The Market's Measure

Keep an eye on volatility. Or volatilities.

Has anybody noticed how expensive it's gotten to hold gold? Gold futures, I mean. The contango in the Comex market has ballooned. Contango's the premium you pay for contracting a deferred delivery. Typically, the further out your futures delivery...

Blue chip bullishness could be curtailed by junk bonds.

Last month's Brexit vote really did a number on U.S. markets - equity and fixed income alike. The immediate aftermath, however, has been vastly disparate...

Based on my experience of spiraling prices in the '70s and '80s, I never thought I'd be rooting for inflation but I am. Mildly...

2016’s combo of dissociation and complacency

Gold/oil metric headed back to a “normal” range

We’re well into 2016 now and while it’s not yet time to start singing “Auld Lang Syne,” it’s worth checking on some of our previous assumptions and prognostications to see if we’re on track. Looking back at the ETF articles of late 2015 and early...