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Markets / Other

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Obama Abruptly Waives 1980 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA)

Dec 19, 2015 at 16:56

The FRA predicts that Americans will face significant increases in US property taxes over the next five years starting in 2016. With the change in FIRPTA Americans should additionally expect…

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Do Inflation Indicators Drive the Prices of Gold?

Dec 19, 2015 at 07:56

Alongside the GDP and labor market's strength, inflation rate is the most important macroeconomic indicator - since the Fed promotes full employment and price stability. The price stability is measured…

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Technical Market Report for December 19, 2015

Dec 19, 2015 at 07:55

It looks like traders closed out their positions Friday ahead of a 2 week vacation. Nearly 10 billion shares were traded on Friday.

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This Past Week in Gold

Dec 19, 2015 at 06:55

Summary: Long term - on major sell signal since Mar 2012 when $HUI was at 550. Short term - on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle - down as of 10/30.…

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Gold And Silver - Physical PMs Are A 'Gift' At Current Levels

Dec 19, 2015 at 06:53

It really matters little what the charts are saying about the paper futures for gold and silver here, which we will get to shortly. The focus needs to be kept…

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Plausible Bubbles Abound

Dec 19, 2015 at 05:59

They finally did it - 25 bps, for the first rate increase since 2004. Surely it's the most dovish Fed "tightening" ever. Indeed, it was really no tightening at all.…

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Establishing the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) as a Vibrant Capital Market

Dec 18, 2015 at 18:14

Conversation with David Grayson, Co-founder and CEO, Auerbach Grayson and Co...

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Why Not to 'Bank' on It

Dec 18, 2015 at 17:47

Here we see a weekly chart of two indexes, which represent two strongly-related sectors in the financial industry -- namely banking and hedge funds ...

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Two Important Points on the Yield Curve and Spreads

Dec 18, 2015 at 17:02

In my post this morning on Yield Curve and Spreads: Fed's Real Policy Error in Pictures; What's Next? there were two important points I intended to make but didn't ...

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Gold Stocks Remain in Position to Rebound

Dec 18, 2015 at 16:57

The Fed rate hike has come and gone while the precious metals sector has continued to whipsaw traders day after day. The initial reaction was very positive. However, that completely…

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