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basilepesso · 17 days
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REM, Murmur and Carnival of Sorts, Live 1 983 (USA)
Absolument (le son du live 1 est moins bon que celui du 2).
Ca fait toujours bizarre de voir Stipe avec ses superbes cheveux...
Murmur est très particulier dans la discographie du groupe, production extrêmement nette et sans fioritures, avec une basse qui sonne magnifiquement et est très audible, quasiment comme dans Violent Femmes.
Mike Mills est probablement un des meilleurs bassistes des 80's, sinon plus. Son jeu au médiator est ce qui donne ce son, en plus de la marque de sa basse.
Comme le dit ce remarquable texte anglais de Decade 7787, l'histoire de la production du disque est intéressante puisque le groupe a cessé la collaboration avec le 1er producteur, jugé trop perfectionniste.
Basile Pesso, 13 avril 2 024 avec le double live (Fb)
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"On this date in 1983, R.E.M. released their debut studio album MURMUR, (April 12, 1983).
NOTE: The video here features RADIO FREE EUROPE from MURMUR and CARNIVAL OF SORTS (the third song on the band's 1982 debut EP Chronic Town)
40 years after its original release, MURMUR is still fascinating in its eerie sense of musical space.
Back in 1983, REM were most often compared to the Byrds, and thanks to Peter Buck's ringing guitar on songs like ‘Talk About The Passion’, ‘Catapult’, or ‘Sitting Still’, along with Michael Stipes' lead vocals over soaring harmonies, it was easy to see why.
But that was merely one influence, and a misleading one at that, because with no one source dominating, R.E.M. faintly recalled a host of mid-'60s L.A. bands from The Leaves to "underground” faves like Kaleidoscope, David Lindley's first band. R.E.M. might have thoroughly transformed their influences but the result sounded both familiar and wholly original.
Murmur's oddness was affecting because it wove itself around structures and riffs that sounded familiar – a strange system hum, for instance, winds itself up into the catchiest opener, RADIO FREE EUROPE.
In these efforts, Buck's guitar solos were capable of breaking through the mix and soaring, and any band that could come up with melodies this rich knew a thing or two about pop music.
The lyrics, however, were a flight of ideas from the mind of a meditative 23-year-old. Trying to unravel them, it still feels as though you're divining the deepest of riddles for meaning.
“Early sessions for the album with Stephen Hague, the synth-pop producer who later worked on New Order's True Faith, were quickly rejected, and American producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon were brought in instead,” wrote Jude Rogers for Word in 2009.
“They seemed to understand that although REM had the rhythms of rock, the jangle of the Byrds and the raw grit of Gang Of Four in their belly, they also needed to create a sound-world of their own. Easter and Dixon brought in strange noises – bangs and bells — and recorded instruments at varying distances from the microphone, so you couldn't place where the ghostly figures were coming from.”
“At the album's centre point, like a pearl in an oyster, is a song that tells us as much about REM today as the REM that existed a quarter of a century ago. This is 'Perfect Circle', a masterpiece of simple melody and melancholy, and one of the few REM songs to be attributed mainly to the band's former drummer, Bill Berry, who also wrote most of 'Everybody Hurts'.”
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wedefineclean17 · 2 years
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ao3feed-stucky · 4 years
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by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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Fic masterlist
Decided to get all this in one place. This is everything on ao3 and tumblr (that I can remember writing lol). All HP/drarry unless otherwise specified!
Oneshots
kiss me in the doorway Rated E | 7787 words | The expression on Potter’s face was painfully open, studying, curious. Draco returned it. He had questions too. | post-war, getting together, very soft, toddler Teddy, Draco & Andromeda friendship
Like This and Like This (Dreams of Lace)  Rated E | 6622 words | Harry gets an accidental peek. He can’t think of anything else. | kinkfest 2020 - panty kink, top Draco, office sex, friends to lovers
Wednesdays Rated E | 4919 words | Harry comes to Draco’s flat every Wednesday for dinner. | friends to lovers, Harry/OMC (briefly), Draco is a veterinarian and does math to fall asleep
Together Rated E | 2453 words | Harry tells Draco about his history with Charlie. Draco asks Harry to invite Charlie over. They get together. | PWP, Harry/Draco/Charlie, established relationship (drarry), bottom Draco
apple juice and peach Rated T | 1454 words | A ficlet about coming out and finding your place; sometimes your place is with a person. | linny, queer Ginny, very soft
Drabbles
Worst First Date Rated G | 1164 words | Harry takes Draco out for their first date. It doesn’t go as planned. | Fluff, pure and simple. 
