Lets supposed that you agree, like I do, that 99pct of Americans are honest. We live our lives in a law abiding fashion. That there is nothing about our lives that is noteworthy or worth hiding from anyone other than maybe
February 28, 2016
Another earnings season has come and gone. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) quarterly report last week marked the end of “the season” for S&P 500 companies. But I’m already on to the next reporting season: hedge funds. Every quarter, these secretive institutions disclose
The gold to silver ratio moved up very sharply this week, +4.2%. How did this happen? It was not because of a move in the price of gold, which barely budged this week. It was due entirely to silver being
The market has been witnessing a period of comparative calm, regardless of daily tension on the tape so evident for those of us who trade the S&P for instance. To others, it appears to be a narrow indecision pattern. Part of
Many investors won’t touch Energy with a ten-foot pole and that’s understandable. Oil prices are down and we’re constantly hearing reports of too much supply, which is being exacerbated by the activities of politically motivated rather than commercially oriented producers.
Mining silver and gold is a tough business. In order to mine either of these products (money) you need a steady stream of capital into your operation. As we have reported on a number of occasions throughout 2015, and into
Neil Irwin had an interesting piece on the Federal Reserve Board’s interest rate policy and its relationship to the stock market. The piece essentially argues that if the Fed were to make its interest rate decision based on economic data that it
Gold: With Gold closing marginally lower on a rejection candle the past week (see weekly chart), further downside is likely. On the downside, support comes in at the 1210.00 level where a break will turn attention to the 1200.00 level.
t’s one thing for the republican establishment to throw up all over the candidacy of Donald Trump: frankly, the GOP has not been relevant as a political power ever since Boehner started folding like a lawn chair to Obama’s every
According to economic theory, one of the most promising ways in which monetary policy might be able to stimulate an economy in which the nominal interest rate has reached zero is to promise to follow a different policy rule once interest
