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The Price Floor That’s Key To Gold Mining Profits
Chocolate milk isn't my ice-cold beverage of choice. But the "brown milk" holds an important lesson for us in the gold market - as you'll see.
April 26 2014 Unemployment Claims 4 Week Average Again Slightly Degrades
The market expected weekly initial unemployment claims at 310,000 to 335,000 (consensus 320,000) vs the 344,000 reported. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims and seasonality errors in adjusting the data) 4 week moving average degraded from 317,000 to 320,000.
NYSE Charged For Repeated Failures To Operate In Accordance With Exchange Rules
The SECThe NYSE exchanges agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by retaining an independent consultant and together with Archipelago Securities paying a $4.5 million penalty.
Market Commentary: Anemic Volume, Flat Averages Awaiting FMOC Minutes
The noontime action has brought the large cap averages up into the green, but the small caps remain in the red. Both are in the flat status and volume has once again fallen to the anemic levels as investors ponder the markets fate.
April 2014 Chicago Purchasing Managers Barometer Big Gain
Econintersect: The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index rose 7.1 points, remains in expansion territory, and more than reverses last month's decline.
Advance Estimate 1Q2014 GDP Growth Real Ugly At 0.1%
The advance estimate of first quarter 2014 Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a positive 0.1%. The market expected GDP at +0.5% to 2.0% (consensus 1.1%). This data point was 2.6% in 4Q2014.
The New Book On Regulation I Just Decided To Write: Blame It On Monaco
Brooks claims that the reason only a few people in finance act morally is that so many of them are focused exclusively on making money that only a few of them are curious.
Number Of Rate Increases In 2014 Jumps To 17, Tops Rate Cuts
The central banks of New Zealand, Denmark and Colombia raised key interest rates last week, strengthening this year's trend toward higher rates as global monetary policy slowly unwinds from years of ultra-low rates and extraordinary policy measures.
Consumption Does Not Drive The Macroeconomy
Mark Skousen, through his Economic Logic and The Structure of Production, has been leading the fight for years for a measurement of economic activity that more closely aligns with a capital structure based macroeconomics.
Market Commentary: Averages Melt Off Morning Highs Into The Red
The averages melted downward from the morning highs to flat and in the red. Volume has remained in the moderate level giving credence to the selling pressure or plain old profit taking.
Why Was Canada Exempt From The Financial Crisis?
As the worst financial crisis in generations hit the United States in 2007 and 2008, Canada was a pillar of resilience. No Canadian financial institutions failed.
Stratfor: The U.S. Opts For Ineffective Sanctions On Russia
The United States announced new sanctions on seven Russian government officials April 28. A long-used tactic, sanctions can yield unpredictable effects or have no effect at all, depending upon how they are crafted.
Abenomics' False Promise
Abenomics took Japan and the rest of the world by storm, with the promise that two lost decades of economic morosity and lack of political leadership had come to an end.
Stock Market Investment Risk Holds Near All-time High
Our Secular Trend and Cyclical Trend Scores are calculated using a large basket of fundamental, technical, internal and sentiment data. The historical data used by our models extend back to the market crash in 1929 and have enabled our STS to correctly identify every secular inflection points.
Market Commentary: Markets Fall At Opening, Correct And Rise Into Solid Green
Premarkets were up this morning +0.50% but took a nose dive right after the markets opened to flat but in the green. By 10 am the averages had melted back up to +0.45% starting what may be a volatile sea-saw trading session.
An Unlikely Source Of Dirt-Cheap Energy
Solar power is celebrating a big event. The solar panel turns 60 on Friday- but this birthday celebration will be unlike any other the industry has seen so far.
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