Markets

Jan 08, 2011 at 20:00

It is time once again to throw caution and wisdom to the wind and actually make my 11th annual forecast. I have to admit this is the most stressful letter…

Jan 08, 2011 at 19:58

I set up a Google alert for 'inflation,' expecting to turn up the occasional article on monetary policy and such. Instead I got deluged with stories from around the world…

Jan 08, 2011 at 14:18

Take this cycle topping opportunity to prepare your finances. Consider yourself warned. The long wave spring is coming, but a late long wave winter blizzard lies on the other side…

Jan 08, 2011 at 14:15

Wall Street has been calling gold a bubble since 2005 when it hit $500. Some media naysayers remained negative even as they wrote the headlines proclaiming record highs and saw…

Jan 08, 2011 at 08:44

The market is overbought and due for a correction, but seasonality is likely to dominate again next week. I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday January 14…

Jan 08, 2011 at 08:21

This past week we saw gold have its biggest two-day drop since February of last year ending the third longest streak of trading above its 50-day that the yellow metal…

Jan 08, 2011 at 08:18

The economy generated 103,000 new jobs in December. While upward revisions of 32k to November's data and 38k to October's data blunt the pain of the miss, the market was…

Jan 07, 2011 at 19:53

Total Money Market Fund assets (from Invest Co Inst) declined $12.2bn to $2.798 TN. Over the past year, money fund assets have dropped $509bn. Total Commercial Paper outstanding declined $3.3bn…

Jan 07, 2011 at 14:05

With the holiday season in the rear view mirror and volume slowly creeping back into the marketplace, I can't help but wonder what lies ahead. The optimist in me is…

Jan 07, 2011 at 13:19

Right now, the markets have pulled gold back in the face of what seemed to be an upward turn in the U.S. economy. Many may feel this is the time…