Markets

Oct 11, 2011 at 14:31

The growing disconnect between "X-Fluents" and the rest of us is the culmination of a trend that began decades ago with soaring executive pay in the U.S. Back in the…

Oct 11, 2011 at 12:16

The recent correction in gold has once again led, to financial commentators warning of a bubble--just as they have incessantly since it first passed $400 an ounce. A bubble usually…

Oct 11, 2011 at 11:59

Any American watching cable TV over the past few months can hardly fail to have noticed the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements extolling the virtues of extracting oil from Canadian oil sands…

Oct 11, 2011 at 10:34

We have alerted our subscribers on many occasions during the past two years that global credit downgrades of sovereign nations were inevitable. It does not take a prophet to have…

Oct 11, 2011 at 10:26

Gold likely has a 2/3 chance of rising to $2300, and a 1/3 chance of falling to $1100. Click here now to view my gold chart that roughly highlights the…

Oct 11, 2011 at 09:41

The major index ETFs opened more than one percent higher and then rallied yet higher until around 11:00am. From there, it was sideways trading for most of the session with…

Oct 11, 2011 at 08:36

We've written about the importance of intermarket analysis. Movements in various sectors and asset classes influence each other. The Treasury market is the largest in the world and affects trends…

Oct 11, 2011 at 08:13

We remain in Buy Mode here, expecting a bounce into mid October, around 10/18 to 10/21.

Oct 11, 2011 at 06:30

The 'perfect storm" of bearish technical signals is also being pressured by the CME's recent 55% increase in margin requirements, which is helping to squash the largest of gold-bug positions.

Oct 10, 2011 at 18:44

The US economy is definitely in recession and the recession will probably extend into next year. This isn't necessarily a reason to be concerned about downside risk in the broad…