The New Year has started off with a bang with some volatile moves this past week for oil and gold in particular and new all-time highs...
Stock markets may have seen an important moment on January 2, 2020. Gold soared and bond yields fell as safe havens were sought. 2019 was a...
The Dow Jones closed last week only 0.10% from making a new all-time high. It’s likely that we will see a few more new all-time highs...
There are reasons to be optimistic about 2020 but storm clouds continue to gather and there are serious questions about whether the big bust will finally...
The E.U.'s debt to GDP ratio stands at near 90%, which is 20% higher than it was when the Maastricht Treaty came into force in 1993....
Tariffs imposed on Brazil and Argentina spooked the markets but by week’s end suggestions of calm with the U.S./China trade war and a gangbuster nonfarm payrolls...
Since September 2018 gold has seen a nice advance. The step sum chart for the Dow Jones is bullish. It took almost two years for the...
From the perspective of an individual investor, passive investing can be a mixed bag. It’s remarkably simple but an over-reliance on index funds could lead to...
Demand for US rice remains generally strong and the weekly export sales report was very promising. Wheat faces lower demand but local wheat markets were higher...
There are still few signs of recession but there is a slowdown going on. The Fed continues its repo program and the bulls are seeing nothing...