David Chapman

Union Securities

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Forecast 2004

  Published 15 December 2003 | viewed 2,780 times

  T'is the season to be jolly and jolly this past year has been. As one pundit declared that if you didn't make money in 2003…

• Precious Metals Have Been the Place To Be

  Published 01 December 2003 | viewed 4,082 times

  It sometimes feels like it has been a big secret that over the past three years the place to have been invested is in the…

• Beginning of the End

  Published 25 November 2003 | viewed 3,669 times

  It was not a good week. I do suppose that some of us might find amusement in the fact that the target of the Bush…

• Confessions of an Unrepentant Bear

  Published 14 November 2003 | viewed 3,529 times

  I confess to being bear. An unrepentant bear. But being a bear is only on the broader market. On gold I am a bull. And…

• The China Colossus

  Published 03 November 2003 | viewed 4,834 times

  The world is in the process of a paradigm shift. China has 1.2 billion people and sometime in the next few decades they will undoubtedly…

• Final Top

  Published 27 October 2003 | viewed 3,311 times

  From the lows in March 2003 to the highs in June 2003 the markets put on an impressive show. The S&P 500 gained 25.8%, the…

• The End of the US Dollar?

  Published 18 October 2003 | viewed 4,081 times

  With the introduction of the new peach-toned $20 bills is the US signalling the end of the greenback? Well certainly the greenback, which has been…

• The End of Oil

  Published 06 October 2003 | viewed 5,340 times

  What would a world without oil look like? While posing what seems to be a preposterous question it is one that we all may have…

• Debt Illusion!

  Published 26 September 2003 | viewed 4,381 times

  We live in a world of illusion. With all due respect to magicians, illusionists and Hollywood techno wizardry our biggest illusion seems to be debt…

• Lights out - part 2

  Published 15 September 2003 | viewed 3,576 times

  With the US Dollar once again beginning a breakdown, gold breaking out and the market continuing the roll over pattern we have been witnessing for…

• The Market That Won't Die!

  Published 08 September 2003 | viewed 3,453 times

  The bull market that had its beginnings back in October 2002 keeps trudging higher. Indeed to the consternation of many bears it is becoming a…

• Lights Out!

  Published 29 August 2003 | viewed 4,041 times

  Being on holidays for two weeks with only limited access to newspapers, cell phone and internet certainly allows one not only a holiday breather but…

• Bond Massacre!

  Published 30 July 2003 | viewed 4,939 times

  Since topping on June 13, 2003 the US Treasury Bond market (and Canada's) has taken one of its swiftest drops ever. In barely seven weeks…

• Gold Stocks - Buying Opportunity Ahead!

  Published 17 July 2003 | viewed 3,769 times

  For gold bugs the past year has been one of frustration. After enjoying a spectacular run in 2002 into May when the TSX Gold Index…

• Whither Japan!

  Published 07 July 2003 | viewed 3,125 times

  Japan has broken out on the charts. Indeed it broke out about 7 weeks ago. So why are we so belated in telling everyone about…

• Looming Mortgage Crisis!

  Published 25 June 2003 | viewed 3,689 times

  Freddie and Fannie have suddenly found themselves at the center of a quietly growing storm. Freddie of course is the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation…

• Irrational Exuberance Revisited!

  Published 11 June 2003 | viewed 2,930 times

  "But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have…

• Where Are We?

  Published 02 June 2003 | viewed 4,013 times

  Investors have been a pretty battered lot. Since the stock market topped in 2000 it has been extremely difficult for even the best money managers…

• Slowly Unravelling!

  Published 27 May 2003 | viewed 3,122 times

  We can't help but notice that in our last few missives we have consistently talked about the unravelling of the US$. And numerous other pundits…

• Dollar Woes!

  Published 15 May 2003 | viewed 3,696 times

  As a Canadian, the phrase "dollar woes" has, over the past decade, referred to the Canadian Dollar. And it has been justified. In November 1991…