Category: Financial Markets 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Indian Government Tells Banks to Stop Telling People to Buy Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Profit_Confidential
Michael Lombardi writes:
India, the biggest consumer of gold bullion, is witnessing over-the-top demand—to the point where the government is trying to curb demand.
The Finance Minister of India said last week, “Banks have a role to play in dampening the enthusiasm for gold. I think the RBI [Reserve Bank of India] has advised banks that they should not sell gold coins.” He added, “I would urge all banks to please advise their branches that they should not encourage their customers to invest in or buy gold.” (Source: “P. Chidambaram hints banks likely to stop gold coin sales to curb demand,”The Indian Express, June 7, 2013.)
Monday, June 10, 2013
Critical Financial Markets and Economic Indicators You Need to Check Every Day / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Money_Morning
Greg Madison writes: Everyone has a different opinion on how best to take the measure of the markets and the economy at large.
Hairs standing up on end, a knee that aches with the weather, tea leaves, earnings estimates, the Hindenburg Omen - it seems like all of these are significant in some way at one time or another.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Why the Markets Really Loved the Bad U.S. Jobs Report / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: When bad news is good news for stock markets you know just how convoluted the current economic environment is.
According to the May jobs report out today (Friday), the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6% in May from 7.5% in April, the first increase since the start of 2013. And, markets rallied on the news. The Dow Jones soared more than 200 points by mid-day.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Who Really Benefits from Inflation and Why You’re Not Wealthier / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis released an interesting report analyzing the underlying fundamentals of why America’s economic growth level still remains quite anemic. The results won’t surprise many people—most American households have rebuilt only a fraction of the wealth lost during the recent recession.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, household net worth peaked at $67.4 trillion during the fourth quarter of 2007. Household net worth then sunk to a low of $51.4 trillion in 2009, and has since rebounded to $66.1 trillion. (Source: “Annual Report 2012,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site, May 2013, accessed June 6, 2013.)
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Sunday, June 09, 2013
Big Brother Is Watching! Worlds Bond Markets Could Seize Up / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Robert_M_Williams
“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, and unreachable dream, an irreversible regret, and an unforgettable love.” Diego Marchi
A month ago we learned that the FBI was bugging the phones in the cloakrooms of Congress and listening to personal conversations of reporters and politicians. Then two weeks ago we read that the IRS was using their power against Obama’s political opponents. So I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that the National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecom providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its system, both within the US and between the US and other countries.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Lessons from Economic Crises in Argentina / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: David_Galland
Nick Giambruno: Joining me now is David Galland, the managing director of Casey Research. His internationalization story, which involved moving his life and his family from the US to Argentina, was recently featured in Internationalize Your Assets, a free online video from Casey Research. He is perfectly suited to help us better understand some of the important lessons in internationalization that Argentina offers. Welcome, David.
David Galland: Nice to be here.
Nick: First, why don't you give us a little background about the Argentine people and how they have learned to deal with their government and recurring financial crises?
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Everything You Believe Is Wrong / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: I’m reading a fascinating book called the Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It details the history of cancer and cancer treatments.
What I find most interesting is not the chemistry or biology in how new medicines were discovered (the book is not heavy on the science, so don’t be scared off). Instead, what makes the book so thought provoking is how sure doctors were of their philosophies toward cancer… and yet were completely wrong.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Financial Contagions Spread Global Investment Dysfunction / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Dan_Amerman
Australia and New Zealand, as well as many other nations around the world, have caught an economic virus of sorts. This contagion is primarily being spread by Japan, the United States and the European Monetary Union, all of whom have undertaken increasingly irresponsible monetary and financial policies whose effects are proving communicable.
People are used to goods being in global competition, where the prize goes to those nations who produce the best goods at the lowest cost. However, there is a loophole in this simple relationship, whereby cost depends on the relative value of a nation's currency, and that can be deliberately altered by a nation.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Dangerous Divergences Between Bonds and Stocks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Gary_Dorsch
It all seems so surreal. After being mesmerized by the Fed’s hallucinogenic “Quantitative Easing,” (QE) drug, and seduced by the Fed’s Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP), and rescued by the Fed’s clandestine intervention in the stock index futures market, for the past 4-½-years, it’s easy to forget that there was once a time when the Fed’s main policy tool was simply adjusting the federal funds rate. It’s even harder to recall that two decades ago, the Fed’s raison d’être was combating inflation, whereas today, the Fed’s main mission is rigging the stock market, and inflating the fortunes of the wealthiest 10% of Americans.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Crazy Extend and Pretend Economic World - Cyprus Was the Warning / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: DeviantInvestor
In no particular order the following is a list of what many people think are contemporary insanities. Since most of these have been widely discussed, links have not been provided. The information is easily available via Internet searches.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Why Gold and Stock Market Are About to Reverse Course / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Toby_Connor
There’s a reason why commercial traders are regression to the mean traders. In this business it is the one thing that you can absolutely bank on. It's like death and taxes, it never fails. All markets eventually return to the mean. An appropriate corollary to this rule is that the further an asset gets stretched above or below the mean the more violent the regression is, and the further it will move past the mean during the snapback.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Euro-zone, U.S. Compounding Errors! Trillions of Dollars being Printed / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Robert_M_Williams
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. - Malcolm X
Over the last couple of months we’ve heard the IMF, ECB and US Federal Reserve all come out and tell us that they have the right policies in place and things are getting better. Unfortunately, the statistics just don’t bare that out even though they’re often biased in favor of the very governments that produce them. On Friday I saw that unemployment has reached a new high in the Eurozone while inflation remains well below the European Central Bank's target, underscoring just how severe a challenge EU leaders face to revive the bloc's sickly economy. Joblessness in the 17-nation currency area rose to 12.2% in April, this according to Eurostat on Friday, marking a new record since the data series began in 1995.
