Markets

Jun 03, 2011 at 11:25

CPM Group recently released their 2011 Silver Yearbook, one of the industry's most comprehensive sources of information on the silver market. Though mostly a reference book, I uncovered some interesting…

Jun 03, 2011 at 09:26

If gold were generally accepted as collateral in global monetary dealings, would we see it used as such? Strangely enough -No! In certain transactions, however, where no other collateral -whether…

Jun 03, 2011 at 08:01

The Spratly islands consist of more than 750 islands, islets, atolls and cays and their EEZ real estate is variously claimed by China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei…

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:45

Three charts, Three conditions ... Good, Bad, and Ugly which describe WHAT is happening in the market today.

Jun 03, 2011 at 07:25

I understand fundamental convictions when investing. Fundamental convictions have caused me to lose lots of money in the past. What is the point of being intellectually superior in your own…

Jun 02, 2011 at 16:33

Rarely, if ever, has a conjunction of weakness in the world's two main reserve and transaction currencies (the US dollar and the euro), such as is being seen at present,…

Jun 02, 2011 at 16:23

While we're on the subject, consider the fact that pension funds are once again loading up on "alternative investments", this time in the form of hedge funds: ...

Jun 02, 2011 at 16:08

During the November 2010 – early March 2011 timeframe, Japanese yen futures expressed in U.S. dollars and traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange oscillated in a high-level consolidation range around…

Jun 02, 2011 at 14:15

Does Washington want to kill the Dollar's No.1 status? It's going the right way about it... So the yield offered by 10-year US Treasury bonds just fell through 3.0%, a…

Jun 02, 2011 at 13:08

As the euro rips higher today after comments by Jean-Claud Trichet and the newly proposed bailout measures in the struggling euro-zone, it would be wise to watch silver as a…