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Before I get stuck in to today’s Money Morning a quick note on our publishing schedule over the holidays… This week will continue as normal… as you’d expect. Next week, from 27th December until 31st December each day you’ll get something a bit different. The editors of the five subscription based newsletters we publish have [...]

The next few weeks will see the stock market officially enter the strongest seasonal trading period. The market has risen 25 out of the last 30 years from mid-December to January 10. If traders think there’s a greater than 80% chance of the market rallying over the next few weeks you can be sure to [...]

It’s all very exciting. <Yawn> The Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into Competition in the Australian Banking Sector kicks off today. <Yawn> Which pretty much sums up the view from Money Morning reader Chris, regarding our banking series last week: “OK – mega bored with this story now!” Unfortunately for reader Chris, your editor isn’t [...]

Today’s Money Morning contains a special surprise for you… With the help of one of my colleagues I’ve produced a short cartoon video. It’s based on our revelations surrounding the Aussie banking bail outs. Hopefully you’ll like it. And if you really like it perhaps you’ll forward it to your friends. Then they can find [...]

“I think you have a hit an all time low on this one. “Having no interest in NAB’s success, but being very knowledgeable of the inner workings of the payments industry the conclusions are absurd. I support a lot of the messages in your newsletters. But stick to what you know something about, rather than [...]

Before your editor carries on today, we’ll declare an interest in today’s article. Thanks to last week’s so-called computer glitch at National Australia Bank [ASX: NAB], your editor hasn’t been paid. So just bare that in mind in case we get a bit narky this morning – sorry, more narky than usual… We notice NAB [...]

Most in the electrical trade in Victoria, were jumping up and down with joy on Thursday afternoon, after the union told the boys – and possibly a few girls – that by 2014 they can expect to be earning six figure salaries. In what’s being referred to as a ‘landmark’ decision, the new enterprise bargaining [...]

I’ll get on to the latest development in the government pilfering of retirement money in a moment. But first… Next week your editor will dip into the Money Morning mailbag and read out some readers’ letters. What’s interesting since we called the beginning of the housing crash a week or so ago is, well, the [...]

Three reasons you need your own private Gold Standard, rather than waiting on “sound money” from government.. DID GOLD’s first foray over $1,400 mean we’re going back to a Gold Standard? Nope. Not in the West, nor anytime soon anywhere, and for three simple reasons First, gold prices aren’t high enough. Second, modern governments don’t [...]

It’s 9.03am as your editor begins writing today’s Money Morning. The US market closed down nearly 2%. While major European indices closed down over 2%. In China the CSI 300 index dropped 4.21%. And the futures prices have the Aussie market opening lower by around 70 points. If it does, that would take the index [...]