Markets

Mar 19, 2011 at 10:13

What happens when the Fed is finished with QE2? I have been letting that filter into my thinking lately as I look at the economic landscape and the data we…

Mar 19, 2011 at 10:11

Volume has been a problem since this rally began. Last Wednesday the ratio of upside volume to downside volume was 10 to 1 negative; hopefully a climax.

Mar 18, 2011 at 16:09

So the noise from the street goes... And the noise is loud... So loud, that in response, mainstream wealth managers are beginning to recommend gold as a "core" holding for…

Mar 18, 2011 at 13:40

There's an old saying in investing: Buy a winter coat in the summer. Uranium stocks are certainly out of season and deeply discounted. Media coverage has shifted from the destruction…

Mar 18, 2011 at 13:22

Corporate mergers and takeovers seem to happen close to cyclical highs for metal prices, rather than at the lows. This eruption reminds of the party in the 1980 boom. The…

Mar 18, 2011 at 13:10

Japan is definitely the talk of interest in capital markets. The economic fallout in the recent days did not lag much behind nature's destructive forces. The financial aftershocks gathered force…

Mar 18, 2011 at 12:44

One of the immediate financial consequences of the catastrophic Japanese earthquake is that Japan needs to call on its huge cache of foreign exchange reserves to rebuild its shattered infrastructure.

Mar 18, 2011 at 10:50

This is week number two and is your freshman year of learning to Invest Wisely. In this course, we will use the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Companies in the pursuit…

Mar 18, 2011 at 09:46

Silver's massive surge since late January has naturally made it wildly popular these days. But with the general-stock-market weakness gathering steam, silver traders are increasingly wondering if it could somehow…

Mar 18, 2011 at 09:45

After the earthquake and Tsunami wreaked horrendous damage in Japan and was blamed for huge drops in equity and other markets, extreme volatility was the best description of most global…