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While investing involves plenty of unknowns and a large degree of randomness at times, there are numerous avoidable mistakes that investors can sidestep when armed with an understanding of some financial ratios. This article take a close look at the 10 financial ratios that are most helpful for evaluating different businesses.

Have you ever heard the statement, perspective is everything? Well with money, it’s no different. Looking through the foggy lens of dollar money you will get a distorted and unclear vision of the world and its affairs. Walking through life with foggy dollar lenses could lead to a very bumpy ride. Looking through the lens of gold, however, will bring precision and clarity...

Batten down the hatches, because a "perfect storm" is coming to global stock markets in 2016 according to the technical analysis team at UBS.

There are patterns in markets and we can learn from past patterns in the S&P 500 Index. My assessment of the Index at this point in time suggests it would be wise to consider the possibility of a substantial S&P 500 Index drop in coming months. Here's why.

The idea is to create the mother or grandfather of all bubbles. When the masses decide to speculate there will be so much money flowing into the markets that all assets including gold will fly; some will soar to the moon, some to the sun and some possibly to the next galaxy.

Those who are ignorant of financial history are doomed again to suffer its dreadful and costly consequences and today’s death crosses as seen in 7 major stock market indices are US stock market sell signals. Take note.

If you want to buy stocks, options, mutual funds, or ETFs, you're going to have to use some sort of broker and online brokers, at least for the individual investor, are definitely the way to go. They have cheaper fees and commissions, offer analytical tools, and have made it almost too easy to buy and sell stocks. This article [presents 10 brokers that] I have either used, tried, or seriously considered myself and is intended as a jumping off point for you to do your own research and find what broker offers the best fit for your own investing style.

The rally in both gold and silver has seen a significant change in market behavior, and these changes are telling the world that the decline from 2011 may have ended.

It is clear global real estate prices are heating up again and, due to interest rates being lower now than in the previous cycle, real estate prices in the U.S. and globally may actually surprise us with several more years of growth before they peak as global liquidity searches for the few relatively safe assets (in the least dirty shirt fashion) as a way to protect against reflation and devaluation in non-U.S. countries.

The situation the world finds itself in is not one of growth and prosperity, but one of uncertainty and doubt, and it has the financial elite running for the doors, scared and worried. So what is going on behind the scenes? Do they know something that the rest of the general public does not? Do they think that a system collapse is just over the horizon?