Gold closed down as much as 1.21 percent Friday on a blowout jobs report that seemed to alleviate investor fears of an impending economic slowdown. The U.S. added as many as 266,000 jobs in November, beating expectations of 180,000, while the unemployment rate ticked do...
Frank Holmes
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December 9, 2019
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The gold price made a new 2020 high today and looks poised to take out the nominal all-time high around $1,920 and then challenge $2,000 in the months ahead. Some are even estimating that gold could climb to $3,000 by year-end on account of the nearly $10 trillion in new mon...
Jason Hamlin
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May 19, 2020
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The computer hardware sector has been an outperformer during the past year, with the NYSE Arca Computer Hardware Index ( HWI ) soaring more than 87% during the prior 52 weeks. Comparatively, the tech-laden, and market-leading, Nasdaq Composite (COMP) has rallied some 48% dur...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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Ever on the hunt for a great bargain, billionaire investor Warren Buffett boosted his company’s stake in Delta Air Lines once again. Berkshire Hathaway acquired some 976,000 Delta shares in February for roughly $45.3 million, according to a filing last Mon...
Frank Holmes
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March 10, 2020
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The world watches as a number of economies begin, or plan, to lift certain lockdown measures that were earlier put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus. China may have been the first to do so when it reopened Wuhan, the industrial city of 11 million that wa...
Frank Holmes
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April 21, 2020
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Saturday marked the Chinese Lunar New Year, a time when as many as 400 million people ordinarily travel to visit family and go on vacation. Before the coronavirus struck, 3 billion trips were estimated to take place during the 16-day celebration, while some 79 million p...
Frank Holmes
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January 27, 2020
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When scanning the various investment boards and forums on the Internet these days, it's obvious that most people have very low confidence both in the economy and the government's efforts to fix it. "Smoke and mirrors" is a common theme directed at the officials wh...
Nick Thomas
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October 28, 2012
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For those of you that have followed my raves and rants over the years, you are undisputedly aware of all of my biases when it comes to almost everything: bankers, politicians, invasive species, free market suppression, entitled Millennials, and finally, the utility of p...
Streetwise Reports
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August 29, 2019
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On Wednesday, as the kiddies were upset over a swooning S&P, then trading a paltry 5% from the all-time high of 3,027, I tweeted out this graphic that perfectly describes my cynical view of the paper markets around the world. What prompted me to exercise my artis...
Streetwise Reports
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October 8, 2019
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