Markets

Dec 20, 2014 at 08:51

The next 2 weeks are seasonally strong with very low volume. I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday December 26 than they were on Friday December 19.

Dec 20, 2014 at 07:59

Summary: Long term - on major sell signal since Mar 2012 when $HUI was at 550. Short term - on buy signals. Gold sector cycle - up as of 11/14.…

Dec 20, 2014 at 07:57

An eminent collapse of the US fiat petrodollar? China and Russia, with their enormous build-up of physical gold over the last several years, waiting in the wings to lead a…

Dec 19, 2014 at 19:24

It was an interesting week, including in the financial markets. We'll focus on these extraordinary market gyrations. I'll have nothing to say about the Federal Reserve, as I believe they…

Dec 19, 2014 at 16:14

The gold and silver stocks have put in a bullish weekly reversal but Gold and Silver have not confirmed it. The interplay between the metals and the shares has been…

Dec 19, 2014 at 11:54

Briefly: short speculative positions, stop-loss at $332, take-profit at $275. We read an interesting piece on Tech Crunch on how 2014 was difficult for Bitcoin ...

Dec 19, 2014 at 11:24

Gold stocks have suffered a miserable few years, becoming a laughingstock even among contrarians. But this despised sector's seemingly-endless downward spiral has left gold stocks vastly undervalued relative to gold…

Dec 19, 2014 at 07:45

E-mini SP500 is slightly down for the past few hours but decline is slow and choppy so it looks corrective, probably wave 4 that is also moving into a nice…

Dec 19, 2014 at 07:20

A financial meltdown would see the upper layers of the pyramid being liquidated in a panic that would likely involve the opaque over-the-counter derivatives markets. A few of the world's…

Dec 19, 2014 at 06:33

Globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs in the language of the Financial Stability Board) are to be bailed-in if they fail, moving the cost from governments to the depositors, bondholders and…