David Chapman

Union Securities

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• Crucial Time Frame

  Published 26 June 2004 | viewed 3,477 times

  We can only hope that the last half of 2004 is not the low volatility, narrow range of the first half of the year. It…

• Stock Market Continues to Top

  Published 11 June 2004 | viewed 3,639 times

  Everything we are looking at tells us that the market is continuing a topping process that began with the NASDAQ topping in late January. Since…

• The Terror Factor

  Published 04 June 2004 | viewed 3,763 times

  For the second time in a month and for the fourth time in two months, armed insurgents attacked westerners in Saudi Arabia this time killing…

• Gold - Rising Again!

  Published 29 May 2004 | viewed 3,288 times

  It has been a rough five months for gold bugs. Gold topped in early January, then double topped on April 1 near $430. Stocks, as…

• Alternative Energy - down, out and forgotten?

  Published 13 May 2004 | viewed 3,914 times

  It was an entire generation ago on October 17, 1973 that Saudi Arabia and a number of its oil-producing neighbours shut down oil supplies to…

• Slowly Unravelling!

  Published 08 May 2004 | viewed 3,191 times

  Gwynne Dyer, a well known Canadian Geopolitical analyst, started off a recent commentary (Siege spells beginning of the end for US in Iraq, May 5,…

• Sell in May and Go Away!

  Published 29 April 2004 | viewed 4,334 times

  The old market cliché of "Sell in May and go away" is out in full force again. While it may be a cliché it is…

• Energy Wars!

  Published 16 April 2004 | viewed 6,566 times

  That the International Energy Agency should cite China's growing thirst for oil as surpassing expectations and therefore a prime driver behind rising oil prices should…

• Could the Bears Be Wrong?

  Published 02 April 2004 | viewed 3,500 times

  Can a bear be his own devils advocate and support the bull view? The answer of course is no but it is important to understand…

• Gold - The Next Leg Up

  Published 26 March 2004 | viewed 3,796 times

  The past few months must be frustrating for gold bugs. After a good year in 2003 that saw the Gold rise 19.5%, the TSX Gold…

• Terror in the Aisles

  Published 19 March 2004 | viewed 3,167 times

  "Terror in the Aisles" was the title of a 1984 documentary on horror films disguised as a schlock film despite the efforts of its able…

• Rich Man's Gold

  Published 12 March 2004 | viewed 3,413 times

  Where is Paul Erdman when I need him? A few weeks ago we noted that Paul Erdman whose book and subsequent film The Silver Bears…

• The Coming Storm

  Published 05 March 2004 | viewed 3,062 times

  "The coming storm" is the title of an article in the Economist (February 21, 2004). The article was noteworthy and important because the Economist is…

• Poor Man's Gold

  Published 25 February 2004 | viewed 4,576 times

  Paul Erdman writes financial thrillers. Some of his books are so good they have been uncannily predictive. One of them "The Silver Bears" was a…

• A Short Primer on Cycles in the Current Market

  Published 14 February 2004 | viewed 5,241 times

  Cycles are a part of life. There are the cycles of the seasons, cycles of the calendar and the cycles of life from birth to…

• Currency Wars, Budget Woes

  Published 05 February 2004 | viewed 3,365 times

  What is one to make of it? In the month of January the Bank of Japan (BOJ) spent a whopping US$67 billion (later revised up…

• The Silly Season

  Published 29 January 2004 | viewed 3,324 times

  It's the silly season. We call it the silly season because so many crazy things are going on. In Hollywood it's awards time and as…

• Big Trouble for the US Dollar?

  Published 16 January 2004 | viewed 6,163 times

  Hyperboles are nothing new to gold bugs. One of my favourites was a description of the coming Islamic Gold Dinar describing it as a neutron…

• The Disappearing Jobs

  Published 09 January 2004 | viewed 4,384 times

  In the 1992 US election Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot said that if the North American Free Trade Act passes "you will hear a giant…

• Treasure in the Hills

  Published 04 January 2004 | viewed 4,236 times

  There is treasure lurking in the hills of Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil, China, West Africa and numerous other places where there is rock to…