The stock market rallied throughout most of yesterday’s trading session, then stumbled into the close. This pattern has become unnervingly familiar of late.
November 6th, 2009 | Eric J. Fry | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "stock market"
Separating the Short-term Trends in Financial Markets from the Long-term Trends in Geopolitical History
The Dow Jones slipped under 10,000 at the end of the day Wednesday largely because analyst Dick Bove changed his call on Wells Fargo from “neutral” to “sell.” Bove said the quality of the company’s third quarter earnings was, “pretty poor.” “If you take a close look at the earnings, what you can see is that the improvement is due to a hedging profit…
October 22nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Dr. Michael Hudson On Landlords and Bankers in Charge of the Economy Again
Regrettably, your editor was back at the doctor’s office early this morning being diagnosed with tonsillitis after a lousy night. We were especially disappointed because scheduled for today was a noon lunch with Dr. Michael Hudson. His tour of the country is being sponsored by Prosper Australia and tonight at the Melbourne Town Hall at 6:30 Dr. Hudson and Dr. Steve Keen will be “lifting the lid on the GFC.”
October 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
Aussie Dollar is Crushing Long-time Rivals Like the Pound and the U.S. Dollar
One way to view a currency, we read somewhere recently, is as a national obligation secured by national assets. Those “assets” are loosely defined as economic growth (GDP) or the tax revenues a government can generate. A growing economy generates royalties and income taxes and demonstrates to international bond investors Australia’s ability to service interest and principal on debt.
October 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
When People Fear Inflation or a Falling Dollar They Find Refuge in Gold
Gold is also a target of greedy speculators sometimes, even when the going is good. According to a study done by the World Gold Council, you never know what gold will do.
October 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Big Difference Between Stark News in Job Market and Behaviour of Stock Market
There have been jobless recoveries from recession before. But you still have to wonder how there can be such a big difference between the stark news in the job market and the behaviour of the stock market. True, economists will tell you that jobs are the last thing to recover from a recession. Businesses don’t hire until they are sure everything is in the clear.
October 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
We Don’t Expect to See Australian Banks Suddenly Keen to Expand their Loan Books
Maybe this will sound like a bunch of whining by the end of the week. After all, three of the big four Aussie banks will report results this week. There will be billion dollar cash profit figures tossed around. But as we said last week, the earnings performance of financial firms in the last six months is a sham.
September 28th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Gold is More Like a Religion or a Political Position
The price of gold peaked out in real terms in 1979 at over $2,000 in today’s money. Briefly, an ounce of gold was so loved – and stocks so despised – that you could buy all the stocks in the Dow index for just a single ounce of gold.
September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 23 comments | Continued
Markets Rise While the Economy Sinks
The problem is that the global economy in general, and the US economy in particular, is operating on so much medication that it is difficult to conduct an appropriate examination of the patient at the current time.
September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Should You Buy Gold Now?
The Trade of the Decade is still buy gold/sell stocks. And the decade isn’t over. If you have US stocks, this is a good time to sell. The Dow went up 63 points yesterday – a weak bounce after several days of losses.
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued