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- Is a Slow Economic Forecast Bullish for Gold Prices?
- Jim Rogers Excited about Gold Correction Plans to Buy More
- Gartman Forecasts Gold Bear Market Sells All
- Gold Sitting on Support Looking for another Leg Up
- Can Europe Contain The Fireball?
- Stock Market Gobbles Again
- Cramer: Gold Dipping Below 1700 a Golden Opportunity
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- Will Halloween bring a market trick or treat?
- Who’s Right About Commodities: Bears or Bulls?
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- Is a Slow Economic Forecast Bullish for Gold Prices?
- Jim Rogers Excited about Gold Correction Plans to Buy More
- Gartman Forecasts Gold Bear Market Sells All
- Gold Sitting on Support Looking for another Leg Up
- Cramer: Gold Dipping Below 1700 a Golden Opportunity
- Who’s Right About Commodities: Bears or Bulls?
Can Europe Contain The Fireball?
Sunday, 27 November 2011 22:59
Can Europe contain the fireball of financial contagion that is hopscotching across the Continent?
On My Wall Street Radar
Last week U.S. stock markets suffered significant declines and the fundamental and technical indicators flash significant warnings as we look ahead to December and what is usually the start of the seasonal “Santa Rally.”
Stock Market Gobbles Again
Sunday, 27 November 2011 22:57
US stock market gobbles again with declines in thin holiday trading on bad news from Italy, Spain, Greece and Belgium
Major U.S. indexes declined yet again to end an ugly week with with S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) declining -0.3%, the Dow Jones Industrials sliding -0.2% and Gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) losing -0.9% as bad news from Europe continues to spook investors.
Italy (NYSEARCA:EWI) conducted a bond auction that yielded miserable results with six month bonds yielding a record high 6.5% and two year yields to more than 8%, levels that are widely regarded as unsustainable.
Will Halloween bring a market trick or treat?
Thursday, 20 October 2011 03:40Stock Traders Almanac has done some fine research in seasonality and their work indicates that the market generates better rates of return from November through April than from May through October. Furthermore, investing in just the six good months of the year has generated better results than the overall return of the major indexes while having been invested for only half the time, thereby reducing your market risk and freeing up your assets to earn interest in low risk money market or Treasury investments.
Greece is Good! Or is It?
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 04:41
Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy assured the world that “Greece is good” over the weekend, but is it?
Global markets rally hard today on the “promise” of a plan to solve all of the problems surrounding Greece by the end of the month.
No problem, say the two European leaders, and they will do all that is necessary to handle this situation.
This brings to mind a couple of questions.
1. If it’s so easy, why haven’t they done it already?
Twenty Two Days To Financial Train Wreck?
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 04:38
By the end of October, we will know if global markets managed to avoid a financial train wreck.
Major U.S. Indexes like the S&P 500, (SPY) Dow Jones Industrials (DIA) and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) face significant jeopardy as the battle to save Greece enters its most dangerous phase yet. We’ll discuss the macro issues in a moment but first take a look at the technical picture.
Stock Market Goblins of October
Monday, 03 October 2011 03:14
October is the month of Halloween Goblins and stock market crashes, and as we enter this October, the environment is particularly spooky.
lThe 3rd Quarter was a violent one with the Dow Jones Industrials (DIA) giving up 12% and the S&P 500 (SPY) losing 14%, while the NASDAQ (QQQ) shed 13%, the worst quarterly performance since the financial crisis of 2008-2009.
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How To Profit From Fear
Saturday, 24 September 2011 19:59
Fear was the name of the game last week as investors sold out on the Fed and its “Operation Twist,” and continued worrying about Europe, Greece and global recession. Fear ruled, but as ETF investors, we have a way to seek profits from fear and turn that chart upside down into what could be considerable potential gains.
The VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the “fear” indicator, uses the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options and is an index of the market’s forward looking view of volatility for the next 30 days. This indicator is widely viewed as a way to measure market risk and forecast future movements.
Fed Twist Unleashes Stock Market Twister
Friday, 23 September 2011 04:34
The Federal Reserve’s “Operation Twist” is met with a global stock market “twister” One day after unveiling “Operation Twist,” global markets were caught up in a financial tornado that ripped around the world in a global sell off in the major indexes.
Equity indexes (SPY) (DIA) (IWM) swooned while the U.S. Dollar (UUP) and Treasuries (IEF) soared and gold (GLD) fell along with an overall rout in the commodities markets.
Stock Market Parties!
Friday, 16 September 2011 01:22
Global stock markets partied hard today as central banks poured liquidity onto the Greek firestorm. The European Central Bank, acting in coordination with other major central banks, set off a global stock market party today as it announced plans to loan dollars to European commercial banks in an effort to offset the potential of a European credit crunch due to exposure to possibly toxic Greek bonds.
Ironically, this global action came on the third anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy on record and one of the catalysts of the ongoing financial crisis.
The Coming Currency Crisis
Wednesday, 14 September 2011 06:30
Poor Ben Bernanke. The greatest financial train wreck in history is going to happen on his watch, and it will be mostly his predecessor’s doing. But not the work of Alan Greenspan alone. The Washington elite and their compulsively clever counterparts around the world have set the US (and global) economy up for a currency crisis of gargantuan proportions.
When?
Soon.
