AAPL, not long ago the one true love of fund managers, has been a conspicuous laggard since the broad averages trampolined off December's lows. It is only in retrospect that we can see how they might have contrived, albeit with only modest success, to ignore the stock's big problem, which is that the company's ridiculously overpriced phones are poorly positioned to compete against increasingly a...Read More
Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial firm. Michael has also created ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Earlier in his career, he worked on the floor of the NYSE. He i...Read More
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on civil asset forfeiture - that states are bound by the Eighth Amendment - may be a step in the right direction, but it's only a baby step. Police are still free to steal from individuals not even accused of a crime, let alone convicted of a crime. They are just now told to not steal too much.Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texa...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
Deutsche Bank has ILLEGALLY hidden $1.6B in losses for 10 years and it is just NOW being exposed! Who is going to jail for this one?Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedicated his efforts over the last 15 years to exposing the...Read More
At the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, yields an annual income of only $15,080. This is below the annual poverty line. Continue...Read More
"Thinking about Facebook as an innovator in privacy is certainly not the mainstream view, but going back to the very first thing that we did, making it so Harvard students Continue...Read More
Luke discusses his background as a research analyst which led him into data aggregation research at an institutional firm. He argues that everything is in a bubble and Gold is arguably the cheapest asset relative to history. Investors should watch the value of gold by comparing the market value of the United States official gold holdings to the amount of foreign-held treasury bonds outstanding. In...Read More
The new campaign follows the 2018 release of an NI 43-101 resource update for the asset. Silver Bull Sierra Mojada ProjectSilver Bull Resources Inc. (SVB:TSX; SVBL:NYSE.MKT) announced in a news release it will soon commence an 8,000-meter surface drill program at its Sierra Mojada project in Coahuila, Mexico, which is highly prospective for silver and zinc.According to the company, the goal of t...Read More
A Haywood report presented Q4/18 and full-year 2018 results pre-merger and 2019 guidance post-merger for this miner. In a Feb. 14 research note, analyst Kerry Smith reported Barrick Gold Corp.'s (ABX:TSX; GOLD:NYSE) 2018 financials were a "slight miss," but 2019 guidance is "in line with our expectations." Smith summarized the salient figures. Barrick's 2018 cash flow was $1.94 billion, or $1.66...Read More
This Canadian company's current production, and the impact its new Nevada operation will have on the numbers, were addressed in a ROTH Capital Partners report. In a Feb. 8 research note, analyst Jake Sekelsky reported McEwen Mining Inc. (MUX:TSX; MUX:NYSE ) should reach first production by the end of February 2019 at Gold Bar, its open-pit, heap-leach operation in central Nevada. Currently, McEwe...Read More
The recent minutes show that the Fed is divided over future rate hikes. How should gold investors react?To Hike, or not to Hike, That Is The QuestionAs Chairman Powell has been good at communicating the US central bank’s plans, the recent FOMC minutes do not contain too many surprises. In January, the Fed took investors by surprise, saying that it could be patient on interest rates. The minu...Read More
Does technical analysis need to be so convoluted? Here are a couple of definitions from different sources:1) Convoluted: (especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow. (source)2) Convoluted sentences, explanations, arguments, etc. are unreasonably long and difficult to understand. We are not talking about the accuracy or relevancy; or eve...Read More
There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother’s tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives' tale.Of late, I am seeing a bubbe meise about the importance of central bank buying of gold, and it is making its rounds on websites all over the internet.We have been hearing for m...Read More
By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother's tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives' tale.Of late, I am seeing a bubbe meise about the importance of central bank buying of gold, and it is making its rounds on websites all over the i...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold continues to trend with lower-lows, higher-highs. In a resistance area. The gold market is overbought. Gold stocks - $GDX - also back up into upper resistance and overbought as well. That does not mean in a downtrend...Read More
By: Ross Norman, Sharps PixleyGold's relative strength indicator is at the 73, highest since September 2011 - the month that gold hit an all-time high. This may suggest that gold is technically "overbought" just now, but it is also at a level we saw regularly back in the early 2000's when gold was starting a bull run with a 16% year on year increase, well before the Global Financial Crisis.There...Read More
AAPL, not long ago the one true love of fund managers, has been a conspicuous laggard since the broad averages trampolined off December's lows. It is only in retrospect that we can see how they might have contrived, albeit with only modest success, to ignore the stock's big problem, which is that the company's ridiculously overpriced phones are poorly positioned to compete against increasingly a...Read More
Full Article: FED CRUMPLES - and SEALS THE DOLLAR'S FATE..By: Clive P. MaundThe Fed didn't just fold on Wednesday, it crumpled, capitulated. A long time ago we had figured out that when push came to shove, this is what it would do. However, we thought that it would take a market crash to force it to change course, in order that it could use that as solid justification for a U-turn, instead of whi...Read More
"Had the opposition party… won the election," said the president Tuesday," the Stock Market would be down at least 10,000 points by now."Instead, Mr. Trump exulted, "We are heading up, up, up!"And for the moment "we" certainly are.The stock market has largely been heading up, up, up two months running.We are convinced the Federal Reserve's newfound dovishness is far more responsible than the...Read More