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Markets

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Silver's New Upleg

Aug 06, 2004 at 00:00

The best proxy for the lackluster PM sentiment is certainly the sideways drifting HUI. Since the final weeks of its sharp correction in late April, this flagship index has drifted…

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Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective

Aug 06, 2004 at 00:00

One has to emphasise that the forces at work in the gold market are not representative of the entire gold market, so small volumes from the dominant players will distort…

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Will Consumers Bounce Back?

Aug 05, 2004 at 00:00

The government's tally of personal spending for June confirmed that spending contracted. In fact, the report published by the Commerce Department showed that spending had the largest drop since September…

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Osama Bin Laden: A Profile in Terror

Aug 05, 2004 at 00:00

Like the piece presented last week, the current offering has withstood the test of time exceptionally well, as you will see as you read it. In some respects, this series…

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The Price of Oil

Aug 04, 2004 at 00:00

Markets are smarter than people, so what is the market telling us? Even though the data (past information) tells us that supply is rising faster than demand, prices are rising.…

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South African Mining in Crisis

Aug 04, 2004 at 00:00

In a sentence, South Africa appears to be ignoring that it is part of a global economy dominated by world prices for the bulk of its products, including exports from…

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Discounting War and Terror Risk

Aug 03, 2004 at 00:00

We know that on worldwide basis common political interests have broken down. Economic ties, interdependence, and interrelationships are a bit more sticky. However, the global economy has no choice but…

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Strangely Dressed Men are Marching Around the Outside Walls While Blowing Ram Horns! Could This Be Jericho?

Aug 02, 2004 at 00:00

This novel piece of legislation allows the government to set the implied rate of return for use in the computation of pension contributions. At some future date, the bureaucrats are…

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Silver and the US Dollar

Aug 02, 2004 at 00:00

The practical aspect of distinguishing manipulation and management is to answer the question: To what extent can analysis, technical and fundamental, still remain useful in a manipulated market? Remember that…

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A Classic "Fear Market"

Aug 02, 2004 at 00:00

I was taken aback by the latest front cover of the August 2004 issue of Futures magazine. It has a dark overtone with the headline, "Stock Market Smackdown" and featuring…