Markets

Sep 19, 2010 at 10:25

This past week I received an e-mail blasting Dow theory. The allegation was that Dow theory no longer works and that it is completely irrelevant. The reason sited for Dow…

Sep 19, 2010 at 10:14

The Dow Industrials have declined sharply eleven out of the past thirteen Autumns, from 1997 through 2009, and it is setting up to do so again in 2010. Only 2006…

Sep 19, 2010 at 09:29

The United States is facing both a structural and demand problem - it is not the cyclical recessionary business cycle or the fallout of a credit supply crisis which the…

Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17

The market is overbought going into a week that seasonally has been very weak. I expect the major averages to be lower on Friday September 24 than they were on…

Sep 18, 2010 at 10:24

There are several key factors coming together at the same time and all of them are bullish for gold. But if we had to boil it down, the bottom line…

Sep 18, 2010 at 10:22

Because pensions are seen as politically untouchable, pension managers have no choice but to lie about their future returns and then try to make the lie a reality by investing…

Sep 18, 2010 at 06:40

... investors early this year believed that rapid job creation and the restoration of consumer confidence would spur retail spending. They also saw the housing sector's evidence of stabilization giving…

Sep 17, 2010 at 20:28

Fear and uncertainty create patterns, paths of their own. And societies are again in a mosaic of uncertainty -- and resultant fear -- over the fate and durability of the…

Sep 17, 2010 at 19:42

Is the dollar a bigger story than Ireland and Portugal? Perhaps a rapidly rising tide of liquidity has something to do with Gold's run toward $1,300. Such a scenario might…

Sep 17, 2010 at 19:26

The drunker I get, the more it seems to me that you slave away at your stupid job every day of your stupid life, hating every moment of it, reviling…