Author: Frank Holmes

The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst quarter since the beginning of 2009. The S&P 500 Index fell 14 percent during the third quarter, with the materials sector as the worst performer, falling 25 percent....

The markets are certainly volatile these days: one week it’s an impending Greek default, followed by a European downgrade coupled with a financial banking crisis, but it’s not all doom and gloom. The market’s many moods are...

For the past ten years, whenever global base metals demand dissipated, China’s voracious appetite stepped in to gobble up the leftovers. Since 2001, China has increased the country’s share of total global demand for base...

If you didn’t pay much attention to global markets last week, here’s what you missed…fears that the global economy is dangerously close to a recession due to the financial crisis in the eurozone and flatlining growth in...

Did you know that China’s energy demand is set to grow so dramatically over the next 25 years that its consumption is expected to be 68 percent higher than that of the U.S.? That was only one of the findings of the U.S. Energy...

Currency markets have been the pawns in central bankers’ chess games around the world in recent weeks, as each country looks to gain the slightest edge in today’s growth-starved economy. Weeks ago we saw a big intervention...

As Western European countries grapple with anemic growth, Turkey’s second quarter GDP rose 8.8 percent. Shares on the Istanbul Exchange sold off earlier this year on concerns of overheating, even after the economy grew 11...

In Barron’s last week, Writer Randall Forsyth made the distinction between solid, growing companies and the flailing U.S. economy when he suggested that readers “Buy Stocks, Not Economic Data.†Forsyth notes a new report...