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Arms out wide for the great gold & silver closing down sale

Arms out wide for the great gold & silver closing down sale

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That “barbarous relic”, the shiny yellow metal that has so entranced people for millennia seems to have finally broken the 13 year bull run that began in 2000. Reasons put forth are legion, from the ending of QE (and which we postulated as a portender of potential price weakness at the beginning of the year…

Zak Mir start of week special – A tale of two “gulfs”

Zak Mir start of week special – A tale of two “gulfs”

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Towards the end of last week, I managed to close my eyes to both the Gold price and Gold mining stocks and noted that the “vampire squid” aka Goldman Sachs for once, correctly recommended to their clients to go short of the metal (I guess they have to get one right some time?!). As I…

Stunning set of sentiment figs just out from the AAII

Stunning set of sentiment figs just out from the AAII

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The figures above just released from the AAII are amazing. Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, surged by a stunning 26.3 percentage points to 54.5%. This was the third largest one-week increase in pessimism recorded since the survey started in 1987. The rise also put bearish sentiment at an…

S&P 500’s Record Highs belie the still Tough economic Reality

S&P 500’s Record Highs belie the still Tough economic Reality

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So, the S&P 500 has finally joined the Dow in notching up consecutive daily closing and intra-day highs this week (how much longer Tom Houggard will question). It is only the Nasdaq that is still over 1000 points from its all time high at the turn of the millenium. The headline index figures do not…