Markets

Dec 26, 2005 at 00:00

As I read and hear the prognostications for the markets, it seems that the general view is for the markets to rally during the last 4 trading sessions of the…

Dec 24, 2005 at 00:00

We today face a torrent of disinformation, propaganda, imaginative "analysis" and a slew of wishful thinking when it comes to the true state of our financial and economic systems. At…

Dec 24, 2005 at 00:00

The seasonal tendencies at this time of year are so strong that, on a short term basis, the technical indicators do not matter. Next week should have an upward bias…

Dec 24, 2005 at 00:00

We are awash in debt, assert numerous authorities. And they point to the charts which show debt mounting seemingly to the sky. But not all debt is bad. Some of…

Dec 24, 2005 at 00:00

Going on from our last Elliott Wave and Fibonacci analysis of the current gold correction, we stated that gold had finished its first initial down move but awaited an end…

Dec 24, 2005 at 00:00

To their credit, Wall Street pundits have noted the proliferation of signs warning financial danger; to their peril most have chosen to ignore them. Four examples of such cognitive dissidence…

Dec 23, 2005 at 00:00

Short-term U.S. interest rates probably won't reach a plateau and then remain steady as financial markets now predict, the president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank said Thursday.

Dec 23, 2005 at 00:00

After decades of exponential debt growth, the Fed now faces an impossible task: keep debt growth above interest charges or risk liquidation by the marginal debtor setting off cascading cross-defaults.

Dec 23, 2005 at 00:00

As stock markets bobble and weave through time, they create intricate fractal patterns in their journeys. Often they create patterns that appear remarkably similar to their own earlier time periods,…

Dec 23, 2005 at 00:00

If there is anything that I have learned in my years of watching the market, it is that anything can happen! So that we're not taken by surprise, I'd like…