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The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an effort...
On the way up, you heard many $2,000 gold targets.  On the way down, the dooms-day crowd not only gets bold but they come out of the woodwork.  Monday marked another day of margin calls and on...
Owning gold or silver has been tricky up until recent years.  It has also been a wild ride. Now with the flourishing ETFs, investors can buy the most liquid gold play in SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD)...
Everyone, or most everyone, loves initial public offerings and the allure of great gains on the great growth engines of the next decade.  Sometimes things just don’t work out as well as the hype...
Demand for gold as a safe haven has driven demand for more places to store that gold. And it’s getting harder more difficult to find that storage, resulting in a boom of sorts in the vault...
Fund manager Jim Chanos has been pretty vocal about the risks in China from its economy to its debt levels to its real estate market.  He goes on to say that real growth in China now may be zero and...
The American Jobs Act is a bill which is supposed to be “fully paid for.”  It isn’t.  In the attack on wealth at all costs, the measure to tax municipal bond interest for the wealthy ($200K...
It looks look your fears that high frequency trading (HFT) screwing up the markets are correct.  We have often wondered how this benefits anyone other than the HFTs and the exchanges.  Most...
Mid-Cap value investment strategies often work in various market cycles. Mid-cap stocks are in the sweet spot of future large companies and companies which also get acquired by private equity buyers...
The talk of succession for Warren Buffett is likely to take on some new discussion today, even if there is no timeline set.  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has announced the hire...
It was just under ten years ago that I was in Spain and Portugal for a vacation and a day of running with the bulls in Pampalona.  Unlike most trips to Europe, there was a handy difference.  The...
Credit Suisse is downgrading the benchmark targets for the stock market and for economic growth.  Before you panic too much, the Global Equity Strategy group is still maintaining an Overweight...
Hedge fund managers have turned very bearish against domestic stocks.  The new data from BarclayHedge/TrimTabs Investment Research Survey showed that Bearish Sentiment on the S&P 500 rose...
Investors now have yet one more option to choose from when it comes to investing in mortgage REITs.  Van Eck Global has now launched the Market Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ETF (NYSE: MORT) as a...
Billionaire and hedge fund manager John Paulson of Paulson & Co. and of Paulson Management is a widely followed equity hedge fund manager for whale watchers.  He has made billions of dollars,...