Mission: Complicated [ao3 link] Rated T | 982 words | Draco and Harry are undercover as a married couple at a resort; things get complicated. | Written for @fictional ‘s fake marriage AU piece.
Presents Rated T | 898 words | It’s their third anniversary, which means this is the third time Harry is late to their anniversary dinner. | Workaholic Harry, fluff.
Not like this  Rated M | 879 words | During Auror training, Harry lets Malfoy make a mistake. | Angst, Auror partners, enemies+lovers
Where It Began Rated T | 711 words | Draco finds Harry at a house party. | Stoned Harry, fluff, pre-relationship
Auror Trope Flip Rated T | 609 words | Harry’s the mysterious recluse; Draco’s the Auror on his case. | Not completed and probably never will be :)
Growing Rated T | 548 words | After the war, Draco learned to work with his hands. | No Harry here, just Draco and carpentry.
love letters Rated E | 486 words | Dating Draco Malfoy turned out to be a lot like being schoolboy rivals, but the benefit was that after a day of fighting, they’d go back to Harry’s apartment and fuck. | PWP with feelings, new relationship, warning for very subtle reference to choking kink
Growing (not related to the other Growing drabble lol) Rated G | 471 words | Draco Malfoy is always clean-shaven. | Older drarry, established relationship
Nachas Rated G | 346 words | Prompt response for ‘nachas,’ the joy you feel over the achievements of someone close to you. | Established relationship, potioneer Draco, older drarry
Sarang Rated G | 299 words | Prompt response for ‘sarang,’ love. | Getting together, angsty fluff
A Wedding By The Sea Rated T | 216 words | Discord drabble June - midsummer. | Poetry, weirdly vague writing
Point A to Point B  Rated T | 186 words | Harry and Draco take a hike. | Script format, established relationship
Decadence Rated G | 173 words | Just a poem.
Goldicocks Rated E | 98 words | Draco is looking for something that fits. | Crack, PWP
Bulletpoints and Headcanons
Pride and Prejudice AU
RWRB Western AU
Save the last dance for me
Trans girl Ginny
Anti-Auror Harry
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willams-posts · 3 years
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ao3feed-mcufemslash · 4 years
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I Wanna Be Yours
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/329kU5M
by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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ao3feed-stevebucky · 4 years
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I Wanna Be Yours
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by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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ao3feed-thorbruce · 4 years
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I Wanna Be Yours
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/329kU5M
by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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ao3feed-buckybarnes · 4 years
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I Wanna Be Yours
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/329kU5M
by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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I Wanna Be Yours
by prettylittlehead22
Bucky Barnes as a single father to three daughters- a coming of age teen and two playful twins- has spent the past decade living out his perfect suburban dream since leaving the army, despite being completely in love with his life as a dad, he's painfully aware that something is missing in his life.
Steve Rogers is a devoted art teacher living in a dingy apartment struggling to find some form of permanency in his life, after a breakup leaves him yearning for more he figures he's missed his shot at the chance for a family of his own.
When their worlds collide both are immediately attracted to the other, however in life one rarely ever gets what one wants without a fight.
Words: 7787, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Wanda Maximoff, Peter Parker
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Thor, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Tony - Relationship
Additional Tags: Black Character(s), Female Character of Color, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Kid Fic, Father-Daughter Relationship, Daddy Kink, Steve Rogers & Thor Friendship, Gay Sex, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, Beefy Bucky Barnes, daddy bucky barnes, why is that not a tag, Meet-Cute, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
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chuckeckhart16 · 4 years
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  Volkswagen's Ice-Free-Windshield Testing
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guelphhypnosis · 5 years
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everettwilkinson · 6 years
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Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged, But Sounds Hawkish… – Daily Pfennig
November 2, 2017  
* 3rd Consecutive day of little movement in the currencies
* Eurozone PMI prints strong again!
* Palladium knocks on the $1,000 door!  
