it is unlikely that Yellen will seek to shock the market into an aggressive selloff.
Be prudent & diversification will help. That even means gold. Allocate maybe 5% or 10% of your total portfolio to gold. Why? If anything the precious metal is a hedge against Central Banks making mistakes and hurting the currency your country operates with
Michael Pento, fund manager & author explains how the United States is fast approaching the end stage of the biggest asset bubble in history.
Time to buckle up, as this week is poised to be a big one for markets across the globe.
With a stagnating economy, even supposedly good debt on banks’ books may end up putrefying.
After I wrote on how negative rates are destroying the Italian banking system (here), there is a new piece on how negative rates might play out in Spain. Unsurprisingly, the effects are similar. Just as in Italy, Spanish banks have heavily invested in government bonds in order to benefit from…
The entire point of diversification is to avoid having your entire portfolio in a Japan situation. The global stock market has done just fine since 1990 even when you include Japan in the results.
The Presidential election is just around the corner & it is bad news for the incumbent's party if anyone notices the softening trends in the economy. Republican President George W. Bush saw a substantial decline in the stock market prior to the 2008 election which greatly helped Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Other economic variables…
Things are really heating up between the PBOC (People's Bank of China) and currency traders. The HIBOR (the offered rate at which deposits in CNH are being quoted to prime banks in the Hong Kong interbank market) just soared to the second highest level of 2016. The biggest spike occurred in January 2016. A sudden jump…
Gold prices gained in Asia on Monday with the stage set this week for the latest Federal Reserve review on rates and on the same day the Bank of Japan expected to detail results of a review on its easing policies.
The dollar fell from a two-week high on Monday, with a stronger oil price the chief theme in a market battening down the hatches ahead of central bank policy meetings in Japan and the United States.
The notion the central bank could orchestrate economic growth was optimistic and unrealistic.
n the week ahead, investors will be looking to Wednesday’s highly-anticipated Federal Reserve policy meeting, amid ongoing speculation over the timing of the next U.S. rate hike.
Tens of thousands of people protested in European cities on Saturday against planned free trade deals with the United States & Canada they say would undermine democracy & lower food safety, environmental & labor standards. Organizers - an alliance of environmental
THE European Union appeared more fractured than ever today after a powerful group of eastern states laid down a series of demands over migration and the economy.
Monetary policy decisions from the Fed & , more importantly, the BOJ, are expected to drive investor sentiment in Asia-Pacific this week.
Deutsche Bank AG extended losses as analysts signaled that legal costs may force the German lender to raise capital even if it whittles down the U.S. demand for $14 billion over its mortgage-backed securities business.
Italy has been in a crisis for at least eight months, though mainstream media did not recognize it until July. This crisis has nothing to do with Brexit
China has failed to curb excesses in its credit system & faces mounting risks of a full-blown banking crisis, according to early warning indicators released by the world’