(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) BETTER THAN EXPECTED ECONOMIC DATA CONTINUES TO POUR January 4, 2013 Monthly employment from Bureau of Labor Statistics are popularly known as the mother of all
Our prediction that the fiscal cliff would be resolved has turned out to be partially right. It is important not to get carried away with optimism because only one part of the three-part puzzle has been addressed. The three parts are: taxes, spending and the debt ceiling. The fiscal-cliff deal
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) THE DISUNITED STATES OF AMERICA December 28, 2012 The dysfunction in Washington is in full display. A few days ago we told you that market observers were expecting
(This post was published this morning on ZYX Buy Change Alert.) Obama has cut his vacation to Hawaii short and is reportedly on his way to Washington. The stock market is encouraged. Gold and silver momo crowd started buying aggressively on the news. This is consistent with gold and silver momo
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. We have received a large number of emails in response to the ‘Morning Capsule,’ BARN BURNER U.S. EMPLOYMENT DATA. Most emails expound conspiracy theories and flaws in the employment data. Most emails have asked our opinion on conspiracy theories. Our focus
On the weekend President Obama made optimistic remarks in Bangkok about resolving the fiscal cliffs. If Obama is right, it will remove a major uncertainty from the world markets. The momo crowd has seized on the potential removal of uncertainty and has been aggressively buying gold since Obama’s remarks. Traditionally
The Federal Reserve provides a gold mine of both medium-term investment opportunities and short-term trading opportunities. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds eight regularly scheduled meetings every year. One of those is being held this week, with a rate decision set to be announced at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi may follow the U.S. lead and fire off his own bazooka. Requesting broader spending powers, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson famously told Congress that he needed “a bazooka” to head off the financial crisis. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that the ECB is now considering
The markets are in a party mode and have forgotten the approaching dark cloud of the “fiscal cliff.” The fiscal cliff refers to the expiration of Bush tax cuts and simultaneous significant reduction in government spending in the United States at the end of the year. The Congressional Budget Office
Now it is universally accepted that growth in China is slowing. If a large number of communications that we receive are any indication, North American investors make two underestimations: first how much China’s growth is really slowing, and second how much it can hurt their investments in stocks, bonds and