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Principal protected with a low entry price If it weren’t for Harry Markowitz’s Nobel Prize-winning research, which proved that diversification can account for more than 90% of portfolio returns, I wouldn’t own a single ounce of gold. Why? Because to me, gold epitomizes a “greater fool” investment....

In Greece, the stupidity and venality of the political class are in full view "The current European debt crisis likely will not end until the euro collapses as a currency and takes the entire European Union with it."~ Dennis Gartman, hedge fund manager and writer of The Gartman Letter I was just in...

Governments are left with only two choices. Living in Florida I’ve been in the eye of several hurricanes. In the eye, one side of the storm has passed and there is great relief. There’s some rubble and signs of destruction, but the sun is shining. We begin to pick up the pieces. There’s a hopeful...

In an article on Stockhouse, analysts at Casey Research said that they were eagerly awaiting the release of quarterly reports from the companies in the gold sector. The analysts were anxious to ascertain the extent of profits generated by these companies following the substantial increase in gold...

… collect safe income instead. A reminder from last week's natural gas essay: Don't buy a natural gas ETF to profit from cheap natural gas prices. For the past few weeks, we've been covering the opportunity opening up in natural gas, which has gotten close to "supercheap" territory. But if you...

Gold has made some dramatic moves in the last 18 months and we expect it will undergo some equally dramatic moves in the future. But not right now. While I recognize that gold is one of the few "commodity" markets that people are really passionate about, the purpose of this article is not to take...

Greased the Chechnya equation from the outset The tragic news of the March 29 twin suicide bombings of two Moscow Metro stations during the morning rush hour has produced outrage worldwide, with the Kremlin quickly adding that the attacks were carried out by the Caucasus Mujaheddin, a northern...

Steelmakers forced to buy from smaller producers on the volatile spot market Iron ore negotiations have ground to a halt - again. Iron ore producers and consumers were so far apart last year that negotiations on pricing broke down entirely. No price benchmark was reached between major Australian...

This is the best spot to put on a short sale I've seen in a long time. When the S&P 500 broke the rising-wedge chart pattern to the downside back in mid-January (something we warned about here and here), the intermediate-term trend for stocks changed. The trend transitioned from what looked...