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At first glance you probably won’t be interested in lumber and lumber prices. But, you should know that lumber prices have a good track record...

From peak to trough and in a little more than two years, silver has lost 63% of its value. The iShares Silver ETF (SLV) would...

Years of rising prices have conditioned investors not to fight QE. The recent stock market correction was expected and is nothing out of the ordinary,...

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) been on a decade -long tear, rewarding many investors pretty handsomely. But in a September Investor Playbook piece we published last year near...

The Federal Reserve has become somewhat of a financial super hero. Sure, it’s not acting in everyone’s best interest (unless you’re a big bank), but...

The Volatility Index (VIX) has not lived up to its contrarian indicator reputation, but there is another CBOE options index that’s provided some noteworthy signals....

In equity markets, a selloff doesn’t really count until it gets the term structure up. The only two occasions when we got close to backwardation...

The Federal Reserve has ‘manufactured’ a relentless bull market for stocks while kicking the economy’s ‘bread and butter’ sector – manufacturing – into recession territory....

An article published in Der Spiegel on Monday is causing quite a stir for its suggestion of a policy about-face by Germany. Angela Merkel and...