and will last about two hours. Get ready for 2016! ORDER NOW AND RESERVE YOUR SPOT IN THIS WEBINAR. Call MMA at 1-248-626-3034, or email ordersmma@msn.com. Or, go to the www.mmacycles.com website to make your reservation.

"I have followed your forecasts closely for many years, and always order your Forecast Book. They are always quite brilliant, but each year seems to exceed the previous one. This one is a complete masterpiece. You keep the bar on our subject very, very high, and for that I respect your work enormously and thank you too. The Forecast Books are so detailed it is like publishing an entire book every year, on top of everything else you do. I just had to write and say how delighted I am that I came across your work all those years ago. You can never stop writing these Forecast Books of course; the deal is that you have to go on forever! You give mankind such a service with these. I always follow your wise judgements week by week too. Thank you, thank you, thank you!" P.G. author, UK.

The Forecast 2016 Book is out! The Forecast 2016 Book is completed and all orders placed prior to December 11 have been mailed out as of Monday-Tuesday, December 14-15. They should be received by December 24. If you have ordered this book prior to December 11 and do not receive it by December 24, please let us know. If you haven't ordered this book and want a copy, also let us know before they sell out this year. Don't miss it! See info below.

Raymond Merriman was interviewed this past week on Radio Nikkei in Tokyo. The interview, titled "MERRIMAN FORECASTS", will be aired on Dec 23, 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM. The program contains a part of the interview. Its full version one is going to be contained on Compact Disc released on Dec 25th, exactly the same day of "FORECAST 2016" book is released in Japan. RADIO NIKKEI has a special web site for "MERRIMAN FORECASTS" program, at http://market.radionikkei.jp/merriman. People can purchase the Japanese edition of the Forecast 2016 Book and CD on that web site. They can also listen to our 30 min. program via podcast after the on-air interview of December 23. An English translation of this interview will be posted under the NEWS section of MMA's own website at www.mmacycles.com.

Check out The Mountain Astrologer, the Dec/Jan 2016 edition that just came out. It features a two-part interview with Raymond Merriman on Financial and Mundane Astrology, the economy, financial markets, and the state of the world astrology community. For information on subscribing to America's top astrological magazine and getting your copy of this and the next issue's interview with Ray Merriman, conducted by Editor Tem Terriktar, call TMA at 530-477-8839, 800-287-4828, or their website at www.mountainastrologer.com.

MMA's annual Forecast Book, written by Raymond A. Merriman since 1976, is now completed and will be ready for distribution on December 15. This book is one of the most unique, affordable, and accurate glimpses into the coming year. Utilizing the study of cycles and geocosmic factors, this annual Forecast Book outlines forthcoming trends pertaining to political, economic, and financial markets throughout the world. No other book has informed and prepared readers for the Cardinal Climax period of 2008-2015 as precisely as Raymond Merriman's annual Forecast book. No other book has guided readers through this turbulent period since it began in 2008. But now, in 2016, we enter a different kind of period for the next two years that will require new strategies and a different set of skills to navigate these forces of change.This is a book, with an impressive background for insightful accuracy into world economic and financial market conditions that you will not want to miss! The perfect holiday gift for your family, friends, favorite broker, or financial advisor. For further information, go to www.mmacycles.com and click the banner. ORDER NOW AND MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE YOUR COPY BY CHRISTMAS !!! This book makes an excellent gift for the holiday season.

This year's printed version of Forecast 2016 will also available in four other languages, as follows :
Dutch : at www.markettiming.nl
German : at http://www.mma-europe.ch
Japanese : at http://merriman.jp
Russian : at http://www.mmafinance.ru

MMA's weekly and daily reports have been extremely accurate and profitable over the past several weeks, especially in equity indices, crude oil, and precious metals. If you are an active short-term trader, or even if you are an investor who likes to keep up with our current thoughts on financial markets, you may be interested in our Weekly or Daily Market reports. It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or weekly basis. These weekly reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Crude Oil, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Gold and Silver, plus GLD and SLV (the Gold and Silver ETF's). Both reports provide trading strategies and recommendations for position traders as well as for shorter-term aggressive traders. Subscription to the daily report also includes the weekly report. For more information, or call our offices at 1-248-626-3034. These reports are extremely valuable to those who trade ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds). And since early December, these reports have been extremely profitable. As subscriber and trader R.B. of Albuquerque, NM writes",You have been on an incredible run for a while ; I have never seen anything like it". Well, when everything lines up just right...

