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is Jan 14 2014 the markets date with its inevitable destiny?

Crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929. They say those who forget…

Why What’s Happening in the Bond Market Now Is So Important to Stock Investors

Taper or no taper? When? How much? These are the worries that are currently driving tensions in the stock market…

Risers and fallers – 10/12/13

Risers:  Lloyds Banking Group +0.98% Lloyds has today announced that 109 million shares in St. James’s Place have been placed…

KAZAKHMYS AND THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE…

And so it was that I came to be in this strange hybrid of groundhog day and what appeared to…

As the fear Index Hits a new Multiyear Low; Are Investors Too Comfortable?

Let me begin by first stating this: I’m not going to talk about the Federal Reserve in any detail, or…

as revealed here – confirmation of speculator net long gold positions smallest since 2008

From the Kitco site One the two reports compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission reviewing weekly trading positions shows…

Zak Mir on AIM volume leaders GKP, GKO & AMERISUR and the Wild West!

I make no secret of my view (and in something of a contrast to other blog sites and fellow writers…

Japan V QE – which is more important for the markets into 2014?

The traditionally quiet period for markets in December is turning out to be not-so-quiet, thanks to a key meeting of…

Is Oil set for a monster New Year rally?

The chart below came my way this weekend and it paints a pretty bullish picture (Zak Mir will be pleased…

morning commentary – 09/12/13

Stocks look to open positively this morning here in London, taking their cue from a continuation of Friday’s late rally.…