Earlier today on The Network they had a chap on (whom I seem to recall his being wrong a lot during this bear market) who suggested getting out of or reducing foreign equity exposure due in part to...
Obama lays out tax increase to pay for more government. Capital gains and dividend taxes would go to 20% versus the 15% they are currently. That means an extra 5% of your hard earned gains on your...
Trading desks and hedge funds have plenty of cash on hand to pick each other's pockets. This is happened today in my opinion especially with financials which have become "trading" vehicles....
Ongoing bad news from financials, oil and commodity price rebounds while consumer spending weakens put stocks back in their place. Bulls would suggest this is just part of a bottom building process...
Every now and again, I enjoy shaking things up. For instance, there's a downloadable application for the iPhone called "Urban Spoon." You shake the iPhone and... using GPS navigation......
Deutsche Bank is now offering ETNs that tracks the Benjamin Graham Intelligent Value indexes (see IndexUniverse article). The indexes are based on the value-based investment philosophy of the...
Despite hints by the Federal Reserve yesterday that they will not be raising interest rates in the near future, the US Dollar is displaying strength on concerns over a global economic slow down and...
Gold has declined steadily from the high on July 15th which coincidentally was the day the bottom was put in on the S&P 500. As I write this the price of (AMEX: GLD) is $88.14 and the 200 day...
Earlier this year “Gold Stocks Pay Off,” it seemed like the stars had lined up for gold stock investors. Gold equities looked cheap relative to bullion in mid-March, at least on the basis of the...
Quietly the dollar has been moving higher based on the dollar index. After hitting a high of 74.15 on June 13th, we established a new downtrend and a low at 71.31. Last week we broke above that trend...
