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Is It Safe To Ignore Seasonal Patterns In 2017? The holiday-shortened week saw most equity indexes suffer the second worst weekly losses of the year. Escalating military tensions in North Korea and Syria and growing uncertainty over the future of Donald Trump’s growth agenda provided the nominal reasons for the

Sometimes we overlook the most important things.  Being focused as we are about capital markets and performance, we often forget about personal communications.  So, in addition to building my Greenfield Decision Support System, I decided to undertake a comprehensive brand design project. Like my techies, my designers are from the best

Three More Indicators Screaming “Move Into Cash” Despite a week marked by surprises, from a U.S. missile strike in Syria to a jobs report that was the weakest in almost a year, U.S. equities remain unperturbed while VIX tallied its 103rd session below 15, the longest streak since February 2007.

Maybe Trump Isn’t The U.S. Economy’s Savior Last week’s healthcare bill debacle was perhaps the first major crack in a five-month U.S. equity rally predicated on the anticipated Trump economic miracle. We have made our opinion clear: we did not believe in the “Trump rally” from the beginning. Trump’s election

OPEC production cuts exceed agreement OPEC compliance to the 2016 OPEC and non-OPEC production agreement presently stands at 106% due to excessive cuts by Saudi Arabia. Now if non-OPEC Russia and OPEC-member states like Iran, Nigeria, Libya and UAE meet their agreed quotas in the next 30 to 60 days,

The weakness in the Goldminers over the past week may or may not be a sign of things to come. If you review only the Gold and Silver Physicals and Futures markets, the correlated currencies like the Euro, Yen, Aussie and Loonie, and the largest capitalized of the Goldminer stocks,

Happy Anniversary, Tech Bubble This Friday, March 24th , marks the seventeenth anniversary of the Tech Bubble peak. Markets tend to be fond of historical dates and other milestones. We remind readers, who falsely are assuming that the market top won’t occur until this summer, that the first quarter has

I ask you plainly: would something be done to rectify the following problems? Say the patient has correctly identified the invasive cancer that is destroying her body, but it obvious that her surgeon is telling her she needs a psychiatrist instead and the directors of the hospital agree with the

Yesterday, the share price of one of the big dogs among silver miners – actually a streaming company that purchases royalty interests in the production of other silver miners – boomed +7.4%. Silver Wheaton, which has a $10 billion market cap, reported higher than expected revenue and earnings. In recent

What Stocks to Buy – After the Crash! It’s quite possible – probable is more likely – that the stock market will not “crash” this year. In fact, a sudden drop of say 20-25% within a week has occurred very few times. There were occurrences in the 1930s and one