Financial Sense Blog

Jan 27 – What's the outlook for the US economy in 2021? Alex Chausovsky, senior business advisor for ITR Economics, said all 12 of their leading economic indicators (LEIs) are now pointing up, which means we should expect the recovery...

Jan 20 – Relative to the United States, foreign and emerging markets are likely to see substantial outperformance, Puplava noted, both overall economically and in terms of future returns. The world’s second largest economy, China...

Jan 11 – Avi Gilburt of Elliott Wave Trader predicted a major correction for 2020 when we spoke with him in 2019, even calling for the exact area the market would bottom months ahead of time. FS Insider caught up with Gilburt to discuss how...

Dec 23 – Commodities have seen a fairly big move this year and Richard Mills, writer of the Ahead of the Herd newsletter, believes we are not only at the beginning stages of a new commodities supercycle, but that it may even be bigger than the last one...

Dec 21 – Jeff Christian, one of the most accurate strategists covering the precious metals space, says there are three long-term tailwinds for higher gold and silver prices and that they expect prices to accelerate even higher in the years ahead...

Dec 8 – Looking at the occurrences where the S&P 500 Index had 90% or more of its members above their 200-day simple moving averages we see a beautiful thing. Essentially, we see the average forward return during these signals...

Nov 27 – The entire global economy has been radically altered by Covid-19. For most industries it has been a loss, but for major players at the crossroads of AI, public health, and biotechnology, it is proving to be a major accelerant...

Nov 24 – For the past 40 years, largely due to the forces of globalization and cheaply imported goods, the world has experienced a prolonged period of subdued inflation. However, 2020 marks a significant shift in the inflationary outlook as...

Nov 9 – Though most of the focus has been on the 2020 presidential election and the surge in Covid cases, Leuthhold Group's Chief Investment Strategist Jim Paulsen is telling investors and US businesses to be prepared for a potential 'growth bomb'...

Nov 9 – As of today, the volatility index (VIX) stands at 24.88 and is deeply confused about its market identity. Is it bullish, is it bearish, or is it non-binary? The VIX has not closed below 20 since pre-historic…excuse me, pre-COVID times. This stands contrary...