Many fear that rising interest rates will crush income-oriented portfolios. Get over it — that was last year’s news. In fact, the vast majority of high-yielding assets have been the …
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There was some cursory movement of bullion out of the Comex warehouses yesterday, but in general they are reasonably well equipped ahead of the April active contract period which begins …
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Yesterday, I wrote a piece discussing why “It Is Impossible To Replay The 90’s”making the point that we are likely replaying the 1970’s instead. My friend and colleague, Doug Short, emailed me …
Read More Excerpted from the 31 page NFTRH 283 (dated 3.23.14), which also thoroughly analyzed the precious metals and several other markets from a technical standpoint. Gold’s Macro Fundamentals This spike in …
Read More I first wrote about (and got invested in) the Fannie and Freddie Preferred stock back in the summer of 2009, Link. As of today, the last of those shares have been …
Read More The Greek economic collapse, depression and bankruptcy has seen many odd things in its brief and often times violent history (in those days when the violent elements were not on …
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As a reminder we are coming into the end of the first quarter of the year on Monday next, and that should be a prompt for those trying to understand …
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Buyers concentrated their attentions on the S&P, but the attempted rally stalled as it approached yesterday’s high (which is below larger resistance). Bulls may yet attempt another rally tomorrow, although …
Read More In a recent post, I mentioned a blog post by Nate Silver which I hadn’t managed to google. It is here Models Based on ‘Fundamentals’ Have Failed at Predicting Presidential Elections …
Read More The major averages rose today to send both the Dow and S&P 500 into positive territory for the month of March. The Dow rose 91.19 points with International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) …
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