Gold Price Forecast
Step Sum Review and Market Update Mark J. Lundeen This week was unusual as the stock market was under pressure, especially the bank stocks, while the price of gold and silver reversed their declines late in the week! More comments on this in my market update section below. Step-Sum Update Since my article of 26 [...]

STEAMPUNK: Gets Sexy
STEAMPUNK: THE EMERGING NATION Plunging necklines, tight corsets, top hats, and shiny brass accessories that resemble time travel machines and you wonder, is that Goth, Punk, or what? It’s none of the above. This slowly emerging fashion trend is referred to as “Steampunk.” Expressions of this culture come in many art forms, fashion being one [...]

Enterprise (NYSE:EPD) & Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) Seaway Crude Oil Pipeline
Enterprise Products Partners LP and Enbridge Inc. Saturday said that the Seaway Pipeline has started to accept Crude Oil at the Cushing, OK. storage hub for delivery to the US Gulf Coast. The bottleneck at the Cushing storage hub where Crude Oil inventories had reached historic highs, but on Thursday, Enterprise & Enbridge announced completion [...]

Alibaba Creeping Take Over of Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is reported near an agreement to buy back a 20% stake in itself from Yahoo! Inc. for about $7-B and may announce a deal as soon as Sunday morning in Asia. The purchase may pave the way for Alibaba, China’s largest e-Commerce provider, to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) in [...]

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) Fail on FB IPO
Not as if you are not tired of hearing chatter about Facebook, but remember Facebook’s underwriters would not, did not let its share price fall below 38 a share on opening day. That is what underwriters do. They bring a company to the public market in return for a guarantee to buy at the IPO [...]

Adele Cover Scares Vogue Readers
Grammy Award winning singer Adele glossed on the cover of October 2011 Vogue UK which was said to be “one of the worst sellers”. Vogue UK was the first high fashion magazine to feature the singer, but Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman said, “Music stars haven’t sold at all well, Adele is the most popular woman [...]

Cameron Diaz Hates Chelsea Handler
What to Expect When You’re Expecting star Cameron Diaz said that she was nervous to ever appear on the Chelsea Handler chat show. “I was, well, scared of you!” Diaz told Handler. “Like, you were the type of person that I knew if I got in front of you, you would just tear me to [...]

Fired X Factor Host May Be Rehired
Fired X Factor host Steve Jones is in the running to replace Entertainment Tonight Co-Host Mark Steines. Jones has been working part time for the entertainment show over the last couple of months on a part time basis, which included an interview with Megan Fox and ended with a fiery exchange. An Entertainment Tonight rep [...]

Kraft (NYSE:KFT) land Coffee Prices, Maxwell House, Yuban and Gevalia
Kraft Foods Inc. lowered the prices of several US coffee products as the cost of Coffee Beans continues to fall. Bridget MacConnell, a Kraft spokeswoman, attributed the move to “sustained decreases in the cost of Green Coffee.” Green coffee is coffee that has yet to be roasted. Prices of Arabica, which is the most consumed [...]