Markets

Jul 23, 2015 at 08:37

There is a lot to go over tonight in regards to commodities and the precious metals complex. A while back I wrote a report on the commodities in general getting…

Jul 23, 2015 at 07:26

Aside from $ trillions in monetary stimulus from the world's major central banks, a major source to the recovery from the 2008-9 global financial crisis emerged from the BRICs economies.

Jul 23, 2015 at 07:06

In the age 25-54 demographic, this recovery lags somewhere between 4.5 and 6.5 million fulltime jobs. Note that is just age group 25-54. I am confident age groups 55-62 and…

Jul 23, 2015 at 06:34

There is a myth prevalent today that the gold price always falls when interest rates rise. The logic is that when interest rates rise it is more expensive to hold…

Jul 23, 2015 at 06:23

In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, SP500 index) ...

Jul 23, 2015 at 05:56

Also noted last week was that the huge effort by China's policymakers is a magnificent failure of intrusive central banking. One side of it was in boosting until it became…

Jul 23, 2015 at 05:55

USD/CAD is still increasing above 1.3000. Hourly support is given at 1.2540 (02/07/2015 low). Stronger support can be found at 1.2363 (30/06/2015 low). We remain bullish on the pair as…

Jul 22, 2015 at 19:00

From mid-2012 until the beginning of 2014, US treasuries were in a steep decline (yield rising) in expectations of Fed rate hikes that never came. 2014 was a great year…

Jul 22, 2015 at 17:53

Over the course of the years, we have repeatedly stated (though probably not as much as many would like us to do) that companies use share buybacks to manipulate earnings.…

Jul 22, 2015 at 13:01

Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd spoke with Bloomberg Television's Tom Keene and Brendan Greeley about the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank act, his namesake legislature. On the results and success…