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Gold's Regaining Its Shine

All day Friday CNBC pundits were screaming about how this is the worst June since the Great Depression and how the DOW was already in bear market territory (intraday). If you recall, I have been leaning towards seeing the March lows hold for the rest ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  29 Jun 2008
Related Topics: CNBC

Energy Bombshell: China Raises Oil and Diesel Prices

On Thursday, China dropped a bombshell with the news that it was raising prices on refined products, gasoline and diesel. Detailed reports are confusing, not the least due to the currency and weight units used. The best I could find is gasoline from 598 ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: PetroChina

Fed Tightening and the Gold Market

In the last post, I posed the question "Safe to dip in the gold pool again?" as the Amex Gold BUGS Index (HUI) was on the verge of breaking out of a down trend. The answer since has been an emphatic "No". Despite the awful employment number last Friday ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  13 Jun 2008

Is It Safe to Take a Dip in the Gold Pool Again?

What transpired on Thursday and Friday was simply stunning. The Dow was up 200 points then down 400, while crude gained $17 in the same time span. The S&P has now broken decisively to the downside. I can easily see the 1325 level gets tested, and 1310 ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  8 Jun 2008

What's Behind this Buying Frenzy?

Immediately Heebner is peppering Fox with questions about where all this sovereign dough is going, wondering, for instance, whether Goldman is now recommending "short-busting" strategies to its worldwide clientele. (Short-busting involves trying to ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  6 Jun 2008

Closed-End Funds: The Preferred Way to Play the Financials

I've been meaning to add some financials to my portfolio ever since the subprime crisis began. I traded Goldman Sachs (GS)  for some short-term profit recently, but in general found the headlines a little too hard to handle. Okay, so that was a bit ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, Seeking Alpha,  2 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Goldman Sachs

Catching the Next Bubble

First of all, Janszen defines various stages within a bubble: normal, formation, hyperinflation, dissipation and overshoot. It doesn't offer any particular insight but lays a common framework for analyzing all bubbles. One major prediction of this ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, ETF Investor,  14 Apr 2008

Five Ways to Invest in China and India

Continuing on with the notion that we've made an interim bottom in the S&P, in this post I want to take a quick look at both the Chinese (the Shanghai index) and Indian (the Bombay Sensex). Unsurprisingly, they both appear to have bottomed based on ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, ETF Investor,  9 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Morgan Stanley,  iShares

Did Barron's Really Pan All Commodity Investing?

More than half of all bullish bets on commodities have been made by speculators, both big and small. When these markets fall, they'll fall hard, perhaps by 30%. That quote summarizes the article pretty well. The cornerstone of the author's argument ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, ETF Investor,  1 Apr 2008

What a Week for Financials and Precious Metals

This past week was undoubtedly one of the most schizophrenic in recent memory, and given how 2008 has unfolded that's saying a lot! I have been calling for a break of the January lows before moving higher. Now that the first part of that prediction has ...

From INVESTING THE MIDDLE WAY, ETF Investor,  24 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Goldman Sachs,  Merrill Lynch

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