Markets

Jan 30, 2012 at 16:12

My debate last week with Gordon Chang on China's future at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference was a stimulating, intellectual exercise. A healthy market needs a compromise between the bid…

Jan 30, 2012 at 15:58

Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve finally did the expected and are providing the fuel to fire up the next leg of this gold bull market. The last few months…

Jan 30, 2012 at 12:11

On January 11th, we expected the US Dollar to top as Sentiment was uber-bullish, which would lead to a nice rally for Gold, Silver, and (Mining) stocks. That day, the…

Jan 30, 2012 at 11:51

The Federal Reserve's interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it…

Jan 30, 2012 at 11:14

Well here we are, caught between resistance in the S&P 500 around the 1,330 area and support around the 1,300 price level. My last two articles have discussed why I…

Jan 30, 2012 at 10:12

Let's assume Greece and its private creditors reach a "deal". That deal is far from the final hurdle to preventing a Greek default. According to the Wall Street Journal:

Jan 30, 2012 at 09:50

During the Great Depression, at a certain point, gold stocks started a massive rally. While most things were going down in price, gold stocks made significant gains, becoming one of…

Jan 30, 2012 at 09:10

I figured out early in my career that arguing with the market more often than not ends up costing one money. If you are one of those people who are…

Jan 30, 2012 at 08:50

I am speaking of the intermediate term move in paper assets versus hard assets, affectionately referred to as "Gold versus paper" around here. Paperbugs had their moment in the sun…

Jan 30, 2012 at 08:32

The junior sector had a very difficult year in 2011 but has led the recent recovery (at least statistically) in the precious metals sector. Two of our favorite exchange traded…