by Tyler Durden Over the past week, one of the less noticed and more notable developments, was that the 2s10s quietly climbed back to just short of all time record wides: at 273 bps, the curve is just 13 basis point away from the all time record 286 bps achieved on February 2, 2010. For those who still don’t understand how this most recent...

AC Investor ( click to enlarge ) I think Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) is setting up for a strong move, probably into the twenty two to twenty five dollar area at first. The stock has been under accumulation for a couple days now and today it broke through two major resistance levels. The momentum is back in this stock. The next major resistance...

The U.S. Dollar Index Futures have been sold heavily and interestingly enough, gold and silver have not rallied. In fact, gold and silver have sold off while the dollar experienced downward price action as well. How does that whole scenario make any sense? I do not fancy myself as an expert in the area of reasoning why a stock or commodity rises or...

Tim Iacono The Labor Department reported that consumer prices saw their biggest increase in 18 months, up 0.5 percent in December for a full-year 2010 reading of 1.5 percent. Recent gains were driven by rising energy prices as “core” inflation – excluding food and energy – rose just 0.1 percent last month and registered the smallest annual...

Despite so much focus on the policies of the Fed, its operations remain somewhat of a mystery to most investors — in no smaller measure, due to their complexity. So, we put together a free resource for our Club EWI members: a 35-page report that explains the Fed, its goals and, very importantly, its limitations...

Goldman’s Henry Bowe summarizes the day’s key events-Tyler Durden Modest selloff in equities today, which is actually somewhat surprising. Better global backdrop: European sovereigns tighter. Domestic conditions encouraging: weaker USD + lower rates. Easy to chalk weakness up to disappointing claims data, but those early losses were actually...

You only have to watch my earlier videos to see that it has performed very well this week in gold as well as the crude. In today’s short video I want to share an ETF that is setting up nicely and should be giving us a buy signal using the same strategy that we used in the earlier gold and crude oil videos. This ETF which closely follows the Swiss...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT An upward sloping consolidation in Gold that began in October has, despite a lack of any real losses, been enough to improve various sentiment indicators. Mark Hulbert of MarketWatch gives an update on his Gold sentiment indicator: Consider the average recommended gold market exposure among a subset of short-term gold market...

By: John Darsie of T3Live Futures are near flat this morning with jobless claims and PPI data on tap. After the close today, chip giant Intel Corp. (INTC) will report its fourth quarter earnings, which ar expected to come in at 53 cents a share. Bond auctions continued in Europe, with Spain and Italy raising money in hopes of avoiding an eventual...

There is a potentially big setup in precious metals sector along with the dollar which looks like its about to unfold. Since mid-October of last year gold started to show signs of distribution selling. Only a month later in November silver started warning us that some big players were taking some profits off the table also. Distribution selling is easy...

By: Steve Levay of T3Live The market continues to be very strong, but not too many of my stocks acted very well this morning. My main plays, the rare earth stocks, are mostly resting except for SHZ. SHZ was a monster this morning, bouncing off it’s lows of $8.00 and barely looking back. It looked to be setting up a perfect bull flag but has yet to...

John Thomas, the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, founding father of the international hedge fund industry and one of 2010’s top-performing traders reveals: Where the Money is in 2011: Where top hedge funds are betting the money is, including little-known “frontier” & emerging markets, secular bull markets in commodities, currencies,...

By Phil of Phil’s Stock World “Portugal will not request financial aid for the simple reason that it’s not necessary” – Socrates Of course, that was Jose Socrates, Portugal’s Prime Minister, not Σωκρτης the great Philospoher, who was more famous for saying “False words are not only evil in themselves, but...

by Karl Denninger Hmmmm….. on Kudlow last night…. This is definitely worth a listen…. and you won’t believe who’s pointing it out – on air – either. Remember, there’s never only one…. Real-Time ETF Trading Alerts: Click Here

Now that we have “Silly Season” behind us, it’s time to get serious about trading In today’s video we are looking at crude oil. This market has been a disappointment to a lot of traders as has remained in a broad trading range for the past 18 months. The current trading range will eventually be broken and the market will move...