Fintech is the future

The traditional banking system is losing status while fintech startups are growing. This also includes crypto solutions.

60 Minutes Australia and The Age are Fake News

 

Dollar Shortage Vs. FX Swaps

Dollar shortages can be monitored by looking at FX swaps.

Keith Neumeyer Jacks Up Silver Prices

 Keith Neumeyer just jacked up silver prices from $28/ounce to $30/ounce.

Stock Screener: Ep. 22: Winston Gold Corp

 

China Power Consumption Rises 7.2% in September 2020

 China is recovering both in power consumption and GDP growth.

Oil Demand Is Stalling

 Oil demand has not picked up.

Refinery inputs are not picking up.

Oil stock levels are declining but there is still too much oil out there.

Oil majors are in a lot of trouble who need an oil price of at least $50/barrel to sustain dividends.

Shanghai SGE gold demand spikes

 Shanghai gold deliveries hit a yearly record high in September. 

Perth Mint Sales September 2020

September 2020 Perth Mint gold and silver sales numbers are rising. 

List of All Correlations

Once in a while I need to post an update on all discovered correlations, we're getting a huge list already. If I only had some software to get automatic updates of these charts...

Positive correlations mean that if one goes up, the other goes up too. Negative correlations mean that if one goes up, the other goes down.

Positive correlations:
1) Silver/Gold premium Vs. Silver/Gold Price  (link 2)
2) Baltic Dry Vs. Industrial Commodities
3) Baltic Dry Vs. Copper
4) Copper Vs. S&P
5) Oil Vs. Dow Jones
6) Agriculture Price Vs. Health of Economy
7) Agriculture Vs. Fertilizer Price 
8) CRB Index Vs. Commodity prices (oil, agriculture, metals)
9) MZM velocity Vs. Inflation
10) MZM velocity Vs. 10 year U.S. treasury yield
11) Case-Shiller Index Vs. Housing Market Index
12) Capacity Utilization Vs. Inflation
13) Rhodium Price Vs. Automotive Industry
14) Housing Price Vs. Rise of Wages
15) O-metrix Score Vs. Stock Value
16) Outlay Spending Vs. Hyperinflation
17) Gold Money Index Vs. Gold Price
18) Stock Dividend to Bond Yield ratio Vs. Stock Price
19) War Vs. Silver Price
20) Exchange Rate Vs. Treasury Bond Valuation
21) PMI Vs. GDP Growth Rate
22) Gold Lease Rate Vs. Gold Price (link2) (link3) (link4)
23) Economy of Australia/Canada Vs. Industrial Commodities
24) Jim Sinclair's Fed Custodials Vs. Gold Price
25) LCNS silver net short positions Vs. Silver Price
26) ECB Deposit Rate Vs. Euribor and Deposit Facility (Deposit ECB)
27) China Gold Imports from Hong Kong Vs. Gold Price
28) AUD/USD Vs. Iron Ore
29) Chinese yoy GDP growth Vs. Chinese yoy Power Consumption (link 2)
30) Chinese yoy Power Consumption Vs. Chinese yoy Power Production
31) M1 and Gold
32) Obesity Vs. Debt
33) Global Equity Prices Vs. Global EPS revisions
34) Total Public Debt Vs. Interest Payment on Debt
35) U.S. Bond Yields Vs. Interest Payment on Debt
36) Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Vs. S&P
37) Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Vs. Gold Price
38) Balance Sheet Ratio Fed/ECB Vs. EUR/USD 
39) China Manufacturing PMI Vs. Base Metal Prices
40) COMEX stock level Vs. CFTC Open Interest
41) Manufacturing component of Industrial Production Vs. CRB Metals Index
42) Net Short Interest Gold Vs. Gold Price
43) Central Bank Net Gold Buying Vs. Gold Price
44) LCNS silver Vs. Silver Open Interest
45) Bond Yields Vs. Gold Price
46) Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index Vs. GDX
47) Daily Sentiment Index Gold Vs. Gold Price
48) Commercial Net Short Interest Vs. Silver Price
