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December 5 - 2016
Raymond A. Merriman©
Financial Market Analyst & Market Timer.
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The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.6 percent. Economists polled by Reuters expected a gain of 175,000 with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.9 percent. Wages, however, slumped to 2.5 percent . "The report reaffirms the conditions of the employment market of the past several years," said Bill Lawrence, chief investment officer for traditional assets at SEI. "There are jobs out there, but the quality is not great." - Anmar Frangoul, "US Treasury Prices Hold Higher After Jobs Report Beat", CNBC, Friday, December 2, 2016.
Friday's USA employment report confirms what most analysts had thought all along. The jobs are out there, more people are going to work, but they are not full-time quality types of jobs. On that news, stocks around the world pulled back and treasuries started a modest rally.
Nevertheless, the world equity markets remain a case of two tales - maybe three if we expand our horizon from the world to the solar system. Some parts of the world are doing great, following the Donald Trump victory in November, and other parts of the world are not doing so great. In either case, most financial and commodity markets reversed in synch with the geocosmic line up that pointed to a major reversal within three trading days of November 25. Several markets reversed their trends exactly on that date, while others waited until the end of the Venus translation of November 29, or the new moon in Sagittarius square Neptune, November 30-December 1.
In the USA, the major stock indices all topped out on November 29-30, although the NASDAQ futures contract still failed to make a new high (the cash market did). However, the DJIA and S&P did not fall hard (yet), whereas the NASDAQ did fall hard into Thursday and Friday, to its lowest level in three weeks. It was different story in South America, however, where the Brazilian Bovespa had a modest rally into Monday, November 28, but by the end of the week,fell to its lowest level in two months.
In Asia and the Pacific Rim, the performance was much better. Japan and China continued their strong rallies to their highest levels since early January. The Nikkei soared to 18,746 on December 1 and the Shanghai Index to 3301 on November 29. Russia's MICEX index made a new all-time high on December 2. India's Nifty index staged a modest rally into December 1, but it is still reeling from its plunge on November 21, to its lowest level in 6 months.
The equity markets of Europe did not perform too well last week. Each of the ones we track fell to new multi-week lows on Friday, with the London FTSE declining to its lowest level since September 15. Yet, as the FTSE fell, the British Pound rallied to its highest mark since October 6. It still looks like a bear market pattern, however.
In fact, all currencies began to rally last week against the U.S. Dollar, which remained below its 13-year high of 102.05 recorded on November 24, one day before our November 25 three-star critical reversal date (CRD). Against the Japanese Yen, the Dollar continued to a new 9-month high as it reached 114.82 on December 1. The Euro currency, on the other hand fell to 1.0515 on November 24, its lowest level since March 16, 2015, when the last passage of Uranus square Pluto took place.
December 1 was not only the high in the Dollar/Yen, but it was also a new 9-month low in Gold, which fell to 1162. This is significant because that was the day Mars made a trine to Jupiter, and as stated many times in this column, Gold doesn't like Jupiter. The Dollar does. December 1 may also be significant because Silver did not even make a new weekly low then. Its cycle low remains exactly on our November 25 three-star CTD at 16.15, for a potential case of intermarket bullish divergence on a geocosmic critical reversal date. Let's see if that signal gets validated this week with a close above resistance.
Short-Term Geocosmics & longer-term THOUGHTS :
The major geocosmic signatures are now exiting an important time band that was in force November 19-December 1, as described in the last two issues of this column. The next important three-star CRD will not unfold until Mercury turns retrograde on December 19, which begins a heavily populated period lasting through January 12. There are 11 major geocosmic signatures unfolding then, including the first passage of the long-term waning trine between Saturn and Uranus (December 24, 2016 through November 11, 2017), which has a nice track record of corresponding to long-term cycle highs in U.S. stocks, as described at length in the forthcoming Forecast 2017 Book, due out in less than 2 weeks. This time band also includes the first of three powerful intermediate-term geocosmic signatures of Jupiter in opposition to Uranus on December 26, followed by Uranus turning direct on December 29. It looks like the holiday season will be explosive, instead of its normally quiet period for financial markets and world politics.
Shorter-term there may some interesting market activity December 9-16 when transiting Mars will make important aspects to the NYSE "Buttonwood" chart (May 17, 1792). Normally that would end a brief, but sharp, decline in U.S. stocks.
LONGER-TERM THOUGHTS AND MUNDANE ASTROLOGY :
As I completed the Forecast 2017 Book , I was impressed by how connected the next year is to Donald Trump's own horoscope. It appears that 2017 will be a year dominated by Trump. What happens to him affects the entire world, and vice-versa, for better or worse, and probably both, for nothing is ever "normal" or "average" about him or the year 2017. All attempts by the press and others to "normalize" him will fail. His Sun-Uranus conjunction, which is part of his natal lunar eclipse in Gemini/Sagittarius, is a signature of brilliant insights, but also erratic, unexpected, unpredictable, and even disruptive behaviors. Remember, Uranus doesn't like boundaries or rules. They exist only to be broken, again for better or worse, and oftentimes both. The same may be true with promises made on the campaign trail, which may begin to morph into newer ideas that will appear to contradict those promises. In his mind, he will not breaking promises, but rather coming up with a "better idea". It is all about "better ideas" for a Gemini, that and being allowed to be flexible when a "better idea" is hatched.
The reason 2017 is very much like Donald Trump is because there is a cardinal T-square between Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto, November 2016 through August 2017. It is Uranus again. There are three peaks with this T-square and two will happen very soon: December 19-January 12 and February 22-April 21. The world may get a real dose of how the new president will work during those times. More important to many of us, the world's financial markets may react accordingly and in a similar erratic and/or explosive action at those times, with powerful breakouts to new highs or severe declines in equity markets that rattle the world financial system.
On a side note, I have been inundated with notes from astrologers around the world who called the election in favor of Trump. There were two people who called the Trump surge correctly, the earliest to my knowledge. They were Aleksandar Imsiragic, well-known astrologer of Belgrade, Serbia, who called Trump's rise right after he announced his candidacy in 2015. Another was Michael St. Clair, a mystic from Girona, Spain, who also studies astrology and brought together a group of market people (including me) in May 2015 for a financial meeting, wherein he predicted the rise of Trump as the next USA president. Congratulations to both men. You got it right early on. The only astrologer I know who forecasted that Hillary would win "the vote, but would not be inaugurated", was Christeen Skinner, financial astrologer from the UK, who made this bold statement on the Presidential Panel at the ISAR 2016 Symposium on October 13, in Costa Mesa, California, just weeks before the election when Hillary was far ahead in the polls. You may remember that this column pointed out that whoever was ahead in the polls 2-5 weeks before the election would likely lose, based on studies of prior elections. In any event, congratulations to Christeen Skinner for the most accurate prediction of anyone.
Now, let's see who can predict what Trump will do tomorrow.
To be continued (next week).
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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.
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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.
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