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S&P futures have rebounded from pre-market lows and are currently down only about two handles as this choppy wedge pattern continues to develop in the index. In the last week and a half ranges have increased significantly and there has been good Read more…
Futures have a positive tone to kick off the 4th quarter. There are lots of question marks going into this quarter as indices are having a nice year so far. The S&P is up 15%+ and the Nasdaq is up 18%+. Some market participants enjoyed this move and some have Read more…
US stock futures point to a lower open Thursday after downbeat manufacturing data out of China overnight. New monetary policy initiatives from the Fed and ECB have stabilized those two regions for now, but China remains a wildcard as Read more…
Futures were all over the map last night as markets are trying to figure out if the European Summit went well. Will they “print, print, print”? Will Greece leave the Union? Will Spain’s banks fall apart with Italy waiting in the wings? How much will the Read more…
Jared Cummans: As we enter Q2, investors will be looking back to one of the best three-month stretches in recent history, as stocks surged amid a rally that has defined 2012. Both the Dow and S&P 500 have crossed pivotal points as they have hit post-recession highs and set their sights on a full recovery. Read more…
Mac Slavo: In a recent micro-documentary Chris Duane of The Greatest Truth Never Told and Don’t Tread On Me discusses the coming collapse of our debt-based monetary system and provides a simple, yet succinct argument for why it cannot be prevented. Read more…
Jared Cummans: As far as the majority of the ETF industry is concerned, size is everything. Institutions and financial advisors often have minimum AUM requirements for investing; a pre-screen that many ETFs fail due to their smaller size. Even individual investors are quick to write off a fund with low Read more…
Przemyslaw Radomski: According to a Bloomberg survey at a precious metals conference this week, gold is poised for a 21 percent gain in 2012, extending its bull market to 12 consecutive years. Bullion may rise to $1,897 an ounce in New York by Dec. 31 from $1,566.80 at the end of 2011. Read more…
Jules Staniewicz: The recent postings on the precious and base metals ETFs dealt with the specifics in the markets, but contained in the article (if you look REALLY hard) were some signs of the dangers of ETF investing. I am specifically calling them dangers, as opposed to risks, because most investors Read more…
Adrian Ash: SO GOLD BULLS are turning bearish. But not really. “A number of things which would have kept people with an eye on the upside for gold prices have now been neutralized,” says RBS’s Nick Moore, who cut the state-owned UK bank’s 2012 targets for precious metals other than gold in January. Read more…
Kerri Shannon: Gold prices (NYSE:GLD) hit a two-month low Wednesday after the Federal Reserve indicated no new stimulus measures would be issued, and silver prices (NYSE:SLV) slumped to a seven-week low. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Friday morning traders and market participants awaited the key January employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The reaction to the supposedly wonderful report was a surge in the S&P 500 E-Mini futures contracts as well as several other key equity index futures. Read more…
Kevin McElroy: Everyone knows that European countries (NYSE:VGK) are broke. And many of their banks are broke too. The European financial system is tied together in a multi-cord knot pulled taut between the European Central Bank (ECB), individual country banks and commercial banks in Read more…
Sean Brodrick: So far, January has been a bullish month for commodities. In fact, if you read my December 29 column, “3 Commodities to Buy for 2012,” you saw that I recommended three commodity funds in that column — the United States Gasoline Fund (NYSE:UGA), the Rogers International Read more…
Jared Cummans: Commodities made headlines throughout most of last year, but for all of the wrong reasons. 2011 saw a number of commodity investments turn sour with just six of the 22 major commodities posting annual gains. No commodity was more talked about than gold, however, as the Read more…
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