In one of the previous essays, I drew readers’ attention to the fact that gold has now decisively broken above the $1,000 level, and that this profound action has important implications for all

Today's thoroughly modern Deb caters to women of all shapes and sizes. While most of its shops target juniors, the last 15 years have seen the conversion of a number of locations into Deb Plus s

One of the worst places for performing markets on the planet over the last year is the TSX Venture Exchange. From a high of 2735 in May 2008 to its current 902 level, the TSX Venture Index has a char

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin

Citrix Systems (CTXS): Just yesterday this stock was downgraded. In the interview with Reuters the CFO is calling for a strong second half, though he cited continued sluggish results in the U.S. Virtu