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By Carol Kopp, Minyanville In a very modern version of ancient Rome's bread-and-circuses formula, Facebook is staging its roadshow for major institutional investors this week, while tossing some bits to the masses—or, at least, to the individual investors among the masses who want to get in on...

By Peter Tchir, Minyanville I have to say, Monday seemed like a strange day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- oh, sorry I meant Nasdaq (^IXIC) -- was down over 0.5%, the S&P (^GSPC) was unchanged, and the Dow (^DJI) was up over 0.5%. It all makes sense when you look at the shares, but it gives me a...

By David Banister One of the most common questions I field is: Can we buy gold stocks yet? We have seen gold consolidating and correcting following a 34-month Fibonacci rally which I said last fall was going to top out around $1,900 per ounce. This type of rally went from October of 2008 to August...

Editor's Note: This report originally appeared on MarketTurningPoints.com Current position of the market SPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over) there will be another steep and prolonged decline...

Stocks opened higher in heavy trade Wednesday, buoyed by the Federal Reserve's bank stress-test report late Tuesday and a powerful move by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Nasdaq led with a 0.3% gain. The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 rose 0.2% each. Trade surged 25% on the Nasdaq and...

Official Name:  Russian Federation. GDP and global rank (2010): US$ 2.37 trillion ranking as the 6th largest in the world. Per Capital GDP and rank (2010): US$10,816 ranking as 52nd largest in the world. Local Currency: Russian Ruble (RUB) How did Russia get to where it is today?...

Precision timing for all time frames through a multi-dimensional approach to technical cycles - Breadth - P&F and Fibonacci price projections and occasional Elliott Wave analysis “By the Law of Periodical Repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again, and again, and again...

The slow and steady roll north in the S&P futures came to a halt on Thursday at 1329.75, a level that has not been visited since last July. The pullback only lasted until 1307.00 on Friday, unable to take out Tuesday's low of 1301.50. Buoyed by a late afternoon rally on Friday in GS and MS ,...

  Lately we’ve been writing about the precious metals stocks. In particular we believe the equities have made a multi year bottom and look ready for a solid 2012 and 2013. Part of the reason is the action in the metals (Gold & Silver) suggests an important bottom is in place and a rebound...

  All I read these days is how much Treasuries are overpriced.  At the beginning of 2011, Bill Gross, the famous bond fund manager at Pimco, predicted serious losses for long-dated Treasury investors and he publicly announced that Pimco had sold its massive Treasury positions.  In addition to...