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Sunday, June 02, 2013
Get Ready to be “CYPRUSED” at a Bank near you / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Christopher_Quigley
The banking situation in Europe continues to deteriorate rapidly. As a measure of the ongoing crisis the “ Bail In” option used in Cyprus is actually being made European Commission policy. The following is a recent report from the much respected Irish Times:
“Proposals under Irish presidency to deal with European bank collapses likely to ‘bail-in’ large depositors.
Deposits of over €100,000 are likely to be hit in the event of future European bank collapses, according to a proposal put forward by the Irish presidency of the European Council ahead of a key meeting of finance ministers next week.
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Saturday, June 01, 2013
Essential Market Knowledge for Maximizing Real Investor Gains / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Since its inception in 1913, The Federal Reserve Board has been responsible for almost 95% devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. All this has been achieved through its ability to continually inflate the money supply.
And, between 1985 and 2005, the Federal Reserve Board has increased the money supply by five times. This extraordinary money creation is merely the catalyst for debt creation. In a fiat money system, money is debt…there is absolutely no way this money can ever be repaid except by continued inflation. But, now that the credit bubble is blown up, inflation is no longer an option; bankruptcy looms.”
“The Federal Reserve…What Has It Done For You Lately?”
Ian Gordon, December 29, 2007, www.axisoflogic.com
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Topping Stocks, Falling Gold, Rising Dollar Adds upto Deflation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Robert_M_Williams
The big news this week revolved around all the comments coming from different Fed personalities. On Tuesday St. Louis Fed President James Bullard and New York Fed President William Dudley set the table nicely for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s appearance on Wednesday at the congressional Joint Economic Committee. They clearly stated that the Fed wasn’t yet ready to tighten. What they say matters because one of the main transmission methods for this whole quantitative-easing thing is trickle-down economics — build up the stock market, and let people who own those stocks spend money, and this will supposedly feed the rest of the economy. Aside from that you keep rates as low as possible thereby maximizing the proceeds from mortgage refinancing and providing support for housing and car sales.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
The Fed’s Hands Are Tied… Right as the Financial System Begins to Crack / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Graham_Summers
The Fed would do well to look at Japan.
Japan’s Nikkei, after rallying over 70% since November, just collapsed 11% in less than two days. Looking at the chart, it’s pretty clear where this thing is heading: the same as the NASDAQ in 2000.
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Investor Opportunities from Central Bank Interventions / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Fed wants to kill all signs of inflation to hide the damage they're doing to the middle class. First the Fed leaves food and energy out of the CPI, and then they get the Labor Department to lie about the figures. Their last trick -- smash the price of gold and silver. What are they going to do when the bond market (fearful of inflation) collapses? You can't fool all of the people all of the time.”
“Richard’s Remarks,” Richard Russell
DowTheoryLetters.com, 05/20/2013
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
U.S. Economy Staring Into The Abyss! Only Gold is Worth Buying / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Robert_M_Williams
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
A number of important figures are now talking about the possibility of increasing the US Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing given the “decline in inflation.” In March we heard comments from Fed Presidents Eric Rosengren and Narayana Kocherlakota calling for QE well into 2014 while Chicago Fed President Richard Evens thought the Fed needed to do more. Then in April the St. Louis Fed President James Bullard came out on a number of occasions saying inflationary pressures may be growing too weakly and if they soften further, the central bank may have to boost its asset buying to bring price pressures back up to more desirable levels. They all share one thing in common, they are worried about a decline in the rate of inflation as seen in this chart:
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Stocks, Gold, Bonds, Markets Looking For a Top? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: Brian_Bloom
This is a chart (courtesy stockcharts.com) that is looking for a top, but it still has some room to overshoot in the next couple of weeks
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Stock and Commodity Market Forecasts Nuggets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“After watching the effects of the mediocre payrolls number yesterday (Friday, 5/3/13) which culminated in a push over 1600 in the S&P 500 and a print in the Dow over 15,000, I thought it might be useful to note a few things about this most recent example of a hysteria.
“I am on record here as stating that the entire stock market rally is nothing but a Federal Reserve induced bubble brought about by artificially low interest rates starving investors for yield elsewhere. The Fed, along with the Bank of Japan and the ECB I might add, are determined to corral investors and herd them, unthinking like cattle, into equities; the goal being to create an atmosphere of general euphoria towards the economy boosting consumer confidence in the hopes of inducing them to take on more debt and spend.
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