Markets

Jul 06, 2011 at 13:46

The elections in Peru of Humala, an avowed radical socialist, is an ongoing development of great significance for precious metals and mining investors. It is not an event that has…

Jul 06, 2011 at 12:32

Investors may have been at a loss to explain the panic that befell financial markets at the end of last month, but one man saw it coming from a mile…

Jul 06, 2011 at 12:27

When real headwinds blow for the gold price, they'll blow from the East, not from falling gold ETF sales... so after The Economist and Harper's both tried (and failed) to…

Jul 06, 2011 at 12:19

In a December 30, 2010 e-mail commentary I set out how I then saw things unfolding economically in 2011, and in some cases beyond. On March 31, I updated my…

Jul 06, 2011 at 12:03

One of Washington's key policy tenets since the 1991 collapse of Communism has been to pry out from under Moscow's control as much of the energy assets of the post-Soviet…

Jul 06, 2011 at 09:39

A rising tide lifts all boats - is certainly the aphorism of choice looking at the series of correlation studies from the market-data aficionado David Stendahl. David's most recent data…

Jul 06, 2011 at 08:34

I define the price cycle as the path that prices take from low to high and back again, and I use investor sentiment to help me characterize where we are…

Jul 06, 2011 at 07:58

Successful market timing is based on careful use of technical analysis and sentiment analysis. Technical analysis measures supply and demand and sentiment analysis takes that a step further by looking…

Jul 06, 2011 at 07:14

There is a hedge fund manager saying this somewhere in the world 'There is a bull market some where!'. We would like to restate this as 'There is a mark…

Jul 06, 2011 at 06:41

Tuesday followed the torrid rise of last week with a dull trading day with the Dow and SP-500 logging losses that were less than one tenth of one percent but…