  Good Day… And a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday to you! As usual, you’ll have to pick up the slack from me having an infusion today, for Tub Thumpin’! Congratulations to the Houston Astros, who beat the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series last night… I tried to stay awake for the end, but just couldn’t, as the game dragged on with all the pitching changes. I was glad to see that nothing happened after I went to bed!  Head East greets me this morning with their song: Never Been Any Reason…  My good friend, Duane and me have breakfast now and then at the Olivette diner, where the picture of Head East members sitting at the counter was taken many years ago…   
Can you say, three days in a row? I knew you could! HA!  But that’s what we had yesterday, a third consecutive day of little or no movement to speak of in the currencies…   the early morning gains in Gold couldn’t be held onto by the shiny metal, and the price of Oil slipped for the first day in a week. The Dollar Index moved 2 ticks in the past 24 hours, and there you have it. I’ll Talk to you Monday…  Just kidding…  I can write for hours about things on my mind, if that were the charge…    
The Fed left rates unchanged as suspected they would, but changed one word in their statement that got the markets all riled up… The Fed decided to change their outlook for growth from “moderate” to “strong”…  Makes sense given the fact that Fed Chair, Janet Yellen has used the phrase “strong and robust” to describe the economy in the past.  The Fed had two other points for us… “Inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to remain somewhat below 2 percent in the near term but to stabilize”, and :  “Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced”   
The Fed sure sounds like a Central Bank that’s hell bent and whiskey bound to hike rates at their next meeting in December…  But something about that just doesn’t feel right to me, and I’ve said it for several months now that the Fed is finished hiking rates in this cycle…   Two years ago all points were directed at a Fed rate hike in December, and I held my ground on no rate hike, and had to wipe the egg off my face after the Fed hiked rates for the first time in a decade…  I sure don’t want to have to go through that again, and I truly don’t believe I’ll have to!  
It’s a real problem that’s going on with the Petrol Currencies of Norway, Russia, Brazil, Canada, and few others. I told you yesterday, that the Petrol Currencies hadn’t been able to rally with the rise in the price of Oil…  But boy did they sure get sliced when the price of Oil slid lower yesterday… The slicing was done thinly, so the losses to the Petrol Currencies was not much to speak of, but it was a loss nonetheless. 
Have you been tracking the price of Palladium in the past week? Letting Gold get all the headlines, Palladium has moved, stealthlike, up the $900 handle with ease, and is knocking on the door of $1,000 this morning. Remember last month when Palladium passed Platinum in price, and reached levels it hadn’t seen in 16 years, only to have the rug pulled out from under it, by “the boys in the band”?  It takes about 100 days of production of the this metal to meet the short positions that have been taken in the metal…  I’m just saying…   But will they leave Palladium alone to rally this time?  I doubt it…    
Boy, you sure sound negative this morning Chuck! Sorry, I’ll try to do better..  This morning, Eurozone PMI printed for Rocktober. For all of you new to class, the PMI is a Manufacturing Index that has a line of demarcation between expansion and contraction at and index number of 50…  PMI actually stands for Purchasing Manager’s Index…   Well, the Eurozone’s Rocktober PMI remained strong at 58.5, the same figure that printed for September.  But the euro can’t seem to find a bid to move higher this week, even with a strong economic print like this!  
Today is the day the U.S. Tax Reform bill is supposed to be made public, which means the clock is ticking for a passage of the bill before the lawmakers leave for their Thanksgiving break. That’s less than 10 days as I see it, and given the battles that go on in Congress, I just don’t see it happening…  And the longer it goes on without any resolution and vote, the pressure will begin to build against the dollar… 
This is why I believe we’re seeing the no or little movement in the currencies each day… Traders don’t want to make a call on the direction of the dollar, until this Tax Reform thing gets settled…  And we also have the nomination of a new Fed Chairman that’s supposed to be done before the President heads to Asia next week.  Will it be Jerome Powell, or Kevin Warsh?  Either one is a dove, and will keep rates low..    it sounds like it will be Powell, and it will be announced today… 
So, that’s one of the things that was helping the dollar along that will be out of the way…   The saber rattling with N. Korea has been put on the back burner for now, and as I see it, the dollar should be getting back to the underlying weak trend soon..   
The Swiss franc is at parity with the dollar this morning, trading at 1.00…  This move in francs has nothing to do with things in Switzerland…  It’s all about the cross with the euro, and with the euro weaker, the franc gets stronger, and then that carries over to the franc / dollar cross…  The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has stated over and over again that they want a weaker franc… Negative deposit rates, haven’t done the trick for the SNB…  If that’s the case then forget about a weaker franc and embrace a stronger franc with positive deposit rates! 
