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Gold back at $1,700, first time since Sept. 14 after near 2% gain over five days Monday’s rally in gold fired by poor US factory activity Gold bulls hope US data gets worse throwing Fed off...

Stocks managed to rally yesterday by 2.6% on the S&P 500. It mainly looked to me like short-covering once again. We seem to see these types of moves pretty often, and maybe it turns into...

With markets fighting to stay above this year's lows, Q4 could also be a weak one for the S&P 500 A prolonged bear market such as the one we are facing imposes significant financial and...

Stepping into the spooky month (from a historical market perspective, of course) of October, we need to take administrative notice of the fact that the S&P 500 has fallen more than 8% in three of...

Nasdaq 100 futures underperformed futures on the Dow, S&P and Russell 2000 and were the only index to trade in the red.Sharply rising Treasury yields have been a critical driver of this year's...

This week, we will again get several opportunities to reconsider the received wisdom that when mortgage rates rise, home prices must fall. Last week, median home prices in the Existing Home Sales...

Let's be frank: The third quarter was a mess for stocks. It doesn't much matter where the stocks were traded, except this: U.S. stocks in September were not a place you wanted to be.The Dow Jones...

Crude starts Q4 up 3% on bets of a major OPEC+ cut Cut would follow September’s nominal 100,000 bpd reduction Waving a red flag to oil bulls, the US dollar goes into rally mode Oil bulls are...