-- Posted Monday, 30 August 2010 | Digg This Article | | Source: GoldSeek.com

US stocks rallied on Friday thanks to weasel words from Fed chairman Ben Bernanke after a dismal week with a dip below 10,000 on the Dow. The S&P 500 ended lower for the third week in a row. Tuesday saw the third Hindenburg Omen, the classic chart signal of an impending crash based on a complex analysis of trading movements.

You might ignore one Hindenburg warning but three? ArabianMoney announced the first on August 12th (click here). But we prefer to stick to fundamental analysis rather than look for zepplins crashing in the charts.

Here the picture is surely just as clear. The stock market continues to price in some kind of recovery while the economic indicators increasingly point to a double dip recession.

Remember the summer of 2008 and the way economists upped the ‘possibility’ of a recession to 30 per cent. They are at it again, apart from old Albert Edwards at Societe Generale whose bearish vision makes Marc Faber look an optimist.

Mr Bernanke’s touching commitment to save the US economy has also been with us for a long time, and it has not worked to date, although things might have been very much worse.

Bond yields are at record lows. Money is shifting into gold and silver with gold bullion purchases up 40 per cent this year. Share prices rose on thinner and thinner volumes this summer. The day of reckoning is coming. Indeed, the Hindenburg Omen suggests it is happening now.

The ArabianMoney investment newsletter continues to recommend a portfolio of short ETFs as a low risk, inexpensive way to participate in this mayhem and make money.

-- Posted Monday, 30 August 2010 | Digg This Article

About Peter Cooper:
Oxford University educated financial journalist Peter Cooper found himself made redundant by Emap plc in London in the mid-1990s and decided to rebuild his career in Dubai as launch editor of the pioneering magazine Gulf Business. He returned briefly to London in 1999 to complete his first book, a history of the Bovis construction group.

Then in 2000 he went back to Dubai to become an Internet entrepreneur, just as the dot-com market crashed. But he stumbled across the opportunity to become a partner in www.ameinfo.com, which later became the Middle East's leading English language business news website.

Over the course of the next seven years he had a ringside seat as editor-in-chief writing about the remarkable transformation of Dubai into a global business and financial hub city. At the same time www.ameinfo.com prospered and was sold in 2006 to Emap plc for $27 million, completing the career circle back to where it began a decade earlier.

He remains a lively commentator and columnist as a freelance journalist based in Dubai and travels extensively each summer with his wife Svetlana. His financial blog www.arabianmoney.net is attracting increasing attention with its focus on investment in gold and silver as a means of prospering during a time of great consumer price inflation and asset price deflation.

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