Financial Sense Exclusives on Commodities
3 Mar 2008
As one might expect, Mr. Bernanke’s answer to this question was less than illuminating. Fed Chairmen don’t usually speak clearly until they become ex-Fed Chairmen. However, the actions of the Federal Reserve, as well as other central banks around...
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14 Feb 2008
Central bankers and finance ministers from the world’s top-10 economic powers, huddled behind closed doors in Tokyo last weekend, trying to work out a joint strategy to rescue the global stock markets from another possible meltdown.
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4 Feb 2008
At the risk of sounding like a Dana Carvey parody of the first President Bush, I believe the concept of “staying the course” in commodity-related stocks is still the place to be in 2008. I promise not to refer to “a thousand points of light.” Wall...
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16 Jan 2008
The Japanese yen has started rising against all of the world's major currencies as the yen carry trade may be unwinding. Traders have for years borrowed cheap yen at interest rates near 0% to reinvest those funds throughout the world.
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2 Jan 2008
The markets sold off in early morning trading after the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released their manufacturing report. The index fell 3.1 points in December to 47.7, putting it below the expansionary threshold of 50.0 for the first time...
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14 Jun 2007
One of the wonderful attributes of technical analysis is the ability to go back in history to view how prices performed and visually compare their traits with events that are happening today. The past performance of the financial market is never an...
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17 Nov 2006
The American economy has been called a bubble economy. We have bubbles everywhere you look—from real estate and mortgages to bonds and consumption. There are many on Wall Street who believe that commodities have become an asset bubble as well. Oil...
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23 Nov 2005
The conclusion to a four part series detailing the lives and events surrounding John and Terry Wheeler, J. Gordon Grecko, and WedgeBook Partners.
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22 Feb 2005
The first in a four part series detailing the lives and events surrounding John and Terry Wheeler, J. Gordon Grecko, and WedgeBook Partners.
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4 Aug 2004
Anyone who even remotely follows the current state of the U.S. economy realizes one irrefutable fact: our economy is driven entirely by credit. Secondly, we acknowledge the fact that credit feeds on itself and must constantly and consistently expand.
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