I’ve not been a fan of the SNB since they put that floor on the euro/ franc cross years ago, and then removed it to everyone’s surprise (except the wife of the SNB president! HA!) a few years later… The SNB has tried everything under the sun, moon and stars to weaken the franc, and that immediately gets you put on Chuck’s list…  Which is someplace you don’t want to be!   
As I said above Gold wasn’t able to hold on to its early morning gains of $9.40 yesterday morning…  the “boys in the band” were working hard and saw to it that 363,000 contracts were traded in Gold yesterday…  That’s right I said 363,000 contracts….  That’s crazy folks!   The price of Gold flip-flopped a couple of times yesterday, as the short sellers would bring it down every time the shiny metal would mount a rally…  Gold did end the day on a positive note, but up only $3.90 to close at $1,274.30 on the day. 
The U.S. Data Cupboard has the stupid Productivity report for Rocktober this morning, along with the Unit Labor Costs…  These are interesting data prints but not market moving, even though the Fed members have been making a BIG Deal about the lack of productivity…  Yesterday’s Data Cupboard has the ADP Employment Report for Rocktober, and it showed that 235,000 jobs were created in Rocktober..  WOW!  The ADP report is more reliable than the BLS report which will print tomorrow…  
I of course will be resting and not looking at the markets at all tomorrow morning…  
To recap… Another day of little or no movements in the currencies… Gold couldn’t hold its early morning gains but ended the day up nearly $4, and the price of Oil slipped.  Eurozone PMI was strong for Rocktober, but wasn’t able to give the euro the traction it needs to move higher. The Swiss franc is at parity to the dollar this morning, and it’s all about the euro/ franc cross, nothing that the SNB has done.   
For What It’s Worth…  You’ve got to love it when a plan comes together right? Well, the plan in Russia was to make doing business easier, and they have done just that!  This is where you can find the article:http://russiafeed.com/russia-soars-global-ease-business-rankings/    
Or, Here’s Your Snippet: ”  Russia has jumped five spots to 35th in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report that evaluates the ease of doing business in a country.
The Doing Business survey ranks 190 national economies based on 11 areas of business regulation. Russia’s new ranking places it ahead of many Western countries such as Belgium and Italy, and just behind Japan.
Last year, Russia ranked 40th based on categories evaluating the ease of starting a business, registering property, getting loans, paying taxes, and enforcing contracts.
Russia has steadily risen in the overall “Doing Business” rankings over the years. After the country had ranked 120th in 2011, President Vladimir Putin signed a “100 steps” decree the following year with the goal to reach 20th place by 2018.”   
Chuck again…. WOW! Now that’s the way to set a goal and then go about achieving or meeting that goal!    
Currencies today 11/2/2017… American Style: A$ .7706, kiwi .6916, C$ .7787, euro 1.1638, sterling 1.3250, Swiss $1.00, … European Style: rand 13.98, krone 8.1437, SEK 8.3915, forint 266.85, zloty 3.6390, koruna 21.96, RUB 58.19, yen 114.05, sing 1.3603, HKD 7.8014, INR 64.66, China 6.6136, peso 19.05, BRL 3.2690, Dollar Index 94.66, Oil $54.24, 10-year 2.37%, Silver $17.10, Platinum $931.15, Palladium $995.75, and Gold…. $1,277.10…
That’s it for today, and this week, as today is an infusion day, and tomorrow is Infusion Confusion…  I had a great lunch yesterday with some friends from high school, and with a 3 month old baby girl, named Poppy..  One of my friends was on grandma duty so she brought the baby to the lunch, and we all loved it! I was happy with the Astros winning the World Series, good thing for Houston. My two sisters live near Houston, so I’m sure they were excited!  Next week I’ll be writing to you from S. Florida…  And I’m sure to be in a better mood each day!  Depeche Mode takes us to the finish line today with their song: Personal Jesus…  And with that, it’s time for me to reach out and touch faith, and send you on your way to a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday! Be Good To Yourself! 
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Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged, But Sounds Hawkish… – Daily Pfennig
November 2, 2017  
* 3rd Consecutive day of little movement in the currencies
* Eurozone PMI prints strong again!
* Palladium knocks on the $1,000 door!  
