With one of the more pointed article titles regarding the U.S. equities market, Business Insider notes that “The S&P 500 is up an impressive 0% this year.” In actuality, the benchmark index is up 0.79% year-to-date, but the more important message is...
The benchmark S&P 500 index is on a veritable surge, moving up more than 8% since its August 24 bottom — a product of the broad market correction that momentarily panicked investors worldwide. Now, those nail-biting memories seem completely forgotten, with...
Dear Reader, The next crisis is here. It’s happening right now. Commodities have collapsed, the world is weeks away from being in an official recession, and markets around the world are crashing! China sentiment is weak, and the dollar surge continues. As we have been...
In the ongoing global currency war, in which the world is being drown by liquidity and the said “gold fundamentals” are considered to be strong, gold remains quite directionless. With stock markets around the world pushing to 52-week highs, think of...
Perhaps as a case of the truth finally catching up to the fiction, the labor market, according to ADP — one of the world’s premiere human resource solutions provider — recently took a sentiment dive. With 189,000 nonfarm jobs being added to the...
While it took a few hours to realize exactly what China did last night, the fallout in risk markets is now clearly evident when a central bank decides enough-is-enough for speculative wealth creation bubble-followers. As we described last night, China’s...
Within the alternative investment community, the top three discussed themes of the financial markets for 2014, in no particular order, may likely be: the continued decline of gold and silver bullion, the sudden paradigm shift in the crude oil market, and the start of...
Central planners and policy makers are fighting a titanic battle to avoid a deflationary bust, one for which they have laid the foundations themselves. The irony is that they are fight the battle with the same tools which caused the problem: debt and debt related...