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Is this a rebound?

The Dow ended the Tuesday up 0,47%, and the S&P 500 added 0,76%. The key now is the U.S data, and any missing of data will change the game. The bounce in Nikkei led the investors to bid up the safe-heaven yen, with the dollar dipping to 101,36 yen from an early top of 101,77.

Nikkei rose 1,2% today, and it was far away from testing the 200 MA. The index has shed 14% so far in 2014 and rose 50% in 2013. In Japan they are concerned about the Fed tapering and I assume that Japan knows everything about QE.

Europe is up followed by good news from Euro zone Composite PMI, which measure business activity across thousands of companies and tells investors about the economic health. It climbed to 52,9 in January (previous: 52,1). That was the highest reading since June 2011. Great! These numbers tell us the recovery of the 18-member block is broad-based.

Good economic data helped the Euro zone to break a three-day run of losses on Wednesday. It helped the investors nerves, before the ECB`s monthly meeting on thursday.

Federal Reserve is lowering the stimulus that helped the equity`s to gain 123% the last four years. S&P 500 rose 173% from the bottom in 2009. That is a bull market that is a year older than the average since World War II.

Economists are more bullish now than 2011 when the S&P 500 was on the brink of a bear market. IMF raised its global growth projection to 3,7%. That`s up from October estimate of 3,6%.

Reports today:

08:15:00 ADP Non-Farm Employment change Forecast: 191K Previous: 238K
10:00:00 ISM Non-manufactoring PMI Forecast: 53,6 Previous: 53

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Buy Gold or not

U.S. equities traded lower for the third consecutive trading session in 2014. This is the worst start for stocks since 2005. Nikkei was trading down for a second day on Tuesday. European stocks is going in the opposite direction. All the European indices is green right now.

The predictions about gold is mixed. Some hedge funds are buying gold now, and they are very bullish on this precious metal. Other market makers are bearish and say the price will fall down to about $1000.

Goldman Sachs in New York expect the gold price to decline to $1050 at the end of this year 2014 (report from Nov. 20). Gold prices increased from December 2008 to June 2011 as the Fed expanded its balance sheet through debt purchases. The interest rate was low and it was in a U.S recession. They did all this because they wanted growth. The record of the Bullion was $1,923,70. A record reached in September 2011.

We are probably at a crossroads here. Fed will start to purchase bonds to $75 billion (from $85 billion) this month. The Fed will try to reduce its QE in $10 billion increments over the next 7 meetings. The program will hopefully end in December.

It is probably best to sit and wait and have a look at the inflation before any decision on gold is made. The precious metal is still trading above $1200 which is a strong support.

News today: Trade Balance at 8:30am.

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Rally!

Yesterday, I was sitting in front of the TV…..eh…… in front of my computer, watching live streams with Chairman Ben Bernanke. He did not disappoint the markets. The DOW was up +1,84% and the S&P 500 was up +1,7%. What a rally!!!! Ho ho ho.

They are not going to taper now in December, but plan to start tapering in January next year. There was two good news yesterday: 1. The Fed will cut back it`s bond purchases by $10 billion, and 2. The interest rates could remain low even if unemployment drops below 6,5%. This is music in investors ears!

Gold went in the opposite direction and didn`t like the news from the Fed. Gold is now trading near the critical $1200 level. I have written about this critical level before, and this is the break even level for the mining companies.

The mining companies doesn`t earn money if the price goes below $1200. It will be very exiting to follow the gold price in the future. Watch out for this level and see if this level holds. The news yesterday was bearish for the gold, but bullish for the dollar.

A lot of investors and money makers have lost a lot of money in their gold investments since 2011 and that is because they didn`t recognize and adapt to the changing trend. We are in the same situation right now, where a lot of people don`t really know what is to come in 2014. Will we see a rally in gold?

As you can see from the gold chart, we are at a stage one basing phase. 150 and 200 moving averages is slowing down and start to go sideways. This will go on for about 6-12 months. So, now you know when to expect the gold bull market start again.

In this one phase stage, a market goes both up and down and it looks like it goes nowhere. Many people are getting frustrated and start to give up and others that is not in the market stops paying attention to the market. After a bear market, a stage one basing phase will follow and make a new way for a real bull market.

We have seen many bubbles like the internet bubble, housing bubble and the market crash in 2008. Now, it seems like a new bubble is on the way. The Fed are on the way to build a dangerous federal government debt bubble.

It can be avoided by reducing the Congress spending deficit. But in the budget deal last week, they increased the government spending. All this money printing have been a disaster for the U.S.

In Mars next year, we have seen a bull market lasting for five years. What do you think will happen to QE if the economy slows again? Goldman Sachs predict the domestic GDP growth to hit 3% next year (1,7% in 2013). I hope he has right. I look forward to 2014.

News today: Unemployment Claims at 8:30am, Existing Home Sales & Philly Fed Manufacturing Index at 10:00am.

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Market overview

European shares is up today, led by Aggreko with a bullish trading update. The European market is up despite the concern about the FED`s tapering plans this week. Much higher fear in Japan, while Nikkei sled -1,6%.

The S&P was down -1,65% last week. The worst week since August. Facebook (FB) went in the opposite direction and bucked the market trend lower, finished up +11,22%, trading at $53,32. Facebook will now join both the S&P 100 and the S&P 500.

Many investors are very satisfied with this bullish year 2013, but now all the investors eyes are on the Federal Reserve later on this week. The FED have a two-day policy meeting Wednesday.

FED is very powerful! Everything they say have a huge impact of the financial markets. The question now is whether they will continue QE or start to taper, the huge bond buying program that has made the massive mega-rally on Wall Street.

Look out for the brand news later on this week. The FED Statment will be launched at 2pm ET. Later on the same day, a FOMC Press Conference will be held at 2.30pm. This is very very very important news.

News today (all times are Eastern Times) : Empire State Manufacturing Index at 8:30am, TIC Long-Term Purchases at 9:00am, Capacity Utilization Rate & Industrial Production at 9:15am.

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