By Mike Scully:
Price, as they say, is determined on the margins. This is especially true for inelastic goods. If 100 Tickle Me Elmo dolls exist in Walmart on Christmas eve, and 100 people absolutely need [...]

Next week will bring another round of high-profile earnings reports that should help set the tone for the market.

STOCK SLUMP: Stocks mostly fell after the government said the U.S. economy grew more slowly than expected in the last three months of 2011. The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 each fell [...]

Stocks drifted lower late Friday on news the U.S. economy grew at a slower pace than economists had expected in the fourth quarter.The Dow Jones industrial average was heading for its first down week in [...]

With 0.9339 resistance intact, current fall in USD/CHF is expected to continue further to 0.9065 support next. Considering bearish divergence condition in daily MACD, whole rebound from 0.7065 might be finished at 0.9594 already. Break [...]

Often you may hear about ‘month end’ flows having a positive or negative effect on a currency during the last few days of the month. Thus, I’ve decided to take a look at asset market [...]

Today’s US GDP data was interesting in that it came in weaker than expected and breaking down the report we see that personal consumption was pretty soft and much of the gain in the fourth [...]

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The Silver Singularity Is Near

By Mike Scully:
Price, as they say, is determined on the margins. This is especially true for inelastic goods. If 100 Tickle Me Elmo dolls exist in Walmart on Christmas eve, and 100 people absolutely need [...]

4 Strategies For Increasing Yield And 11 CEFs That Will Help You Profit

By James Peters:
We are all painfully aware of the current low interest rate environment. We are seeing drastic intervention by The Federal Reserve in order to stimulate the economy. This intervention is causing wide divergence [...]

‘Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make And How To Avoid Them’: Larry Swedroe And The Zen Of Passive Investing

Larry Swedroe is principal and director of research for both Buckingham Asset Management, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor firm in St. Louis, Mo, and

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General Dynamics: Why This Proven Defense Industrial Is More Important Than Ever

By Colin Lea:
General Dynamics (GD) CEO Jay Johnson Wednesday discussed the company’s earnings on its Q4 2011 Results. Company sales were up 6% from last year’s fourth quarter, net earnings from continuing operations for the [...]