By PlungerVolatility has now returned to the stock market after a hibernation of several years. An explosion of volatility normally is indicative of a change of trend. The recent signals transmitted by this market have been classic and has been telling us that we have entered the final topping process of this extended and stretched economic cycle. The trading over the past 7 market sessions f...Read More
Source: Michael J. Ballanger for Streetwise Reports 02/09/2018 The physical metals will continue to outperform mining shares until there is some stabilization in the global arena, posits precious metals expert Michael Ballanger. -->In the "I hate to say I-told-you-so" category, it looks like the Punxsutawney Phil came out of his den last week, took one look at the state of the global stock...Read More
By Graham SummersThe markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to ge...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was gold, down 1.26 percent. China's demand for gold jewelry rose 10 percent last year to around 700 metric tons due to increasing wealth of residents. China is the largest market for gold in the world.? Gold demand is also on the rise in India, the second largest consumer of gold, with purchases expe...Read More
In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check job applicants' Social Security numbers and other Information - potentially including "biometric" identifiers like fingerprints - a...Read More
By Avi GilburtFor those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals mining market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I still think we can see it in occur in 2018. But, after last week's b...Read More
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has over three decades of market research and trading experience, specializing in the metals and commodity markets, and even authored a book in 2006 titled Gold Trading Boot Camp, where he accurately predicted the implosion of the U.S. credit market, and urged people to buy gold when it was...Read More
Critics of "New Age" monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is acceleratingNormally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble finding enough workers to keep up with their rising sales. So they start paying new hi...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
Continue...Ray Dalio is an American businessman and founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. In 2012, Dalio appeared on the annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2011 and 2012 he was listed by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 Most Influential people. Institutional Investor's Alpha ranked him No. 2 on their 2...Read More
For those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals mining market. I believe that the GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long term break out has begun, and I still think we can see it in occur in 2018. But, after last week’s break down...Read More
Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has over three decades of market research and trading experience, specializing in the metals and commodity markets, and even authored a book in 2006 titled Gold Trading Boot Camp, where he accurately predicted the implosion of the U.S. credit market...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
"You can't buy anything with gold. What does gold do."Photo credit: FlickrRead More
It was a rough week for investors in stocksand stocks of all kinds. The S&P 500 lost 5%. Emerging Markets also lost5%. Gold Stocks, which had weakened before the broader equity market have beenhit hard. They (GDX, GDXJ) also lost 5% last week. The HUI Gold Bugs Index(which excludes royalty companies unlike GDX) lost 7%. After a strong start tothe year, gold stocks have essentially given back a...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1321.30+$6.50Silver$16.52+$0.20XAU81.08+3.49%HUI180.45+3.38%GDM613.99+2.89%JSE Gold1118.34-13.55USD90.14-0.29Euro122.92+0.54Yen92.02-0.07Oil$59.29+$0.0910-Year2.857%+0.002T-Bond144.50+0.34375Dow24601.27+1.70%Nasdaq6981.96+1.56%S&P2656.00+1.39% The Metals: Gold gained $11.10 to $1325.90 in early Asian trade before it fell back to $1317.50 in London, but it then climbed t...Read More
By Keith WeinerHow Not to Predict Interest RatesWe continue our hiatus from capital destruction to look further at interest rates. Last week, our Report was almost prescient. We said:The first thing we must say about this is that people should pick one: (A) rising stock market or (B) rising interest rates. They both cannot be true (though we could have falling rates and falling stocks).We write...Read More
The markets have changed and many are going to get "taken to the cleaners."Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year.Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get annihilated in th...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
By Ira EpsteinMetals move higher, but will it last?https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More