Perhaps the only real surprise from the Fed’s post-meeting statement yesterday, market pros note, is that there was no surprise at all.So says Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter. As t

Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US do

It’s never been hard to find a small group of Cassandras, so-called “doomers” who see the apocalypse foreshadowed in Mayan calendars, Nostradamus writings, and the Terminator movies

Peripatetic author and professional international investor Doug Casey has, by his count, traveled to 175 countries and lived in 12. One of the last places he thinks is fitting to live now is the Unit

John Mauldin coined the incredibly popular phrase “Muddle Through Economy.” If the next few years continue to drag along as we rebuild from the greatest credit bubble in history, then Joh

This Time, It's DifferentBen Bernanke's career will be analyzed and written about for many years. But the one thing that's caused me the most pain is his bringing the term "green shoots" in

Government bonds dominated action on financial markets during the past holiday-shortened week, as angst about inflation and massive issuance propelled yields to 6-month highs in the US, Europe, and J

“Goodbye safe havens, hello risky assets.” This was the investors’ theme song during the past week. Safe-haven assets were out of favor, as better-than-feared corporate earnings and

Before we short travel and hospitality stocks or go long in face masks, let’s take a minute to recall the great swine flu epidemic of 1976. It didn’t happen. But many of the same factors

It’s seasonably snazzy in the big city and the masses migrated from cramped quarters to enjoy the warm weekend weather. As cabin fever fades in the rear-view mirror, an outbreak of a different