Credit Crisis Clearing? Dow – Dow futures are slightly higher in overnight trading on positive credit market comments from Hank Paulson and the Bank of England. The US Treasury Secretary suggested that the credit crisis was “closer to the end” and indicated ... Go to Full Article

Historical Gold to Oil Ratio and How to Monitor the Next Wave of ... On September, 2006 I wrote the following article, Gold’s downward spiral. Gold appears to be headed down along with the price of crude oil. Historically there has been a correlation between the price of crude oil and gold....

Alibaba Versus Baidu Alibaba Versus Baidu. Two of China’s Internet behemoths are oddly trading in opposite directions. Baidu (BIDU: 350.2801 +0.05%, vol: 4239208) has risen dramatically since its IPO. Baidu’s recent 52-week trading range was between $98.45 ... Go to Full Article

Extreme Gold Disparities We now have a large number of disparities facing gold investors. Here are a few oddities I’ve noticed and I saved the biggest for last:. - We are now facing the $120 level for oil yet gold is currently at $890. ... Go to Full Article

Reports & Events The editor of ProTrader Blog – Bill Henner – is also now the editor of Institutional Trend Insight, a publisher of genuine institutional research and information that is now available to individual investors. ... Go to Full Article

Crude, Products Pop on EIA Today’s EIA report showed a surprise drawdown of 3.2 million barrels in Crude Oil inventories versus expectations of a 2.5 million barrel build. Further bolstering the bullish Oil data, gasoline and distillate inventories both dropped ... Go to Full Article

China Sparks Raw Materials Rally Crude Oil – Oil futures are little changed ahead of the weekly inventory report, which is expected to show a rise of 1.8 million barrels of Crude Oil, while gasoline and distillate inventories have forecasted drawdowns of 1.7 and 1.5 ... Go to Full Article

Standard & Poor's (Earnings, That Is) E-mini S&P – Stock futures have given back a third of yesterday’s gains on weak earnings data from blue chips Pfizer, Merrill Lynch and Nokia. Nokia’s earnings fell short of street estimates for the current quarter, and the mobile phone ... Go...

Market Googled S&P – Stock index futures got a lift after Google beat the Street and defied earlier reports that its paid click business was cooling. The company posted profits of $4.84 a share (excluding special items) versus analyst estimates of ... Go to Full Article

Crude $120? Crude Oil – Oil prices reached a new milestone in early trading, briefly breaking through the $118 mark for a barrel. Shell Nigerian operations were disrupted due to stepped up attacks on pipelines – the Oil giant indicated that the ... Go to Full Article

Tough Times to Come? S&P – Stock index futures are lower this morning on credit concerns and the $1.66 billion loss posted by bond insurer Ambac. Financial stocks have suffered the bulk of the damage thus far, but Oil and mining stocks are not far behind on ... Go to Full Article

Pipeline Shutdowns Spark Crude Crude Oil – Crude Oil futures have pared over a third of yesterday's losses on two major pipeline shutdowns. BP is temporarily closing down the Forties Pipeline System – which supplies the UK with 40 percent of its Oil – due to the work ... Go to Full...

Holding Pattern for Metals, Financials Gold – June Gold is trading lower this morning on a rosier outlook for the US Dollar. Tomorrow's FOMC policy statement is expected to be hawkish in nature due to the rising costs of food and energy, which should bolster the greenback. ... Go to Full...

Oil Braces for EIA, Fed Announcements Crude Oil – The Oil market is little changed ahead of this morning's EIA inventory data, which is expected to show a rise of 1.6 million barrels for the week. Once again the Crude Oil component of the report will take a back seat to ... Go to Full Article

Raw Greed Hacked Raw Greed Hacked. My blog was sadly hacked by a Turkish hacker. Please click the image above. For the past few months I’ve struggled to make time to restore the blog. The most recent backup of my blog is from November 2007, ... Go to Full Article