For over four years, gold and silver have been in a cyclical bear market, within a larger secular bull trend. A number of times since silver’s May 2011 high at just below $50, they have swooned, built a base that should have held, yet dropped again. With silver at this writing, printing the lowest close since 2009, the…
Video Length: 00:04:44 Those interested in silver know that for market insight and advice they need look no further than me. I caught up with the Investing News Network at last week’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC), and while i did share some insight on silver (such as his number one reason for being bullish…
Photo Credit:Juan J. Velasco Zynga Inc CI A (ZNGA) Information Technology – Software| Reports February 10, After Market Closes. Zynga (ZNGA) is scheduled to report fourth quarter earnings February 10, after the market closes. On the heels of its Q4 2015 earnings, shares of the gamemaker touched a 52 week low of $1.93 per share. Zynga…
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. – Betty Bender They say a picture is worth a thousand words and this chart is probably worth a lot more. It illustrates how the BLS has been lying through its teeth over the past seven years. Then again anyone with a grain…
Book enthusiasts catapulted John Berendt’s classic Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to iconic status. The nonfiction-novel hybrid spent 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, longer than any book before or since, that is, unless you include the Bible. With estimated annual sales of 100 million, lifetime sales of the…
January witnessed 13 ETF launches along with the closure of four ETFs and one ETN, putting the new count at 1,853 (1,653 ETFs and 200 ETNs). The net increase of eight might seem like a slow pace of product introductions, but it is much better than a year ago when the 23 closures swamped the 13 launches.Assets…
Swedes are saving more than ever in their newly created (voluntary) cashless environment. That was not supposed to be how it works. They should be saving less and spending more because the banks are charging them interest. That is the goal of negative interest rates, to force people to spend more so that inflation will…
Forget about oil and water not mixing, these days for investors oil and stocks don’t mix. The near direct correlation between equity markets and the price of oil has far too many confused, perplexed or just pulling an ostrich and sticking their heads in the dirt. Let’s help explain and simplify this new phenomenon.Lower energy prices…
Thanks to persistent global slowdown and a strong dollar, the tech heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has been creeping closer to the bear territory, having shed about 18% from its all-time high recorded last July. In fact, most of the tech heavyweight stocks have already fallen into a bear territory, losing more than 20% so far…
During the session on Thursday, there are a lot of things going on, but without a doubt one of the biggest ones will be Janet Yellen speaking to the Congress in the United States. That being said, it is a bit difficult to imagine that you can quantify this at a time so having said…
