Markets

Sep 17, 2010 at 19:20

To sum up the findings of this report: the advance in equities that began near SPX 1040 is most likely the start of a significant bull move, but the first…

Sep 17, 2010 at 18:04

There are two camps of market analysts out there: the fundamental camp and the technical one. Fundamental analysts look at things like the GDP, unemployment, interest rates, etc. to make…

Sep 17, 2010 at 17:03

No bureaucrat, no federal agency, and no ivory tower academic can replace the regulatory powers of the free market. "Caveat emptor" remains the rule for intelligent investors and depositors. Buyers…

Sep 17, 2010 at 16:54

... even if you take the government's latest unemployment report at face value and accept that the private sector added 67,000 jobs, with overall employment falling again by "just" 54,000,…

Sep 17, 2010 at 16:41

This week, after the Japanese yen had surged to a fifteen-year high against the US dollar, the Japanese government decided to intervene in the foreign exchange market. To great fanfare,…

Sep 17, 2010 at 14:27

As equity mutual fund outflows mount, stock market bulls argue that such outflows indicate that investor pessimism is high enough to serve as a contrarian indicator to support the buying…

Sep 17, 2010 at 12:57

Day in and day out I hear it from readers who insist that we are not in deflation and will not be in deflation because prices are rising and continue…

Sep 17, 2010 at 12:46

New highs continue on up higher because investors are chasing particular stocks. If investors aren't chasing stocks, then that says there is a reluctance about the perceived future of the…

Sep 17, 2010 at 11:36

This recent rally has many market pundits believing the market will continue higher, fueled by slightly improved economic data points. The bulls realize that the all important S&P 1130 level…

Sep 17, 2010 at 11:02

For the last few years silver has moved in relative tandem with the gold price up to now. We called it the 'long shadow of gold' because it would rise…