After 11 years of roller coaster rides in the stock market which have only intensified in recent months investors are happy to use their money for Christmas shopping and debt reduction instead of investing. If you look at what people are typing into Google last month you will see that 12,100 people looked for How [...]
Gold (GLD) has been the star performer this year in the precious metals arena as it’s up about 27% on the year and appears poised to move higher. the silver etf (SLV) was briefly the star last spring before flaming out after reaching the 1980 high of roughly $50. Gold had a similar parabolic run [...]
Over the past several years investors have treated copper as a leading indicator of global economic health. If this is the case, copper and the copper etf (COPX) are predicting a bleak future. Copper prices are reliant upon growth in the emerging markets (especially China) and the emerging markets are reliant upon exports to the [...]
