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Posted by on Oct 28, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

A Not So Hard Brexit

A Not So Hard Brexit

October 24, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   We turn our attention to the UK and the EU, noting that Prime Minister May went to her first EU summit meeting last week and appeared prepared to be a bit more conciliatory toward the Continent. As she said, “We still want to trade freely with goods and services with Europe.” Of course she does and she said that knowing full well that to achieve that end result shall require some “give and take” on both sides. She made it clearer, it seems to us, that she wants to back away from a feared “Hard Brexit” as it is referred to, taking the UK’s eventually separation from the EU along a less...

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Posted by on Oct 19, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

Broken Trend for the Euro

Broken Trend for the Euro

October 17, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   The EUR is under duress, or certainly was on Friday as it closed the week on its very low, just below 1.1000, and although it has bounced from its worst levels… 1.0965… made earlier today in Asian dealing. However, the bounce is on the lightest of volumes and appears to be nothing more than short covering of the most modest sort. We are including here this morning above the same chart of the EUR that we included in Friday’s TGL for we think that this chart “speaks” volumes as it shows a huge, multi-month Head & Shoulders top having been formed over the course of the past eight and one half months....

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Posted by on Oct 10, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

Gold Panic or Forced Selling?

Gold Panic or Forced Selling?

October 10, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   Friday proved difficult… for a while at least… as some $2 billion in gold futures were sold in a few moments of panic liquidation, sending spot gold to a low of $1242, as the psychologically important $1250 level was broken. Then, in late trading, gold finished barely lower upon the day and as we write it is trading rather briskly higher in impressive fashion as China has returned to the market with some sense of zeal. We are convinced… although we’ve no hard data to back this up and we shall openly admit that fact here this morning…that Friday’s selling was further forced liquidation of one or two large hedge funds. Something...

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Posted by on Oct 3, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

Can the India/Pakistan Skirmish Lift Gold?

Can the India/Pakistan Skirmish Lift Gold?

October 3, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   Commodity prices are just a bit stronger as the average of the two broad indices we mark here each day have risen a bit more than ½% and with the “confused” nature of the forex market offering little in the way of market direction, thus leaving each of the commodity markets to their own fundamentals. However, just scanning across the charts of the markets, many do seem a bit “toppy” at this point… maybe. Turning to the grains, they are quiet with the harvest now in full and/or fuller swing. The weather this week across much of the Midwest and northward into the Canadian provinces looks really quite good. There will be...

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Posted by on Sep 27, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

Mischief Over The China Sea

Mischief Over The China Sea

September 26, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   Now that the FOMC and BOJ meetings are out of the way and by the calendar from the ECB’s own website we’ve not a monetary policy council meeting there until the 4th of October, the market is left to wonder about and deal with day-to-day comments from central bank spokespeople as well as the changing political and economic landscape instead. To this end perhaps the most important news regarding Europe is that the Italian government will push ahead with a referendum supported by Prime Minister Renzi… more on which in the days and weeks ahead. Further, there is a very real concern in Asia this morning as over the weekend Japanese and...

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Posted by on Sep 19, 2016 in Dennis Gartman, Market Insight

Equity Prices: Utterly & Completely Confusing

Equity Prices: Utterly & Completely Confusing

September 19, 2016 Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, and strategic advisor of the AdvisorShares Gartman Currency Hedged Gold ETFs (GEUR & GYEN). He regularly contributes to AlphaBaskets and lends his institutional insight to educate advisors and investors about commodities and the forex markets, including about trading gold in different currency terms.   SHARE PRICES HAVE FALLEN JUST A BIT SINCE FRIDAY as our International Index has fallen 16 “points” or just a bit more than 0.1%, led downward by weakness in European and South American share prices; however, with the return of the markets in mainland China and Hong Kong… both of which are nicely higher following better-than-expected economic news out of the former… stock index futures here in the US are trading better and all things being otherwise equal should likely remain so at least through today’s opening later this morning. Given the small scale terror attacks in New York and Minneapolis over the weekend, which would generally have been expected to put...

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