It was bad enough that a numbered bullet point, (!) using tout has been lathering the gold “community” lately with an amazing fundamental consideration he calls “the Chindian love trade” (you know, in China they buy gold for love and as their economy grows gold will go way up in price). Never mind that he promoted gold…
US growth ground to nearly a halt in the first quarter, but jobless claims continue to anticipate a solid pace of growth going forward. New filings for unemployment ticked lower by 1,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 264,000, which is close to a 15-year low. The four-week average for claims, which is considered a more reliable…
The US dollar is enjoying firmer tone as the week winds down. It is up against all the major currencies but the Norwegian krone today. This trims the loss for the week. In fact, the roughly 0.7% decline of the New Zealand dollar today, making it the weakest of the majors, is enough to turn it…
Online Trading Academy Article of the Week by Diana Hill, Online Trading Academy “People will always need a place to live, work and shop.” I say this often because sometimes I get the impression people think the opportunities in real estate investing are going away. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It’s knowing where the next…
The EUR/USD pair tried to rally during the day on Thursday, but gave up quite a bit of the gains. However, we continue to see the 1.15 level above as resistance. This market certainly has been bullish in general, and I now think that the pair is going to be “buy only” as far as…
Bonds were sold off globally. Demand for bonds dropped and, as a consequence, their price has gone down. Because yields move in the opposite direction of bond prices, have recently gone up again. The German 10-year bund surged to 0.79 percent recently, for example; a strong appreciation in just a matter of weeks. US interest…
Gold bullion and the Gold BUGS Index (HUI) are close to breaking out to the upside on the daily charts. As shown below, the US$ gold price is butting up against lateral resistance that also now coincides with the 200-day moving average (MA), and the HUI is struggling with resistance defined by a trend-line that…
Forty years ago an international cartel successfully conspired to assume sovereign control of Canada. With reorganization of the government during the Great Recession of the 1930s Canada had operated for the following 40 years a under total independent sovereignty, more so than any other capitalistic democracy. But that all ended in 1974. How that happened…
With the S&P 500 hitting a new high, let’s take a look at Treasury Yields.The first chart shows the daily performance of several Treasuries and the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) since 2007. The source for the yields is the Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates from the US Department of the Treasury and the St. Louis Fed’s FRED…
Led by Betsy Warren, the protectionist Pasionara of the Senate, a disgrace to the Harvard Law School, Democrats have blocked fast-track authority the Administration sought in order to complete negotiations for the trade-freeing Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP. This probably will also keep back the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, also requiring fast-track. Fast track has been…
