iShares Silver Trust

By Eric Parnell : Stocks have suffered a brutal May so far. After bouncing back to an intraday high of 1415 on the S&P 500 on the first day of the month, stocks have plunged by -7.8% in the days since. And the drop has been unrelenting along the way, with declines in ten out of the last twelve ...

… compare Apple to two previous parabolic ascents - silver in 2011 and the Nasdaq in 2000. I will be using ETFs, iShares Silver Trust ( SLV ) and PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series1 ( QQQ ) . Although each of these instances came in unique market circumstances …

By Avery Goodman : Last night, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ), Jamie Dimon, got on the phone, in an "emergency" conference call, and had a lot of explaining to do. JPM's "London Whale" had managed to lose slightly more than $2 billion on the bank's credit default swaps almost overnight. About $1

By Rolf Norfolk : Some days ago, the King World News blog posted an interview with the octogenarian Mexican billionaire, Hugo Salinas Price. He says "full-blown socialism" is on its way. Some might read the results of the recent French and Greek elections in that context. There comes a time in a ...

By Big Babu : The iShares Silver Trust ( SLV ) has been range-bound since October ..... the whole of 2011, it looks like SLV may have temporarily found some support ..... cash-secured puts at this point on SLV . I've set up my Google Spreadsheet …

By The Financial Lexicon : In a recent interview with CNBC , Berkshire Hathaway's ( BRK.B ) Charlie Munger stated, "Civilized people don't buy gold. They invest in productive businesses." If that's the case, then call me uncivilized. Although I do invest in productive businesses, I also designate a

… Bulls and Bears : Investors in the iShares Silver Trust ( SLV ) currently have a rare opportunity ..... Premium: Why Choose PSLV vs. SLV : Taxes: PSLV has a more efficient ..... rate of 28% that investors in SLV have to pay. The potential tax …

By Eric Parnell : It was exactly one year ago this weekend. After a seven-month meteoric rise that began the moment Ben Bernanke completed his now legendary Jackson Hole speech in late August 2010, Silver reached a climatic peak on April 28, 2011. The year that has since passed has been far more ...