Markets

Jun 29, 2004 at 00:00

My sense is that much of the rally in the gold and silver markets last week was due to heightened fear of the transfer of power in Iraq, and such…

Jun 29, 2004 at 00:00

With all the intensive focus on inflation, a contrarian should be asking if maybe inflation hasn't already peaked. To this end, I collected a series of headlines from the London…

Jun 28, 2004 at 00:00

What will happen to gold stocks for the next few months? With the coming selling pressure, HUI should continue its decline to around 155-160 in early July. XAU and NEM…

Jun 28, 2004 at 00:00

Others likely feared revealing their cash holdings. Some around the world do not report all their income to the taxing authority, a practice we abhor in public. Cash transactions often…

Jun 27, 2004 at 00:00

The "Virginia Declaration of Rights" by George Mason, had it correct in the first place. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights,…

Jun 27, 2004 at 00:00

And the cruel fact is that no major new oil refineries have been built in the United States or Canada since the early 1980s, and many of the ones that…

Jun 27, 2004 at 00:00

There is nothing to add to the comments of last week - the action is still playing out the projections. All that is being done is fine tuning the BIFURCATION…

Jun 26, 2004 at 00:00

The first chart pretty much sums it up. It is a FastTrack chart showing the Russell 2000 (R2K) in red, the S&P 500 (SPX) in green and a FastTrack relative…

Jun 27, 2004 at 00:00

The DJIA's decline Friday was on increasing volume, the Relative Strength Indicator is neutral, and prices sit in the middle of their 2 percent Bollinger Bands. The Moving Average Convergence/…

Jun 26, 2004 at 00:00

The only sour notes have been rising inflation with both CPI and PPI levels the highest since 2001 which in turn is putting pressure on long bond rates and probably…