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"Payrolls grew just 151,000 compared with expectations for 180,000, but that was only half the story. Job quality was weak, salary growth and the workweek eased, and if it wasn't for a government hiring spree, the numbers would have been considerably worse". Jeff Cox, CNBC.com, September 2, 2016.

The jobs report was weak, but it wasn't terrible. There were still 151,000 new jobs added. It is probably what the Fed and Hillary Clinton wished for, as it gave reason for the Fed to comfortably hold off raising rates before the election without eliciting fears of a recession. A good thing the government hired so many new workers! Remember, the last time the Fed announced a rate hike was last December. By the next month, the stock market was down over 15%. The rate increase was only .25%. Analysts today try to rationalize that a .25% increase would not be enough to depress the markets, but Yellen knows otherwise. So our outlook, which has been correct all along, remains the same : the Fed will not raise rates before the election and risk another market meltdown like the one that began 2016.

On the news of the "weak" employment numbers, stock markets rallied sharply. After posting a 4-week low of 18,295 on September 1, the DJIA soared to nearly 18,550 right after the jobs report. Gold, which had tumbled to a two-month low of 1305 on September 1, soared to 1334 one day later, right after those reports. Silver's performance was even more spectacular. From a new cycle low of 18.46 on Monday, August 29, Silver exploded to 19.46 on Friday, suggesting a new primary cycle has begun. Of course, Mercury is retrograde now, and the trickster has a way of undermining technical buy and sell signals. It has its reputation to uphold of exhibiting fake outs. Will this be another case ? I don't think so, since these lows also correlated with a powerful solar eclipse that formed a T-square with Saturn and Neptune, which subscribers were made aware of.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

"Socrates is rumored to have said that the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing". Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2016, "Loopholes for the Mullahs".

As discussed last week, we are in the midst of a very powerful and peculiar geocosmic arrangement that lasts though September 16. Specifically, in last week's column, I wrote, "The next two weeks are quite possibly the peak of confusion and uncertainty as 1) Mercury turns retrograde in mutable Virgo, August 30-September 21-22, 2) there is a mutable solar eclipse on September 1 that makes a T-square to the Saturn/Neptune mutable square, 3) Saturn makes its third and final mutable square on September 10, and 4) the full moon is a mutable lunar eclipse on September 16. That's a lot of mutable, and it involves a lot of Neptune, which means there will likely be a lot of. fog, rains, and mud (literally and figuratively). This will affect many markets, especially crude oil and treasuries, which in turn means that stocks, currencies, and metals will also be impacted. Look for reversals to recent trends in each market during the next 1-2 weeks".

There will indeed be a lot of rains and mud along the eastern seacoast of the USA this weekend with Hurricane Hermine now underway. Many markets did indeed make reversals from their lows of Thursday, as mentioned above, including crude oil, which fell that day to a multi-week low of 43.00 on Thursday, September 1. A scant one day later, it recovered smartly, along with precious metals and stock indices. So now the biggest concern is whether Mercury retrograde will negate these reversals.

Mercury retrograde is not the only important geocosmic factor of importance in effect at the moment. Venus entered Libra last Monday, August 29, and will trek through the sign of the scales of justice through September 23, then it will enter Scorpio (and maybe knocking the wheels of justice off track again). Now astrologers, by and large, love Venus in Libra, for Venus rules Libra and both are the signs of love and partnership. Who doesn't love "love?" Well, OK, maybe some Scorpios prefer suffering as part of the bargain, and maybe some Capricorns think of love as a work duty, and maybe some Aquarians don't take love personally. But generally speaking, almost everyone wants love. Yet I am dodging the point here. The importance of Venus in Libra, to us as financial market timers, is that it has a high correlation to primary cycle lows in Silver, as discussed in last year's Forecast 2016 Book. And the day that Venus entered Libra (August 29) looks very much like a primary cycle low in Silver. In other words, financial astrology and our Forecasts 2016 Book look poised to strike yet another accurate hit. By Friday, Silver had already rallied 5.4% from Monday's low. Still, I think Socrates is right. With Mercury retrograde, the only wisdom is knowing you don't know. but thank goodness, such keys as astrology also provide light on our path. It is also good to know when you do know.

LONGER-TERM THOUGHTS AND MUNDANE ASTROLOGY :

"This rule of history is that savers deserve to be compensated when they loan money. Not anymore. In much of the developed world, lenders are the ones paying for the privilege of letting governments borrow their cash. In the new political economy - or alchemy - the more unsustainable a government's finances, the less it pays to borrow". - James Freeman, "The 5,000-Year Government Debt Bubble", Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2016.

