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Homebuilding Goes Down While Economy Gathers Strength

Meanwhile, the news two days ago was that homebuilding took a dive in October. Work began on 11% fewer houses than the month before.

November 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Big Drops in Stock Prices Are Always Followed by Bounces

A bounce of 50% of what was lost is not unusual. That’s what happened after the Crash of ‘29, for example. So, there’s nothing exceptional about what we’re seeing on Wall Street.

November 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Finding Assets that Out Run Inflation as Bond Yields Move Up

The week began with your editor wondering how the bond market would choke down another $81 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. On Monday, it swallowed $40 billion in three-year notes with gusto, and even belched in satisfaction. Demand, analysts said, hadn’t been that strong since 1990-when the bond vigilantes used the bond market as a weapon to discipline government spending.

November 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
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We Can Expect More and More People to Want to Own Gold

Gold seems to be advancing towards a new milestone – $1,100. Makes us nervous. We always feel more comfortable out in the wide, open spaces…

November 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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More Money in Cash Right Now Than Equity in U.S. Companies

Now, there is a very good reason investors are reducing their allocation to stocks. As we’ve said before, we think the equity premium – what people are willing to pay for stocks – is regressing to the mean. It was so high for so long because corporate cash flows in the second half of the last century benefitted so much from low interest rates and globalisation.

November 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 15 comments | Continued
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Investors Rushed to Bid Up the Shares of WFC

Yesterday morning, Wells Fargo posted a cosmetically pleasing profit of $3.2 billion, or double the tally from the same quarter last year.

October 23rd, 2009 | Eric J. Fry | 0 comments | Continued
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The Only Thing Really Going Down Right Now is the U.S. Dollar

Okay. Who put the financial world in a time machine and took us all back to 2007? Seriously. Oil traded above $80 overnight. Gold is hovering near $1,060. Stocks are up. Bonds are up. The Aussie dollar is up. Will anything ever go down again?

October 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
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Investment Banks Making Money Thanks to US Government Bailouts

Meanwhile, the Bank of America is a real bank. With real mom and pop customers. And the poor moms and the poor pops are going bust. They can’t pay their bills.

October 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Gold is in a Bull Market

“In the last big boom in gold – in the late ’70s – gold followed inflation…and the central bank. Investors saw inflation increasing. And they saw the central bank failing to react fast enough. They bought gold to protect themselves.

October 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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AUD Price of Gold a Measure of Gold’s Strength Against Other Currencies

Ah. So for gold to move in Aussie dollar terms there has to be more than just a big bear market in the USD. Demand for gold has to rise globally.

October 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
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