Stunning Bond Collapse Will Be Gold’s Gain
ByTom Luongo: With the release of the January unemployment report on Friday morning, there was a rush into safe-haven assets like long-dated U.S. Treasury instruments (
View ArticleBetting on Bear funds 2013 may be hazardous to your wealth
By John Wasik (Reuters) – There is such a thing as being too cautious – betting on fear to such an extent that it derails your portfolio. But if you are pessimistic about economic prospects in 2013 and...
View ArticleRug to be pulled out from under the short bonds trade ?
In certain aggressive managed accounts, we have been nibbling on some TBT, the inverse 20 year treasury ETF. Data such as the AAII Asset Allocation Survey show investors are very overweight bonds...
View Article50% World-Wide Debt Forgiveness: Creditors And Debtors Could Both Win
By Larry Trefz: About 60 years ago, Germany was drowning in post-war debt. After torturous negotiations in the early 1950s, over 70 creditor countries agreed to forgive half of the debt Germany owe...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: Stocks Drop On Disappointing Labor Data
U.S. equities slid today after a highly-anticipated labor report came in below expectations. Though buyers stepped in to snatch up downtrodden shares later in the session, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq...
View ArticleThe Coming Bond Market Collapse: 3 Ways To Escape The Damage
By Wall Street Wisdom: Just when you've finally gotten over the stock market crash from four years ago, there's a new threat that could potentially hit your portfolio. Even worse, it's in an area that...
View ArticleWhy Inflation Never Came
By The Market Flash: A generation of economists and students of macroeconomics were taught that the Quantity Theory of Money described the relationship between money and prices in the economy. The...
View ArticleHow To Trade Another Strong Labor Market Report
By BubbleBustInvesting: The U.S. labor market is getting better, much better, according to a Labor market report published Friday morning - the U.S. economy created 195,000 in June, beating analyst...
View ArticleETF Insider: Buy On The Dip Prospects August 26th Edition
Here is a look at ETFs that currently offer attractive buying opportunities. The ETFs included in this list are rated as buy candidates for two reasons; first, each of these funds is deemed to be in an...
View ArticleThere’s No Way In Hell The Fed Will Taper
By Steve Nicastro: On August 22, I predicted the price of gold (GLD) could break out to $1,500 and hig...
View ArticleBurn Notice: Watch out for leveraged ETFs
By John Wasik (Reuters) – If you buy insurance on your home, you know that most of your losses would be covered in a catastrophe. Can you do the same with your portfolio? There are lots of ways to buy...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard Company Bonds: Measuring The Cost Of A Brand Name
By Donald van Deventer: In this note we analyze the current levels and past history of default probabilities for Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), which
View ArticleBP PLC: A New View From The Bond Market
By Donald van Deventer: As we noted in our November 6, 2013 update on BP PLC (BP), its subsidiary BP Capital Markets PLC is one...
View ArticleReassessing Fundamentals Is Not Conducive For High Conviction FX Trades
By Marc Chandler: The US dollar has entered a corrective/consolidative phase, and its performance over the past week was mixed. The greenback lost ground against the dollar-bloc and Scandis. The...
View ArticleYellen Will Raise The Roof Like She’s Partying With Jordan Belfort
By Theo Vallee: Last month at the Jackson Hole symposium, Fed Chair Yellen stated that the economy is currently outperforming the Federal Reserve's forecasts, and if this trend persists, the federal...
View ArticleIs It Time To Buy TBT?
By Stock Traders Daily: Treasury bonds have been rallying, and although last week saw the first real outflows from Treasury bonds in months, yields are still very low and global demand still seems...
View ArticleWhat Can Warren Buffett Teach You About Risk?
By US Investor: It took me years to understand the true meaning of risk. It comes from Buffett's definition which is - "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing". The academic definition of risk...
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