Bear's Lair
Bear Markets always follow Bull markets and a severe stock market correction is long overdue. Bears Lair will spot, monitor and analyze the stock market correction as it develops.
If you own physical gold, gold mining stocks or plan on buying anything related to precious metals before year end, you are likely going to get excited because of what my analysis and outlook shows.
Life is busy these days. I'll be relatively brief today and there won't be a weekend letter next weekend.
This week I want to talk about fear before we get into the charts.
After a long contentious slog, the hyper-critical 2012 elections are almost here. Americans will finally have the opportunity to choose our great nation's future course.
With earnings coming out from some heavy hitters this past week and revenues coming in less than stellar we saw some major weakness late in the week.
Since being shunned by traders last year after a series of margin increases, gold has enjoyed a worthy comeback since turning around this summer.
With the US stock markets near major multi-year highs, traders are naturally very optimistic. Predictions abound for a continuing advance to new all-time highs.
The US Presidential Election will be held on Tuesday 6th November and the election results should be known by the time the US financial markets open for trading on Wednesday 7th November.
No matter who wins next month's presidential election, the next few years should prove to be exciting for market watchers, and miserable for most everyone else.
The general US markets had a tough week as corrections are sitting in hard now, but they may need to consolidate recent moves lower before they head any lower further.
Let's look at the stock market first, with a chart of the Dow Jones' monster head and shoulders chart. I first posted this chart in the summer of 2011 with the Dow Jones's over 12,500.
With less than three months left until the end of the year, let's do a quick recap. Silver may not be as shiny as gold, but it has been no pushover to the yellow metal.
After surging sharply in August and early September, gold stocks have been consolidating sideways ever since. Naturally this loss of momentum has sapped the nascent trader enthusiasm for this sector.
Bill Gross is one of the most recognizable names in the investment world. He is the founder and co-chief investment officer at bond fund giant PIMCO.
Over the years we have read many times that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has rapidly inflated the supply of Yen.
A month ago, I presented the case for why Fed Chairman Bernanke would have strong motivation to launch another round of quantitative easing (QE) before the election. In short, it would save him his job.
It's been a great break from working nearly 7 days a week down to 5 1/2 or so. But I'm back!
What accounts for gold's strong performance since the initial rebound in July? That's the question that many analysts are (belatedly) trying to answer.
Over the past year we have had some really interesting things unfold in the market.
After the Federal Reserve launched QE3 last month, investors and speculators are growing excited about its future impact on gold and silver.
Tonight I want to show you my long term price objective for this next impulse leg higher for gold.This would be of the intermediate term variety. There are two ways I measure for price objectives.
Action in the Precious Metals markets yesterday was VERY bearish and confirms our suspicion that an intermediate top may be forming that could lead to a brutal correction.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Last week was pivotal for equities as well as a reminder that the 3 ½ year-old recovery is still alive.
We are at the point in the paper currency cycle where for the price of Gold it is risk off, Fed management out of the way, and time for Gold to go into free-rise to start to devalue the huge debts in earnest and to balance the budg
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