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Sydney-Australia (Apr 24) The U.S. dollar rose against the Australian dollar after weaker-than-expected inflation data made... Read More
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Chicago (Apr 24) Gold futures climbed on Thursday, extending gains from a day earlier to finish at their highest level in a week. "... Read More
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The Great Recession grinds on. And as it does, politicians of all stripes ask, usually behind closed doors, “Just how miserable are our citizens?” The chattering classes offer a variety of opinions. As it turns out, there is a straightforward way to measure what is...
Apple, one of the darlings of the current bull market, delivered on the earnings, share repurchase, and split fronts after the close Wednesday.
The main U.S. stock market indexes lost between 0.1% and 0.9% yesterday, retracing some of the recent move up, as investors decided to take profits off the table. The S&P 500 index remains quite close to its April 4 all-time high of 1,897.28, however, it...
It has been a long way down for the Tokyo Nikkei Dow (TNA). Almost twenty-four years after peaking at 38,915, the TNA remains down 63% from those lofty levels. It has been Japan’s long nightmare.
Many hard-working Americans are scratching their collective heads about the following questions: Why have stocks performed in a manner that seems to be out of step with the relatively slow pace of economic expansion? Why has the economic recovery failed to gain...
Silver Forecast: Last month Ross Clark and I had a long discussion about where we forecast silver price to be in 2014. Interestingly enough, we both has a similar prediction. Both of us have been watching silver like a hawk because historically the more silver lags...
The Keynesian economists managing or advising the world’s Central Banks have always averred that they could pull us out of the weakest recovery in the post-WWII era if they were allowed to have their way.
Silver has had three bad years while the S&P has had five good years. It is time for both markets to reverse. Examine the following graph of Silver versus the Silver to S&P ratio. It tells me the ratio has returned to levels seen in 2008 and that the ratio...
Economic bubbles are “God’s Will.” They’re a natural phenomenon of the economic cycle — innovation, growth, death and then rebirth — just as winter is a time when things die, but is always followed by spring, when life is renewed. Economic bubbles are a primal force...
After 111 calendar days we have established one thing about the 2014 investment landscape; it is quite a bit different than 2013. The “easy” call heading into 2014 was that bonds were going to fall in price and interest rates were going to rise. Unfortunately, there...
Over the last month the energy sector has outperformed the market, and as you can see in the chart below, has done so by 6.5 percent. Year-to-date the sector is beating the S&P500 Index by over 3 percent. In a spectacularly performing market during 2013, energy...
Silver’s recent rally was feeble compared to gold’s, and the retreat that followed has already erased all of the gains made, and already brought it back close to key support at its June and December lows, as we can see on its 1-year chart below. This much lower high...
We have a two-tiered market! The strong indices consist of SPX and DJIA. The weak indices are Russell 2000 and NDX. There are others which fit in both categories, but I am only differentiating between some of the most widely followed indices. The weak indices...
We may see a push to new highs for the blue chips early next week, but time is running out. Everything is in place to suggest we are at or within days of a major top.
It has now been more than a year since that fateful weekend in the Mediterranean when everything changed. However, like most of the big changes we’ve seen lately, there is a subtlety afoot that somehow results in few noticing. This should surprise no one really. How...