In our first blog post of the New Year we identified the current condition in stocks as a bear market and explained some of the differences between bear markets and bull markets. The way to… Read More
3 Observations: Stocks, Dollar, Gold & Silver
The New Year brings hope that those unmet goals will, with the right amount of effort and planning, become reality. The New Year also brings a flood of prognosticators who have dusted off their crystal… Read More
Don’t You Want to “Strangle” Silver?
Like people, markets have personalities. Take silver. Silver is rude. Silver is cantankerous. Silver can be fickle. But folks LOVE silver anyway. The “poor man’s gold” has an allure that has stood the test of… Read More
Why Volatility is Here to Stay: Three Things We’re Watching Now
RMB Group has been trying to make sense of the volatility that has defined stocks and other key asset classes since the S&P 500 topped out in unspectacular fashion in late September. Is this two-month… Read More
Ready to Defuse the Bond Bomb?
Interest rates measure the price of money. That makes them the world’s ultimate commodity. Like most commodities, the price of money has been falling for a long time. The yield on T-year Treasury notes topped… Read More
Key Commodities Bottoming: Part 2 Bases Forming in Corn, Soybeans and Gold
In Part 1 of our blog post we examined potential bottoms forming in sugar and coffee. Now let’s take a look at corn and soybeans – two of America’s most critical crops. Soybeans make up… Read More
Key Commodities Bottoming: Part 1
The winds are shifting. Critical commodities like corn, soybeans, sugar, hogs and coffee appear to be taking a cue from the energy sector and forming what we believe could be multi-year bottoms in the entire… Read More
Is Bitcoin the “New Gold”, the Currency of the Future or Something Else Altogether?
In 2009, a Norwegian student named Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 bitcoins for roughly $27 as part of his thesis on encryption technology. He put them in his digital wallet and promptly forgot about them. Four… Read More
Will African Swine Fever Cause Pigs to Fly?
A deadly and extremely contagious virus is threatening China’s hog producers. African swine fever (ASF) has been found in pigs transported from Northern to Southern China. ASF has the potential to kill every single hog… Read More
Silver is Back in the Bargain Bin
There is probably no more frustrating market to trade than silver. The poor man’s gold has a nasty habit of breaking all the rules. It refuses to rally when all indicators seem to point upward,… Read More