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Warren Buffett is not a fan of gold. But since 2001 gold has outperformed the stock market by more than 360%. More recently, gold has been on a great run while gold stocks have performed even better. However, is there more room to the upside immediately ahead? Or is it now time to take profits?

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As the British steady themselves for a Halloween hard Brexit, their American counterparts on Wall Street are readying for one of their own - from the United Kingdom.

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What was once the world’s largest commodities hedge fund is officially closing, creating new opportunities for some investors to get exposure to raw materials and mining using other funds.

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It's time to get optimistic

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The massive home has six floors, 11,000-square feet of interior space and 12 bathrooms.

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Some stocks haven’t been participating in the great rally off of last year’s late December lows – in fact, a check on what’s making the new lows list these days reveals price charts in decline for the better part of quite some time.

After hitting new all time highs this month the stock market indices have just marked several down days in a row – a rarity lately. Both the Standard and Poor’s 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average have sold off for an astonishing 3 straight days. It hasn’t been so bad for the NASDAQ Composite – the index formerly known as “over the counter” – it’s only off for 2 consecutive days. Some stocks haven’t been participating in the great rally off of last year’s late December lows – in fact, a check on what’s making the new lows list these days reveals price charts in decline for the better part of quite some time. I would guess that hedge funds involved with serious short selling strategies may have these in sight.

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The supposed victims of the notorious Forex- 3D Ponzi scheme are probably over 30 000. The investment scam that started in Thailand was offering participants 10% monthly rate of return and currently costs investors some 4 billion Thai Baht or roughly 130 million USD.

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Trefis explores whether Google’s P/E Ratio Makes Sense in a detailed interactive dashboard, and finds that the Internet giant’s current P/E Ratio might present an opportunity compared to the S&P 500. If Google can beat its own expectations of 17% growth, it is likely that Google's stock will gain..

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Microsoft Azure is ascendant, even though AWS remains the most profitable cloud service.

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The S&P Persistence Scorecard tries to determine if an active fund manager did well because of their skill or merely luck. In short is past performance predictive of future performance? The results are startling.

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