Investment & Finance Thread (week June 22 - 28 edition)

While this past week many have reported how gold bumped up 3.4%, we should also note that silver leapt 6.7%.   Here they are w/ the DJIA and the S&P500 (from here)--

--but those two indexes really weren't the best performing indexes this week. 

In fact a look at a spread of indexes (from there) shows that say, utilities did even better than gold.  

Individual stock leaders did well ("the week, the IBD 50 rose 3.4%" (read more @IBD) and that's a bullish sign assuming that those leaders continue to lead.  

As usual, the pundits are all up, down,--

New Market Highs Don't Mean You Must Sell - John Waggoner, USA Today
A Sign of 'Dangerously Overvalued' Stocks - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

--and in-between--

:How to Prepare for Meltup or Meltdown - Mitchell Tuchman, MarketWatch