49) Food Stamp Participation Rate Vs. Unemployment Rate
50) Bitcoin Price Vs. Gold Price
51) Credit Expansion Vs. Economic Health (second link)
52) Gold Volatility Vs. Gold Price
53) Total Stock Market Index Vs. GDP
54) Brent Crude Oil Vs. WTI Crude Oil
55) EPS revisions Vs. P/E Ratio
56) Citigroup Surprise Index (CESI) Vs. S&P 
57) EPS revisions Vs. S&P
58) Dow Theory: Dow Jones Transportation Average Vs. Dow Jones Industrial Average
59) Margin Balance Vs. S&P
60) Federal Debt Growth Vs. 10 Year Treasury Yields
61) Fed Funds Rate Vs. 10 Year Treasury Yields
62) Total Central Bank Balance Sheet Vs. Gold Price
63) Large Commercial Short in Copper Vs. Copper Price
64) Bond Yields (<3%) Vs. P/E Ratio
65) ECB Lending (LTRO) Vs. Deposits at Banks
66) Disposable Income Vs. Housing Prices
67) Fixed (conventional) Mortgage Rate Vs. Treasury Yields
68) Adjustable Mortgage Rate Vs. Federal Funds Rate
69) Silver Vs. Bitcoin
70) Open Interest Trend Vs. Price Trend
71) Wage Inflation Vs. Consumer Price Index (CPI)
72) Marginal Cost of Gold Suppliers Vs. Gold Price (link 2)
73) Durable Goods Orders Vs. S&P
74) Gold ETF Trust (GLD) Vs. Gold Price
75) PMI (leading indicator) Vs. S&P Revenues
76) Federal Funds Rate Vs. LIBOR Rate
77) Lumber Price (leading indicator) Vs. Housing
78) Building Permits (leading indicator) Vs. Housing
79) Pending Home Sales Vs. Mortgage Applications
80) Employment-Population Ratio Vs. Real GDP per Capita
81) Trade Surplus/Deficit (leading indicator) Vs. Currency Strength/Weakness
82) German Treasury Yields Vs. U.S. Treasury Yields
83) Consumer Sentiment Index (leading indicator) Vs. S&P 500
84) Bitcoin Price Vs. Bitcoin Users
85) Potemkin Rally Vs. Employment to Population Ratio
86) LME Copper Warehouse Stock Level Vs. Copper Contango
87) Art Price (leading indicator) Vs. CPI
88) Total Credit Market Debt Vs. Dow Jones
89) SGE gold deliveries (leading indicator) Vs. China Gold Imports from Hong Kong (link 2)
90) Retail Sales Vs. Disposable Personal Income Per Capita
91) CRB Index Vs. Emerging Markets
92) Non Farm Payrolls Vs. Job Hires
93) Currency Debasement Vs. High Yielding Assets (Carry Trade) 
94) Deposits over Loans: Excess Reserves 
95) Food Price (leading indicator) Vs. Potash Price 
100) Federal Funds Rate Vs. CPI 
101) Full-time Vs. Part-time Workers (Recession) 
102) GLD ETF Vs. COMEX Stock 
103) GDP Growth Rate Vs. 10 Year Bond Yield 
104) Depletion Curve Vs. Price Movement (silver, oil)
105) Managed Money Long and Short Positions (gold and silver) Vs. Gold and Silver Price (link)
106) GDP Vs. Trade Balance 
107) Smart Money Flow Index (leading indicator) Vs. Dow Jones 
108) Bank Deposits Vs. Deposit Rates 
109) GOFO rate Vs. Gold Price 
110) Federal Reserve Asset Purchases Vs. Bond Yields 
111) Currency Vs. Bonds 
112) Retail Sales (leading indicator) Vs. Consumer Price Index (CPI)
113) Stock Buyback Vs. S&P 
114) Yen USD/JPY Carry Trade Vs. Gold (link 2)
115) Yen USD/JPY Carry Trade Vs. Stocks 
116) Leading/Coincident/Lagging Indicator Vs. Recession 
117) Gold per Capita Vs. Income per Capita 
118) GLD ETF Stock Vs. Total U.S. ETF gold Stock
119) Gold Repatriation Vs. Recession 
120) Dividend Yield Vs. Bond Yield 
121) Misery Index Vs. Gold 
122) Palm Oil (leading indicator) Vs. Soybean Oil Vs. Crude Oil 
123) Junk Bonds Vs. Stock Market 
124) Junk Bonds Vs. Energy Junk Bonds Vs. Oil 
125) P/E Ratio Vs. M/O Age Ratio 
126) Tax Revenues Vs. Stock Markets 
127) Employment to Population Ratio (leading indicator) Vs. Wage Growth
128) Equity Valuation Vs. Q Ratio (James Tobin)
129) Chapwood Index Vs. CPI 
