The Gold Report: Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks, says cycles will bring gold (NYSEArca:GLD) and silver (NYSEArca:SLV) higher in the first half of 2012: gold up to $2,050/oz and silver up to $44/oz or even $50/oz. He sees plenty of opportunities for volatility given the political and economic Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Gloom Boom Doom Report publisher Marc Faber was back on Fox Business, Friday, with his latest thoughts on Greece, China, stocks, U.S. real estate, and some creative Read more…
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Keith Fitz-Gerald: Let’s talk Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ). Every year some analyst comes out with a variation of the story that Japan is about to rebound. Usually the argument goes something like this: Japanese markets are impossibly cheap and the central bank will be there to prevent a catastrophe. Read more…
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Richard Rittorno: U.S live cattle futures have been on a steady climb since hitting a 52-week low back on May 24, 2010 at $101.625. Cattle futures have been sizzling for nine months now with price putting in a 52-week high of $126.375 last Wednesday. Read more…
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Mitchell Hall: Brazil is wary of opening up its $350 billion in foreign exchange reserves for IMF aid until it receives a political commitment to reform that would give emerging market nations greater representation and influence over the fund’s decisions. Read more…
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David Gillie: On March 11, 2011 an earthquake hit off the coast of Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) and sent a tidal wave across the northern part of the island causing massive damage of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A crisis of epic proportion hit this island nation—the only place on earth to have had two Read more…
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Frank Holmes: What a decade!… A rapidly urbanizing global population driven by tremendous growth in emerging markets (NYSEARCA:EEM) has sent commodities on quite a run over the past 10 years. In fact, you would find that all 14 commodities are in positive territory if you annualized the returns Read more…
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David Gillie: Indonesia is not only the paradise of the Eastern Hemisphere, Bali, but it is also a paradise for investors in their robust economy. GDP in Indonesia for 2011 was $823 Billion Dollars (est). To put that in perspective, Indonesia’s GDP is larger than Sweden’s and Argentina’s. Almost four times Read more…
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Michael Snyder: 2012 is shaping up to be a very tough year for the global economy. All over the world there are signs that economic activity is significantly slowing down. Many of these signs are detailed later on in this article. But most people don’t understand what is happening because they Read more…
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Michael Johnston: iShares has made another round of additions to its ETF lineup of well more than 200 products, debuting funds that target small cap stocks in Hong Kong and Singapore. The company Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: Don’t let the headlines fool you, there’s lots of money to be made in global investing in 2012. You’re just going to have to be careful – more so than in years past – because right now the line drawn between successful markets and markets that are in danger of collapse is treacherously Read more…
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Tony Sagami: How did your portfolio do in 2011? The answer greatly depends on where you invested your money and how able you were to withstand some wild volatility. Read more…
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Jordan RoyByrne: All bull markets have similarities and all equity bull markets have strong similarities. They go through similar phases. Most bull markets start off slow and then build towards what we like to say is an acceleration into a bubble and potential mania. In last weeks editorial we noted Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In what appears as swift retaliation by Iran against U.S.-led economic sanctions imposed on the Persian Gulf state, suddenly Iran says it will no longer accept the U.S. dollar as payment for its oil shipments to India, Japan and China. Read more…
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Ron Rowland: One of the best ways to make money in ETFs is to not lose money. I know it sounds obvious, but I can assure you that many people don’t get this key point. Read more…
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