U.S. Silver Coin Sales Top 2012- Record Store Of Value Buying
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,391.75, EUR 1,054.60 and GBP 891.06 per ounce.Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,403.75, EUR 1,065.63 and GBP 899.67 per ounce. Gold fell $17.90 or 1.27% yesterday, closing at...
View ArticleAugust Service ISM Soars To 58.6, Highest Since 2005, Second Biggest Two...
The data is getting painfully laughable: on one hand Gallup says unemployment is soaring to two year highs, on the other, the ISM non-manufacturing report just printed at 58.6: for those keeping track,...
View ArticleLeningrad Liaisons Caption Contest
Two old pals meet in LeningradSt. Petersburg. From AFP: And yet one can't help but wonder... And here's Billy Joel
View ArticleTaper-On Slams Fed Kool Aid Trades
While US equities remain immune, bonds, bullion, and the greenback are moving in a very "Taper-On" mode. Gold and Silver have been slammed hard this morning for the fourth time in the last four...
View ArticleStandoff In The Mediterranean: The US vs Russian Navies
While the leaders of the two superpowers are shaking hands for the camera in St. Petersburg, their navies are sending a different message. Here is the latest breakdown of the world's key navies in the...
View ArticleA Post-ECB Reminder On The 'State' Of Europe
Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,September 22 is the date for the German Elections. All of Europe and the IMF are keeping their heads down, playing nice and saying very little until...
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View ArticleJPMorgan To Stop Making Student Loans
If you know you are adding more fuel to the latest and greatest credit bubble - that of student loans - and the blended return will be zero at best, why do it? That's precisely the question JPM appears...
View ArticleIs Initial Claims Data Useless?
Today's jobs number (and revisions) are sparking some initial vain hope that SepTaper is delayed and providing enough 'optimism' that Fed spice will flow just a little longer. However, as we have noted...
View ArticlePoland Confiscates Half Of Private Pension Funds To "Cut" Sovereign Debt Load
While the world was glued to the developments in the Mediterranean in the past week, Poland took a page straight out of Rahm Emanuel's playbook and in order to not let a crisis go to waste, announced...
View ArticleNo Correlation At All??
Tom Perez got the job as Secretary of Labor just two days ago. All smiles with the Veep for the affair: After the payroll numbers this morning Perez goes on CNBC and talks about how great things are,...
View ArticleWe Have Officially Jumped The Shark: Al-Arabiya Reports Another "Gas Attack"...
The script just jumped the shark:SYRIA GOVT FORCES SHELL QABUN, DAMASCUS WITH GAS: AL-ARABIYAAL-ARABIYA CITES UNIDENTIFIED ACTIVISTS - so the same CIA-trained, al Qaeda funded, Qatari...
View ArticleFact Or Fiction: Poll Says Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress...
WASHINGTON - As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the prospect of...
View ArticleMission Un-Accomplished: Dow Loses 15,000 As Syria Tops Taper
An impressive chaotic day in stocks and bonds as both markets appeared confused as to whether jobs bad news was good, if the jobs bad news was bad enough, and if Syrian bad news was actually good news...
View ArticleChart Of The Day: August Job Additions, Or Rather Losses, By Age Group
Frequent readers are well aware that in addition to having broken the story about America's conversion to a part-time worker nation nearly three years ago, another topic we have been closely tracking...
View ArticleHere's Your "Efficient" Market!!
Today's price action in Chevron will come as no surprise to any reader of ZH, but maybe, just maybe, in flipping from porn site to porn site, the SEC will stumble across our earlier note on...
View ArticleThe Week That Was: September 2nd - 6th 2013
Succinctly summarizing the positive and negative news, data, and market events of the week...PositivesGold surges as COMEX shorts hit 7 month lowIn the new normal, pending war means precious metals and...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Chartbook For Gold Bulls And Debt Bears
With gold 'handled' back below $1,400 and bonds 'tapering' through 3.00% yields as equity bulls proclaim 'Mission Accomplished' today on the Dow 15,000 trigger, it seems markets remain entirely...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About The News? Take The Quiz
The Pew Research Center has released a comprehensive 13 question quiz which does a surprisingly good, and broad, job of testing readers' knowledge about "prominent people and major events in the news",...
View ArticleIs The U.S. Dollar Set To Spike?
So markets wait with bated breath on the words of a bearded academic-turned-central-banker on September 18. Bond king, Bill Gross of Pimco, probably has it right suggesting Ben Bernanke and his Fed...
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