Markets

Jan 06, 2012 at 12:06

During the 12 year history of this bull market in gold, only about 5% of the time did we see gold trading below its 200DMA, and each time it turned…

Jan 06, 2012 at 11:05

Gold had a tough December, falling 10.5% to grind along near its worst levels since July. This sparked hyper-bearish sentiment and end-of-gold's-secular-bull talk. Naturally gold stocks fared even worse in…

Jan 06, 2012 at 10:42

The implosion of the USSR in December 1991 produced massive economic "collateral damage" in its East European allies, as they simultaneously sought both to assert their new-found independence and draw…

Jan 06, 2012 at 10:28

Numerous markets and time frames still point to lower lows in stocks later in 2012. We believe the S&P 500 could push above 1,285 toward the 1,300 - 1,343 range.…

Jan 06, 2012 at 10:02

Many of the leading fund managers in the U.S. and elsewhere are expecting that governments will confiscate their citizen's gold. This will not be for the same reasons used in…

Jan 06, 2012 at 09:58

Notable on Thursday's session was the fact that the euro hit a 16 month low against the dollar (EUR/USD), the lowest close since 09/10/2010. In addition, closing more than 2…

Jan 06, 2012 at 09:47

I woke up this morning to a headline in the Wall Street Journal: "Futures Down: Markets to Suffer First Losses of the Year". Oh, the horror! Is there too much…

Jan 06, 2012 at 07:30

I tend to shy away from reading too much into the weekly sentiment numbers because for the most part they are relatively noise. The data series back and fill like…

Jan 06, 2012 at 07:04

The longer we stay up here, the more likely we are to break out... But the key to that will be today... In the very short term, sure, we are…

Jan 06, 2012 at 06:14

One of the people who has most influenced my life is Doug Casey. Stumbling upon his writing somewhere around 2003, it was like a whole new world opened to me.…