I always get a large number of emails from investors asking questions about gold and silver. Yesterday the email volume spiked. Basically investors were asking the same question, “Why is gold down on North Korea warning that its military has been cleared to wage a nuclear attack against the
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) STRICT CAPITAL CONTROL IN CYPRUS March 28, 2013 Cyprus has become the first eurozone country to put limits on daily withdrawals, cashing checks, amount of credit card transactions,
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) EXPECT STOCKS, BONDS AND GOLD TO MOVE ON CYPRUS RUMORS March 22, 2013 Friday’s are especially vulnerable to rumors. Expect stocks, bonds and gold to
Wednesday brought us six pieces of news that makes us reflect on the strength in the stock market. Bernanke’s emphasis on cost We have always paid close attention to every word Bernanke utters. Wednesday’s press conference was unusual, in that Bernanke had more emphasis on the cost of the easy
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) OVERALL CONSUMER INFLATION RUNS HOT BUT CORE SUBDUED March 15, 2013 Consumer Price Index (CPI) came at 0.7% vs. 0.5% consensus. However Core CPI came at
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. February Retail Sales ex-auto were 1.0% vs. consensus of 0.5%. In our models we exclude autos because autos are very volatile and distort the results. This is indeed good news and proves the skeptics on the American consumer wrong. Due to
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) BLOWOUT EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS March 8, 2013 This morning the U. S. Department of Labor reported blowout non-farm private payrolls at 246K vs consensus of 175K.
On Wednesday, I received numerous emails from investors who are mostly in cash wanting to know what to do now. It appears that the floodgates for such emails opened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high. A typical email also contains links to contradictory pronouncements from gurus,
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) DOLLAR STRENGTHENS IN PERVERSE MARKET ACTION, GOLD VOLATILE March 1, 2013 Today is the day that sequestration sets in. Many had expected the dollar to
The stock market has been overbought for a while, and overbought markets can be vulnerable. Usually there is an excuse in the form of bad news that runs the overbought market down to alleviate the overbought condition. Monday was no exception. The bad news was that in Italy, Berlusconi garnered more votes than expected. He