Markets

Nov 25, 2011 at 13:28

2011 is very soon to become a disappointment. U.S. dollar was popularly forecast to be zero by now. As is readily evident in the chart, a second possibility existed. Why…

Nov 25, 2011 at 12:11

I have decided to post the weekend premium report to the blog this week. In this report I'm going to take a look at what has transpired and what is…

Nov 25, 2011 at 09:54

It's been said Alaska has been discovered four times; first for furs, then fish, gold and finally, oil. Alaska's history has therefore been one of boom to bust to boom.…

Nov 25, 2011 at 09:26

The general stock markets' day-to-day price action utterly dominates individual stock sectors, including commodities stocks. So anything traders can do to better understand the forces driving the stock markets as…

Nov 25, 2011 at 09:19

Since March, 2011, most market participants have been wrong about the direction of Treasury bonds. Warren Buffet and PIMCO's Bill Gross were the most notable back in March, and most…

Nov 25, 2011 at 08:58

Another month, another Euro area country in the hot seat... Italy already had issues thanks to the buffoonery of its former Prime Minister and it's now the target of bond…

Nov 25, 2011 at 08:42

Resurgent investment lifted global gold demand 6 percent from the previous year to just over 1,000 tons during the third quarter of 2011, according to the latest Gold Demand Trends…

Nov 24, 2011 at 11:28

The Federal Reserve has become more in interested in what it says about policy than policy itself. Is this a sign the Federal Reserve has run out of ammo?

Nov 24, 2011 at 10:27

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its headline US GDP number (2nd estimate) for the 3rd quarter on Tuesday. The number was revised down from 2.5% to 2%. The…

Nov 24, 2011 at 08:55

With the worsening Eurozone crisis and the failure of government to manage the U.S. debt responsibly, markets are fearful of a meltdown. Traders are driving prices down in the knowledge…