Markets

Jan 20, 2011 at 17:12

Economic data today took a turn for the better, but should be placed properly in context. An important fact, though, is that for the first time in a very long…

Jan 20, 2011 at 16:29

In holding our strategic trading systems' long-term performance histories to task, this brief supplies two charts. The first reviews how our proprietary trading systems had been engaged in the recent…

Jan 20, 2011 at 14:59

Left out of much of the discussion of precious metals are technological advances. Excitement over rare earths, for example, has always assumed that alternatives, either in metals or due to…

Jan 20, 2011 at 13:21

Inquiring minds are playing a pair of CNN Money videos with Jim Chanos regarding various aspects of the Chinese economy, China's huge property and credit bubbles, the Yuan, and commodities.

Jan 20, 2011 at 12:59

One of the reasons behind the Federal Reserve creating so many trillions and trillions of dollars in new money is so the stock market will go up so that more…

Jan 20, 2011 at 10:35

From all accounts it appears that the world is in the early stages of a major leg up in food prices. The major macroeconomic trend will likely drive economic policy…

Jan 20, 2011 at 09:37

In 2010, we all remember BP and their horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We also remember Toyota Motors issue with their brake faults. Both stocks suffered mini…

Jan 20, 2011 at 09:32

The truth is that the concept of a 'post-industrial' economy, which had never been seen before the US, doesn't exist. In order to maintain its status as an economic superpower,…

Jan 20, 2011 at 07:35

Over the past few days I have often referred to stock markets being overvalued on fundamentals, overbought on technicals and overbullish on sentiment. This resulted in my call for caution…

Jan 20, 2011 at 07:07

This is the twenty-first Course in a series of 38 called "Investment Basics" - created by Professor Steven Bauer, a retired university professor and still active asset manager and consultant…