Currencies have strong rally!  Trade Deficit jumps 16.3% in July!  HR 1207 Gets a hearing!  Gold gets back to $1,000!
And Now… Today’s Pfennig!

Gold developed a slight upward trend late in Hong Kong and rode that trend mostly sideways through the end of the day to a marginal gain. The yellow metal closed at $925.30/oz., up $4.50. Overnight, gold is up sharply. 

Another of our favorite underground investors Whitney Tilson of T2 Partners is sounding the alarm on US Treasurys. He is also pessimistic about retail investors beating the market on their own.

The furious rally that the markets have staged over the last three months appears to be running out of steam. The consensus that we are heading for a pullback is growing every day.

I love hard assets… like energy, agriculture and metals.   Why?  Because there is a good chance that inflation is going to devalue paper currency around the globe.

Whether it’s heading up or down, the oil market usually asserts itself as the leader of the commodities world.  Having plunged from levels around $130 per barrel this time last year all the way down to the $40s, the market has spent the last couple of months striking to the upside again.

We’ve been so caught up watching stocks soar we haven’t paid much attention to one of our favorite asset classes: commodities.

This is the third article I have written since March imploring people to buy oil, and now gas. Time is running out. This is the first time I have ever repeated a subject in one of my articles, but this is such a great opportunity it deserves one more shot for those who may have missed it.

While history has shown us that there shouldn’t be much correlation between the stock and commodity markets, the current inter-connectedness between the two at the moment is still very evident. We’re still seeing large, intra-day and intra-week price swings, most of it coming on the heels of stock market moves. 

Yesterday, trigger-happy Fed head Ben Bernanke made it clear that he was on a mission to push long-term interest rates down to ‘stimulate’ the economy. This is a chance for you to make up to 17% profits. Let me explain…