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Special Stock Market Chart Review: Charts Point to Further Weakness

The six-day losing streak finally came to an end on Thursday, but I sense that the buying was likely more to do with oversold buying than a change in market sentiment. The charts continue to show fragility and exhaustion, with the near-term view being... Read >

Stock Market Downgrade Makes Next Quarter’s Earnings Story That Much More Attractive

Most economic analysis hasn’t been accurate over the last several years, and it’s partially due to the severity of the financial crisis, which almost brought about the complete collapse of the stock market. While history is replete with all kinds of reces... Read >

What Are Investors Buying? Dividends—and the Trend Will Last a While

On the continuing theme of dividend-paying large-cap companies, it’s pretty clear that institutional investors have been migrating towards these stocks because they don’t expect a lot of economic growth over the near term. In fact, we could get a major sl... Read >

Economic Recovery: Trouble in Paradise

Looks like trouble in paradise… We hear and read all kinds of reports telling us that the economy is improving, yet yesterday the Conference Board reported that its index of U.S. leading indicators fell in April for the first time after nine consecutiv... Read >

Money in Auto Growth; Where to Look

The key in China will be the rapid growth of the country’s middle class. In a recent research finding, Credit Suisse predicted that the household wealth in China will double to $35.0 trillion by around 2015 based on achieving sustainable GDP growth at or ... Read >

Commodity Investors: What Goldman Sachs Is Likely Right About

Goldman Sachs is now saying that it’s time for commodity investors to take some money off the table, as the price cycle for oil, gold, corn and copper is getting tired. I agree with this view if you’re a short-term investor. Everything is looking tired in... Read >

The Quiet Hyperinflation of 2011

Inflation in Venezuela is running at 27.4% a year. The country devalued its currency earlier this year to deal with the rapid inflation rate. Yesterday, the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg said that European producer-price inflation jumped... Read >

The Key to Successful Speculation in Mining Stocks

I was beginning to get a little worried that this earnings season was going to be a dud. Just like the economy, there is growth out there, but it isn’t uniform. Investor sentiment is still somewhat sideways about the state of things. I still see the main ... Read >

Why the Biggest Profits in the Gold Bull Market Are Still Ahead

“It’s too late, the easy money has been made," is the most common response I get from investors when I ask them why they do not have exposure to the gold bull market. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, gold’s had a phenomenal run-up in price... Read >

A Safer Way to Invest in China: The Large-cap Chinese ETF

The Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) has been rallying. It is up 8.37% this year as of April 14, well above the comparative gains of the NASDAQ, DOW, Russell 200, and S&P 500. But playing the Chinese capital markets involves excessive political and econ... Read >

Taking Stock: A Lot of Good News Already Priced Into Stocks

Most capital markets are due for a correction and that makes it more difficult to be a new buyer of stocks, bonds or commodities right now. All you have to do in the equity market is pull up a one-year stock chart on the S&P 500 Index and you’ll see the t... Read >

Investor Alert: S&P 500 Chart Shows Potential Decline

My stock market advice to you at this time is to be careful. Stock picking is about trading the right direction, but also making sure you have a defensive strategy in place should the trade turn against you. The sentiment in the market remains bullish,... Read >

Stock Picking for Higher Returns—Playing Less & Watching More

I want to stay on the topic of stock picking for a few more columns, because it really is a game and getting good at it takes discipline, experience, resources, and a measure of good luck. It actually takes a lot more than that and those who have made som... Read >

Why the Markets Don’t Buy Obama’s Four-trillion Deficit Cut

Why don’t the markets believe him? Yesterday, President Obama said that he would cut $4.0 trillion from annual deficits over the next 12 years. He plans to raise taxes and cut government spending. The stock market hardly budged. The U.S. dollar and ... Read >

Chinese Reverse Mergers: Should You Be Concerned with Them?

It has been a brutal few weeks for some of the smaller Chinese stocks, especially those that listed on the U.S. exchanges via the reverse merger route. Should you be concerned? Yes. But should you immediately go out and dump your small-cap Chinese stoc... Read >