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Stocks were under consistent selling pressure on Wednesday on higher volume. By the end of the session, all five major indices were well in the red, and near the day’s lows. Smaller cap issues felt the brunt of the selling pressure. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) and the S&P MidCap 400 Read more…
Kevin Kerr: This has been a tumultuous and challenging year for traders. Most are happy to see it go. So as a new year approaches, it’s a good time to reflect and plan on how to protect yourself while profiting from the ongoing turmoil and uncertainty. Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Crude oil spot prices pushed higher yesterday but are giving back a bit today after Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi released a warning statement that international plans for damaging economic sanctions would be met with a total blockade of oil shipments through the Read more…
Matt Tucker: In my last blog, I recapped 2011 and how it turned out to be the year of unmet investor expectations. Instead of interest rates rising, they fell. Instead of the municipal bond market suffering from widespread defaults, it fared better than in 2010. Read more…
Brian Sylvester: James West isn’t interested in timing the precious metals market—that’s a good way to end up butchering perfectly good investments. As the editor of The Midas Letter and portfolio advisor of the Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, West doesn’t even check the daily trading of the stocks he’s Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What a year it’s been! Unless there’s a major surprise in the next few days, the S&P 500 will end 2011 right where it began the year – at the 1,260 price region making this a stagnant year despite two big volatile periods. Read more…
Global X Funds is pleased to announce the annual distributions. The table below summarizes the distribution schedule for each ETF, as of December 28, 2011. Read more…
Scott Martin: Taking a quick look at gold, traders continue to see declining investment demand, easily seen in the performance of the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA:GLD). Read more…
Michael Johnston: As the number of exchange-traded funds continues to multiply, investors have the ability to achieve increasingly granular exposure to narrow segments of the global economy. This development has worked out quite nicely for investors who utilize a “core and explore” strategy that calls Read more…
The Critical Metals Report: Rare earth element coverage has exploded since The Gold Report started covering this sector in early 2009. At that point, the REE junior mining market was a $2 billion industry. Today, REE juniors are a $10 billion+ industry—give or take a one-day market fluctuation, and Read more…
Willem Weytjens: Are Bonds about to plunge? And if so (or if not), what are the implications for stocks and precious metals? Let’s have a look at the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (NYSEARCA:TLT). Read more…
Andy Crowder: Investors rarely think about their tax bill while they’re buying – they conveniently forget all about the IRS until the end of the year – or even worse, they ignore taxes entirely until the eve of April 15th. Read more…
Richard Heinberg: The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the current, highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore Read more…
Shah Gilani: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The markets are broken. It’s not that they’re not functioning on a daily basis, pricing risk and assets and performing their price discovery duties. They are doing that – or at least trying to. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Wall Street got off to a fairly quiet start for the week as investors were reluctant to jump aboard the much anticipated Santa Claus rally. U.S. consumer confidence data surpassed expectations as the figure came in at 64.5, versus the previous month’s reading of 55.2. Despite improving Read more…
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