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U.S. equity markets are expected to open better this morning due to a pick-up in demand for higher yielding assets. Investors are also feeling more confident in the long side following last Friday’s better than expected Non-Farm Payrolls Report. The lack of fresh major economic news until at least Thursday could keep the indices on course for further upside action.

With the major indices trading mixed Wednesday, there were many stocks which traded higher on BIG volume. The list described below is a large one which is quite unusual for a rather flat trading day.

Here is a list of stocks which traded higher Monday November 9, 2009, on unusually higher volume. I will keep an eye on these stocks Tuesday to see if there is continued buying pushing the stocks higher. This method is just one of the ways I use to pick stocks to structure particular option trades. This post requires the knowledge of stock options.

After weeks of analysis, Chief Market Strategists at InTheMoneyStocks.com isolated an exact turn/pivot day for China (Shanghai Index). Strategists had been looking for this over the last week due to the massive move off the October lows. The Shanghai Index bottomed last October, well before the U.S markets did in March.

Record credit-card defaults in the United States are set to expose severely under-capitalized U.S. banks. Along with soaring default rates in every category of U.S. debt, this will lead to the banker-beggars looking for more blank-cheques from their errand-boy, Tim-the-tax-cheat Geithner – later this year.

For nearly 5,000 years, the price ratio between gold and silver has averaged approximately 15:1. This number is very close to the 17:1 ratio which represents the natural occurrence of the two elements in the Earth's crust. It is interesting to note, however, that through most of history the price ratio has favored silver.

On February 1, 2008, the day that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Mark Carney as the new Governor of the Bank of Canada, Canada's currency was soaring at a multi-decade high – well above par versus the U.S.

In Part I of this series, I provided a brief exposition on the birth of silver mining, and explained how and why silver came to be universally considered a “precious metal” (and “money”) by humanity.In Part II, I will provide an outline of the development of silver mining, and the huge growth of global, silver stockpiles which accompanied such production-growth – and which ended in the l

Given the rate in which our species is over-populating this planet, in some of my more pessimistic moments, I have envisioned a world where we are all waist-deep in our own “waste”. How ironic would it be if our species' own waste products turned out to be our energy-salvation in the future?A Reuters story demonstrates that such a future is at least plausible.

There was yet another news item out on June 8th concerning still more investing by China in the infrastructure of another commodity-producing nation. While there was nothing especially noteworthy about this one, particular investment, it does not only reinforce an obvious trend – but also counters yet another myth about China's investment policies.The media in the “old” economies of U.S.

We addressed a number of bearish economic issues yesterday, but don’t let economics get in the way of your trading. Right now the stock market is in bull mode and its primary organizing theme is celebrating the recovery, regardless of the quality of that recovery.

U.S. mortgage applications fell to their lowest level since February, in numbers released today. With interest rates guaranteed to go higher (thanks to the collapse in U.S.

Not all the efforts of the U.S. propaganda-machine are directed at generating false-hope in the U.S. economy and warping economic statistics beyond recognition. A large component of this campaign is to undermine confidence in other economies – in order to try to make investing in U.S. assets appear to be the least-worst alternative.Of course, there is no need for the U.S.