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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

The combination of a sharply lower dollar and a somewhat higher-than-expected CPI reading, was enough to send gold sharply higher as it plowed into some upside buy stops that sent it into resistance centered around the $940 level. The move higher serves to confirm yesterday’s move away from $900 validating that as

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Market Commentary From Monty Guild

Dear CIGAs,

TALK IS CHEAP

Here are the numbers for the first nine months of the 2009 U.S. fiscal year, which ends September 30th.  Federal receipts are down 18% from 2008 levels.  Individual income tax receipts are down 22%, and corporate tax receipts are down 57%.  Meanwhile, federal outlays are up…a lot.  The budget

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Jim’s Mailbox

Jim,

The pension problem gets more complicated while the downward spiral continues.

CIGA Jeff

Calpers Sues Over Ratings of Securities By LESLIE WAYNE Published: July 14, 2009

SACRAMENTO — The nation’s largest public pension fund has filed suit in California state court in connection with $1 billion in losses that it says were caused

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Jim’s Mailbox

Hello Mr. Sinclair,

Your "Formula" is making more sense to some hedgies.

Regards, CIGA Jeff

Greenlight Holds Bullion, Buys Reinsurance Stocks (Update1) By Saijel Kishan

July 14 (Bloomberg) — Greenlight Capital Inc., the $5 billion hedge-fund firm run by David Einhorn, July 14 (Bloomberg) — Greenlight Capital Inc., the $5 billion hedge-fund firm run

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In The News Today

Dear CIGAs,

The madness continues. How many of these swaps, better known as Credit Default OTC derivatives, do you really believe are properly hedged or just ratio hedged? Ratio hedge is a nice way of saying not hedged. There is very little difference between how MBIA guaranteed against financial failure (which was a cartoon)

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Jim’s Mailbox

"It is better to approximately right than precisely wrong." – Fortune Magazine, 1994

Chairman Jim,

The de-leveraging and default of the Formula is absolutely inexorable, and may well accelerate with the commercials also dropping now. Housing is hopeless. Medium and small banks are toast.

CIGA Ursus Terribilis.

In The News Today

Dear CIGAs,

The following is a link to my interview on the Summit Business News Channel. Click it to view the video.

http://www.summit.co.za/video/face2face/20090710

Views from Joberg

1. Bloomberg says that Bernanke may give his blueprint for how to withdraw the enormous monetary stimulus injected into the world economy.

Since there is NO practical

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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

It is amazing what one little ol’ analyst can create with a “buy” recommendation on Goldman Sachs. That is exactly what happened this morning to lift the US equity markets higher after they were down sharply overnight in the futures markets on the news concerning CITI. That was all promptly forgotten after

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