Featured Trades: (AUSTRALIA), (FXA), (FXE), (EWA) Currency Shares Australian Dollar Trust ETF PowerShares Indio Portfolio ETF Currency Shares Euro Dollar Trust ETF 3) I'm Singing 'Waltzing Mathilda' Again. Many readers made a killing last February when I recommended they buy Australian dollars and short the euro against it (click here for the call). A lot
Featured Trades: (SILVER), (SLV), (CDE), (SLW), (HL) SPDR Gold Trust Shares iShares Silver Trust 4) Silver Blasts Through to a New 30-Year High.? Those transfixed by gold (GLD) topping the $1,368 level again have been missing the real action in silver (SLV). The white metal has soared 45% to $18.46 since the July low, compared
SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE Featured Trades: (MY ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTION) 1) My Analysis of the Election. Won the World Series, but lost the Speaker of the House. I guess San Francisco can't have everything. My expectation that demographic trends would limit Democratic losses turned out to be wrong. The kids stayed home and texted each
SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE Featured Trades: (WHAT THIS MEANS FOR ECONOMIC POLICY) 2) What The Election Means for Economic Policy. Let's put the economic polices the voters chose under the microscope and see what we got. It is not a pretty picture. The bottom line is that my scenario of a lethargic 2-2.5% GDP growth rate
SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE Featured Trades: (WHAT THE ELECTION MEANS FOR THE MARKETS), (SPY), (TBT), (YCS) S&P 500 SPDR ETF ProShares Ultra Short Lehman 20+ Year Treasury ETF ProShares Ultra Short Yen ETF 3) What the Election Means for the Markets. Who really won this election? I did! It is setting up trends in the global
Featured Trades: (HOW BIG IS QEII?) 1) How Big is QEII? Speculation is rife in the Treasury markets on if quantitative easing has already started, and if it has, how big it is, or whether it will happen at all? Goldman Sachs has opened more than a few eyes when they put their $2 trillion
Featured Trades: (PALLADIUM), (PALL) ETFS Physical Palladium Shares ETF 2) Palladium Hits a Seven Year High. Palladium has soared by 60% since my recommendation in January, hitting a seven year high yesterday, making it one of my better calls of the year (click here for the piece).? Double dippers beware! Moves like this by industrial
Featured Trades: (JUNK BONDS), (JNK) SPDR Lehman High Yield Bond ETF 3) From Junk to Gold. Investors who bought beat up jalopies at the going out of business sale 18 months ago, ended up getting delivered a Rolls Royce. I piled readers into the junk bond ETF (JNK) 18 months ago because the market was
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