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ThinkstockFed Chair Janet Yellen offered a bit of a surprise in her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress on Tuesday. It may seem like a bit like Alan Greenspan’s moment regarding...
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ThinkstockThe World Gold Council is out with its first half of 2014 review of gold. Readers will want to at least consider that the council will of course look on the bright side. Still, its view...
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ThinkstockInvestors who flock to exchange traded funds (ETFs) and exchange traded notes (ETNs) are soon going to have a very important new ETN to invest in, one geared solely toward companies with...
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ThinkstockMay has come and gone, and at least so far it looks as though the “Sell in May and Go Away!” theme did not materialize in 2014. Of those who responded to our poll, some 58% said not to...
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ThinkstockIt seems almost too hard to believe, but we have seen two of the PIIGS upgraded by different credit ratings agencies this Friday. Fitch ratings has raised Greece’s sovereign credit...
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ThinkstockThailand is supposed to be a destination for the exotic and for beautiful beaches and great history. Currently, it is under a military coup. The nation’s military chief announced in a...
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ThinkstockNow that gold has pulled back from a peak of around $1,900 per ounce to less than $1,300 per ounce, many of the gold bugs have disappeared. What is interesting is that the actual demand in...
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ThinkstockIndia is supposed to be back open for business. After Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority, this is supposed to be solid for getting India back in business without...
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ThinkstockFor a bull market to stay alive, you have to have participation from the financial sector. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been a financial stock buyer for many...
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courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has released its holdings as of the end of the first quarter of 2014. We were originally not expecting many major changes to the...
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ThinkstockIn the round of 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it turns out that the activist and special situation hedge fund ValueAct Capital Management, L.P. made some big...
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3D Systems is signaling all the metrics of a burst bubble for its stock. That is a view that is still hotly debated, and the opinions on this matter likely will be fought over for quite some time.
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ThinkstockIt does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that months of weak housing data are signaling real underlying problems in the single-family home market. Sure, certain markets remain hot...
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ThinkstockThis weekend we covered something that should have been more controversial than it was made out to be. That would be whether it was safe to invest in emerging markets. It so happened that...
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ThinkstockEmerging markets have not been performing the way they have in many past bull markets. Most investor interest and direction from Wall Street strategists decided earlier this year that the...
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