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An interesting week as stocks rose again following last week's big jump. Or did they? Ok some did but a survey of the week shows that...
Today's conflicts involve the same players and once again they are behind the scenes. We look at how markets performed during world wars along with the...
Market crashes are not as unusual or rare as many would like to think. When we think of crashes the ones that quickly come to mind...
In markets we face risk constantly. Trying to figure out what the risks are and where we are in the cycle is the hard part. This...
Our chart of the week looks at oil over the past 70 years. Periods of spiking oil prices, triggered by war, are often followed by spiking...
It is difficult finding the positives as the world appears to be fraying. Stock markets, precious metals all week. But Energy remains strong even as it...
The Fed left rates unchanged at this past week's meeting as expected but the guidance was hawkish. Markets didn't like it and gapped down on Thursday....
The U.S. CPI was largely as expected, and markets rejoiced on Thursday. The CPI is the subject of our Chart of the Week. Friday reversed Thursday's...
The markets appear to be rolling over. It was noted there have been three seminal events since 2000 - 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis and the...
Rising oil prices are just one of the things that one has to be concerned about. Inflation (rising oil prices are inflationary, but not the only...