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Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,

The relative strength of the consumer discretionary sector versus consumer staples had been a positive for stocks – not anymore.

A little over a week ago, Marc Faber dialed in from Thailand to chat with Bloomberg TV about the outlook for US equities, the American economy, and USTs in the new year.

The US is "already in a recession," the incorrigible doomsayer said.

Submitted by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com,

Energy investors got clobbered in 2015, and are hoping for things to turn positive as we head into the New Year.

What can we expect in 2016? Here is a rundown of some key trends to watch for:

As Wall Street axioms (Santa rally, January effect, as goes January etc.) are rapidly falling by the wayside at the start of 2016, following a chaotic but return-less 2015, the UBS analysts who correctly forecast last year's volatility are out with their forecast for 2016. It's simple - Sell Stocks, Buy Gold.

UBS Technical Analysts Michael Riesner and Marc Müller warn the seven-year cycle in equities is rolling over.

Just when you thought it was safe to go short...

Yesterday stock prices here in the States did little other than mark time, and following the material selling earlier this week the fact that the best that the market could do was this is ominous indeed. We used the term “bear market” yesterday in our commentary for the first time in a very, very long while and we used it with intent, for in the past we’ve often said that we had turned “neutral” of stocks noting that in a bull market the most bearish position one can have is neutral.