Moneynews RSS FeedMon, 20 May 2013 07:42:45 EDTThe investing masses are known for buying in at the worst times and shying away during the best times to be a buyer. Why? They buy in the wrong phase of the market.Mon, 13 May 2013 07:53:31 EDTBack in February, I was asked on my Fox Business Network interview where I felt stocks were going. I told the interviewer, Gerri Willis of the Willis Report, that I believed the Dow would hit 15,000 to 15,500.Mon, 06 May 2013 07:40:19 EDTCommodities, commodity-related stocks and many foreign currencies are a great way to fend off the effects of a devalued dollar over time.Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:43:40 EDTPaper gold has paved the way for more volatility and more downside selling in the near term. However, ultimately, gold will end up going higher once enough gold ETF investors have been scared out of their gourd and exit their positions.Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:42:07 EDTOver this past week, I’ve heard all sorts of wrong thinking regarding commodities. So let’s take a look at what’s been talked about and why they’ve got it wrong on commodities.Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:39:29 EDTI’m a foreign currency guy and a commodities guy. Why? They are both anti-dollar plays. In other words, as the dollar goes down over time, these other assets go up against the dollar.Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:38:26 EDTThe charts of oil and gasoline point to higher prices ahead at the pump, just mere months away.Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:38:37 EDTI’ll admit I’ve probably never been a fan of banks even though I have one that I use for my checking/debit and short-term savings.Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:38:55 EDTThere are many worries out there that are out of the investor’s control. However, one of my biggest concerns is the saving-and-investing crisis that we’ve got going on right now here in the United States, which can be controlled.Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:40:07 EDTBefore the 1970s to 1980s, much of middle-class America received pensions after working for a corporation until retirement.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:38:53 EDTThere is a myth out there that just drives economists batty. Their thinking is that whatever the economy is doing should spillover into the stock market and be reflected there as well. They’re always mystified when it doesn’t work this way.Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:39:38 EDTThere’s been a very temporary rise in the value of the dollar lately, but it hasn’t been because of strengthening fundamentals in the greenback.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:42:53 EDTRight now, investors are very jittery. Why? They hear about how the Standard & Poor’s 500 is at multi-year highs and how it’s near its two former peaks back in late-2000 and in 2008.Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:22:57 EDTAt first, raising the minimum wage sounds great, right? After all, those at the bottom rung of the economic scale get a boost.Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:45:21 EDTIt’s great that the worst has blown over after five years of the world “treading water” economically. Now unemployment levels are creeping lower in many parts of the world. Housing is recovering (so far) here in the United States, and banks are beginning to lend once again.Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:45:56 EDTThose who don’t read charts don’t realize that the next leg lower in the greenback has just begun. They just know that it’s rallied for well over a year up until recently.Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:36:17 EDTWell, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. The good news is that the global economy is continuing to heal and recover (slowly but surely). The bad news is that it’s driving up demand for global oil supplies. You know what that means when demand increases upon a finite supply. The price goes up.Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:39:36 EDTEveryone wishes they knew what tomorrow’s newspaper will say. However, by looking at long-term charts of stocks and commodities, we can tell what’s coming down the pike.Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:39:08 EDTBack on Oct. 22, I wrote about how Japanese stocks were about to rally, especially the Nikkei. I talked about how one of the huge catalysts for this would be the sell-off in the Japanese yen.Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:39:36 EDTThrough the years, I have met a lot of investors and traders through my work at Charles Schwab and at Forex Capital Markets. One thing I can tell you is that many people trade or invest, but they don’t have a plan. Oh, they think they do. They will call it “their gut.”