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Michael Snyder: The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay. The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase. Do you believe them this time? As you will see later in this article, Federal Reserve Chairman Read more…
Frank Holmes: Last week was a challenging one for gold investors. Gold prices have been on the downside. Although the yellow metal has been on a spectacular 11-year bull run, recent strength in the economy has some thinking gold’s heyday is over. Read more…
Michael Snyder: If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great- Read more…
David Gillie: Copper has often been regarded as a measure of economic growth. It is also the driving force of the Base Metals sector. In the 2nd half of 2010, copper had a significant run up on the Dollar decline from QE2 and China stockpiling copper for anticipated future grown. However, in the August selloff last Read more…
David Gillie: The Dow Theory holds that sectors confirm one another as the true sign of economic growth. Primarily, if manufacturing is growing, shipping of raw materials such as coal, steel, etc. will show an increase in transports—especially railroads. Additionally, moving the manufactured goods to the Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Although uncertainty continues to linger across financial markets, investors’ confidence in the global economic recovery has without a doubt improved considerably going Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his February newsletter, Bill Gross of PIMCO surmises that from now on central bankers will target nominal GDP growth in their fight to prevent a systemic financial collapse. Read more…
Dian L. Chu: The Euro Zone debt crisis has certainly kept the credit rating agencies busy in the news headline. On Friday, 16 Dec. Moody’s downgraded Belgium’s credit rating by two notches to Aa3 with Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: Since the outset of Europe’s (NYSEARCA:VGK) sovereign-debt crisis, we’ve argued that the EU treaty would need to be revamped to effectively deal with the situation. The EU continues to fail to achieve this goal. There’s plenty of blame to go around, from the sinners in the EU’s Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Stuart Varney, host of the aptly named and very highly rated “Varney & Co.” program on Fox Business, put the following question to me in his usual direct style: “Will we have an agreement on Wednesday out of Europe and what will that mean for the markets?” Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: It was Friday Night Smackdown last Friday when retail sales reached their highest level in 4 months, one factor propelling the markets higher that day. At almost the same time it was announced that consumer confidence has plunged to its lowest level since 1980. Read more…
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Jason Simpkins: Everyone knows that China’s economy is hot. The only question is whether it may be a little too hot. Read more…
“Recently, one of the countries I’ve been asked about the most is Vietnam. And I’m not surprised, last year the economy was still able to grow by more than 5%, even despite the global economic Read more…
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