Commodity Markets: Gold - Silver -Crude-Copper -NickleCommodity updates: 23-May-2012The sharp drop in the international market affected the domestic market is being witnessed in the gold and silver.Comeks the gold and silver declined by 1 per cent. Crude oil slipped 0.5 per cent on the Naimeks... More »

Swanson1 has had more final 'curtain calls' than Dame Nellie Melba ever dreamed of having when returning to make further comments on the Vince Martin instapost, "LookSmart Is As Good As Finished."My reply to him, is as follows:Swanson1 .... Back on March 30th, you posted the... More »

Lachlan Star's (ASX: LSA) progress at the CMD Gold Mine in Chile is continuing to attract investor interest, with votes of confidence coming from two investment companies.Intact Investment Management has taken up an initial substantial shareholding of 9.66% in Lachlan Star, buying up 8.34... More »

EUR/NZD - set buy alarm at 1.6900, some resistance up to 1.6950 buy plenty of room to move past there, W1 up trend in placeEUR/AUD - set buy alarm at 1.3000 (estimate), plenty of room to move past there, W1 up trend in placeWhen the price alarms hit verify any buy or sell entries with The Forex... More »

"I don't open U.S. accounts, period," said Su Shan Tan, head of private banking at Singapore-based DBS―Southeast Asia's largest lender―in a recent Bloomberg article.This attitude has largely been a reaction to the implementation of FATCA, the IRS's Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.... More »

Longtime friend Mark Bern (aka K202) many weeks posts at Global Economic Intersection a summary of his work over the previous week at Seeking Alpha, where he writes extensively on dividend stocks and the use of options in income investing.The article covering last week's posts appeared today on... More »

Elementos (ASX: ELT) continues to make progress towards a target definition at its Tamaya Project in Chile after the second phase sampling identified further high grade copper.The sampling and mapping program returned high grade copper of up to 4.75% while 60% of the 73 reconnaissance samples... More »

See here for the interview.Larry Page, CEO of Google (GOOG), made some interesting comments:1. On the Motorola (MMI) acquisition -- the first thing he mentioned was MMI's patent portfolio, sounds like that element drove the acquisition.2. Said Apple's (AAPL) unbelievable growth has surprised him... More »

5/22/12 BUY HRS, KKR, SPLS, TOTDisclosure: I am long [[KKR]], [[TOT]].