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Government Inflation Data Does Not Match Reality - 15th May 08
Gold Correction Near its End on Converging Signals from Bonds and Currencies - 15th May 08
Odds Favor Short-Term Crude Oil Downtrend - 15th May 08
Fannie Mae Advertising Foreclosed US Homes to the Brit's - 15th May 08
Playing the Food Boom for Huge Profits - 15th May 08
Gold Slips on Queationable Inflation Data - 15th May 08
Grain Exporting Countries of Africa to Mirror Crude Oil OPEC Boom - 15th May 08
The Battle for America Has Begun- Strategic Forecasts - 14th May 08
Inflation Deflation Chaotic Trend Towards Stagflation - 14th May 08
Credit Crisis Investment Round Table- There's Still Life After Sub-prime - 14th May 08
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Caroline Flint UK Housing Market Briefing Notes in FULL - 13th May 08
Resource Stocks that are Chinese Takeover Targets - 13th May 08
Institutional Selling Warns of Stock Market Weakness - 13th May 08
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Best of the Week
The Geopolitics Of Israel: Historic and Modern - 16th May 08 - John_Mauldin
Stock Markets 2008- Sell in May and Go Away? - 16th May 08 - Hans_Wagner
S&P Developing Bullish Pattern, While Crude Oil Still Refuses to Rest - 16th May 08 - Mike_Paulenoff
Government Inflation Data Does Not Match Reality - 15th May 08 - Gary_Dorsch
Gold Correction Near its End on Converging Signals from Bonds and Currencies - 15th May 08 - Jim_Willie_CB
Odds Favor Short-Term Crude Oil Downtrend - 15th May 08 - Frank_Holmes
Fannie Mae Advertising Foreclosed US Homes to the Brit's - 15th May 08 - Adrian_Ash
Playing the Food Boom for Huge Profits - 15th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Gold Slips on Queationable Inflation Data - 15th May 08 - Mark_OByrne
Grain Exporting Countries of Africa to Mirror Crude Oil OPEC Boom - 15th May 08 - John_Mauldin
The Battle for America Has Begun- Strategic Forecasts - 14th May 08 - Richard_C_Cook
Inflation Deflation Chaotic Trend Towards Stagflation - 14th May 08 - Christopher_Laird
Credit Crisis Investment Round Table- There's Still Life After Sub-prime - 14th May 08 - William_R_Thomson
Gold to Oil Price Ratio Says Gold is Cheap - 14th May 08 - Mark_OByrne
Use Stock Screeners to find Great Stocks - 14th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Caroline Flint UK Housing Market Briefing Notes in FULL - 13th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Resource Stocks that are Chinese Takeover Targets - 13th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Institutional Selling Warns of Stock Market Weakness - 13th May 08 - Marty_Chenard
UK Flawed Inflation Measure Explodes Higher, 3% CPI, 4.2% RPI - 13th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
US Heading for Double-Digit Inflation - 13th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
US Recession 2000 Can tell us a lot about today's Economy - 12th May 08 - Gerard_Jackson
Sell Gold Shares in May and Walk Away? - 12th May 08 - John_Lee
Inflation Fear - 12th May 08 - Paul_J_Nolte
US Housing Dueling Views: Jim Rogers Sees More Pain, Warren Buffet Sees Rebound Under Way - 12th May 08 - Keith_Fitz-Gerald
Triage In Financial Markets - 12th May 08 - Darryl_R_Schoon
Credit Crunch Bites UK Mortgage Payers as Risk of Repossession Soars - 12th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Silver Correction Over and Gearing Up for Explosive Rally - 12th May 08 - Clive_Maund
Fool's Gold- Gold Sucker Rally? - 12th May 08 - Joe_Nicholson
Secrets to Successful Investing- Special - 11th May 08 - Nadeem_Walayat
Gold Correction Completing- Bull Market About to Resume - 11th May 08 - Clive_Maund
UK Housing Market Surge In Mortgage Repossession Orders - 11th May 08 - Mick_Phoenix
A Stealthy Stock Market You Shouldn't Ignore - 11th May 08 - Yiannis_G_Mostrous
New Russian President, New Investment Opportunities? - 11th May 08 - Martin_Hutchinson
US Dollar Bottoming Against Major Currencies? - 11th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Soaring Crude Oil and Gasoline Prices Worry US Consumers - 10th May 08 - Jennifer_Yousfi
How to Survive the Gas / Petrol Crisis - 10th May 08 - Money_and_Markets
Real Estate and Credit Deflation: The Next Dozen Shoes to Drop - 10th May 08 - Steve_Moyer
Global Food Shock - 10th May 08 - Jennifer_Barry
Why Most Investors Fail and How to Invest Successfully - 10th May 08 - John_Mauldin
 

