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U.S. Stocks Extend Gains; Gold Price Rises More Than 3%; Abe Win Boosts Yen Against U.S. Dollar
U.S. Stocks Extend Gains (Bloomberg) On Monday, investment in equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reached a five-year high, fueling...
General Electric Gains Boost U.S. Stocks; Gold Hits One-Month High; Fed Comments Continue to Bring U.S. Dollar Down
General Electric Gains Boost U.S. Stocks U.S. stocks rose Friday, as General Electric's 4.6% gain offset losses by...
Daily Data Flow: Ben Bernanke Clarifies Fed Policy; U.S. Stocks Rally on Fed Flexibility; Gold Falls as the Dollar Rises
In comments made today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke advised that the bank’s current quantitative easing (QE) policy...
Daily Data Flow: New S&P 500 High, Gold Falls, A Fed President Calls for Tapering
New High for Standard and Poor 500 (Bloomberg) Financial stocks pushed the S&P 500 to a new record Friday,...
Are Precious Metals a Good Inflation Hedge?
“Gold isn’t such a hot inflation hedge.” -- Alexander Green My friend Alex Green, investment director of the...
The Global Guru: Two Investments You’ll Hate but Will Make You Big Money
Most investors would love to forget the last six weeks. After all, even the most robust and time-tested...
S&P 500 Snaps Winning Streak; U.S. Business Activity Slows; Gold Miners Trade Similar to Junk as Bullion Sinks Below $1,200
Business activity in the U.S. cooled more than projected in June, a regional report showed today.
Gold Dips to 34-Month Low; U.S. Stocks Rise as GDP Report Fuels Fed Stimulus Bets; China’s Central Bank Soothes Markets
Gold fell to a 34-month low, as improving U.S. economic data strengthened the case for the Federal Reserve...
Waving Bye-Bye to $47.2 Billion in Bond Purchases; 75% of American Families Living Paycheck to Paycheck; Golden Dominos Continue to Fall
It all began a little more than a month ago today, when the minutes of the May 22...
Nikkei Down 10 Percent from Five-Plus Year High; Gold is the Time-Honored Safe Haven, Right?; Greece Named World’s First ‘Demerging Market’
The Nikkei 225 Index followed up Tuesday’s 1.5 percent loss with today’s 2.4 percent dive. After the last...