Obama's New Appointments

Obama's New Appointments - by Stephen LendmanThe beat goes on. As with his economic and security appointments, Obama again disappointed but didn't surprise. Without exception, his team assures business as usual, a near-seamless transition from George Bush, and not "change to believe in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 11:28:00

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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 2, Week 22

Year 2, Week 22 Major Position Changes Fund positions of 1.0% or greater can be found each week in the right margin of the blog, under the label cloud and recent comments areas; I highlight weekly the larger position changes. Being a long only fund, via Marketocracy rules, the only hedges to the downside I have are cash or buying short ETFs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:21:11

Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect

Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28

Market extends losses fall for the third day as heavyweights slide; Satyam recovers

Key benchmark indices, remained in negative zone throughout the day, ... largest software services exporter in terms of sales, tumbled 10.63% after the company said ... of the institution shares in its initial public offering. The company made the announcement during trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:37:00

The Faux Bottom, Housing Worsens, Newspapers in Trouble, An Oversold Sector, and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Our “Obama Rally” forecast… will things “get worse before they get better” or vice versa? ... t want to hear about stocks… or commodity prices… or bankruptcies and bailouts. They’ll be sick [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 19:37:55

Constitution

Daily Market Commentary for December 12, 2008 from Millennium-Traders ... of America announced late yesterday they intend to cut up to 35,000 jobs over the next three years ... U.S. stock indices ended the trading session on the world markets as well as the emerging markets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 22:57:56

Manufacturing Activity Falls to 28-Year Low

Manufacturing activity inhuman more than expected in December, ... off the grim announce on the new year’s first day of trading, eager to start fresh after the losses of 2008. Stocks were higher in late-morning trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 98.05 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:21:33

Business News AOL Canada

Source: The Canadian Press Posted: 01/09/09 7:03AM Filed Under: Business News OTTAWA - The deepening recession took another bite out of Canada's labour market in December as the country shed 34,400 jobs - 70, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:25:01

European FX Surge vs. Commodity FX

European FX Surge vs. Commodity FX Posted by admin at January 9, 2009 European FX Surge vs. Commodity FX Sterling has already knived through our projected resistance of $1.5150, making yesterdays $1.5280 high a less challenging target, especially amid potentially negative US jobs data [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:03:03

Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word

Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word November 21, 2008 By John Mauldin Leverage is an eight-letter word, which the markets now regard as twice as bad as the two four-letter words debt and pain (or fill in your own four-letter words). This week I try to give some insight into what is happening in the credit markets, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 15:27:04

NOW Are We In Recession?

Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government ... international finance, currencies, monetary and fiscal policy, commodity prices, regional blocs, and global [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 12:00:50

Asian Stocks Fall as Manufacturing Declines; Woodside, JFE Drop

BLOOMBERG Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks tumbled, extending a global rout, as a deepening world recession drove down commodity prices and heightened concern company earnings will collapse as manufacturing shrinks. JFE [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 04:03:30

John Mauldin's Forecast for 2009

Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly NewsletterForecast 2009: Deflation and Recession by John Mauldin January 10, 2009 In this issue: Forecast 2009: Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect Muddle Through on Hold Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Unemployment Numbers Central Bankers of the World, Unite! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:53:08

Stock Market Trading: Risks, Benefits, And Options

Stock Market Trading: Risks, Benefits, And Options Stock market trading often creates false thinking of things like great wealth and, ... the risk and payoff varies drastically from one security to another. Option trading ... and you are out whatever you paid for the option. There are many ways to learn option trading or stock market [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 00:12:35

The Great Recession

Matthew RothschildThe economists were the second to last ones to figure out we’re in a recession. The last one was George Bush himself, but he doesn’t care. He’s been phoning in his job for months now anyway.But people who were losing their jobs, people who were losing their homes, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:33:00

Opinion: Kiwi to struggle above 60 USc this week

By BNZ Currency Strategist Danica Hampton The NZD/USD was a bit of a side-show on Friday night, trading within 0.5880-0 ... , CPI and industrial production). Any further losses in global equities or commodity prices should see [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 21:19:19

Ye old revolving doors

I was some what amazed at the Bernard Madoff scandal, maybe not amazed, but rather amused. Not because a few folks killed themselves, or a lot of rich folks lost all they loot, but rather because this crook, was also once the former chairman of NASDEQ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:22:00

Will there be a worldwide re-think on globalisation?

The current financial and economic crisis sweeping across the world is merely in its early stages. The worst is yet to come ... BASF.Shortly before trading ended at noon on New Year’s Eve, the brokers on Wall Street paused [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:08:26

China To Print Money To Combat Deep Slowdown

Deflation talk is surfacing in China as Chairman Liu Mingkang says China December Producer Price Index to Drop ... slowed to half the pace estimated by economists in November as commodity and energy costs fell, raising [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 10:04:51

DrumBeat: November 16, 2008

Global climate changes could lead to violence: Experts say it will accelerate the race for food, water KANSAS CITY, MO ... Last Month ``Tumbling energy and commodity prices have altered the inflation landscape,'' said Ryan Sweet [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 13:20:33

OFFICE BUILDING MARKET COLLAPSING ACROSS THE COUNTRY…from 4,410 deals last year to only 1,410 this year

from the NEW YORK TIMES: Ventures Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals Top right and left photograph, Eric Staudenmaier; bottom right, ... towers were a hot commodity for large investors with seemingly insatiable appetites for commercial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:21:45