Politics

Friday, May 16, 2008

The Geopolitics Of Israel: Historic and Modern / Politics / Israel

By: John_Mauldin

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThis week we step outside the box of conventional geopolitical analysis to hear the thinking of George Friedman, founder and chief executive officer of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor), on the geopolitics of Israel. George makes the key point that Israel's geography has been fundamentally important to its geopolitical successes and limitations, and has lent a surprising continuity to its foreign policy from the Biblical era forward to the present day.

This is the first in a series of monographs by George on the geopolitics of countries that are currently critical in world affairs, and he has kindly let us have a preview.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, May 16, 2008

Want To Fix the Fed? Get Rid of It / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2008

By: Mike_Shedlock

Inquiring minds have been pondering Volcker's latest statements regarding stagflation, the CPI, regulation of banks, and even the need for an administrator to watch over the Fed.

Let's see where Volcker is right and wrong with his analysis of the current economic situation and what to do about it.


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Stock-Markets

Friday, May 16, 2008

Stock Markets 2008- Sell in May and Go Away? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Hans_Wagner

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleInvestors who want to beat the market need to be aware of the key trends that will affect their portfolios. To some this year looks like a classic “Sell in May and Go Away.” The theory is the market goes into hibernation for six months from May to November, and during the other six months it gets back into gear and makes its move up. The chart below, from Chart of the Day , shows the history of this phenomenon. Moreover, according to Standard & Poor's the November to April period outperformed the May to October period 69% of the time.

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Housing-Market

Friday, May 16, 2008

Mortgage Providers Fail to Pass on Interest Rate Cuts to Borrowers / Housing-Market / Credit Crisis 2008

By: MoneyFacts

“It is now five weeks since the last base rate cut and still 24 lenders (25%) have not announced their intentions with regards to their standard variable rate (SVR). Of those lenders that have done so, 20 (28%) have announced a cut of less than 0.25%. Even more disappointingly is the fact that those lenders which have passed on the smallest cuts offer some of the highest SVR rates.

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Commodities

Friday, May 16, 2008

Uranium Stocks Continue Bearish Roller Coaster Ride / Commodities / Uranium

By: Merv_Burak

Note that the volume is an average volume of round lot sales for the 50 component stocks. For total volume, multiply by 5000.

The roller coaster continues. Today is an up day, tomorrow ?? Read full article... Read full article...

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Commodities

Friday, May 16, 2008

Mining Companies Leverage / Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks

By: David_Morgan

This week I decided to look over some of our earlier reports and provide some information that can help to clarify some common misperceptions in valuing mining companies. The following is edited down considerably from a November 2007 Morgan Report. 

One of the best ways to gain leverage to the precious metals is still in the mining sector and specifically through both junior and senior mining stocks. One analytical method is to take the total resource (indicated and inferred) and determine how many ounces you as an investor are receiving per share or per dollar invested.

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Stock-Markets

Friday, May 16, 2008

S&P Developing Bullish Pattern, While Crude Oil Still Refuses to Rest / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThursday morning I posted a weekly S&P 500 chart for subscribers noting: "Although we still have two trading days remaining this week, a very interesting and potentially extremely bullish pattern has developed since the end of April. Let's notice that the cash SPX is poised to thrust out of a 3-week bullish consolidation pattern if the price structure climbs and sustains above 1422.72." Read full article... Read full article...

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Economics

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Government Inflation Data Does Not Match Reality / Economics / Inflation

By: Gary_Dorsch

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleIn an age where governments of every political stripe distort economic data to promote their own self-interests, it's hardly surprising that they present inflation statistics that are wildly at odds with the reality faced by consumers and businesses, and regarded with utter disbelief. In the latest US government report on inflation for instance, there was a glaring “seasonal adjustment,” for energy prices that cast great doubt as to the accuracy of the findings.

