Markets

Mar 21, 2006 at 00:00

Investing in the foreign exchange market is like judging a reverse beauty contest, that is to say, trying to select the currency that looks the least ugly at any given…

Mar 21, 2006 at 00:00

When one analyzes U.S. statistics of M3 money supply in conjunction with fed fund rates it is clear to see that either the fed is unwilling or unable to curtail…

Mar 21, 2006 at 00:00

Gold hit a top on a 90-day cycle as we had forecast and fell 9 days, in 9-days of rally it couldn't reach the high and fell sharply for 5…

Mar 21, 2006 at 00:00

The trends are still sloped in the right direction, but Wall Street loves the "2nd Derivative" (the rate of change of the rate of change) and deceleration looks to be…

Mar 20, 2006 at 00:00

Every region or country on the list, except for Canada, is either running a current account deficit or a budget deficit. New Zealand, with interest rate at 7%, has one…

Mar 20, 2006 at 00:00

We have heard the opinion that "Given that over 50% of the Bundesbank's foreign reserves are in gold (valued at market prices), there is a case for reserve diversification. Studies…

Mar 20, 2006 at 00:00

The unwieldy twin deficits of both the U.S. current and fiscal accounts are widely reported as unproblematic and most certainly not inflationary. Does anyone really believe the notion that the…

Mar 20, 2006 at 00:00

In the Philippines, there is "nothing to nationalize" or nowhere to demand for an increase in shares of revenues simply because there is hardly an industry to speak of. In…

Mar 19, 2006 at 00:00

The XAU gold/silver index was basically unchanged after Friday's (Mar. 17) trading session, closing the day at 131.74. This gave the XAU a slight gain for the week, however, coming…

Mar 19, 2006 at 00:00

I'm not going to go through the precise mathematical calculation here, but in general we can say that if the Dow was at 11,700 on January 14th, 2006, and it…