130) Working Age Population (15-24) Vs. CPI 
131) ISM Manufacturing PMI (leading indicator) Vs. ISM Services PMI 
132) Global FX Reserves Vs. Global Equities 
133) Corporate Loan Charge-Offs and Delinquencies Vs. Federal Funds Rate (leading indicator) 
134) Breadth Advance-Decline Line (leading indicator) Vs. Stocks
135) USD/CNY Vs. Crude Oil
136) USD/CNY (leading indicator) Vs. S&P 
137) Corporate Profits (leading indicator) Vs. Employment 
138) Debt to GDP (leading indicator) Vs. Default Rate 
139) African Rand Vs. Silver 
140) GDP Output Gap (leading indicator) Vs. Inflation 
141) Yield Curve (leading indicator) Vs. Coincident Indicator 
142) GDP (leading indicator) Vs. Oil 
143) Credit Risk: LIBOR (leading indicator) Vs. Fed Funds Rate
144) Cross-Asset Correlation Vs. Gold 
145) Quits Rate (leading indicator) Vs. Wage Inflation 
146) Rig Count (leading indicator) Vs. Oil Production
147) U.S. Dollar Liquidity Vs. Emerging Market Stocks 
148) Loan Growth Vs. Interest Rates
149) Copper/Gold Ratio Vs. 10 Year Bond Yield 
150) Bond Yields Vs. Unrealized Losses Federal Reserve   
151) Trade War Vs. Inflation Vs. GDP
152) Gold/Silver Minus Oil Vs. HUI 
153) Silver Depletion Vs. Silver Production
154) Yield Curve Vs. Net Interest Margin 
155) PPI (leading indicator) Vs. CPI 
156) LIBOR Vs. Jumbo CD  
157) Initial Jobless Claims (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate 
158) Yield Curve Vs. Net Interest Margin 
159) 3-2 Year Yield (leading indicator) Vs. 2-1 Year Yield
160) Open Interest Vs. Gold Price 
161) 2 Year Yield (leading indicator) Vs. Fed Funds Rate  
162) Gold Vs. Negative Yielding Debt
163) AAA Credit Spread (leading indicator) Vs. Real GDP 
164) Maturity of Debt Vs. Debt to GDP 
165) SHFE Silver Warehouse (leading indicator) Vs. Silver Price 
166) Freights Vs. Real GDP 
167) PSLV Vs. Silver Price
168) Chinese Yuan Vs. Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves 
169) OECD Leading Index (leading indicator) Vs. S&P Revenue 
170) China Credit Impulse (leading indicator) Vs. China GDP 
171) Credit Card Interest Rate Vs. 10 Year Bond Yield 
172) SOFR Vs. LIBOR  
173) QE Vs. Yield Curve
174) Suicide Rate Vs. Unemployment Rate 
175) Germany IFO Index (leading indicator) Vs. Germany GDP
176) Chinese Yuan Vs. China Errors and Omissions in Balance of Payments
177) NVT/RVT Vs. Bitcoin 
178) Yardeni FSMI Vs. S&P
179) Gold Open Interest Vs. Gold Price
180) QE (leading indicator) Vs. PMI 
181) Monetary Base/Money Supply Vs. Gold Reserves 
182) China GDP Vs. Gold Price
183) New Home Price (leading indicator) Vs. Rent CPI 
184) Delinquencies (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate 
185) Taylor Rule Rate (leading indicator) Vs. Gold Price 
186) Commercial Paper Rates Vs. Repo 
187) Cass Freight Index Vs. Real GDP 
188) PCE Vs. CPI 
189) Profits Before Tax (leading indicator) Vs. Stock Market 
190) Disposable Income Vs. Housing 
191) VIX Vs. Margin Debt Gold Selling
192) LBMA Spot Gold/Silver Vs. COMEX Gold/Silver Futures 
193) Net International Investment Position (NIIP) Vs. Current Account 
194) Debt to GDP Vs. Stagflation 
195) Air Traffic Vs. Oil Vs. Stocks 
196) Air Freight Vs. Trade Balance  
197) Conceptions Vs. GDP
198) Mexican Peso Vs. Silver Price
199) PCE Vs. GDP
200) AUD (leading indicator) Vs. CNY
201) Gold Miner Hedging Vs. Gold Lease Rate
202) Budget Deficit Vs. Gold Price
203) Backwardation in Lease Rate (leading indicator) Vs. Silver Price
204) Silver Margin Hike Vs. Silver Volatility
205) COMEX Deliveries Vs. Gold Price
206) Rhodium (leading indicator) Vs. Palladium

