Central banks losing their battle against global deflation, what is the endgame?
For the past three years global central banks have been pumping money into the economy to offset the deflationary impact of the global financial crisis. It has been a patchy success, raising equity prices and…
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How euro money printing is going to drive up gold and silver prices
Those investors panicking now and selling their gold and silver will feel as sick as dogs when they see what happens next to prices. For after a bleak patch lasting at most a couple of…
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Marc Faber sees 1987-style stock market crash coming this autumn
Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu and said that, ‘I think the market will have difficulties to move up strongly unless we have a massive…
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Why the European banks don’t fool stock analysts
A canny item on Bloomberg’s “Insight & Action” has Adam Johnson explaining European bank capitalization and why investors are not happy with it.
This helps us to understand why the report and accounts of Bankia,…
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So far stock market investors have sold in May and gone away
The Dow Jones has just finished its biggest six-day fall since August last year in a classic fulfillment of the old stock market adage ‘Sell in May and go away!’
Depending on your reference that…
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Asian stocks crash as France and Greece vote against austerity
The election of the first socialist president of France in 17 years and the victory of anti-austerity parties in the Greek general election left Asian stocks tumbling the most in six months today.
Last week’s…
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Black Monday for global financial markets?
A perfect storm is brewing for financial markets on Monday with the European election results likely to be the tipping point after the worst week for the S&P 500 this year.
Elections in France Germany…
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Waiting for QE3 may not save stocks this summer says Mohamed El-Erian
Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian talks about the very poor April jobs report. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s ‘In The Loop’.
Markets are going to come off the fence, one way or another is his conclusion. It…
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The impending US fiscal cliff, when will investors wake up?
Thomas Lee, chief US equity strategist at JPMorgan Chase, Betty Liu and Dominic Chu talk about the impending fiscal cliff that is facing the US economy and what that might mean for investors. They speak…
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One-third slump in major project finance in Q1 marks slide into global depression
The Financial Times today reported a one-third slump in major project finance across the world in the first quarter with volume down to $64.6 billion according to Dealogic, the lowest level since the 2008-9 global…
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