Author: Dian Chu

By Commodity Trade Mantra The entire Copper and Base Metals complex can remain under pressure over the next few months. With weaker Chinese economic activity & continued growth fears globally, more specifically in Europe,...

By Michael Snyder Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don’t focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon...

By James Picerno of The Capital Speculator I wrote about the trend for a broad mix of economic and market indicators and reasoned that the case for expecting a new recession was still weak. The latest weekly update on initial...

By Russ Winter “It seems there now is huge bullish demand for less than nothing.” – James Grant “It is time to abandon the idea that treasuries are a special asset class, let alone...

By Charles Rotblut Nine months after the collapse of MF Global, another futures trading firm has imploded. Peregrine Financial Group (PFG), also known as PFGBest, filed for Chapter 7 in federal bankruptcy court on Tuesday. The...

By Economy Watch America is in the midst of a natural gas boom and about 200,000 gas wells have been drilled in the last decade. In fact, the Marcellus shale formation alone created 123,000 new jobs and contributed nearly $10...

By Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions by 11 central banks around the world, with five cutting rates, one raising its rate and the remaining five keeping rates unchanged. The message...