US stocks and bonds point in opposite directions to recovery or recession
Market observers can be forgiven for hedging their bets or keeping quiet this month. The rise in the US stock market is consistent with an economic recovery while the fall in bond yields points to…
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16th eurozone summit in two years fails to agree on Greek debt deal
European leaders left their 16th summit in two years last night without the deal on the Greek debt crisis promised for this week. The Greek negotiations completely overshadowed the event where 25 nations agreed to…
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Is Europe losing patience with Greece or Greece with Europe?
The interminably long Greek debt crisis seems to be finally coming to a head this week and will be a defining moment for 2012. If international banks can swallow the painful medicine of debt and…
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Not the Davos economic forum live from Dubai!
Not invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week ArabianMoney editor and publisher Peter Cooper joined Sandra Mergulhão from MyDubaiMyCity.com to discuss some of the main issues from an Arabian point of…
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No it’s not different this time warns Professor Ken Rogoff
Professor Ken Rogoff warned that things are not going to be any different this time and that business leaders are underestimating the impact of the eurozone crisis in an interview last week in Davos with…
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Dow ends week down 0.5% despite a surprise from the Fed
Even another 18 months of low interest rates from the Fed could not prevent the Dow Jones closing 0.5 per cent down last week, while the S&P 500 just scraped a 0.1 per cent gain.…
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How long can the Fed pump up the US bond bubble? Time to shift into hard assets?
The most obvious bubble in the global financial system is the US bond market and by far the biggest today. Holding interest rates until late 2014 as the Fed announced yesterday should hold it stable…
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Fed holding rates low until late 2014 a major boost for gold prices says Jim Sinclair
The world’s most respected gold trader Jim Sinclair, a veteran of the 1970s boom believes that the announcement by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke that interest rates will be kept at their historic low until the…
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Eurozone and Iran to top Davos agenda as recession looms
It is that time of year again when all the leaders of the business world assemble in Davos in Switzerland to discuss the future with invited guests from governments and academia.
Nothing is actually decided…
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Silver up 13%, gold 6% since New Year
Gold and silver have started the New Year with a bang with prices up by six and 13 per cent respectively. This appears to confirm that the end of 2011 was the end of the…
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