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Dollar Daze
May 25, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – When it comes to safety, it seems there’s nothing like the US buck. And it’s been in high demand. Since the stock market peaked at th

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Safety Dance
May 11, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Stocks have resisted a major downdraft while shake-ups and concerns continue to bubble up and out of the Euro zone and bonds prepare to retest th

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An America Divided
May 4, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Concluding our mini-series look into CMI’s RSI tables, we look at the updated monthly asset class figures. This is where we reall

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Nasdaq Plays the Prince
April 27, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Last week we highlighted the maintained supremacy that US Bonds still held in monthly data on broad asset class price action. This week we take a

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US Bonds Still King
April 20, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – In the face all the market commotion and volatility and excitement surrounding the performance or lack thereof of some big names, US 20yr Treasur

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Go for the Gold?
April 13, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – With the equity markets in turmoil post JPM and a China GDP softening/miss, investors may be thinking about gold again. CastleMoore liquidated i

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All that’s gold doesn’t always glitter.
March 23, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – One of the investments of the last decade has been gold, but it’s lost its shimmer over the last three or four months. After rocketing to a

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Trend Changes Afoot for Bonds, Gold, WTI and the USD?
March 16, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – This past week in financial markets saw a rise in bonds yields, continued volatility with downside thrusts in gold and volatility and upside ones

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Less debt but more costs.
February 24, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Europe has officially tabled their proposal to private Greek bond holders to reduce their overall debt by just over $1billion. Cost savings are w

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Bonds still best.
February 17, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Since late October, the S&P500 has been on one of its best runs since early 2011, returning 6%. Despite much of the rhetoric in the media bei

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Bankers Keep Whacking Moles as Investor Sentiment Gets Bullish.
February 10, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Central banks, and indeed much of the investment world, is watching and waiting on Greece to see how things play out, though in the end it doesn&

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US Dollar Funding Markets Tightening Again.
January 28, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – When credit and liquidity in US dollars start to become scarce, foreign banks can find it difficult to fund their US dollar assets. This happened

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Earnings can confound, Prices don’t lie.
January 22, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – It’s earnings season again. Early in the cycle, some companies made money, which is good, but didn’t mean expectations, which is bad

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Santa Rally Sputters On Resurfacing Euro Debt Trouble
January 13, 2012
Oakville, ON, Canada – Talks amongst Greek debt stakeholders have come to a halt as bond holders balk at the losses required for a second bailout not be larger than agr

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Bonds Aim Higher, Gold Recoils
December 16, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – CDN bonds reaching new highs, the S&P is “coiling” up ready to spring up or down on a short term basis, and the recent sell-off i

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Fiscal Rules for Euro Sandbox
December 9, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – The fiscal rules proposed by Euro leaders are hoped to be the saving grace for their debt problems. And it may very well be. Just six years ago,

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Liquidity Tapped, Growth Anemic
December 2, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –“The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss Nat

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Sauerkraut and a Side of QE
November 25, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –Despite fighting the good fight, that a central bank’s role is price stability, and price stability only, market participants are calling for

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Europe’s Skeletons Won’t Keep Quiet
November 11, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada– –After Greece regained its senses and accepted the only bailout it was being offered, attention has rightl

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Europe Rescues Jack to Avoid Jill
November 4, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –Despite Mr. Papandreou’s best efforts, Jack has yet to fall and break his crown thanks to the rest of the Euro zone’s bailouts

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BREAKOUT OR FAKEOUT?
October 28, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –World equity and commodity markets surged this week on the perception that the news out of Europe presented a watershed moment. The full

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FRESH AIR FOR MARKETS, BUT WILL THE EURO DRAMA SUCK IT ALL FROM THE ROOM?
October 23, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –Equity markets were again volatile this week yet the Dow and S&P broke marginally up and out of their two-month range, after making ne

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Did you see that? Was that a bottom?
October 7, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – –Equity markets performed an impressive turn-about Tuesday, this time sliding to new one year lows and pushing into “bear market/rece

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Looking for Direction in Stagnant, yet Volatile, Equity Markets
September 30, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – – Monday’s “twisting” by the Fed did little to provide any sense of direction in global equity markets as large, daily an
Jason Dubbeldam/Robert Sneddon
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"Twisting" ... But Not Convincing
September 26, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – – Last week’s rescue of European debt and this week’s latest measures from the US Fed to yet again give their flagging economy
Jason Dubbeldam/Robert Sneddon
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Central Banks & Chinese Inuendo Save Europe For Now
September 16, 2011
Oakville, ON, Canada – – Major central bankers and Chinese innuendo have come to Europe’s rescue, avoiding a default and contag

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The Trifecta of the Nasdaq, Copper and Shanghai Show Stock Market Fractures
June 10, 2010
Oakville, ON, Canada – – Global equity markets are now affected by the unwinding of the “carry trade” as they are by macro economic

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The Greenback Wags the Markets
December 13, 2009
Oakville, ON, Canada – Action in the global equity markets, and in particular, those with a commodity focus such as Canada’s w

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Gold,Canadian Banks and the TSX
December 5, 2009

Oakville, ON, Canada - Canadian equity markets closed out the week soft, after triple digit down days on Thursday and Friday, le

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Gold
February 18, 2009
Oakville, ON, Canada  At CastleMoore, we purchased gold a few months ago because we believed it to be in a long term up trend, and had just completed

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Financial Grieving
October 15, 2008
Oakville, ON, Canada Psychologists tell us there is a progression of human emotions that we experience when we have a loss. We may have lost a loved one or we

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Wild Rose Country
October 6, 2008
Oakville, ON, Canada Today I was a guest on CBC’s Wild Rose Country, a radio show based in Calgary. Investors are worried. I am worried. And, why shouldn’t

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Gold's Decline is Over
September 17, 2008
Oakville, ON, Canada Today's action confirms the end of the short term decline in the price of Gold.

Gold peaked just over $100

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Economists
April 3, 2008
Oakville, ON, Canada Economists are cool:

Royal Bank’s chief economist has just published an analysis about the possibility of a recession this ye

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February Bottom
January 31, 2008
Oakville, ON, Canada The optimists are in trouble. Every year, they like to say, “As January goes, so goes the rest of the year.” But this year we’re

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