Asian equity markets open with lots of talk around the Chinese National Peoples Congress and the idea that GDP will now be an indicative target range (6.5 – 7%). The Shanghai opened over 1% firmer but did lose that as
March 7, 2016
On a day with little economic news, the S&P 500 opened in the red and spent the day oscillating in the third narrowest trading range of the year from its -0.53% morning low to its 0.31% high during at the
Going only from the conventional interpretation of the optimistic 242,000 in payroll gains Friday, it is still remarkable how more than one-fifth of those purported job creations in February were due to activity in retail trade alone. The monthly variation estimate for
Bear Market Rallies & ETFs, ETFs & Falling Corporate Profits, Large-Cap Stock ETFs, Long-Term Corporate Bond ETFs, ETFs & Stock Market Risk, Home Ownership & ETFs, Employment & ETFs, Government Debt & ETFs. Audio Length: 00:13:46 (Click the play button
Gold officially entered a bull market in last week’s trading with prices gaining more than 20% from their December lows. The silver price also put on some very nice gains, but the price needs to reach about $16.40 before watchers
Interview with Leo Kolivakis, Publisher and Editor of the Web Site “PensionPulse.blogspot.com“. Mr. Kolivakis is an independent senior economist and pension and investment analyst with years of experience working on the buy and sell-side. Leo Kolivakis believes we have entered a
The market is still trying to rally today, and up barely a smidge, and this is despite Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), Google (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) being ghastly in the red today. Internals are not that great either.
Ira Epstein leads us through the day’s precious metal highlights. Video Length: 00:07:20
Although, I gotta say, that little rally we got during the day starting ninety minutes before the close was pretty disappointing. Still, the big picture is intriguing.
Have you considered all the materials used to make a mobile phone? — typically 46 chemical elements, which is almost everything on the Periodic Table except noble gases and plutonium, thank goodness. But don’t celebrate yet. Cadmium reserves are practically
