February Economic Report -
This year is likely to be a year of surprises. Global economic growth will disappoint. The intrusion of governments into all matters financial, economic and even personal is a cause for uncertainty associated with policy risks; and markets hate ...
John Mauldin |
Gold Thoughts -
The great blizzard that rolled across the eastern United States this past week should have served as an icy funeral pyre for the Global Warming Scam. Charles Ponzi was a rank amateur when compared to the attempt by climate evangelists ...
Ned W. Schmidt |
The Cooler -
Major stock market indices put in outside weekly reversals last week, which is a bearish technical indication the intermediate-term trend may have finally rejoined the primary forces that would see prices far lower were it not for ...
Captain Hook |
Trends In Gold, 10 Year Treasury Yields, And Crude Oil -
I have most often discussed the composite indicator constructed from the trends in gold, crude oil, and yields on the 10 year Treasury in the context of high readings. Collectively, when these trends are strong and rising ...
Guy Lerner |
Markets: Time to Dance or Time to Drop -
If you take the very short term view you are going to get frustrated with the concepts of patience and discipline, but understand that one needs to look further out and check to see if everything is clear before jumping in. Big gains are not made by ...
Sol Palha |
From BRICs to STICs -
The economic crisis of 2007-09 has left a different world in its wake. The stumbling of the Anglo-American economies and a painful rethinking of that model of free-wheeling capitalism has left the field open to those economies still standing.
KWR: Scott MacDonald |
More Spending is Always the Answer -
Continually increasing the debt is one of the logical outcomes of Keynesianism, since more government spending is always their answer. It is claimed that government must not stop spending when the economy is so fragile. Government must act. Yet ...
Ron Paul |
Technically Precious with Merv -
Gold looks great if you turn the page upside down. Otherwise, one might just stay away for a while until the dust settles. The NYMEX close for gold was $1052.80 while only an hour or two later the Globex electronic trading showed gold at $1065.
Merv Burak |
A Stern Reality Check for Gold Naysayers -
Needless to say, Thursday was nothing short of an orgasmic day for Gold bears and Dollar bulls. The precious metals complex crumbled along with the Euro, while the greenback was higher. In fact, it was such a bad day that Gold officially ...
Jordan Roy-Byrne |
Inglorious Debtors in Global Bond Indexes? -
In his classic little book "Economics in One Lesson", first published in 1946, economist Henry Hazlitt observed that "there is no more persistent and influential faith in the world today than faith in government spending." Sound familiar?
Tyler Mordy |
A Look At The SP 500 After A Tough Week -
The SP 500 has grown over the 60+ years since 1947 at a rate of 6.8% through the March low of 2009, the same rate of growth of the GDP over the same period. If we take for the sake of argument that the GDP is an attractor value ...
Richard Shaw |
Greenscapes - A True Triple Bottom Line Proposition -
As we become a bit more environmentally conscious and start to recognize and acknowledge the negative effects on our environment caused by our overly consumptive, energy inefficient lifestyles and business practices, a number of businesses ...
Richard Mills |
Pressure Likely to Remain on EUR USD -
The trading week ended with traders still fearing a widening and deepening debt situation in the Euro Region. Optimistic traders are looking for some solution to be reached by either a "pseudo-bailout" by the European Central Bank or European Union.
Brewer Futures Group |
Investor Sentiment: Are We There Yet? -
Like those long distance car trips I take with my children where 90 minutes into an 8 hour drive they say, "Are we there yet?", market participants are wondering the same: are we there yet? Will the recent bout of selling ...
Guy Lerner |
Silver Market Update -
Silver did exactly what was predicted in last weekend's update - it bounced off the support of its long-term uptrend line before reversing and crashing through it spectacularly on Thursday, but then on Friday it bounced back strongly ...
Clive Maund |
Gold Market Update -
Gold performed as predicted in the last update, rallying up to the top of its Descending Triangle before reversing and crashing support at the bottom of the Triangle on Thursday. Many traders were startled by the magnitude of Thursday's $45 drop.
Clive Maund |
Euro - Anchor of Stability? -
The world's attention is on the fiscal malaise in Greece and Portugal. Just a few months ago, policy makers told banks to shore up their balance sheets with more sovereign debt. However, policy makers around the world have since raced to spend ...
Axel Merk |
Killer Trading Apps -
Turn-bar analysis is one of the ways we keep members abreast of pivotal market turning points. Back in October of 2009, when most everyone else was calling for an imminent crash, we alerted our readership that new highs were likely ...
Joseph Russo |
How to Trade Intra-Day Gold and SP500 with Low Risk Setups -
Last week was an incredible week for trading the intraday charts. With rising volume and volatility prices began to move up or down for extended periods of time allowing traders to profit from these powerful short term price swings.
Chris Vermeulen |
Gold and SP500 Psychology: They Bail, We Buy -
Understanding market psychology is crucial for a trader's success. But so many people get caught up in the daily market volatility, media coverage and "noise" of the trading environment, it's almost impossible to not think and trade in agreement ...
Chris Vermeulen |
Of Course There Will Be More Bailouts -
Public and private debt will be printed up out of thin air and used to replace the bad private and public debt plaguing the financial world. As the insanity progresses, more and more will turn to Gold. Whether we are headed for an implosion that is ...
Adam Brochert |
A Bubble in Search of a Pin -
Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can't know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should ...
John Mauldin |
Technical Market Report -
The market is extremely oversold, but the January highs were confirmed by most indicators and there has been nothing to suggest the recent decline has been anything but a routine pull back in a bull market.
Mike Burk |
The Beginning of the End? -
In spite of global market tumult, this week provided yet another big week of U.S. corporate debt issuance. It is worth noting that junk bond spread closed today at 494bps, only 3 bps wider for the week. Junk spreads have barely budged ...
Doug Noland |
CNBC Squawkbox Europe -
Two weeks ago I laid out the time windows for this correction and the price support. One of the probabilities for "TIME" was to run down into the one year cycle around March 5th which would also be 45 calendar days from the last high.
Bill McLaren |
Too Costly To Bear -
I have often stopped to ponder our human condition - specifically, our uncanny ability to dismiss the seriousness of an event beforehand and to lament our lack of preparation after it has happened.
Doug Wakefield |
EUR/USD: What Moves You? -
The euro fell against the U.S. dollar after the news. But could it have rallied instead? You bet. In fact, traditional forex analysis says it should have. Here's why.
Vadim Pokhlebkin |
Vintage Wine Turns Sour for Financiers -
The world of private equity financing doesn't have high visibility, but it is big business behind the scenes. Unlike venture capital outfits - which provide startup money to very early-stage companies - those who play this game grab existing private ...
Alex Daley and Doug Hornig |
Oil Market Summary for 02/01/2010 to 02/05/2010 -
After starting the week on a firmer note, oil prices fell sharply toward the end of the week in a general market sell-off as investors sought the dollar as a safe haven amid worries about European Union economies.
OilPrice.com |