 Good Day… And a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday to you! As usual, you’ll have to pick up the slack from me having an infusion today, for Tub Thumpin’! Congratulations to the Houston Astros, who beat the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series last night… I tried to stay awake for the end, but just couldn’t, as the game dragged on with all the pitching changes. I was glad to see that nothing happened after I went to bed!  Head East greets me this morning with their song: Never Been Any Reason…  My good friend, Duane and me have breakfast now and then at the Olivette diner, where the picture of Head East members sitting at the counter was taken many years ago…   
Can you say, three days in a row? I knew you could! HA!  But that’s what we had yesterday, a third consecutive day of little or no movement to speak of in the currencies…   the early morning gains in Gold couldn’t be held onto by the shiny metal, and the price of Oil slipped for the first day in a week. The Dollar Index moved 2 ticks in the past 24 hours, and there you have it. I’ll Talk to you Monday…  Just kidding…  I can write for hours about things on my mind, if that were the charge…    
The Fed left rates unchanged as suspected they would, but changed one word in their statement that got the markets all riled up… The Fed decided to change their outlook for growth from “moderate” to “strong”…  Makes sense given the fact that Fed Chair, Janet Yellen has used the phrase “strong and robust” to describe the economy in the past.  The Fed had two other points for us… “Inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to remain somewhat below 2 percent in the near term but to stabilize”, and :  “Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced”   
The Fed sure sounds like a Central Bank that’s hell bent and whiskey bound to hike rates at their next meeting in December…  But something about that just doesn’t feel right to me, and I’ve said it for several months now that the Fed is finished hiking rates in this cycle…   Two years ago all points were directed at a Fed rate hike in December, and I held my ground on no rate hike, and had to wipe the egg off my face after the Fed hiked rates for the first time in a decade…  I sure don’t want to have to go through that again, and I truly don’t believe I’ll have to!  
It’s a real problem that’s going on with the Petrol Currencies of Norway, Russia, Brazil, Canada, and few others. I told you yesterday, that the Petrol Currencies hadn’t been able to rally with the rise in the price of Oil…  But boy did they sure get sliced when the price of Oil slid lower yesterday… The slicing was done thinly, so the losses to the Petrol Currencies was not much to speak of, but it was a loss nonetheless. 
Have you been tracking the price of Palladium in the past week? Letting Gold get all the headlines, Palladium has moved, stealthlike, up the $900 handle with ease, and is knocking on the door of $1,000 this morning. Remember last month when Palladium passed Platinum in price, and reached levels it hadn’t seen in 16 years, only to have the rug pulled out from under it, by “the boys in the band”?  It takes about 100 days of production of the this metal to meet the short positions that have been taken in the metal…  I’m just saying…   But will they leave Palladium alone to rally this time?  I doubt it…    
Boy, you sure sound negative this morning Chuck! Sorry, I’ll try to do better..  This morning, Eurozone PMI printed for Rocktober. For all of you new to class, the PMI is a Manufacturing Index that has a line of demarcation between expansion and contraction at and index number of 50…  PMI actually stands for Purchasing Manager’s Index…   Well, the Eurozone’s Rocktober PMI remained strong at 58.5, the same figure that printed for September.  But the euro can’t seem to find a bid to move higher this week, even with a strong economic print like this!  
Today is the day the U.S. Tax Reform bill is supposed to be made public, which means the clock is ticking for a passage of the bill before the lawmakers leave for their Thanksgiving break. That’s less than 10 days as I see it, and given the battles that go on in Congress, I just don’t see it happening…  And the longer it goes on without any resolution and vote, the pressure will begin to build against the dollar… 
This is why I believe we’re seeing the no or little movement in the currencies each day… Traders don’t want to make a call on the direction of the dollar, until this Tax Reform thing gets settled…  And we also have the nomination of a new Fed Chairman that’s supposed to be done before the President heads to Asia next week.  Will it be Jerome Powell, or Kevin Warsh?  Either one is a dove, and will keep rates low..    it sounds like it will be Powell, and it will be announced today… 
So, that’s one of the things that was helping the dollar along that will be out of the way…   The saber rattling with N. Korea has been put on the back burner for now, and as I see it, the dollar should be getting back to the underlying weak trend soon..   
