By Prieur du Plessis During and since the massive Tohoku earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, global financial markets have been characterized by a high degree of volatility. I thought it would be worthwhile to compare how the...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters In late 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple (AAPL) after being ousted as CEO 12 years earlier. He soon became Apple’s interim CEO, and immediately terminated a...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters The Silver market is in a bubble stage right now. No one really knows how long this will last, whether Silver goes up another $5, 10, 20 doesn`t really matter for investors who are buying the physical...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters QE2 is going to go down as one of the worst monetary policy initiatives in the history of the modern Federal Reserve era. On almost any metric applied, QE2 ends up not only falling well short of its...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters (A Seeking Alpha Exclusive) Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said in the earnings call that “We sold every iPad 2 that we were able to make this quarter,” with what Apple COO Tim Cook...
Read MoreBy Camaren Hanover This year, a number of events are likely to occur along with the normal changes in the weather. January gasoline is typically the lowest in any year and, despite the common mythology, gasoline consumption does...
Read MoreBy Bob van der Valk While living in The Hague, Holland as a young boy I often wondered what was on the other side of that vast expanse of water known as the North Sea. How could I have known about the vast crude oil reserves...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters The Federal Reserve has lost all credibility on Wall Street, and most of the American public with the absolute refusal to recognize the dire effects on asset prices that QE2 has created. But the...
Read MoreBy Commodities Now Since December 2010, the front-month WTI/Brent spread has widened significantly. The spread hit a record of -$19.54/ bbl on 21 February 2011 when TransCanada announced that the second phase of the Keystone...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters If you think the crude oil market has gone totally out of control in the past month or so, observe the Silver. The Silver market has basically gone parabolic the week of April...
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