Completely against his intentions, President Obama has proven to be the greatest gun salesman in American history. Throughout his presidency, the fear of more gun control regulations has sent gun sales soaring on several occasions. In turn, shares of gun manufacturers and
March 5, 2016
The U.S. Mint has been rationing the volume of silver eagles released to the public since July 2015. The Royal Canadian Mint has followed suit. The Australian Perth Mint, has increased their monthly production of silver coins more than two
The U.S. could be headed for a new mortgage crisis by this summer, believes one analyst. Richard X. Bove, Vice President of Equity Research at Rafferty Capital Markets, said in a report dated March 1 that it’s looking increasingly likely
The data docket this week is on the light side, with the Q4 earnings season now effectively behind us and not much on the economic calendar either. The earnings season isn’t technically over yet as this week brings in results
Traders and investors think in terms of quarterly reports and stock momo, or at least I did in the panic of 2008-9. I made good money with BA options when the stock declined on 787 woes and macro headwinds. The
Fundamental Forecast for Dollar: Neutral USDollar has pulled back to its 200-day moving average to once again pressure its multi-year bull trend With the FOMC still another week off, speculation and ECB crosswinds will generate volatility for the Dollar See how real retail traders
The cracks are starting to appear in the ‘paper’ gold market. BlackRock’s rather shocking decision to halt ETF creation due to gold demand (i.e. being unable to source enough physical gold to meet mandated requirements given the inflows) follows the largest gold ETF
Through Friday’s (3/4/2016) market close, the average return for the Dogs of the Dow of 2016 continues to outperform both the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. The average return through Friday for the Dow Dogs totals 3.5%
The January margin debt figures were released earlier in the week and there are a couple of interesting things to note. First, though it is still very elevated, margin debt-to-GDP has now fallen to its lowest level in over two
Sometimes we all get stuck in a rut – and my rut has been the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise the federal funds rate in December – and their continuing publicity to support why this action was taken. It is not because the federal
