Like Hewlett-Packard did last year, Xerox Corp (XRX – Analyst Report) announced on Friday that it will split into two companies in an effort to try and turn its business around. Here’s what ...
Let’s start with Japan where the BoJ took the markets by surprise by pushing the benchmark rate into negative territory (taking a lesson from the ECB). In a stunning move of “competitive d...
To review our stance, which is years along now, the gold sector is not going anywhere until it becomes widely accepted that developed stock markets, including and especially those in the US, are in be...
The ‘registered’ for delivery silver bullion at the Comex licensed facilities dropped by 7,792,110 troy ounces yesterday. This takes the total from 36,322,409 to 28,530,299. This is a one ...
The last 10 years have exposed a very important reality for any global asset allocator – US Treasury Bonds are the ultimate safe haven investment. For decades we have heard stories about how gold,...
With each passing rally hope has bloomed that the bear market in precious metals may be over. The long and deep “forever bear” has to end but it hasn’t yet. Under the surface, the bear market is...
At what point do we accede back to logic and rational thought? The Bank of Japan is “forced”, not my word, to unleash negative nominal interest rates and that is taken as a positive for everyone e...
The Federal Reserve’s announcement of its decision to leave monetary policy unchanged said nothing about stock market and commodity market volatility. And that speaks volumes. The closest the Fed ...
The BEA “Advance GDP” estimate for 4th quarter came in today at +0.7% vs. an Econoday Consensus Estimate of 0.9%. Consumer spending is the central driver of the economy but is slowing...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that U.S. real GDP grew at a 0.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter. That’s a bad quarter to be sure, and real GDP is up only 1.8% from a year ago. ...