The World's Biggest Producers Of Palm Oil Are Running Out Of Land
The world is hungry for palm oil, but as the biggest producer countries run out of viable land for planting palm trees, the production landscape is shifting.The best growing conditions for palm trees...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: YCS Pops On Weaker Yen, XLU Slides Alongside Utilities
Wall Street seemingly took a breather today from the recent string of record breaking gains, with stocks closing lower after a choppy trading session. Meanwhile, investors kept a close eye on today’s...
View ArticleTesla’s First Quarter Results Amaze the Market
Tesla has finally released its first quarter financial reports for 2013, and whilst Elon Musk had stated that it would be the company’s first profitable quarter, no one had quite expected just how...
View ArticleThe U.S. has Spent $8 Trillion Protecting the Straits of Hormuz
A group of nine student journalists from the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative have created a website as part of a project to report on the US energy security situation. An incredibly...
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Corporate Labor Hoarding Could Explain Falling Jobless Claims
Just recently the April employment report was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which showed a surprise jump in employment for the month of April of 165,000 jobs. The general consensus...
View ArticleWeezy, You Idiot
I want to get something off my chest. This “Why Do Rich Hedge Funders Hate Bernanke” meme is pissing me off. And sometimes, when something really chaps your ass, you just gotta write about it.In a...
View ArticleShort Note on Falling Yen
The yen fell in the North American session amid speculation around the 30-year US Treasury bond auction that Japanese institutional investors were beginning to implement this year's global allocation....
View ArticleFriday’s ETF Chart To Watch: EWC Battles Resistance Ahead Of Canada’s...
The bulls took a breather yesterday as profit taking pressures resurfaced due to the S&P 500′s stellar run-up of more than 14% year-to-date. Even after better-than-expected U.S. employment data hit...
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Bill Gross Has Significantly Boosted His Bet On US Treasuries
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, increased its U.S. Treasuries holdings to the highest in over a year in April, data from the firm's website showed on...
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MOODY'S: The High-Yield Bond Market Has Become Mis-Priced
Here’s some interesting commentary on the state of the high yield bond market (which, as FT Alphaville says, might not be appropriately named given its actual low yields). Moody’s shows the divergence...
View ArticleArrowShares Files For High Yield Bond ETF
While May continues to be a strong month for investors, ETF issuers ArrowShares is looking to introduce its second ETF to market. Encouraged by the growing success of its first high yield fund, (GYLD,...
View ArticleKrugman Perpetuates Myth of the Zero Lower Bound
Professor Krugman just published a column where he gets kudos for sticking his neck on the line and predicting that the Bernanke Fed is not creating a bubble in bonds, and "probably not" in stocks...
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The Stock Market's Fundamentals Are Deteriorating
As we watch the market climb to new highs in the face of lackluster and deteriorating fundamentals, we have the feeling that we’ve seen this movie before in 2000 and 2007, when we were a lone voice of...
View Article7 ETFs Up More Than 10% This Earnings Season
Wall Street is coming out of earnings season with more steam than before. Even though not all reports were positive, it seems that investors are unwilling to allow anything to slow down returns. With...
View ArticleG7 Love Fest
The G7 are meeting today and tomorrow. There would seem to be plenty of room for dispute, given the recent acceleration in the yen's decline and pathetic economic performance in Europe, where the EC...
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Here's Evidence That The Fed Is Inflating A Stock Market Bubble
In the February 5 Morning Briefing, I outlined the Irrational Exuberance scenario as follows: “In a melt-up scenario, the market [S&P 500] would do just that, jumping to my yearend target [1665] or...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Sterling Testing Trendline
This Great Graphic, created on Bloomberg, shows that the uptrend line in sterling off the mid-March lows is being threatened by the decline over the past two session. The trend line comes in near...
View ArticleTwo Fundamental Themes Are Driving The Dollar's Rally Against The Yen
The break of the JPY100 has unleashed the animal spirits. The US dollar is broadly higher and equity markets are finishing the week on a strong note. Bond yields are mostly higher, led by a sharp 9 bp...
View ArticleSymptoms Don't Lie
By: Peter Schiff Friday, May 10, 2013 A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a...
View ArticleOne place that’s really doing it right…
May 10, 2013SingaporeEach time I’m in Singapore, I’m continually impressed at the country’s extraordinary growth.Friends of mine tell me about their experiences growing up here in the 1940s and 1950s....
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