Markets

Jun 05, 2013 at 05:44

Equity market investor sentiment has turned optimistic after last week's "extreme optimism" reading as the extremes in selling have slowed amongst the "smart money". They are by no means bullish,…

Jun 05, 2013 at 05:37

The daily swings that we are recently witnessing are frustrating since it is tough to come up with a confident count, but what is important is not to lose sight…

Jun 05, 2013 at 05:10

Gold may have completed a short-term rebound following the rejection at 1422 seen last Friday. In fact the daily structure, present since 1488 (03/05/2013 high), has the appearance of a…

Jun 04, 2013 at 18:28

The Fed believes that holding interest rates low fosters business growth, hiring, and bank lending? So why isn't that happening? I have discussed many reasons, but today I have another…

Jun 04, 2013 at 14:50

Albemarle Corp (ALB) is a leading global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of highly-engineered specialty chemicals for consumer electronics, petroleum refining, utilities, packaging, construction, automotive/transportation ...

Jun 04, 2013 at 14:16

The Fed’s purpose, when it comes down to it, is to buy bonds. Under their various “Quantitative Easing” (QE) programs, they sure have bought a lot of bonds. This pushes…

Jun 04, 2013 at 13:00

Picking up where we left off last week, our focus remains where the US dollar is headed next and the interesting and somewhat peculiar economic and monetary backdrops it will…

Jun 04, 2013 at 11:47

Over the past couple week's investors and traders have been growing increasingly bearish for the US stock market. While I too also feel this rally is getting long in the…

Jun 04, 2013 at 10:34

In no particular order the following is a list of what many people think are contemporary insanities. Since most of these have been widely discussed, links have not been provided.…

Jun 04, 2013 at 10:13

I know an investor who is feeling some regret. He's come to the sinking conclusion that he may have made a mistake selling his gold stocks.