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Time To Buy The Beaten-Down Emerging Market ETFs?

Time To Buy The Beaten-Down Emerging Market ETFs?

Video Length: 00:12:01 After soaring in 2017, emerging market stocks suffered a brutal sell-off this year. A slew of problems—trade tensions, rising interest rates in the US, a strong dollar, China’s economic slowdown, crises in Argentina and Turkey—impacted these markets. However, it appears that some investors are now scooping up these beaten down stocks as […]
Metals Markets Report – Friday, Nov. 16

Metals Markets Report – Friday, Nov. 16

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What “Housing Armageddon” Means For Gold And Silver

What “Housing Armageddon” Means For Gold And Silver

It may be the kickoff of a U.S. holiday week, but there’s no shortage of gold and silver news to sift through. Is a December rally in gold and silver just around the corner? Audio Length: 00:16:04
Recent Stock Purchase November 2018

Recent Stock Purchase November 2018

Volatility behind us? Not a chance. Looks like November is picking up right where October left off. Of course, being a dividend growth investor means we have an opportunity to take advantage of all this volatility and pick up some traditional, solid paying dividend payers on sale. These days there’s no shortage of names to […]
Silver Slumps, We Are Headed For Scary Moments

Silver Slumps, We Are Headed For Scary Moments

The gold/silver ratio has risen to its highest level in roughly a quarter century, with silver suffering from both weakness in precious metals lately but also dragged down by pessimism about base metals. The ratio measures how many ounces of silver it takes to buy an ounce of gold. When the number is rising, this […]
Official Hedging Begins (Again)

Official Hedging Begins (Again)

The term “overseas turmoil” didn’t ever make into the official language, it was only through careful innuendo that things like FOMC meeting minutes would ever refer to the idea. It was a different story in the media, where the phrase gained its own currency. Ironically, it was the US currency behind it, which nobody could […]
Iran Close To Shifting Rial To Digital Currency Due To Sanctions

Iran Close To Shifting Rial To Digital Currency Due To Sanctions

Iran is about to launch its Rial digital currency, which is being developed by the Informatics Services Corporation. According to the agency’s CEO, Seyyed Abotaleb Najafi, the coin will support Iran’s fiat. As things stand, the Western Asian nation has been blocked from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) monetary system and is […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Brexit’s Rolling Boil – Thanksgiving Holiday Week

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Brexit’s Rolling Boil – Thanksgiving Holiday Week

Stocks were ranging widely again today and managed to gather themselves together after the European close and get taken up back into the green. Gold and silver finished back up again, regaining much of the pricing they had lost over the past week. I do believe that much of this was ‘technical’ trading associated with […]
Slowly We Turn… Gold Vs.

Slowly We Turn… Gold Vs.

Let’s take an in-day snapshot of gold vs. several key competitors (for your investment dollars/euros/yen, etc.) and check the progress in turning the macro from risk ‘on’ to risk ‘off’, cyclical to counter-cyclical. Gold/Commodities motors along above the SMA 200. The move has been hysterical and thus looks impulsive. That could mean something as we look […]