Markets

May 16, 2014 at 18:12

This morning's housing report was huge. As one representative headline put it: "Housing starts up sharply; permits highest since 2008." Dig just a little deeper and it's still huge, though…

May 16, 2014 at 17:33

Every major corner of the world's economies is sitting on a knife's edge of one type or another; the question becomes who falls first triggering the next leg down in…

May 16, 2014 at 17:14

Ralph Acampora is known as the Godfather of technical analysis. He also has 13,600 followers on Twitter, which means when the Godfather speaks, investors listen.

May 16, 2014 at 16:53

In short: we still support short speculative positions in the Bitcoin market, stop-loss $470. At least 10 members of the Bitcoin Foundation have left in the wake of the election…

May 16, 2014 at 16:54

Silver has suffered as a market pariah this year, dragging along doggedly near major lows. Investors have seemingly abandoned it to chase the Fed's general-stock-market levitation, an affliction plaguing most…

May 16, 2014 at 15:57

It is getting excruciating out there. SPX and DJIA are only a little off their highs of a month ago. Complacency remains vigorous. NDX and former (very) high-flyers topped out…

May 16, 2014 at 13:44

It doesn't happen often, but The New York Times (NYT) has truthfully reported on something recently. On what did it report? Well, on itself, and how alarmed it is due…

May 16, 2014 at 07:47

Briefly: In our opinion speculative short positions (half) are justified from the risk/reward perspective in gold, silver, and mining stocks.

May 16, 2014 at 07:30

Thursday saw selling, but not particularly dramatic by the close. Intraday saw many indexes down more than two percent. The tremendous come back in the afternoon left most prices down…

May 16, 2014 at 06:40

Following up on my last article it does look like stocks have begun to move down into the yearly cycle low that I was expecting. The failed breakout was a…