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Apple Inc (AAPL): A Long-Term Short For The Patient Investor

Holiday Melt Up in Stocks Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and most stocks do routinely well during the 4th quarter, and especially the last couple of months of trading after earnings are out, and the fund...

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Paypal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Returns to the Online Gambling World

Following the merger of Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) with eBay in 2003, the company placed a self-imposed ban on the use of its services on online gambling platforms. One of the main reasons given...

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Here’s Why Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Still Betting on International Business...

By David Sterman As a resident of New York State’s Hudson Valley, I have met dozens of local citizens who worked for International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) in its heyday. A massive set of...

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Is LinkedIn Corp Mania Over After 20% Plunge? (LNKD)

By Mike Shedlock It’s tough predicting the end to manias. Yesterday I pondered a 21% plunge in extended hours trading in LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD). Is the mania over? Please consider LinkedIn Plunges...

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More Thoughts on the Current Oil Market

WTI surged to close at $56.01 a barrel on Wednesday, while Brent closed at $62.86 after the US crude oil inventories showed a ‘less-than-expected increase’. The latest weekly inventory (week ending...

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Oil Price: A Sword That Cuts Both Ways

By Benedict Clements and Marta Ruiz-Arranz Plunging oil prices have taken the public finances on an exciting ride the past six months. Oil prices have fallen about 45 percent since September (see April...

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General Electric Company Resorts To Financial Engineering to Boost Stock...

GE Underperforms Market Jeff Immelt, feeling the pressure for a stock price that has vastly underperformed the overall market during his tenure as CEO at General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has finally...

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Gold Not Yet Bottomed in Dollar

By Commodities Now Demand and dollar prices continue to build a base Like most markets, gold takes time to recover from periods of turbulence and in early 2015 it is continuing the stabilization of...

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World Markets Review

By Jeffrey P. Snider Since November of 2014, the S&P 500 Index (IVV) has been traded within a range of 150 or so points. During that time, it has broken the 50-day moving average a total of 7...

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Dow Up 27 Points After Fed Minutes

By Garrett Baldwin The DJIA Index added 27 points Wednesday following a busy day of earnings reports and the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in March. The...

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4-month Market Forecast on Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Oil

By Chris Vermeulen Everyone is looking for the holy grail of the financial market which will tell what will happen next in stocks, commodities, bonds etc… Knowing that the holy grail of trading does...

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Canada Losing $30+ Bn a Year on Tar-Sands Oil

By Sprott Money Oil is our most-precious commodity as fuel for the global economy. It is also becoming a scarce commodity, as global production has flattened, while global demand continues to climb...

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China Energy: Cheap Oil and Natural Gas Kills Coal

We have all heard about the doom and gloom that the U.S. coal sector is facing – a double-whammy of abundant supplies of cheap shale gas coupled with the regulatory noose that the Environmental...

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Will Stock Market Correct or Collapse in 2015?

The question on everybody’s mind for 2015 is when will the stock market start to correct in value and will it turn into a 50+% collapse? Over the last 15 years investors has been through a lot in...

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Dow Beats S&P 500 and Emerging Markets in 1Q15

​For global equity investors what worked so well last year is struggling to work this year. Last year, the S&P 500 was the place to be. It gained nearly 11.5%. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 was up 4.3%....

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Gold Outlook 2015

2015 Likely to Mark the End of the Bear Cycle for Gold   Metal Focus The Gold Focus report argues that gold will continue to face challenges in the near-term, in particular the global macroeconomic...

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Tech Boom Driving U.S. Shale Oil

By Frank Holmes        Oil mounted a strong surge last Thursday as Saudi Arabia-led forces carried out a series of airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, part of which is bordered by the Bab...

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Will Argentina Become the Next Big Shale Oil Producer?

By Alexis Arthur,  Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both vast...

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Which Way Mr. Market?

By Lance Roberts A few weeks ago I discussed the importance of price momentum as an important component of portfolio management particularly in the late stages of a market advance when "investor...

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Rig Count Still Matters, But Not To Oil Production

By Karim Rahemtulla Focusing on rig counts to try to determine the velocity of future oil production is a fool’s pursuit. Sure, they’re a good measure during boom times. But during busts, seasoned...

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