All Posts Tagged With: "George Soros"
Why Soros Is Getting Ready to Break the Bank of England Again, Part II
As I said yesterday, George Soros - the billionaire investor - who “broke the Bank of England” got his “celebrity status” by betting against the British pound…and now he’s looking to do the same thing by shorting the British pound again.
Boomer Trends Coming to an End
Being in the right place at the right time is far more important than brains. Luck provides better investment returns than talent. Too bad. Because our luck seems to be running out.
Inflation Hasn’t Yet Reached the Wild Levels of the 70’s
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Today’s market action offers us a simple lesson: markets better than governments.
Soros: Oil Prices ‘A Bubble in the Making’
Billionaire investor George Soros has told Congress that the oil market is “a bubble in the making.”
“You hear it everywhere in the press… ‘Oil is in a bubble and it’s all down to speculators driving up the price,’” says Garry White in his Garry Writes newsletter.
“But I’m telling you now, they are all wrong. The real driver of the price of oil is supply and demand. Long-oil speculation is not rising – it’s actually falling.
Just What is Soros Getting at?
Checking In on the Gold to Oil Ratio
What you’re looking at below is a chart of the gold-to-oil ratio. The gold-to-oil ratio is exactly what it sounds like. You simply take the spot price for an ounce of gold — around $900 per ounce as of this writing — and divide it by the price of a barrel of oil.
More Profit Taking
Yesterday, I left you with the thought that the London traders had been buying dollars since they arrived back from their three-day Holiday weekend. The U.S. traders did the same… And I believe profit taking was the order of the day.
Getting Out of Their Cars
Naturally, the auto industry has to downshift. Not only because gasoline is so expensive, but also because the average household is struggling to pay its other bills too. After it pays the interest on its debt, it has less left over than ever before.
HBOS Sells £500m Of Mortgage-Backed Assets
Right. I have some news. But it’s special news, which calls for a special kind of mood — Cautious Optimism.
How to Invest With the World’s Greatest Hedge Fund Manager
2007, John Paulson made £3.7 billion in the US markets while nearly other every investor lost their shirts. Well right now there’s a way you can get in on his next move… and all it takes is a small investment in one simple stock. Let me explain…
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