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Gold, Bonds And Stocks All Rising In Unison – One Of These Markets Has Gotten It Wrong
How Are The Gold Miners Faring?
U.S. Banks Under Pressure To Take Back Sour Loans Sold To Freddie, Fannie
Chart Of The Day: Inflation-Adjusted Gold Prices
UK Politician: Companies Don’t Need More EU Regulations To Enable Them To Sell Across Borders

Gold, Bonds And Stocks All Rising In Unison – One Of These Markets Has Gotten It Wrong

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:45 AM PDT

"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention." Tom Peters

Certainly, management guru Tom Peters' quote could apply to last week's market action as we saw significant moves in both directions only to end up at about where we started the week when the markets closed on Friday.

The markets do seem confused and conflicted as we see gold, bonds and stocks all rising in unison.

One or more of these markets has gotten it wrong and sooner or later we're going to find … [visit site to read more]

How Are The Gold Miners Faring?

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:40 AM PDT

With gold making new highs, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at how the gold miners are faring. So, here is a detailed analysis of the gold miners index. The gold miners ETF (^GDM) chart is very similar to the index chart shown below, so I won’t be going through that. I decided to do a detailed study of the index as I thought it might be of some help to you charting newbies out there.

Here is a daily chart of the gold miners index.

1. The first thing that should … [visit site to read more]

U.S. Banks Under Pressure To Take Back Sour Loans Sold To Freddie, Fannie

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 10:56 AM PDT

Major U.S. banks are under pressure from government officials, as well as groups of investors and insurers, to repurchase or modify bad mortgage loans they pooled into securities and sold to unwitting buyers.

In the latest effort, a group of investors with roughly $500 billion invested in 2,300 mortgage securities is trying to force the large banks that originated or are now servicing faulty subprime-mortgage loans to repurchase or modify them, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Some … [visit site to read more]

Chart Of The Day: Inflation-Adjusted Gold Prices

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Adjusted for inflation, the current price of gold ($1,296) is 36.41% below the peak price of more than $2,000 per ounce (2010 dollars) in January of 1980 (see chart … [visit site to read more]