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Credit and commodity markets are saying one thing while equities are saying another and only time will tell which market(s) were right. History though is clearly on the side of credit and commodities based on prior recessions including the 2008 “not so great” recession where equities peaked just...

Commodities seem to be following the same pattern as global stock markets. That makes sense since the stock market is concerned about slowing global economies, and slowing economies obviously mean less demand for raw materials used to produce and ship products. It can be seen in the way the CRB Inde...

A map published with the study shows rare earth element deposits in the Pacific Ocean less than two kilometres deep. (Nature)   Ren Limin, a worker at the Jinyuan Company’s smelting workshop, prepares to pour the rare earth metal lanthanum into a mould. China produces 97 per cent of t...

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One of the more interesting relationships lately has been the strong correlation between copper prices and the SP500.  From January 2009 to date, cash copper prices and the SP500 have a +0.955 correlation coefficient.  Part of that can be explained by the fact that both of them have ...

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In March 2010, ScienceDaily published a story about an intriguing report investigating the connection between stock-market activity and the frequency of heart attacks. The researchers, a team from Duke University Medical Center, discovered an increased incidence of cardiac arrest in the United S...