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Risk Management Continues To Be Key For Metals Investors

Risk Management Continues To Be Key For Metals Investors

David Erfle, Founder of The Junior Miner Junky newsletter joins me to further discuss a theme we have been expressing for metals investors. This theme is risk management for a sector that continues to languish. The key charts to watch are silver, SIL, and the US dollar. With Silver approaching the lows of late 2015 […]
Cyber Security ETFs To Shine On Robust Earnings

Cyber Security ETFs To Shine On Robust Earnings

Amid the broad market sell-off, the cyber security industry appears well poised on higher IT spending budgets, increased cybercrimes and better-than-expected earnings for the July-September quarter. Most of the cyber security firms beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate for both earnings and revenues and offered robust guidance. Let’s check out the earnings of some of the […]
CPI Rises 0.3% In October Led By Gasoline Index: This Won’t Last

CPI Rises 0.3% In October Led By Gasoline Index: This Won’t Last

The Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in October. The gasoline index was responsible for over one-third of the rise. The BLS Consumer Price Report for October shows an interesting development related to gasoline. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in October on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.1 percent in […]
Gold Spikes Back Above $1200, Silver Above $14

Gold Spikes Back Above $1200, Silver Above $14

After reaching its weakest relative to gold in 25 years, silver is modestly outperforming the yellow metal this morning as PMs break back above critical price levels amid Brexit confusion, crude chaos, and US bank selling. And having touched 86, silver started to outperform today… Gold back above $1200… And Silver back above $14…
Cloud Support Software Providers Broadening To Include CRM And More

Cloud Support Software Providers Broadening To Include CRM And More

According to a Business Wire report published recently, the global cloud-based IT Service Management market is estimated to grow 8.8% annually over the next four years. Another report published by Market Research Future estimates the global help desk automation market to grow to $11 billion by 2023, recording an annualized growth rate of over 33% during the […]
Gas To Be Second-Leading Global Energy Source By 2030: 5 Picks

Gas To Be Second-Leading Global Energy Source By 2030: 5 Picks

Natural gas could replace coal as the second-largest energy source in the world by 2030, driven by the growing usage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) globally in order to curb air pollution, International Energy Agency (IEA) said earlier this week. The IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2018 report states energy demand is estimated to grow more than 25% […]
Live By The Oil Price…

Live By The Oil Price…

It was like a scene out of the seventies. Americans lined in their cars all over the Southeast hoping that their local filling station would have gasoline. There were documented reports of shortages as far away as the Dakotas. This wasn’t typical behavior, fortunately, so it couldn’t have been too much like the oil embargo […]
Five Decades Of Middle-Class Wages: October 2018 Update

Five Decades Of Middle-Class Wages: October 2018 Update

We’ve updated this series to include this morning’s release of the Consumer Price Index as the deflator and the October monthly employment update. The latest hypothetical real (inflation-adjusted) annual earnings are at $38,570, down 12.3% from 45-plus years ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on this workforce cohort since 1964. The […]
Why Warren Buffett Would Be Buying Precious Metals Again Today (If He Could)

Why Warren Buffett Would Be Buying Precious Metals Again Today (If He Could)

Warren Buffett is famous for many things one of which is his general dislike for precious metals as an investment. But maybe you’re old enough to remember when, just over 20 years ago, he backed up the truck and bought a ton of silver – over 3,000 tons, to be more precise. From the 1997 Berkshire […]