by Brett Arends Friday, September 16, 2011 Commentary: The Donald is a contrary indicator More from MarketWatch.com: • Super committee should learn to fly right • 5 checkpoints on your race to retirement • What market timers learned from Lehman BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Uh-oh. Has Donald Trump just called the top in the gold market? The...

Written by Dean Calbreath 9:34 p.m., Aug. 20, 2011 Follow » Twitter: @deancalbreath Facebook: SDUTBusiness George Champion III is no slouch when it comes to finance. His grandfather, George Sr., was the chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank during the 1960s, and he has spent his own career heading real estate and investment businesses in La Jolla. Nevertheless,...

reuters On Friday August 19, 2011, 11:00 am LONDON (Reuters) – Technology company Apple is now worth as much as the 32 biggest euro zone banks. That’s the stark result from a steep fall in the share price of banks including Spain’s Santander, France’s BNP Paribas, Germany’s Deutsche Bank and Italy’s Unicredit, compared...

By Daniel Gross | Contrary Indicator – Wed, Jul 20, 2011 4:56 PM EDT Most of the big banks have repaid the government funds they received under the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), the pillar of TARP under which Treasury bought preferred shares in the nation’s banks. Enough so that, combined with dividends and sales of warrants, Treasury has...

Officials scramble for debt deal as clock ticks By Caren Bohan and Jeremy Pelofsky | Reuters – 56 mins ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials and Republican leaders scrambled on Sunday to reassure global markets the United States would avert a debt default but the two sides gave no sign they were moving closer to a deal. “The...

Van Eck Hotline on Money and the Economy For: Friday, July 15, 2011 (800) 219-1333. VetHotline@aol.com. Last week, I said that the increase of $76.1 billion in the M2 money supply was the largest one-week gain that I could remember ever seeing. Well, that is no longer the case. That’s because the weekly...

Meredith Whitney Loses Credibility as Municipal Debt Defaults Plummet 60% bloomberg Michael McDonald, On Friday July 15, 2011, 9:17 am EDT Michael McDonald, On Friday July 15, 2011, 9:17 am EDT Time is running out on the credibility of Meredith Whitney, who has yet to acknowledge that her eight-month-old prediction of widespread defaults this year in...

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By Aaron Task | Daily Ticker Even with the big rally since March 2009, it’s been a tough decade for long-term buy and hold investors. But it’s been even worse for the perma-bears, judging by the performance of so-called bear funds. For the 10 years ended March 30, the average bear fund lost an average of 10% annually, the worst-performing...

The possible Teabagger Government Shutdown, what to expect. The last govt shutdown was in 1995 from November 14 to November 19 and then from December 16 to January 6. The Dow traded from 4,872 to 5,022 on November four day shutdown. On December 16 it dropped from 5,176 to 5,031 and traded in a narrow range into January BUT intraday the Dow averaged...