207) VIX Vs. TED Spread

208) Uranium (leading indicator) Vs. Oil

209) GDP Vs. Net Energy Delivered (Thermodynamic Oil Collapse)

Negative correlations:
1) Copper Price Vs. Copper Futures Contango
2) Interest Rates (bond yields >3%) Vs. P/E ratio of gold mines
3) Non-Farm Payrolls Vs. Unemployment Rate
4) Federal Debt Held by Foreigners Vs. U.S. Bond Yields
5) Size of Governments Vs. Their Economies
6) Stocks Vs. U.S. Dollar
7) Silver Stock at CME Vs. Silver Price
8) China Reserve Requirements Vs. Shanghai Real Estate Prices
9) Capacity Utilization (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate
10) Net Commercial Short Positions Vs. Bond Yields (Alternative Site)
11) Net Non-Commercial Long Positions Vs. Bond Yields
12) % Change in Gold Vs. Real Interest Rates on 10 Year Treasuries 
13) Shanghai Silver Premium Vs. Silver Price
14) Probability of Recession Vs. 10 year - 3 year Yield Spread (link 2)
15) Junk Silver Premium Vs. Silver Price
16) Wage Inflation Vs. Unemployment Rate
17) Initial Unemployment Claims Vs. S&P
18) Gold/Silver Ratio Vs. S&P
19) GLD Flows Vs. Shanghai Gold Premium
20) Unemployment Rate Vs. Real GDP (leading indicator)
21) Mortgage Rates Vs. Mortgage Applications
22) Single Family Housing Starts Vs. Unemployment Rate
23) Tax Revenue Vs. Personal Savings Rate
24) Change in Non-Farm Payrolls Vs. Change in Unemployment Rate
25) Fed Funds Rate Vs. Unemployment Rate
26) Labor Force Participation Rate Vs. Unemployment Rate
27) M1 Money Supply (leading indicator) Vs. CPI
28) GOFO Vs. Gold Premium 
29) Shanghai Silver Inventory Vs. Shanghai Silver Premium 
30) Misery Index Vs. Forward P/E Ratio 
31) Flattening Yield Curve Vs. Fed Funds Rate
32) Oil Contango Vs. Oil Price 
33) Business Inventory to Sales Ratio (leading indicator) Vs. GDP Growth 
34) QE (leading indicator) Vs. Deficit 
35) Credit Spread (leading indicator) Vs. S&P  
36) Gold/Silver Ratio Vs. CPI 
37) Temporary Workers Vs. Recession 
38) Stock to Use Ratio Vs. Agriculture Price 
39) Help Wanted Online Ads (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate 
40) Federal debt held by foreigners Vs. 10 Year U.S. Yield 
41) Economic Policy Uncertainty (leading indicator) Vs. GDP Growth 
42) U.S. Treasury Cash Balance Vs. Monetary Base 
43) Gold Price Vs. Gold Production
44) Yield Curve (leading indicator) Vs. VIX
45) Copper/Zinc/Lead Production Vs. Silver Price 
46) Youth Employment Vs. Initial Jobless Claims  
47) Maturity of Debt Vs. Budget Deficit
48) Put/Call Ratio Vs. Stocks
49) Non-Farm Payroll (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate 
50) Household Durables Good Time to Purchase (leading indicator) Vs. Unemployment Rate  
51) Productivity Vs. Inflation
52) Phillips Curve: Unemployment Vs. Inflation 
53) Palladium/Platinum COMEX Stock Vs. Palladium/Platinum Price 
54) Oil Vs. CCC Junk Bonds 
55) Savings-Investments Vs. Housing 
56) COMEX Silver Vs. Silver Price 
57) COT Swap Dealers Vs. Gold Price
58) Existing Home Sales Vs. Housing Inventory
59) Oil Inventories Vs. Rig Counts
60) Outstanding Shorts Vs. Stock Price

These are a lot of correlations that you need to monitor on a day to day basis!

Thermodynamic Oil Collapse

Very informative video on oil and why you shouldn't invest in it.

As you can see on the chart below, bond yields and GDP are correlated to the net energy delivered to the economy. As net energy declines to zero, GDP will also keep declining. The reason is that it costs more and more to produce energy. We will need to have some sort of more efficient energy source like nuclear energy...

 

Interesting to note is that GDP is correlated to bond yields and they follow the orange line exactly.

The figures below give the energy yield for various sources.

The good part is that green energy has less CO2 emissions.

Gold Forecaster Index: Tesla To Double Silver Demand (06-Oct-2020)

 

Stocks during Great Depression

 During the Great Depression, earnings went down along with stocks.

Today, earnings are not going down, but up.

This is why I think stocks will only go higher.

U.S.A. Debtor Nation

The latest Q2 2020 numbers came out for the Net International Investment Position of the U.S.A. It doesn't look good.

China Golden Week

 China starts Golden Week holiday. You know what this means for gold.

Savings Vs. Housing

When people have a lot of savings, they will be able to buy a lot of houses and the housing market goes up.

Q2 2020 COFER Update

The latest Q2 2020 COFER numbers show that the U.S. dollar has lost some reserve currency status.