Gold Price and Fed Interest Rate Hikes

Gold’s sharp early-year surge has fizzled in recent weeks as investment demand faded.  The primary reason is the universal belief […]

2015: the Recovery Year for Energy and Commodities?

Last year was a dismal year for oil, the energy sector in general, commodities, and gold. Following through with the […]

2015: Why’s the Oil Price Collapsing? Answer: $8+ Trillion Carry Trade

By: DK_Matai   Most in the media are utterly clueless about what’s coming in 2015. It is incumbent upon ATCA 5000 […]

Gundlach’s Forecast for 2015

By Robert Huebscher, From Advisors Perspectives, Despite a fragile economic recovery – now threatened by falling oil prices – and […]

Achieving Excess Returns Around FOMC Meetings

David Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee for S&P Dow Jones Indices, recently highlighted research results showing excess returns are generated around […]

Goldman: Here’s How Stocks Perform Before and After Fed Raises Rates

By Steven Russolillo, WSJ Blog, With the focus shifting to when the Federal Reserve will start raising short-term interest rates, […]

Market Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere

By John Mauldin, The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein Genius is […]

Investing’s Biggest Irony: Everyone Thinks They’re a Contrarian

By Morgan Housel, Motley Fool,   Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize in economics last year for his research on […]

At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates

By Jonathan Spicer and Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Reuters, In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners with wealthy private investors, Ben Bernanke has […]

Like Houdini, the Markets Escape Again and Again

By Stephen C. Sexauer, Allianz Global Investors, The Hungarians who fled Budapest in the 1930s have changed the world. This […]