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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL Warning: This post is a Mayan calendar-free zone. Now we have hopefully survived, I can resume making market forecasts – and last week I wrote: “Gold and silver are...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL As I noted before Christmas, I believed market action over the holidays was not likely to be be moribund and weighed down with Christmas pud – unlike most of us, of...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL What an incredible week in stocks! Just when it appeared they were headed for a major fall, euphoria reared its ugly head over the fiscal cliff drama and stocks...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL And the band plays on! The stock market is a wonder to behold as investors pile in, having shunned fixed interest investments in January. Last year, they were madly...
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PRESERVATION CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL Am I the only bear out there? It certainly feels very lonely with all sentiment indicators I follow are at or near record bullish extremes (more later) and the Dow...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL With the Dow powering up past the 14,000 level yesterday, we seem to have a Goldilocks market. If the mention of Goldilocks is stirring up memories of the mid-2000s,...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL … and the band played on. The biggest show in earth, the stock market, marches upwards and there is nothing stopping it. Not even the continued trend of sovereign...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL Last week, I mentioned the news concerning the Cyprus banks which had just broken. Now, a week later, the can is still being kicked, and I hear it will be Monday (or...
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL IS CRUCIAL This was a week when there were few surprises – unless you call the continued plunge in gold to a tramline target at the $1320 area on Tuesday (see the gold section)....
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So what does a real bear market look like? I believe we are about to find out. For those shorter in the tooth than me, the last really dreadful bear market occurred in the 70s (see my film review...
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