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Keith Fitz-Gerald: There are many reasons why the Occupy Wall Street movement could fail – a lack of cohesion, too many directions, no leadership, not enough money, and no representation, to name a few. Read more…
Shah Gilani: After European leaders announced a plan to stem Eurozone and global panic over Greece’s potential default and shore up capital at beleaguered banks, positive contagion is lifting stock Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: Yahoo! Finance is currently headlining: “Don’t Fight the Rally: Stocks Soar After Europe Deal, Dow Clears 12,000.” Is that a top-ticking headline? Let’s investigate. Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: First and foremost, my view is that the markets and the mainstream media have been giving insufficient attention (if any at all) to the core problem that was revealed by the meltdown in 2008. Massive amounts of capital was misspent (“malinvested”) during the boom. In order to finance 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…
Martin D. Weiss: Mark your calendar for two historic days that could shake Wall Street to its foundation and change the Western world forever … The first is Europe’s day of reckoning, postponed to Read more…
George Maniere: Lately I have had many readers write to me about the family of Direxion Triple Leveraged ETF Funds and the Ultra ProShares ETF’s. These are relatively new funds. The first fund was the Ultra ProShares ETF (NYSE:SPXU). SPXU was first introduced in 2009. This Ultra Short ProShares Read more…
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David Zeiler: The very austerity measures that Greece implemented to remedy its sovereign debt crisis have crippled its economy so badly the country is actually sinking deeper into the red, making default all but inevitable. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: As we mentioned yesterday, a fear-induced buying climax may occur in the coming days as shorts cover and managers sitting on cash move to the “I can’t take it anymore” stage. While a sustained break above the 1,266 to 1,276 range on the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) would increase the odds of stocks Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: In the mid 1990s, when I was working as a U.S. Treasury advisor to Croatia, I met with the managers of the U.S. Treasury’s debt. In what would turn out to be terrific advice, the Treasury officials suggested that we extend Croatia s’ debt maturities so the Central European country wouldn’t Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: This coming Sunday, October 23, will go down in history as one of the most important days of the 21st century. On that day, the leaders of 27 European countries will meet. They will announce a new master plan to save Europe. And then they will pray. Read more…
Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad believes the United States is acting as a late-stage empire, acting aggressively on the world stage, lowering its moral standards and debasing its currency. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report at the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. “When Money Dies” Summit, Read more…
Toby Connor: As many of you know who have read my work in the past, the dollar (NYSE:UUP) put in a major three year cycle low back in May. It has been my expectation all along that the rally out of that Read more…
Mike Larson: If you didn’t know, read or watch anything before October 4, you’d think we were in the strongest economy and strongest market environment ever! Read more…
Jared Levy: It is a big week, with lots of stocks in play. Alcoa (NYSE:AA), JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) are just a few of the companies that will kick off earnings season this week. Read more…
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