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Markets

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What Becomes of a Broken Stock Market?

May 18, 2010 at 16:28

You know what a mystery the Dow's 1,000-point drop on May 6 has been. Wall Street is looking for a smoking gun -- a trader's mistake, a computer glitch --…

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The Threat of Hyperinflation Real or Not?

May 18, 2010 at 16:09

Higher Gold and Petrol prices are one of the clearest signs that inflationary forces are gathering steam. Do not confuse inflationary forces with inflation; inflation is defined as an increase…

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The Commodities Con

May 18, 2010 at 15:20

In last month's Absolute Return Letter I raised a yellow flag concerning the short term outlook for commodities. Quite a few readers asked me to elaborate on that, which is…

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Some Not So Deep Thoughts On Gold

May 18, 2010 at 14:49

From the "Department Of It's A Sure Thing", we have, once again, investors being told that an asset is a sure thing just as it is making new highs. Yes,…

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The Nuclear Option

May 18, 2010 at 14:25

Power is all about the numbers. Consider the illustration below, which shows how current electricity generation technologies stack up when it comes to producing energy (cost is in dollars per…

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It Could Have Had Class

May 18, 2010 at 14:04

Last week, the European Central Bank abandoned all pretense that the euro would be the worthy heir of the Deutsche mark; based on the enormity of the nearly $1 trillion…

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Market Update - Dow Jones - Channel Time!

May 18, 2010 at 06:52

Yesterday the market reversed from almost a 200 point decline as probabilities favoured a rise on Monday in which declining action offered a low risk Buy. Of course after Monday's…

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An Update on the Gold Bull Market and the SP 500 Index

May 17, 2010 at 19:15

At this point in the Bull market, it is common to have the crowd of investors move from a bias towards viewing all news as positive, to a negative slant…

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Gold and Silver Update

May 17, 2010 at 18:45

A point we've made numerous times over the years is that gold is not primarily a play on a decline in the US dollar's foreign exchange value; it is a…

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MortiES Analysis ~ Happy Birthday Maryanne!

May 17, 2010 at 18:26

I was asked a question today about how to trade my charts and projections. That is the million dollar question! I still have a really hard time trading even my…