Now, if that isn't an appropriate quote for what has been unfolding since Pluto went in Capricorn (2008-2024), then I don't know what is. However, the era of negative interest rates and paltry yields for savers may be slowly coming to an end, as the long-term 36-year cyclical waning square of Saturn and Neptune completes its three-passage series this week, on September 10. A look at history will show frequent occurrences of long-term highs and lows in interest rates that end nearby to the Saturn/Neptune waning square. The last time it occurred was September 1979 through June 1980. Interest rates were at their highest level in over a century, and then started to decline to the levels we have been experiencing over the past couple of years. The time before that was July 1944 through April 1945, when short-term rates were also near 0%, and their lowest level in USA history up to that time. Rates didn't rise quickly during the first five years after the aspect passed in the middle 1940's, nor did rates fall sharply from highs of 1979-1980 until after 1982. But they did start their reversal from the absolute low and high that occurred very close to the central time band of the aspect - the same aspect that ends this week.

Another long-term cosmic point of interest occurring this week is the 13-month ingress of Jupiter into Libra, which commences on September 9. The bottom line is that a major long-term reversal in many financial markets, as well as socio-political-economic trends, is gearing up. It won't show up with a drum roll exactly on September 9-10. In fact, it may have started this past week with Venus acting as trigger, moving into the cardinal sign of Libra where it will join Uranus and Pluto, also in cardinal signs. Plus this week, Jupiter also joins this cosmic grouping in cardinal Libra as well. The world has been struggling with uncertainty and the changeableness indicated by many planets in mutable signs for much of 2016. Now we start to leave that era of uncertainty as we move into more straight-ahead and determined cardinal signs. Many long-term financial and collective psychological trends are changing, or being birthed. Be alert. It is not often that you get to see the course of history change right before your eyes, and are aware it is happening.

To be continued (next week).

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Our monthly MMA Cycles : The monthly edition of the MMA International Cycles Report (ICR) 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.
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This year's printed version of Forecast 2017 will also available in these languages:
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You can view MMA's Forecast for 2016 Scorecard at www.mmacycles.com. Click on NEWS AND EVENTS. Scroll down to the "Scorecard". As you will see, it was indeed a very good year.

MMA's weekly and daily reports have been extremely accurate and profitable lately, catching the lows in metals, stocks, crude oil, soybeans, and currencies. 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...

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Upcoming Events :

September 19, 2016 : "How to Use Astrology to Identify Major Reversal Points in Financial Markets" at the AstroSummit 2.0, on online presentation on September 19, sponsored by Astrologyhub. For more information, on this exciting AstroSummit, involving 30+ presentations for an entire week, please go to http://summit.astrologyhub.com/?orid=10986&opid=33. This is a cutting edge educational org dedicated to advancing modern day astrology. If you want to learn how I identify CRDs (Critical Reversal Dates), and how both geocosmic signatures and solar/lunar signatures are used for this purpose, please tune in on September 19.

October 13-17, 2016 : ISAR 2016 - "The Power of Forecasting Meets the Consequence of Choice". Costa Mesa, California (near LA). There will be two panels on the USA 2016 presidential election (one of foreign and one of USA astrologers with excellent track records for predicting election winners). The symposium itself will feature six tracks on various forecasting technicals and applications, including a financial track for market timers, with forecasts of various financial markets (including yours truly, Raymond Merriman). I will give a presentation on the correlation of the US Dollar to the USA presidential election, as well as my outlook on precious metals and stock markets. Expected attendance is approximately 500-600, including presentations by over 60 of the world's top forecasting astrologers. 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 9-13, 2017 : The second MMA Investment Retreat will take place at the beautiful Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island in San Diego, California, March 9-13, 2017, located right on the Pacific Ocean. You will be hearing more about this spectacular retreat soon, but save the dates now. One of our guest speakers will be Ted Lee Fisher, money manager, retired member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and a legend in Commodity Futures for his pioneering work on creating Treasury futures. He is one of the most profound thinkers I have met on the current situation in world financial markets - a brilliant man and savvy trader. Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland, an asset management company based on wealth preservation principles, will also be a guest speaker. Matterhorn has clients in over 40 countries and Gold vaults in Zurich, the Swiss Alps, Singapore and Hong Kong. Egon was one of the individuals behind the "Save Our Swiss Gold" referendum in Switzerland in 2015. Also present will be some of the brightest minds from the MMTA (Merriman Market Timing Academy) who will present their latest research on the best investment ideas of 2017-2018. Go there for early-bird registration (before June 21, 2015), and do not miss this powerfully enlightening event !. Save the dates! It will be special. Cost is $4000 ($3300 if reserved by July 1, 2016, $3600 if reserved by October 15). Details now available on the MMA website (www.mmacycles.com).

March 9-13, 2017 : The Second MMA Investment Retreat is now confirmed at the beautiful Kona Kai Hotel right on the Pacific Ocean, in San Diego, California. Save the dates! It will be special. Cost is $4000 ($3600 if reserved by October 15). Go to http://new.mmacycles.com/sandiego2017/index.shtml for details, or on the MMA website at www.mmacycles.com under the banner at the top of the page. Just click it.

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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