Jim Wyckoff’s Morning Blog–Wednesday

  Wednesday, January 7–Jim Wyckoff’s Morning Web Log OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS   The market feature in overnight/early morning ... of holding physical assets such as raw commodities, as opposed to paper assets such as stocks and bonds.–Jim [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:16:16

Mr Tata's unpaid bills

Ratan Tata, his puppy Buddhadev Bhattacharjee on a leash, wonders, "What happens to it nowadays when it sees poor people? ... was prohibited under law in China. The East India Company and its minor trading partners, among which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 08:53:00

China To Print Money To Combat Deep Slowdown

Deflation talk is surfacing in China as Chairman Liu Mingkang says China December Producer Price Index to Drop ... to half the pace estimated by economists in November as commodity and energy costs fell, raising [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 09:33:00

Breaking News and Political Commentary

Israeli Offensive Presses into Gaza CityBy Richard Boudreaux and Rusdi abu Alouf - Los Angeles TimesIn the heaviest fighting since the invasion began, troops and tanks hit the capital from three directions. Gaza City is shaken by shelling and helicopter missile fire [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:18:00

"New Year Bodes Ill for the Central Valley" Economy

From the Sacramento Real Estate blog: Prices have fallen yet again...Sacramento county is now at $122.69 a square foot, a drop of 34 ... ', commodity prices lower, tax credits available for homebuyers, and the government eager to stimulate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 22:01:00

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP)

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP) By admin | CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators ... Treasury official Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and law professor Daniel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 09:30:23

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP)

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP) By admin | CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators ... Treasury official Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and law professor Daniel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 10:08:38

The Economy Gets a Margin Call

The Economy Gets a Margin Call November 15, 2008 By John Mauldin The Economy Gets a Margin Call Where Have All the Consumers Gone? Why Is the Dollar Rising? Can We Actually Muddle Through? The Potential for a Large Stock Market Rally Is GM too Big to Let Fail? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 21:00:25

US financial regulators in for major overhaul - WASHINGTON

US financial regulators in for major overhaul - WASHINGTON Fed, Treasury, SEC, FDIC top agencies under scrutiny of Obama reformers (WASHINGTON) ... secretary and chiefs for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:50:56

DrumBeat: October 24, 2008

Heating Oil Distributors Fear Tough Winter Amid Credit Freeze NEW YORK (Dow Jones) ... been our view that the value of commodities, including oil, should be determined in open, competitive [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:39

Market Fear Rekindled By US Jobs Data

Market Fear Rekindled By US Jobs Data Submitted by Forex News on Thu, 08/01/2009 - 4:04pm ... Trading (USD) U.S. Dollar Trading (USD) weakened across the board as the December Private ADP Jobs report ... gains against the Dollar as stocks slumped and fear entered the market. GBD/JPY and EUR/JPY managed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:34:11

Loosening Russia's Currency Belt

In case you haven't noticed, the Russian ruble appears to be in a lot of trouble, ... , the ruble is often referred to as a "commodity currency," the value of which can experience swings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:18:00

Crude Oil Fall on Concern Demand to Drop More Rapidly Than Supply

Crude oil fell for a fifth day in New York, extending last week’s 12 percent drop, ... the front-month contract, while the April contract is a further $3 more expensive. “The curve is very [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:09:58

Currency News - Wednesday, 07 January 2009

Economic News USD - Obama’s Stimulus Package Puts USD in a Position to Make Gains The U.S ... the last few days, the currency may be due for a short-term pullback. Looking at today’s trading, investors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 09:30:59

Happy Birthday Dave Simons

One of my best friends in the comic book world is having his birthday today, Saturday, 20th of December, 2008. Dave Simons! ... was then assigned a number of jobs, both penciling and inking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:55:00

DrumBeat: January 12, 2009

Transocean Cancels Rig Deal on Client’s Cash Shortage (Bloomberg) -- Transocean Inc ... from creditors, the report said. Oil exploration companies are having difficulty borrowing money [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:56

The Amusing Madoff Scandal and Other Ponzi Schemes

Bernard Madoff, former chairman of the Nasdaq, has apparently been running a Ponzi scheme ... through insider trading. Serves them right. It won't be at all surprising if all these thieves [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 03:53:29

The Velocity Factor

“A severe global recession will lead to deflationary pressures ... slack in commodity markets as prices fall will lead to sharply lower inflation. Thus inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 11:37:53

Quarterly Economic Update for 4Q 2008

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Date: 2009-01-07 17:25:41

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 02 December 2008

FINTAG COMMENT Red alert. Funny how we make up a word, ... , and some categories pitted commodity FOFs against l/s equity FOFs. Stenham had 2 tables and won lots of awards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 12:53:44

Writedown News: 5 Nov 2008

This past week I have been particularly distracted by the political headlines in the run-up to the U.S ... -A, Payment Option, Negative Amortization Mortgages [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 19:12:13

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP)

Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators (AP) By admin | December 18, ... official Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and law professor Daniel Tarullo [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 09:30:27

Words from the (investment) wise 12.15.08

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (December 8 - 12, 2008) ... briefly trading in negative territory for the first time since 1940, indicating the willingness [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 12:42:13

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