Our monthly MMA Cycles report and its companion MMA Japanese Cycles and MMA European Cycles reports went out last week. If you are subscriber to any these monthly reports and did not receive it, let us know at once via our email.

- This report covers our long term analysis of the stock market (DJIA and S&P futures), Gold, Silver, T-Notes, Euro and Swiss Franc currencies, grains and crude oil. It also provides the list of geocosmic and solar-lunar reversal zones for the 1-2 months. This report comes out Monday night to subscribers.
- The MMA Japanese Markets Cycles report covers the Nikkei, JGB Bonds, and the Dollar-Yen.
- The new MMA Europe Cycles report covers the German DAX, Swiss SMI, and Netherlands AEX stock indices, each in english only and will be available on Wednesday.
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Speaking of our weekly subscription reports, we now offer a new one titled : MMA Weekly Treasuries, Soybeans, and Crude Oil Report. This will be a 3-5 page report offering comments, analysis, forecasts, and trading strategy for next week's market activity in the U.S. 10-Year T-Notes (Treasuries), Soybeans, and Crude Oil futures only. List of support/resistance areas, trend indicator points, geocosmic and lunar reversal points for the week, cycles phasing, and recommended buy and sell strategies. The cost is $750/yr or $250/3 months. We will offer a one-month trial subscription for $50.00, available only until August 15, as part of our introduction to this new service. Subscriptions are delivered by downloadable postings on the MMA Website, which is entered via your personal password. It is also delivered via an email attachment to all subscribers over the weekend before the market opens.

If you are an active short-term trader, or even if you are an investor who likes to keep up with our current thoughts on financial markets, you may be interested in our Weekly or even Daily Market reports with short-term trading recommendations, (see a sample there, of the weekly). It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or even weekly basis, as I no longer offer personal consultations. These reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Swiss Franc, Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Soybeans, Crude Oil, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. Both reports provide trading strategies and recommendations for position traders as well as for shorter-term aggressive traders. Subscription to the daily report also includes the weekly report.
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Upcoming Events :

January10, 2016 : Raymond Merriman webinar on the outlook for financial markets, world economies, and possibly a look at the USA 2016 Presidential Election candidates. The exact date will be announced in about a month. The cost to participate will be $45.

October 13-17, 2016 : ISAR 2016 - "The Power of Forecasting Meets the Consequence of Choice". Costa Mesa, California (near LA). The climax will be a panel of expert Mundane Astrologers giving their Forecast of the USA 2016 Presidential Election. An "Application to Speak" process is currently underway. More details at www.isarastrology.com, and via the ISAR ezine that is sent out to all members of the organization. This event will include tracks on Mundane and Financial Astrology as Forecasting Tools, plus others on Psychological Shifts in Life, Timing of Spiritual Transformations, and Timing of Significant Relationships.

March 10-13, 2017 : Second MMA Investment Retreat, tentatively planned for Southern California or Hawaii now (no Sedona). Details soon.

The MMA Catalogue of products and services for 2015 is now out!!! You can download it in PDF. The ordering page is the last page of the catalogue. This is especially useful for those outside of the USA, since we do not mail these out by mail unless requested.

