October 23, 2017

Markets reversed today from this morning’s action. Let’s see if this sets a trend, or is merely another inconsequential wiggle.  

Knowing how much patience to exercise with an underperforming holding is one of the hardest (and often most humbling) challenges in investing, in my opinion. As a long-term dividend growth investor, when I purchase shares of a company, I hope to

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Background image created by Dragana_Gordic – Freepik.com Last week I was in Barcelona speaking at the LBMA/LPPM Precious Metals Conference, which was attended by approximately 700 metals and mining firms from all over the globe. I found the event energizing

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Stocks are in a bull market. At least that’s what the price action is telling us. Skeptics argue that the bull market is built on a pile of sand. And, they warn, sand piles have a habit of collapsing suddenly. But

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The GBP/USD pair looks to follow through higher on the back of its Friday price recovery. Support lies at the 1.3150 level where a break will turn attention to the 1.3100 level. Further down, support lies at the 1.3050 level.

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November natural gas prices settled up over 2.5% on the day today, though prices traded in a narrow 6.9-cent range through the trading day. After a significant gap up last evening, prices attempted to close the gap early this afternoon

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In a special edition of our “Behind the Markets” podcast, following the Japanese parliamentary elections over the weekend, we interviewed Jesper Koll, WisdomTree’s Head of Japan, and Brad Bechtel, currency strategist at Jefferies LLC, to get their outlook for the

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One of the weakest performing currencies on Monday was the Australian dollar. After selling off sharply at the end of last week, the selling continued despite the lack of US and Australian data. AUD spent most of the North American

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As soon as it was revealed, the Trump administration’s framework for tax reform was instantly attacked by Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and friends, trying to bludgeon it to death with assertions that it was just “tax cuts for the rich.”

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) achieved a landslide victory in the snap election held Sunday, assuring that his ruling coalition retains its two-thirds majority in Japan’s lower house. It also makes it very likely that

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