Category: Fundamental Analysis

While there have been various trial balloons in recent days, hinting that the ECB could start purchasing equities, most notably by the Peterson Insitute, it is unlikely that Mario Draghi will commence outright monetization of ETFs at the ECB’s meeting tomorrow. Still, that does not change the fact that the ECB is rapidly running out of bond to government monetize, which has pushed government yields to all time negative lows, and has so distorted the corporate market that non-backstopped corporations have issued negative yielding bonds: an unheard of event. On…

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com, Challenge For the Market Pros, CEOs and PhDs…Read and Answer the Last Sentence Now we’ve all heard a lot of statistics that depict both a good and bad employment picture.  We have 5% U3 (historic lows) but we have 62% labour force participation rate (record lows for double income household era).  We hear Obama suggest he’s created 7 million new jobs but wages are stagnant.  So is the job market good or bad? Remember job growth figures are irrelevant without the context of the working…

By the SRSrocco Report, Investors need to understand an important fundamental reason why the silver price will explode much higher than gold.  While many analysts state several reasons why silver will outperform going forward, I believe one vital fundamental factor is overlooked. This critical factor is based upon a certain supply versus demand component of the gold and silver markets.  Actually, I came across this data while working on the research for a completely different article.  However, the more I compared the figures, the more surprised I was by the…