Markets

Jul 22, 2011 at 09:09

Being technical analysts is one of our professions, so it is quite rarely when we feel any emotions regarding the market regardless if we're making substantial gains or if we're…

Jul 22, 2011 at 08:27

Interest rates are near historic lows. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the price of precious metals? Watch the following two minute video and decide for…

Jul 22, 2011 at 07:19

Thursday started with strengthening confidence that the Greek bailout would go through which had futures higher and the dollar lower versus the Euro. Market participants essentially ignored the slightly worse…

Jul 21, 2011 at 16:49

This year has been eventful for the oil patch. Natural disasters, revolutions, terrorist attacks and political maneuvering kept oil bouncing around $100 per barrel and 3.8 percent higher on the…

Jul 21, 2011 at 16:34

If 160 billion Euro could somehow be an unimportant amount, today it was. But before we get to the latest discouraging result from the EU, let's do a quick survey…

Jul 21, 2011 at 15:34

We all remember the promise of stem-cell technology when scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University first isolated and successfully cultured human pluripotent stem cells back in…

Jul 21, 2011 at 13:59

The debt ceiling debate that has dominated the headlines over the past month has been thoroughly infused with a string of unfortunate misconceptions and a number of blatant deceptions. As…

Jul 21, 2011 at 13:23

With this commentary, we unveil our first formal forecast of U.S. economic activity and interest rates for 2012. The forecast for real GDP growth is only marginally better in 2012…

Jul 21, 2011 at 13:04

The direction of the U.S. dollar is very important relative to the performance of both stocks and commodities. The video below looks at the current short, intermediate, and longer-term outlook…

Jul 21, 2011 at 12:50

I usually don't care about such things as there is so much bad market analysis out there, but when the "insight" is so egregious, I feel compelled to stand up…