US Labor Dept apparatchniks said consumer prices rose a smaller than expected 0.2% in April, tamed by energy prices, which were unchanged last month. Utilizing an obscure “seasonal adjustment,” Labor figured that gasoline prices actually fell 2% in April, which doesn't reflect the reality of what consumers were paying at the pump. Furthermore, the IMF's global food price index rose 43% over the last 12-months, but the US consumer price index for food is only 5.1% higher.

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Commodities

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Gold Correction Near its End on Converging Signals from Bonds and Currencies / Commodities / Gold & Silver

By: Jim_Willie_CB

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe springtime corrections are really about done. They have gone on for a couple of months. The extent of the pullbacks have been tested and retested. The long-term trends are just about ready to asset themselves again. Grand deceptions have resumed to attempt to fool the public and the investment community that the worst is over for banks, housing, and mortgage bonds. That is not even remotely true. The deeply wounded banks, the sharply corrected home prices, and the badly damaged mortgage bonds have much more pain ahead. Nothing has been fixed. Many mortgage resets have yet to take place. The New Resolution Trust Corp to facilitate secondary mortgages, to bury dead mortgage bonds, and to renegotiate home loans is not even agreed upon, let alone installed. Its operation will be sometime in 2009 at the earliest.

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Commodities

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Odds Favor Short-Term Crude Oil Downtrend / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Frank_Holmes

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleYears ago when oil was $30 per barrel, we were laughed at when we suggested that it could trade over $100. Now it seems we were being a bit conservative.

That said, based on statistical tools we use to measure probabilities, we believe oil is currently overbought and due for a short-term correction of $20 to $35 before resuming a longer-term price climb that could well reach $200 per barrel.

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Housing-Market

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Fannie Mae Advertising Foreclosed US Homes to the Brit's / Housing-Market / US Housing

By: Adrian_Ash

Best Financial Markets Analysis Article"...'Find a holiday home in America ,' shouts Fannie Mae across the Pond..."

YOU CAN'T BLAME Fannie Mae for trying. Last year saw British property buyers snap up around 20,000 homes in the United States .

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Commodities

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Playing the Food Boom for Huge Profits / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities

By: Money_and_Markets

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleLarry Edelson writes: I'm long 5,000 bushels of corn in the futures market. I bought the contract at $6.22 (a bushel), near corn's record high price.

Why? Because I'm expecting the price of corn to more than double in the next 18 months, to well over $12 a bushel. And I'll be adding more corn to my portfolio when I see the next buy point.

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Commodities

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Gold Slips on Queationable Inflation Data / Commodities / Gold & Silver

By: Mark_OByrne

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleGold was down  $ 3.60 to $8 6 5.40 yesterday  and silver was  down  18  cents to $1 6. 55 . Gold traded flat in Asia and has  risen marginally in early trading in Europe. While the dollar is down today, the dollar's short term bounce may continue and this could put further pressure on gold and result in further consolidation at these levels (the $850 to $890 range). But oil is up more than 0.5% again this morning to over $125 a barrel again and this should result in gold being well supported at these levels.

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Commodities

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Commodities Correct after recent Strong Rallies / Commodities / Resources Investing

By: Emanuel_Balarie

Grains
Corn fell for the fourth straight day, with the July contract settling 8.25 cents lower at $5.99 a bushel. Improving planting conditions in the U.S. Midwest with forecasts for no major storms before May 21st will accelerate plantings that have experienced extended delays due to wet weather.

Soybeans held firm today after gaining nearly 3-percent yesterday. The July contract settled unchanged at $13.79 ½ a bushel. New crop futures closed higher with the November contract gaining 7 1/4 cents at $13.33 a bushel. Favorable corn planting conditions, strong demand, and a farmer strike in Argentina sent soybeans steady to higher on the session.

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Currencies

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Australian Dollar vs. New Zealand Dollar: No Longer a One Way Bet Against the US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar

By: Black_Swan

There’ve been a couple noticeable changes since the U.S. dollar index marked its most recent all‐time low on March 17th. Traders’ and investors’ appetite has been all mixed up.

The euro continued to rally to the $1.60 mark before falling about 5% versus the buck. It’s yet to recover. And I imagine this pair is under heavy scrutiny in determining the legitimacy of the dollar’s rally.

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