Treasuries, stocks and commodities from soybeans to silver staged big breakouts after the Federal Reserve announced plans to buy $300 billion in Treasuries and $750 billion in mortgage-backed securities. April gold futures surged above $950 an ounce and crude oil rallied above $50 a barrel. MF Global Research Analyst Nick Kalivas said the Fed’s actions [...]

2009 Outlook: Confidence Returning–and Inflation by Matt Roma As we look ahead to 2009, I think there are reasons to be optimistic about the markets. We put an extremely volatile 2008 behind us. In the final trading sessions of the year, we saw high levels of volatility. While that can be partially attributed to light [...]

Dollar Weakness Good for Gold Bugs By Stuart Kaufman It’s been an exciting and volatile couple of weeks. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are now in front of Congress for three days of testimony, and I expect the $700 proposed bailout of the financial system will be approved rather quickly. [...]