Gold, Silver & Rare Earth Which has the strongest trend right now? In today’s video we will be looking at the gold market, analyzing the silver market, and finally, checking into the rare earth market. Before you look at the video, you may want to consider doing this as an exercise: Write down which market has the strongest trend – up...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT At the end of December we posted a commentary titled “Three Things that could Halt Gold’s Run.” We theorized that strength in conventional markets pressures Gold. When stocks perform well, mainstream gurus and stock jocks can ignore Gold. Here is a snippet of our comment: Currently, stocks are performing well as...

By David Galland, The Casey Report In describing the current situation in these United States, and in many of the world’s other superpowers, we here at Casey Research have often used the word “intractable”… as in, “impossible to resolve.” While that may not be technically accurate – because there is no problem related to economics that...

By: Scott Redler of T3Live Gold finally found some footing Friday January 28th as the market got hit, and since has been trying to gain some traction for a move higher. Gold got a nice move Friday before resting the last two days. This morning Gold, which I trade with the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), is back on the move, set to open above Friday’s...

Jeffrey M. Lacker President Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond University of Delaware Newark, Del. I do not often get invited to speak outside of the Fifth Federal Reserve District, which is the Richmond Fed’s territory, but when I do, it is a pleasure to visit the district of such a good friend and colleague as President Charles Plosser of the...

Courtesy of John Nyaradi H/T Phil’s Stock World The Chinese Lunar New Year began last week on February 3rd and will end on January 22, 2012, with this year’s Lunar New Year celebration culminating with the full moon on February 18th. 2011 is officially known as the Year of the Golden Rabbit and comes from the rabbit, the fourth sign of the...

Tim Iacono From the Global Macro Monitor blog comes another uplifting chart that lays U.S. job losses in the manufacturing sector up against job gains in another part of the economy that shouldn’t be doing so well, in this case, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. Recall that in this item at the old blog last year, a similar graphic was created...

By: John Darsie of T3Live Super Sunday has spilled over into Super Monday for the stock market as the indices race to new highs following last week’s impressive reversal. Today’s strength is broad-based, while bellwether stocks are showing leadership. Investors are shrugging off Friday’s troubling jobs number, which saw nearly 1 million...

I have a special offer for all my loyal TMG readers. 2010 was an awesome year! Yes there were some downs, with the economy and all, but trading wise it was outstanding! 2011 has started out amazing and I’m sure you’ve read an article or two that I’ve posted from Chris Vermeulen, but I have a little more unknown insight into his trading...

Courtesy of Phil of Phil’s Stock World I read the news today, oh boy… I need to remember not to do that when I’m trying to get bullish.  Fortunately, we already grabbed a new set of “5 Trades that Make 500% in a Rising Market” to follow up on our original set, now just about 2 months old, that have already hit their...

by Tyler Durden One chart as usual does more to convey a simple message than all the Fed speeches equating the economy with the Russell 2000 ever could. Below we demonstrate the performance of three key market data points since the August Woods Hole speech: the performance of the S&P (via the ES), the price change in the 10 Year bond (TY1 inverse...

by Karl Denninger This morning our Dear President intends to try to press his luck. President Barack Obama will challenge American business leaders today to move their cash from the sidelines to invest in the U.S. as part of what he will call a shared burden to boost the nation’s economy. Obama will make a case in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of...

By: John Darsie of T3Live Stock futures are pointing to a higher open once again Monday after the market bounced back to highs last week. The potent sell-off from Friday, January 28th rattled some investors, but is now just a distant memory. The market shrugged off Friday’s low non-farm payrolls number, which also came with an unexpected drop...

Gold Scents It has been my contention all along that the Fed would print until something breaks. Once that break occurs we will enter the next leg down in the secular bear market. This time I don’t expect it to be the credit markets, although we will almost certainly have trouble in the municipal and state bond markets. Some may even default. I...

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