Markets

Jul 17, 2004 at 00:00

China's industrial labor productivity growth exploded at a 17% annual rate between 1995 and 2002. As in the more developed countries, this rise in productivity comes from improved technologies and…

Jul 16, 2004 at 00:00

I would today argue that only as long as financial sector assets and total speculative returns expand will there persist The Illusion of Soundness and Stability. The liquidity to sustain…

Jul 17, 2004 at 00:00

Here's the dirty little secret about the mutual fund business that you should know: If they do well because the markets do well, they all act like they are geniuses…

Jul 17, 2004 at 00:00

Speaking of things contrarian, we unofficially usher in an attempt to start a separate look at ideas from a contrarian point of view, which we plan to post in the…

Jul 17, 2004 at 00:00

Suddenly we have to realise that this is a people thing, a game of perceptions, of confidence, rising or falling. Suddenly Technical Analysis, the charts, come into their own, pointing…

Jul 16, 2004 at 00:00

Traditionally this has been done by speculating in junior gold stocks, small unproven ventures that are not actually mining gold yet. The fascinating realm of juniors is extraordinarily risky though.…

Jul 16, 2004 at 00:00

To calculate the Monthly DJIA Coppock Curve all we need is the DJIA time series and a spreadsheet. Let's assume we have calculated the Monthly DJIA Coppock Curve for a…

Jul 16, 2004 at 00:00

US debt levels are at unprecedented highs and whatever economic rebound has occurred over the past 12 months has been mostly an illusion created by inflation. Therefore, apart from the…

Jul 16, 2004 at 00:00

Along with the coming decline in gold stocks, the other major stock indexes are also on schedule for a strong decline to their summer 2003 levels into the last week…

Jul 15, 2004 at 00:00

This is a repeat story of last year, which remarkably ended with the funds dumping over 400 tonnes of gold on the market in six weeks. There again the battle…