Friday, June 19, 2009

How High Gold can go ?

Gold Gains on Weak Dollar , Silver Declines, Platinum Advances :
today Gold rose in New York as the dollar weakened, boosting demand for precious metals as hedge against Inflation . Gold rose to $935.25 in the afternoon still not reaching the $1,032.70 record of March 2008. Gold typically moves inversely to the U.S. dollar so expectations for the dollar of a strengthening dollar in the coming weeks are likely to cap gains in Gold. Silver fell to $14.20 an ounce in New York , Platinum rose to $246.15 an ounce , Palladium gained 1 percent to a record 319,451 ounces yesterday,













Personal Finance by Suze Orman

The American stock market is not what it used to be according to Suze Oman .
Suze Orman speaks about index funds, Exchange Traded Funds ETFs and investing overseas
...you should to be an "active Investor" and keep yourself up do date on what's going on on the market so that you can make a decision and hopefully the right decision at the right time

The Credit Crisis Is Not Over Bob Chapman

The Credit Crisis Is Not Over After 23 Months

The next major move in the stock market will be down. We are seeing the last vestiges of a rally similar to what we saw in 1931. The rally we expected at 6600 up to 8500 will end as soon as all the financial institutions that need to sell what stock is necessary to bolster their balance sheets. Our guess is the rally has been aided in a big way by short covering and the participation of the US government. Those who believe the SEC has stopped naked short selling are sadly mistaken. Markets weaken during the summer as volume dries up during the vacation season. In addition, second quarter earnings will be very disappointing, especially in the financial segment. Unemployment continues to worsen and capacity utilization is at its lowest level in years. Banks continue to cut credit lines and not lend nearly as much as they did before. Citigroup’s earnings should turn down again. They won’t have another $2.7 billion gain or another $400 million mark-to-market fictitious gain. Absent those gains they would have lost $2.8 billion.

The credit crisis certainly isn’t over after 23 months. The credit markets are still very tight and the residential and commercial real estate markets are still in a state of collapse. In the midst of this ongoing fiasco the Fed is monetizing $2.2 trillion in treasuries, Agencies and CDOs, collateralized debt obligation, otherwise known as toxic junk. Our fiscal deficit for this year ended 9/30/09 will be between $2 and $2.5 trillion, followed by more than $2 trillion in 2010.

Times are tough, everywhere and export nations are determined to keep their products cheaply devaluing their currencies.

When all is said and done the Fed will have to remove hundreds of billions in toxic assets from lender balance sheets, get consumers to spend and allow banks to lend again. Ben Bernanke at the Fed would really like to see a lower dollar, to get consumers to spend. But if that happens interest rates will move higher hurting real estate sales. As Ben dreams, unemployment increases adding more downward pressure on home prices, causing lower prices and reducing equity. Congress is pushing to have returned TARP money back to the Treasury and the PPIP program looks like a nonevent, because it could cause insolvencies. Public funds would be used to protect bondholders of mismanaged companies. Ben and Tiny Tim want to reopen securitization markets that caused the problem in the first place. They have to be insane. They want to bring back leverage that caused this monstrous problem we have.

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