Gold and silver were stronger than expected on Friday as the US dollar was soaring on the shocker that the Bank of Japan is going negative on yen interest rates. This set the markets back on their hee...
“I think it’s essential to remember that just about everything is cyclical. There’s little I’m certain of, but these things are true: Cycles always prevail eventually. Nothing goes in one dire...
Well that didn’t take long. Two weeks of falling share prices and the European and Japanese central banks go into full panic mode. The ECB promised new stimulus — which the markets liked — and t...
Steven Poloz’s refrain of a Bank of Canada rate cut that had become the preferred bet as the Loonie dropped brought a magnificent reversal for the CAD. However, toward the end of the week, the CAD...
I must confess that a recession is on my mind. It is the decline in the markets coupled with the recession currently occurring in the goods producing sectors which has me looking harder for a declin...
As extensively discussed yesterday in the aftermath of the BOJ’s stunning decision to cut rates to negative for the first time in history (a decision which it appears was taken due to Davos pe...
Microcap stocks are notoriously hard nuts to crack. They are the part of the capitalization-weighted investment universe that is typically less liquid, transparent and profitable than large-cap choice...
Shares of online giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) were down 13.4% in after-market trading on 28 Jan 2016, more than giving back the 8.9% gain they had made on the day of the earnings call, after the compa...
For the stock market, 2016 has started off with a solid “thud.” In just the first month of the year the S&P 500 is down 7%. In the income focused sectors, the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (N...