Featured Trades: (SHIPPING), (TK), (NAT), (OSG), (FRO) 3) Pick Up Shipping Stocks for the Dividend. The markets are currently stampeding for yield of any description, damn the risk. That's why shipping stocks have suddenly come into focus, which offer some of the highest dividend yields on the board. Nordic American Tanker (NAT) has a bounteous
Featured Trades: (RARE EARTHS), (AVL.TO), (GWMGF.PK), (RAREF.PK), (LYSCF) 1) Rare Earths Are Becoming a Lot More Rare. Interest in Rare Earths is starting to heat up in a dramatic fashion and it is something you should keep on your radar. So named because they were hard to get in the 18th and 19th century,
'The biggest trend of 2010 is to see who gets kicked out of the banking system,' said Meredith Whitney, who runs a boutique financial research firm
Featured Trades: (LUNCH WITH THE CIA) 1) Lunch With the CIA. Lunch with the Central Intelligence Agency is always interesting, although five gorillas built like brick shithouses with wires sprouting out of their ears, staring at me intently, didn't help my digestion. Obama's pick of Leon Panetta as the agency's new director was controversial because
Featured Trades: (PLATINUM), (PPLT) ETFS Physical Platinum ETF 2) Time for Platinum to Play Catch Up. Since you've recently been romancing gold, you should check out platinum, her younger, racier, and better looking sister, who wears the low riders. The white metal historically has more volatility than gold, but this year has risen by only
'There are people who can't get used to the idea that the country is being run by a black guy living in public housing. Obama is only half black, so I guess that makes him our 'starter Negro,' said political commentator Will Durst.
(SPECIAL FOOD ISSUE) Featured Trades: (CORN), (WHEAT), (SOYBEANS), (POT), (MOS), (AGU) Teucrium Agricultural Trust Corn Fund PowerShares DB Multisector Commodity Trust Agriculture ETF 1) My Best Trade of the Year. I was having a good 2010 until the grain trade came along. Now I'm have a fabulous year. Since my initial call to buy on
Featured Trades: (JULY NONFARM PAYROLL) 1) Job Creation is Still on Vacation. If I have learned one thing from 40 years in the financial markets, it's that traders demand instant gratification. So when the July nonfarm payroll showed a loss of 131,000 jobs, an unchanged unemployment rate at 9.5%, and total unemployment of 14.6
Featured Trades: (SUGAR), (SGG), (CZZ), iPath Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN 3) I'll Take Two Lumps, Please. It's just a matter of time before global buying of the grains spills over into the sugar market. A combination of torrential rains in Brazil, the source of 54% of the world supply, and draughts in
Featured Trades: (HIROSHIMA ANNIVERSARY) 4) A Hiroshima Memorial. Friday was the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, an event that that has touched me in many ways. I never had any doubt for the need to use the bomb in 1945. My father had orders to join his third marine division in Okinawa for