The Swiss franc is at parity with the dollar this morning, trading at 1.00…  This move in francs has nothing to do with things in Switzerland…  It’s all about the cross with the euro, and with the euro weaker, the franc gets stronger, and then that carries over to the franc / dollar cross…  The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has stated over and over again that they want a weaker franc… Negative deposit rates, haven’t done the trick for the SNB…  If that’s the case then forget about a weaker franc and embrace a stronger franc with positive deposit rates! 
I’ve not been a fan of the SNB since they put that floor on the euro/ franc cross years ago, and then removed it to everyone’s surprise (except the wife of the SNB president! HA!) a few years later… The SNB has tried everything under the sun, moon and stars to weaken the franc, and that immediately gets you put on Chuck’s list…  Which is someplace you don’t want to be!   
As I said above Gold wasn’t able to hold on to its early morning gains of $9.40 yesterday morning…  the “boys in the band” were working hard and saw to it that 363,000 contracts were traded in Gold yesterday…  That’s right I said 363,000 contracts….  That’s crazy folks!   The price of Gold flip-flopped a couple of times yesterday, as the short sellers would bring it down every time the shiny metal would mount a rally…  Gold did end the day on a positive note, but up only $3.90 to close at $1,274.30 on the day. 
The U.S. Data Cupboard has the stupid Productivity report for Rocktober this morning, along with the Unit Labor Costs…  These are interesting data prints but not market moving, even though the Fed members have been making a BIG Deal about the lack of productivity…  Yesterday’s Data Cupboard has the ADP Employment Report for Rocktober, and it showed that 235,000 jobs were created in Rocktober..  WOW!  The ADP report is more reliable than the BLS report which will print tomorrow…  
I of course will be resting and not looking at the markets at all tomorrow morning…  
To recap… Another day of little or no movements in the currencies… Gold couldn’t hold its early morning gains but ended the day up nearly $4, and the price of Oil slipped.  Eurozone PMI was strong for Rocktober, but wasn’t able to give the euro the traction it needs to move higher. The Swiss franc is at parity to the dollar this morning, and it’s all about the euro/ franc cross, nothing that the SNB has done.   
For What It’s Worth…  You’ve got to love it when a plan comes together right? Well, the plan in Russia was to make doing business easier, and they have done just that!  This is where you can find the article:http://russiafeed.com/russia-soars-global-ease-business-rankings/    
Or, Here’s Your Snippet: ”  Russia has jumped five spots to 35th in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report that evaluates the ease of doing business in a country.
The Doing Business survey ranks 190 national economies based on 11 areas of business regulation. Russia’s new ranking places it ahead of many Western countries such as Belgium and Italy, and just behind Japan.
Last year, Russia ranked 40th based on categories evaluating the ease of starting a business, registering property, getting loans, paying taxes, and enforcing contracts.
Russia has steadily risen in the overall “Doing Business” rankings over the years. After the country had ranked 120th in 2011, President Vladimir Putin signed a “100 steps” decree the following year with the goal to reach 20th place by 2018.”   
Chuck again…. WOW! Now that’s the way to set a goal and then go about achieving or meeting that goal!    
Currencies today 11/2/2017… American Style: A$ .7706, kiwi .6916, C$ .7787, euro 1.1638, sterling 1.3250, Swiss $1.00, … European Style: rand 13.98, krone 8.1437, SEK 8.3915, forint 266.85, zloty 3.6390, koruna 21.96, RUB 58.19, yen 114.05, sing 1.3603, HKD 7.8014, INR 64.66, China 6.6136, peso 19.05, BRL 3.2690, Dollar Index 94.66, Oil $54.24, 10-year 2.37%, Silver $17.10, Platinum $931.15, Palladium $995.75, and Gold…. $1,277.10…
That’s it for today, and this week, as today is an infusion day, and tomorrow is Infusion Confusion…  I had a great lunch yesterday with some friends from high school, and with a 3 month old baby girl, named Poppy..  One of my friends was on grandma duty so she brought the baby to the lunch, and we all loved it! I was happy with the Astros winning the World Series, good thing for Houston. My two sisters live near Houston, so I’m sure they were excited!  Next week I’ll be writing to you from S. Florida…  And I’m sure to be in a better mood each day!  Depeche Mode takes us to the finish line today with their song: Personal Jesus…  And with that, it’s time for me to reach out and touch faith, and send you on your way to a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday! Be Good To Yourself! 
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