Along with the Federal Government, corporations around the world have seen their balance sheets suffer. Wall Street is hoping that all of these troubling situations will...
The FOMC became the buyer of the last resort to “support market valuations” using inflation to purchase shares at prices everyone else refused to pay. The...
Most blue-chip companies trading on Wall Street have assumed massive debts (post 2007-09 market crash) to fund their share buybacks and dividend programs. Because of this,...
The US Dollar is currently the world's reserve currency with many commodities such as oil, copper, grains, gold, etc. being traded in the main for US...
The market acts as if there is a short supply of White Sugar available. The Brazil mills are trying to cover the lack of White Sugar...
It was barely noticeable but the Fed`s asset purchases may have slowed. This past week Fed assets actually went down $74 billion. Is the punch bowl...
The best examples of retirees or soon to be retirees receiving healthy defined benefit pensions are in the public sector. These include government officials, teachers, and...
BLM protests are rocking America, thousands are still without jobs, yet the stock market continues to see record rises. In order to understand why we need...
The removal of the lockdowns should improve demand in the short term. Harvest is now over for cocoa - the main crop in West Africa and...
Gold paused this week as did the gold miners but silver was up. Our chart of the week looks at the gold/silver ratio and we note...