S&P 500 Snapshot: A Fractional Loss, But Well Off The Intraday Low
In advance of the Good Friday market holiday, the S&P 500 logged its third consecutive loss following a four-day rally. Before the US market opened, global markets had closed or were trading in the deep red. The S&P 500 plunged at the open and quickly hit its -0.70% intraday low. After a few hours of […]
SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – The Gross Mispricing Of Risk Enabled By The Fed
“Complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.” John Kenneth Galbraith Stocks were lower in light trading volume, and like so many pre-holiday weekend days the light volume allowed trading algos to push the major indices back to unchanged. VIX stuck its nose up a bit, but was beaten back […]
Gold At Risk Of Severe Drop In Price – Here’s Why
Written by Clive P. Maund All the technical evidence suggests that gold is building out an intermediate top area [at this point in time]…After its parabolic ramp up in January and early February, it has been struggling to make further progress…Although it has edged ahead a little, the passage of time has resulted in its breaking […]
The Real Value Of Gold
I bought some Mexican gold on Monday. Old gold. Pre-World War II stuff. Two-peso coins slightly smaller than a U.S. dime that Mexicans used to carry around in their pockets — only these are not all banged up and gnarly like normal pocket change. They’re all in uncirculated or “about uncirculated” condition, meaning they’re really […]
CombiMatrix Closes $8.0 Million Underwritten Public Offering
IRVINE, Calif., March 24, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CombiMatrix Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX), a molecular diagnostics company specializing in DNA-based testing services for prenatal and postnatal developmental disorders and pre-implantation genetic screening services, today announced that it has closed its previously announced firm commitment underwritten public offering of 8,000 units of Series F convertible preferred stock and […]
Gold Stock Rally’s Market Cap Bias May Surprise You
Investors are once again starting to pile money into promising gold stocks in anticipation that the bullion price will continue its rise – and who controls the price in this type of an environment? The seller. Investors’ interest in Canadian gold stocks has nearly doubled over the past 30 days, as seen by an average […]
U.S. Oil Rigs Resume Slide, Drop By 15 In Past Week To New Record Low
After posting the smallest possible rebound in the past week, moments ago Baker Hughes reported that in the holiday shortened week (in which there was some extrapolation) the decline in U.S. oil rigs has resumed, and as of this moment there were only 372 oil rigs operating in the U.S., down 15 weekly and the […]
End Of Quarter Should Bring Answers For Copper & Crude
The end of the 1st quarter is shaping up to be pretty interesting for commodities. Oil & Copper are stalling at levels that have proven sticky in the past. Crude, for instance, has failed every time is has gotten to the 200-day moving average over the past year and on Tuesday turned down about a quarter away […]
Betting Against The Fed Pays Off In Gold
Gold gets hit. Fed to ruin the rally? Peter Schiff on CNBC. Video Length: 00:06:25
Is Apple Stock “So Done”? Gamco’s Ward Sees More Growth Ahead
Apple (AAPL) stock hasn’t done anything over the last 12 months, according to Gamco’s Howard Ward, but he thinks 2016 will be a much better year. He’s expecting financial engineering to give the stock a boost over the next few months, followed by more growth thanks to the iPhone 7. Ward: Apple stock is a “low […]
