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By James Rickards This post Here’s What the Fed Does Next appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The Fed raised rates yesterday, as I predicted back in December. The market dismissed it at the time, and only just caught on within the past couple of weeks. So basically, the market caught up with my forecast. I […]

By Big Al Weekly Progress Summary from Corvus Gold What with gold up about about $25/ounce today, the future looks good for companies like Corvus Gold. (Do not construe this as investment advice.) Download audio file (Thursday-Jeff.mp3) …read more Source:: The Korelin Economics Report The post Company Reports – Thu 16 Mar, 2017 appeared first

By Aaron Task Editor’s Note: Today, we are excited to share a piece from award-winning financial journalist Aaron Task. You may know him from his work at Fortune and Yahoo Finance. He is currently attending our annual Investment U Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. Below, he shares some insights from the big event… and why

By Greg Guenthner This post The REAL Reason Your Mutual Fund Can’t Beat the S&P 500 appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Sorry, you’re probably not going to beat the S&P 500 this year. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Only one in five U.S. stock funds have beat their benchmarks in the last five years, according

By Evil Speculator Financial markets – multi-layered like onions That’s actually fine for me, but it isn’t for many other people. The systems one ultimate chooses have to suit one’s personality. If one cannot handle extended periods of working hard without making money (I can) one has to retool one’s trading systems to avoid such

By Jody Chudley This post Thanks, Yellen… Here’s What to Do After Yesterday’s Rate Hike appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Yesterday’s announcement from the Federal Reserve was certainly no surprise… Just as expected, the FOMC decided to raise interest rates 0.25%, bringing the Federal Fund rate to a meager 0.75%. Following Yellen’s announcement, the markets

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), the world’s top diamond producer by output in carats, injected some fresh good news into the gems market Thursday by posting a fourfold increase in total profit to $2.31 billion (133.5 billion roubles) for 2016. The Russian miner said 2016 was a year of active recovery in the

click to enlarge This gap has “a cascading impact on our nation’s economy,” as the ASCE puts it. If nothing changes in terms of infrastructure spending, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) could lose up to $4 trillion by 2025. Business sales could fall $7 trillion, and 5 million American jobs could be lost. Take a

By Cory Doc, Chris and Cory on the moves post Fed announcement Today’s market wrap focuses on the moves in the markets post Fed rate hike. US equities, gold and treasuries are all up and the USD is down. We thought the Fed comments would have a more dovish slant but what Yellen said even

By Cory The Economics of Gold Mining When our friend Dan Oliver releases articles I always take note. Dan is one of the best historians for gold that I know. He is able to look at the past (I’m talking hundreds of years back) and relate it to what is happening now. This article is