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Markets

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German Data Suggest Euro-zone is Headed For Recession

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

The Ifo business climate index for August dropped to 94.8 from 97.5 in July, the weakest since June 2005. While this is still well above the lows recorded in late…

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Retirement Wake-Up Call

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Perhaps this loss in housing equity is why an AARP survey that found increasing numbers of people who are eligible for retirement are, instead, continuing to work, and some of…

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Is Gold About to Decouple From the Euro and Rise With the $?

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Central Bank selling has reverted back to a trickle of sales, so the force driving the gold price down has come almost entirely from COMEX in New York. The futures…

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Gold Thoughts

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Momentum chasing traders are pushing U.S. dollar to another long-term top. With Putin, The Terrible flexing his military might, Pakistan moving slowly toward a hard line government in control of…

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Charts Suggest Peak Dollar Occurred August 15, 2008

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Charts suggest Peak Dollar occurred August 15, 2008 and they encourage short selling of the USD/JPY, the US Dollar and stocks.

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Gold Market Update

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Gold is believed to have bottomed. It crashed the support at $850 as predicted in the last update and plunged to hit a low $8 below our target range on…

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Silver Market Update

Aug 26, 2008 at 00:00

Silver is believed to have bottomed. On the 1-year chart we can see how the failure of the clear line of support (now strong resistance) at and above the $16…

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Technically Precious with Merv

Aug 25, 2008 at 00:00

Gold was basically in a bounce mode this past week but unfortunately closed on the down side on Friday. It needs a lot more upside activity or lateral strength building…

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Eagle Rationing: Where there's Smoke, there's Fire

Aug 25, 2008 at 00:00

If the physical supply constraint persists, we might indeed see that behind all this smoke, there's fire (i.e., the US government has run out of gold with which it's willing…

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Dead Men Walking

Aug 25, 2008 at 00:00

The title of this piece sums up how I feel about the current credit markets. When I first started in the industry in 1981 we were worried, but only about…