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Commodity Trading
It’s a Wild World
Well another week of wild trading has left many on Wall Street bruised, battered and not sure what to think. Is the oil bubble bursting? Are commodities and resources heading lower? No one can say for sure, but this…
22Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Investing Roundups
Oil Over $143; GM Falls to 54-year Low; Starbucks Closes 600 Stores; Nikkei Post 10th Straight Loss; United Health Lands in the Emergency Ward; 900 American Flight Attendants on Standby; Blockbuster Abandons Bid; Microsoft at it Again;
Crude futures closed…
3Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Limited Shelf Life of Dollar Fruit
Today, we’ll keep it short and sweet.
The Dow managed only a piddling 32-point rise yesterday; still no recovery from last week’s big losses.
Oil rose another $1.30 - to close over $141. Gold jumped $16; it will now cost you $944…
3Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fraud of the Great Moderation
The beat goes on - one sector gets pumped up…and then it gets whacked.
Jim Cramer says he’s never seen anything like it…
Not the crash of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the ’80s…not the Asian currency crisis…not the LongTerm Capital Management blowup…not the…
25Jun2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedElection 2008: The Achilles’ Heel of Obamanomics
Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, recently told The Wall Street Journal that he intended to lift the United States out of recession through a burst of government spending on infrastructure and a venture capital fund for the new energy sector.
Obama has…
19Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedBuyer Beware: Why You Don’t Want to Buy What Wall Street Banks Are Selling
Imagine that you’re the investment director for one of the new sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). A very important guy - you get to invest several hundred billion dollars, with far fewer committees and shareholder interest groups harassing you than if you…
18Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedComment on the Greenspan Era
This from the 5min Forecast:
10Jun2008 | Energy and Oil | 0 comments | ContinuedP.S. “Greenspan blamed the era of low interest rates over which he presided,” Addison writes by e-mail this morning, “on the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain.” We didn’t get…
A Currency Conundrum: Beware of the U.S. Dollar’s “Head Fake” Rally
Don’t mistake the U.S. dollar’s recent rally for strength. If anything, it’s a head fake of legendary proportions.
In fact, the dollar’s recent run-up is actually a warning that risks are escalating.
To better understand what I mean here, let’s look at…
8May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedBernanke and His Merry Men Rob Wall Street to Pay off Main Street
Those who were blindsided by the recent financial meltdown are now loudly blaming the “free market” for its failure to police its own excesses, and are calling for greater regulation to prevent future disasters. But for those who clearly observed…
8Apr2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedWall Street - Stop Whining for Rate Cuts!
I don’t know about you, but the Wall Street whining has got to stop. They continually beg for interest rate cuts only to punish the market when the Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, finally taps out and gives into their…
29Jan2008 | Stephen Oakes | 0 comments | Continued-
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