Markets

Jun 21, 2011 at 17:20

Stock market bulls bellowed today as bourses around the globe rocketed higher. Several major European markets were up more than 2%, and the S&P vaulted 1.3% higher on the day.

Jun 21, 2011 at 17:18

This week's focus is the stock market and our old observation that episodes of forced liquidation come out of an oversold condition. Yesterday's ChartWorks suggested that if this test of…

Jun 21, 2011 at 14:32

You know there is actually nothing wrong with the generic financial indicators you find within every stock charting package, I am referring to the RSI, MACD and Stochastic. But what…

Jun 21, 2011 at 13:58

Have you considered what will happen to your portfolio and all the other areas of your life if the dollar fails? The ramifications will be widespread, painful, and inescapable if…

Jun 21, 2011 at 11:32

A critical or strategic material is a commodity whose lack of availability during a national emergency would seriously affect the economic, industrial, and defensive capability of a country.

Jun 21, 2011 at 10:53

On November 4, 2010, shortly after the Federal Reserve began its $600 billion of asset purchases known as QE2, Ben Bernanke wrote an editorial in the Washington Post titled, "What…

Jun 21, 2011 at 10:46

Which one is safer: the euro or the U.S. dollar? Before jumping to a conclusion one way or the other, let's look at different sides of the respective coins. We…

Jun 21, 2011 at 10:33

What a difference a year and a tsunami make. Western investors have been salivating over the post-Soviet space's energy riches since the 1991 collapse of communism. While focusing on the…

Jun 21, 2011 at 10:32

The Federal Reserve's QE II asset purchase program is ending, so the Federal Reserve says, at the end of June. As a result, a very large bid is about to…

Jun 21, 2011 at 10:11

A significant base may be forming in uranium stocks -- seen in the Global X Uranium ETF (URA) -- as Japan's troubled nuclear energy industry passed its first major vote…