Gary Dorsch

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• The Fed's Next Move and the Mid-East Powder-keg

  Published 25 July 2006 | viewed 5,587 times

  Fed chief Ben Bernanke left traders guessing about the central bank's next move on interest rates after his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on…

• Mid-East "Oil Shock" Rattles Global Stock Markets, Energizes Gold

  Published 17 July 2006 | viewed 5,598 times

  Since withdrawing its troops from Southern Lebanon six years ago, Israel has carefully watched Iranian backed Hizbollah guerillas plant landmines and booby traps along their…

• The "Zig-Zag" Fed Zaps the US Dollar, Ignites Gold Rally

  Published 03 July 2006 | viewed 7,515 times

  "Everything depends on proper listening. Of ten people who listen to the same speech or story, each person may well understand it differently; perhaps only…

• Extreme Volatility in South Africa's Rand and Gold Miners

  Published 26 June 2006 | viewed 9,061 times

  Since 5/11, risk aversion has become the buzzword in global financial markets, with central banks from 20 countries across the globe signaling higher interest rates…

• China and India Join the G-10 Monetary Tightening Campaign

  Published 19 June 2006 | viewed 6,860 times

  The astonishing rally of commodity prices during the past four years, especially rising energy prices, are finally beginning to push US and global inflation indicators…

• Central Bankers Declare War on Gold, Commodities

  Published 13 June 2006 | viewed 8,263 times

  For the past four years, the big-3 central banks were the world's "serial bubble blowers," flooding the world with cheap money via historically low interest…

• The Contrarian View, Why the Fed might hike Interest rates in June

  Published 05 June 2006 | viewed 7,232 times

  Twenty four months ago, the Federal Reserve embarked on a long, but predictable road of lifting the federal funds rate, aiming to reach an unknown…

• Conspiracy Theories and the Global Stock Market Melt-down

  Published 22 May 2006 | viewed 13,230 times

  Do you believe in conspiracy theories? Sometimes they are difficult to refute. Such was the case last week, just after the Euro had soared towards…

• Central Bankers' Worst Nightmare - the Gold and Bond Vigilantes

  Published 09 May 2006 | viewed 11,849 times

  Former Fed chief "Easy" Al Greenspan's immortal legacy remains intact, after existing from center stage at the pinnacle of his success. And timing is everything.…

• The "Commodity Super Cycle" goes into Extra Innings

  Published 25 April 2006 | viewed 7,458 times

  The "Commodity Super Cycle" went into extra innings last week, when the Reuters Jefferies Commodity (CRB) index rallied to as high as 359.14, eclipsing the…

• Gold Knows What No One Knows!

  Published 10 April 2006 | viewed 5,938 times

  April Fools day usually arrives on April 1st, but the day for the European Central Bank chief Jean "Tricky" Trichet, to play dirty tricks came…

• Don't Fight the Inverted Yield Curve

  Published 28 March 2006 | viewed 10,023 times

  The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lift the federal funds rate by a quarter point for the 15th time since June 2004, or 375…

• Shifting Fortunes in Foreign Exchange Rates

  Published 21 March 2006 | viewed 8,080 times

  Investing in the foreign exchange market is like judging a reverse beauty contest, that is to say, trying to select the currency that looks the…

• Count-down to War with Iran? Mixed Signals from Crude Oil, Gold, and Tel Aviv

  Published 13 March 2006 | viewed 9,609 times

  It seems like déjà vu all over again. This time, the Bush administration has its sights on the most dangerous member of the "Axis of…

• Can the Big-3 Central Banks Derail the "Commodity Super Cycle"?

  Published 07 March 2006 | viewed 7,238 times

  Shortly after climbing to its highest level in 25-years, the Reuters Jefferies Commodity index (CRB Index) went into a nosedive in early February, and lost…

• The Psychology of the Canadian Petro-dollar

  Published 21 February 2006 | viewed 6,830 times

  More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of August 2, 1990. Saddam…

• Analyzing the Australian Dollar - Up, Down, and Under

  Published 14 February 2006 | viewed 10,300 times

  From the outside world, trading in the arcane foreign exchange markets might appear to be quite glamorous. However, attempting to make a living in the…

• Japan's Warlords Meddling in the Nikkei-225, Yen, and JGB markets

  Published 08 February 2006 | viewed 7,903 times

  "Free markets for Free men" is the battle cry for traders on Chicago's Futures markets. But if one wants to place a bearish bet on…

• The "Commodity Super Cycle" - How long can it last?

  Published 31 January 2006 | viewed 14,944 times

  Are we in the ninth inning of the "Commodity Super Cycle" that has lifted the Reuters Jefferies Commodity (CRB) price index 91% higher from four…

• Iran's Ayatollah could Unleash the "Oil Weapon" in 2006, Rattling Global Markets

  Published 24 January 2006 | viewed 9,257 times

  The main-stream media was searching for clues to explain the worst wreckage on Wall Street in almost three years on January 19th, with the Dow…