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Official Name:  Russian Federation. GDP and global rank (2010): US$ 2.37 trillion ranking as the 6th largest in the world. Per Capital GDP and rank (2010): US$10,816 ranking as 52nd largest in the world. Local Currency: Russian Ruble (RUB) How did Russia get to where it is today?...

Precision timing for all time frames through a multi-dimensional approach to technical cycles - Breadth - P&F and Fibonacci price projections and occasional Elliott Wave analysis “By the Law of Periodical Repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again, and again, and again...

The slow and steady roll north in the S&P futures came to a halt on Thursday at 1329.75, a level that has not been visited since last July. The pullback only lasted until 1307.00 on Friday, unable to take out Tuesday's low of 1301.50. Buoyed by a late afternoon rally on Friday in GS and MS ,...

  Lately we’ve been writing about the precious metals stocks. In particular we believe the equities have made a multi year bottom and look ready for a solid 2012 and 2013. Part of the reason is the action in the metals (Gold & Silver) suggests an important bottom is in place and a rebound...

  All I read these days is how much Treasuries are overpriced.  At the beginning of 2011, Bill Gross, the famous bond fund manager at Pimco, predicted serious losses for long-dated Treasury investors and he publicly announced that Pimco had sold its massive Treasury positions.  In addition to...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold One thing that is intriguing about the precious metals sector is the vast composition of the companies in the sector. The entire equity sector can be divided in so many forms and ways. We can divide the gold and silver stocks, the producers and non producers,...

This week I presented for 90 minutes and sat on a panel discussion for an HFT conference. I thought I would report back with some running themes. 1) What is the next Brazil? 2) What markets are most inefficient and offer trading opportunity? 3) Will most traders have access to most markets...

We are very excited to have Tony LaPorta provide three charts as well as his commentary on the overall market. In the past week, Tony has called a short on the Gold market with the price in the 1715 area (well ahead of this week’s sharp drop). In addition to that he had an excellent long call on...

“To the extent that the IPO price is a forecast of the secondary market price for the stock, these forecasts are not only biased downward (underpricing), but the range of the forecast (or pricing) errors is huge,” according to The Variability of IPO Initial Returns, Lowry, Officer, and Schwert....

By Charles Hugh Smith via ChrisMartenson.com That the American and global economies are being transformed by the forces of globalization, demographics, and over-indebtedness is self-evident. What is less self-evident is the impact this transformation will have on the future of work, earned income,...

Trading any names in the retail sector on Black Friday is like cheating on a spouse, it just shouldn't be done. Unfortunately, there will always be that guy (or woman) that thinks he (or she) is too cool for school and won't get caught and that home gamer that sees some good traffic outside a...

  Hola Senor Bond Yield Just when things started to settle down following the panic from rising Italian Bond Yields, we saw the fire of fear spread to Spain.  Based on the selloff this morning the market is not pleased.  After rallying up to test the 1200 area in the overnight...

Black Friday is locked and loaded. The typical day may end up following what goes down as Black Eye Wednesday if the Supercommittee turns super dud as it's shaping up to be right now. That is neither here nor there as far as this short missive goes. What we know on Black Friday is that stores are...

Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC's financial expert, has written a book about how markets have become perverse. It is an interesting example of how strange “competition” has become. One oddity presented itself on the cover of the package in which the book arrived. The cover proclaimed “Simon & Schuster...

By EconMatters Silver has taken some serious beatings lately, but there seems to be a renewed optimism in the market place towards the white metal as Bloomberg reported that "Investors for now are getting more bullish. As well as adding to ETP [Exchange-Traded Product] holdings, they are also...