Commentaries

Gold dropped $8/oz and Silver fell $0.57/oz on account of a stronger US Dollar. GDX fell 1.00% while GDXJ declined by 1.74%. Here are Monday’s figures in the options market, (data from ISE.com): GLD: 6800 puts, 7390 calls SLV: 14,290 puts, 6260 calls GDX: 1020 puts, 286 calls GDXJ: 6 puts, 228 calls In other … Continue reading

Investing fascinates me because people can have the exact same data and come to completely different conclusions. We can look at the same charts and trade in different directions. Ultimately trading is a zero sum game: when one person loses 50% on the short side, another person makes 50% on the long side. Based on the profits being … Continue reading

You’re sitting there saying hmmm, how can I boost cash amid my less than rosy short term orientation?  You sell a non-essential cleaner coal stock and trim a bit of a non core goldie.  Then you look over at one of your core holds and you say “now Gary look, you can keep some if … Continue reading

The Gold Report caught up with Deliberations on World Markets Writer Ian McAvity between sessions at the 36th New Orleans Investment Conference….

Week in Review…

www.FinancialArticleSummariesToday.com Silver has had quite a run the last couple months so it’s no surprise that it has gained much attention and interest from investors – even more so than gold.  It is extremely volatile, however, and tends to rise or fall in spurts so I’d like to focus on its attributes as compared to gold, make … Continue reading

World Bank president Robert Zoellick has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his recent call for a return to a gold anchor in the global financial system…..

Housing – Zillow was out with a report today in which – well, I’ll let the headline from the Housing Wire speak for itself: Home price depreciation to worsen market into 2011 Zillow’s catalyst for this is higher foreclosure liquidations based on current delinquencies and the high degree negative equity embedded across home ownership. They forecast a … Continue reading

By The Mogambo Guru 11/12/10 Tampa, Florida – There are a lot of intricacies in the Federal Reserve’s evil ways, especially as concerns creating $900 billion in the next six months in another round of quantitative easing, and one of them is explained by Daniel R. Amerman of DanielAmerman.com. He says, “There is something else … Continue reading

At this point anyone following financial markets realizes that current market conditions are directly impacted by the movement of the U.S. dollar. Recently the dollar has shown strength and could potentially be putting in an intermediate or potentially longer term bottom. At this point it is a fool’s game making predictions, but the current Dollar … Continue reading