Hot Stocks of the Day: EWZ, PBR, VALE.

The gold price drop is more a temporary result of the stratospheric rise of the dollar against other currencies rather than a lack of appeal from the yellow metal. But as I warned last week, I have no idea when this will reverse.

Mining giant Vale S.A. reported weak financial results for third-quarter 2014 on Oct 27, following which the share price of the company declined 4.6%.

The Fed will end its quantitative easing purchases of government debt as scheduled.

I think we should vote 'nay' on some corporate proxies which provide excessive compensation for their brass.

For the stock market conniptions of the past two weeks, lower oil prices were a sideline in the panicky and bizarre sell-offs.