Friday, November 20th, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘ Central Banks ’

Should we Fire the Fed?

Nov 18th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Top Story

All eyes and ears are on the Fed this week. With Bernanke in New York discussing potential new bubbles and the New York Fed getting heat for overpaying AIG’s many creditors, investors are having a tough time knowing exactly who to follow.

For those of you who hold up the “Fire the Fed” signs, move over. I am thinking about joining your camp.



Time to dump gold?

Nov 5th, 2009 | By Ian Mathias | Category: Featured, Gold Market

Gold gained yet another powerful ally yesterday — hedge fund icon Paul Tudor Jones. The man who famously called Black Monday in 1987 and the Nikkei crash a few years later now thinks “gold appears to be cheap.” In a note to his investors, Tudor said, “I have never been a gold bug. It is just an asset that, like everything else in life, has its time and place. And now is that time… gold’s value should increase as its scarcity relative to printed currencies increases.”



Buy, Sell or Hold: The iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund

Aug 24th, 2009 | By Horacio Marquez | Category: Stock Market Investing

The U.S. stock market has enjoyed a strong rally since the early spring, but while the economy has shown improvement, it still faces major headwinds. So it may be best to hedge against the U.S. dollar, which is likely to experience a significant decline over the next few months.



Investment News Briefs Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Jul 7th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

World Bank President to G8: Economy Still Dangerous; Service Sector Improves for Third Straight Month; Rio Sells Packaging Business to Bemis for $1.2 Billion; Crude Prices Drop Again; Report: Bank of America Writeoffs to Rise; Brazil’s Credit Rating Could Increase; DOJ Investigating Telecoms; Father of Web Browser Starts New Tech Venture Capital Firm



Faber and Greenspan: Shills for Fed Snake Oil

Jul 6th, 2009 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics

“Just how can the Fed credibly promise to be irresponsible…?”  Here’s a thought—that tiny handful of investors and analysts warning how Fed policy risks hyper-inflation are in fact doing the central bank’s work.



Gold Falls Under $925 as Dollar Gains Broadly

Jun 30th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Financial News, Gold Market

Gold fell to a one-week low on Tuesday, dropping sharply as the dollar strengthened broadly and crude oil prices tumbled, reducing the metal’s appeal as an inflation hedge.



OECD Boosts Outlook but Urges Developed Countries to Keep Lending Costs Low

Jun 25th, 2009 | By Jason Simpkins | Category: Financial News

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) raised its growth outlook for industrialized countries for the first time in two years and said the United States would experience a quicker recovery than Europe.



Alex Merk: ‘Tools in Place’ for Dollar Diversification

Jun 17th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

We’ve been musing on the fate of US debt for some time now. It’s no secret that we’re bearish on the fate of US Treasurys and the buck. (It’s no accident, dear reader, that your editor lives outside the US of A. We see the threat of inflation on the horizon, a dark and foreboding cloud, and we don’t like it one bit.) And the mixed signals from China and Russia on their Treasury holdings doesn’t make us sleep any easier at night.



The 3 Simplest Ways to Trade Like Jim Rogers Today

Jun 9th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Top Story

The big daddy of underground investors, Jim Rogers, says the best way to play this downturn is to focus on commodities and agriculture ETFs (hat tip The Daily Crux). The primary logic behind this play is simple to understand.



Bill Bonner: How ‘Counterfeit Money’ is Taking Over the World Economy

Jun 1st, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Politics & Economics, Top Story

We keep having bad dreams about all the phony money central banks are creating to ‘fix’ the economy. This is not a figure of speech. We are actually having nightmares about this. We wake up in cold sweats.