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Abenomics Will Be A Giant Fail If Japan Doesn't Address Looming Debt
Japan’s government debt is so excessive that, one way or another, many think it will eventually default. But there’s a way Japan can begin sloughing off its debt and growing its economy: by privatizing...
View ArticleConsumer ETFs: 3 Things To Consider
Exchange-traded funds have taken the market by storm, with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management across more than 3,000 securities. These ETFs provide everyday investors with exposure to...
View ArticleCorporate Fraud Is Killing Your Business
Rigorous statistical research continues to demonstrate that corporate accounting fraud remains common and costly. Aside from tangibly harming the shareholders of fraudulent and even non-fraudulent...
View ArticleActive ETFs: Biggest Winners & Losers YTD
Active ETFs have grown in popularity over the last decade as a great alternative to the traditional assets. With the hands-on approach of a mutual fund but the aggressively cheaper price tag, these...
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India's Gold Fetish Is Killing Its Economy
NEW DELHI, India — Across global markets, gold has lost its glimmer.Investors are fleeing the yellow metal, whose price has slumped more than 10 percent over the past three months.But Indians are so...
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The Rise And Repression Of The 'Bond Vigilantes'
In the past, before the era of financial repression imposed by central banks, the 10-year Treasury bond yield tended to trade around the y/y growth rate of nominal GDP. From the 1950s through the...
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Russia's Aluminum Monopoly Is Effectively Worthless
Russia’s aluminium monopoly Rusal, with its hidden Kremlin shareholders, has slipped below the worthlessness level on the Hong Kong Exchange – that is, its market cap is now less than the value of the...
View ArticleAdditional Iranian Oil Sanctions May Be Counterproductive
A June 6, 2013, article from Reuters is titled, “Lawmakers in new drive to slash Iran’s oil sales to a trickle.” According to it,U.S. lawmakers are embarking this summer on a campaign to deal a deeper...
View ArticleBuying Emerging Markets From Home
Investing in emerging markets has become de rigeur for equity investors in recent years. If you like stocks, goes the argument, how could you not like stocks in countries where growth is fastest? It’s...
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Stan Druckenmiller On Emerging Markets, Investing, And The China Issue People...
From Goldman SachsStan Druckenmiller is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Duquesne Family Office. He founded Duquesne Capital Management in 1981, which he ran until he closed the firm in 2010....
View ArticleGold and Silver Outlook: Will the Fed Taper QE3?
The prices of gold and silver haven’t done much during last week as they moved in an unclear trend. Next week, however, the precious metal market might stir up as the FOMC will convene and decide to...
View ArticleBe Fire and Wish for the Wind
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.“Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos; you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind. This summarizes...
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: XHB Pops On Homebuilder Data, EWG Jumps On Bundesbank Outlook
U.S. equities got off to a relatively strong start as investors turned their attention to the Federal Reserve meeting later this week. In economic news, the New York Fed’s Empire State manufacturing...
View ArticleEmerging Market Highlights for the Week Ahead
(from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot) Emerging market currencies will remain under pressure this week. We continue to think that countries with poor fundamentals and high financing needs...
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Obama Drops A Big Hint That Bernanke Isn't Coming Back
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hinted in an interview aired on Monday that he may be looking for a new chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, saying current Chairman Ben Bernanke has...
View ArticleSmall Cap Value Report (18 Jun) - SSP, AND, SDL
Good morning! Preliminary results from Solid State (LON:SSP) have been issued for the year ended 31 Mar 2013. This share has been on my watch list for a while, and I last mentioned them on 2 May 2013,...
View ArticleHow To Read An Options Table
With more information available and the ability to quickly trade options online, investors are becoming savvier with using options to speculate, hedge and create their own financial strategies using a...
View ArticleDollar Mostly Firmer, Data Ignored as Market Awaits Fed
The US dollar is firmer against most of the major and emerging market currencies, though is weaker against the euro and Swiss franc. The strength of the euro and and franc appears to be a result of...
View ArticleAlternative Energy ETFs Battle For Inflows: PBW vs. TAN
Alternative energy has been a hot button issue for the last 50 year,s and investors have always found a way to play this heated market. In the last decade, there has been the launch of a number of ETFs...
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Australia's Economy Is A Huge Mess, But It's Not Doomed For A Recession
Australia faces a a “significant but low” 15-20% risk of recession as the mining investment boom fades, according to a research note by AMP Capital’s chief economist Shane Oliver today.Here’s why...
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