Markets

May 12, 2011 at 11:27

The ups and down of the oil market are enough to give one a neck ache. Last week's drubbing saw an increase in volatility as 3 months of gains were…

May 12, 2011 at 10:42

The US dollar has been reacting very bullish to the death of Osama bin Laden, the figurehead of Al Qaeda. Short-term investors have shown a renewed interest in the US…

May 12, 2011 at 09:53

The Chinese mining sector is currently producing 340 tonnes a year and rising. No doubt there is every encouragement from the State for this figure to rise. We believe that…

May 12, 2011 at 07:37

The closely-watched smoothed growth rate of the ECRI Weekly Leading Index (WLI) for the week ended 29 April came in at 6.7% or 0.8% lower than the previous week.

May 12, 2011 at 06:29

If you think Bernanke has it rough, which is certainly an understatement in of itself - Trichet and the ECB has the nearly impossible task of juggling the combustibles with…

May 12, 2011 at 06:20

USD/CAD has reversed sharply from its multi-year lows, after breaking below the support of a multi-month falling channel. Back over 0.9974 is required to confirm a false break lower, weakening…

May 11, 2011 at 17:33

In March, with inflation fears in a frenzy, we argued that the only way to "inflation proof" your investment portfolio was to take the hype as a warning for a…

May 11, 2011 at 16:16

If you like trading, as opposed to investing, then these are markets for you. Commodities markets dropped sharply last week, recovered, and then a number of them dropped again today.…

May 11, 2011 at 13:24

Though Gold and Silver were able to make new highs in recent months, the gold stocks (as evidenced by GDX (large caps) and GDXJ (larger juniors) never did. We wrote…

May 11, 2011 at 10:05

The Stock market pushes higher and higher, what fool would take a short position against this mighty liquidity pump up, however there are a few dark clouds in the next…