Markets

Dec 01, 2009 at 00:00

The composite indicator that measures the trends in gold, crude oil, and yields on the 10 year Treasury has moderated significantly.

Dec 01, 2009 at 00:00

Global gold output has been falling and the dominance of South Africa as the leading gold producer for over 100 years has declined over the last few years. China overtook…

Dec 01, 2009 at 00:00

The money that the government creates for itself via the tool known as the central bank will eventually ripple through the economy and find its way into the bank accounts…

Dec 01, 2009 at 00:00

As of the end of the second quarter of this year, total household allocation to equities as a percentage of total financial assets stood at 23.6%, just a hair above…

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

... clearly, I was wrong about the extent to which Wall Street would respond to the ebb-and-flow in the economic data and drive stocks to the point where they are…

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

Travel is discretionary spending, and U.S. travel no longer involves the economic epicenter of the world. That position has been assumed by China, et al. While China will not replace…

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

The dollar ($) is set to surprise the few remaining speculators that think it can't happen by falling further straight away, possibly taking it down to test all time lows…

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

There will be a day of reckoning when the credit stops and the bills for all this spending come due. When that day comes and politicians and bureaucrats have to…

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street.

Nov 30, 2009 at 00:00

Ben, you sound like an arsonist taking credit for helping put out a fire, before the fire is even out, after you lit the match and tossed on the gas…