I am oftentimes asked for recommendations of a money manager who uses my methods, since I won't manage other people's money. The thing is, almost all money managers I know use their own systems. But many subscribe to my services and share my thoughts about the future of the economy, various financial markets, and how to position one's portfolio along these lines. One money manager who subscribes to our services that I would suggest for those looking to structure a longer-term portfolio, such as a retirement account, is Duke O'Neill of Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at dukeoneil1@gmail.com, or 1-(303) 545-5837. For those looking for a professional trader of commodity and futures contract might consider Ted Lee Fisher at ted.fisher@comcast.net. Ted is a legend in financial futures and has a seat on the CME. Both are very knowledgeable of the tools I use, of the way I am looking at markets, and yet each makes their own decisions as to exactly when to enter and exit any market. They will be more than happy to assist you.

To the above list, I would also like to recommend long-term MMA subscriber Erwin Brunner of Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Brunner is the founder of BrunnerInvest AG. One of his five funds was awarded theBest in-house fund of funds in the world recently. Mr. Brunner is a former director of the Swiss Banking Corporation (today it is known as UBS), and a general director of Rothschild Bank in Zurich. As an independent wealth manager for high net worth individuals and institutional clients only, he places his clients into the funds of the best performing fund managers in the world, via his own research and experience. For high net worth readers interested in Mr. Brunner's funds, please contact him through www.brunnerinvest.ch.

It is with great pleasure that I announce the addition of Egon von Greyerz to MMA Investment Retreat faculty of presenters. I met Egon last week in Girona, Spain, at a special gathering attended by MMTA Graduates Nitin Bhandari (India), Philipp Beyer (Germany), Henry Canciglia (USA) and myself. Egon is an expert on Gold. He owns Matterhorn Asset Management, a Swiss Asset Management company specializing in wealth preservation, located in Zurich ( www.goldswitzerland.com). He was also the person who initiated the "Save Our Swiss Gold" Act in Switzerland late last year, which would have required the Swiss National Bank to back up their assets with 20% Gold holdings. The initiative failed, but his reasons for initiating this effort are still valid. Egon is very interested in MMA cycles' work, and will share his outlook on Gold and the world debt. This is a real treat!

The newly revised The Sun, The Moon, and Silver Book :Secrets of a Silver Trader, is now out. This is a book that you will use as a reference guide for...many, many years. It identifies all the key Sun-Moon combinations that have a higher (and lower) than expected probability of correlating with 4% or greater reversals in COMEX Silver. It also identifiesBig Range Days - those days in which the range of Silver is most likely to be 3.5% or more of the price of Silver, which is a great tool for day traders. This book fulfills the dream of all traders : high probability winning trade possibilities, with minimal market exposure. It is thatextra edge. And Silver is a great market to trade now. The cost is $125.00. For ordering on line.

The new book titled Solar-Lunar Keys to Gold Prices : Secrets of a Gold Trader , is now out. The long awaited sequel to the Secrets of a Silver Trader is due out in late October (maybe before)!!!
Now, GOLD as you have never seen it by night or day. The studies for the soon-to-be-released book are now completed and the results are now being used in the weekly and daily MMA subscription reports for short-term trading strategies in Gold. That's right... historically tested Solar-Lunar Correlations to trading reversals in the Gold Market - as only available from Raymond Merriman. The studies cover over 40 years of daily Gold, starting from December 31, 1974 through April 2015. The book will change how you approach trading Gold using these leading solar-lunar indicators, with very clear instructions as to "when" to expect 3%, 4%, or greater reversals in Gold prices and how to trade them. It will be a valuable guide for short-term traders of Gold, GLD, and other ETF's involving Gold prices. You may call 1-248-626-3034 or email ordersmma@gmail.com and place your pre-order now. It is also now available for purchase on the MMA web site at www.mmacycles.com. Order now and get the first printing of this new book on trading Gold!

Disclaimer and statement of purpose : The purpose of this column is not to predict the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language. This weekly report is written with the intent to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. In this regard, this report will oftentimes report what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week, and discuss that movement in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, or even month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures will likely affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from a perspective of a cycle’s analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world. It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in, from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand these psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and hence financial markets of the day.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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