During the last few years, investors in the U.S. have been actively investing and making significant returns in reverse-takeover stocks. Although reverse mergers have been in existence for decades, it has become increasingly common for a foreign private company to use this route to become a domestic issuer. It’s easier and cheaper. In the case …

Smaller companies are the backbone of the economy, but they are also the ones that struggle the most when the domestic economy isn’t growing. Accordingly, domestic small-cap stocks should have a more difficult time than larger companies that can “pad” their earnings from international operations and a weaker dollar. This is why I expect the …

Thank goodness for the spot price of gold. This is the one sector of the stock market (and global economy) that’s flourishing within all the turmoil. Not only are the fundamentals for gold very strong, but they are actually improving, as price inflation is going up in the world’s biggest economies. For risk-capital traders, the …

While the European Union deals with austerity measures and debt relief for Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, the region has not been able to focus on turning its economic engine around. Germany, the top country in the European Union, managed only a tiny 0.1% rise in its second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP). The results followed on …

There are two schools of thought existing today in respect to where prices for goods are headed. There is the group that believes the U.S. is following the same path as Japan in the 1990s and is headed to a decade of deflation. Then there’s the second group that believes that rapid inflation is more …

The spot price of gold is now well above $1,800 an ounce and gold stocks are reaping the benefits. Right now, the stock market is experiencing a crisis of confidence—not in the ability of corporations to generate earnings, but in the macro sense of country economies, debt and deficits. The global debt crisis is just …

Stocks plummeted over three percent at the open on Thursday, as the selling capitulation held despite several up days due largely to the oversold technical condition. My investment guidance is to stay on the sidelines and wait for a base to form before entering into new positions. High frequency trading, specifically on the short side, …

The market panic is rising, as there is more speculation of another recession in Europe and perhaps in the U.S. Stocks plummeted over four percent on Thursday morning. The current market bias is negative and my concern is that failure to edge higher could drive the index back lower or stall the trading. Without leadership, …

The precious yellow metal is sizzling on the price charts, as traders shift capital from the higher-risk equities to the safe-haven sanctuary of gold. The U.S. is battling crippling debt levels and deficits. Some cities across the nation are shutting down to save money. The once powerful U.S. economic engine continues to show breaks and …

I find it surprising that the stock market reacted so strongly to news of weaker gross domestic product (GDP) growth and consumer spending numbers. It seemed fairly obvious that this was going to happen and the recent trading action in stocks suggests to me that institutional traders were just waiting for a catalyst to sell. …