She Short Sells Shoes On A Shopping Site (Medium) China is Planning to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace With Homegrown Suppliers (Bloomberg) Market Fundamentalism & the Power of Bad Ideas (Boston Review) see also Slavery and Capitalism (Chronicle of Higher Education) The Army Is Building...
The start of 2015 looks very familiar to the end of 2014 for many markets around the world as the USD continues to dominate the spectrum and commodity prices fall even further. Or as my colleague Matt Weller so poetically stated already this morning, “New Year, Same Result...
It hasn't been a great couple of years to be a gold bug. Since peaking at $1,923.70 per troy ounce in September 2011, gold has lost nearly 40 percent of its value. And while gold hasn't dropped dramatically this year, it has failed to gain back...
VILNIUS, Lithuania — If anyone still has good reasons for joining the euro, it is the people bundled against the cold of this snow-dusted capital. The plunge of the ruble and economic sanctions have all but destroyed Russia as a market for Lithuanian dairy products and other goods...
Crude oil droping amid OPEC trying to buy U.S shale oil market to cut oil production.The Crude Oil key levels below $40 and $20 will act as reversals prices will shoot upside in hopes Global droping economy touched grounds and Demand can boost any time...
The broker reduced its 2014 gold forecast by two percent to $1,275 per ounce because these key supportive factors have been underperforming throughout the year...
IT WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR INVESTORS Every year, new global trends emerge, old ones play out, and the financial markets adjust. This can offer new opportunities for investors to make money if their forecasts are accurate, their investments are timely, and they choose their assets well...
Gold climbs as equities ease, dollar strength caps gains Gold prices gained some ground on Tuesday, but still remained vulnerable as the U.S dollar was trading near nine-year highs against a basket of other major currencies, undermining the metal's appeal as hedge. Spot gold rose 0.5% to $1188...
With losses in many investor accounts, and a feeling of desperation towards metals and miners, many in the metals world were cut at the base by the action of the metals and mining stocks in 2014. However, as Investing...
2014: The year that nothing worked (Fortune) How to Spot a Bad Forecaster (A Wealth of Common Sense) Ten Economic Questions for 2015 (Calculated Risk) Swedroe: How To Think About Bear Markets (ETF.com) US, Europe and EM: 2015 in Bullets (Mark Dow...
EUR starts the last week of the year with hopes for some recovery to the upside. H1, H4 and Daily indicators show a process of weak recovery has started with first target between 1.2250-1.2300. Any H4 drop below 1.2185 will restore the downside move...
The globally renowned investor, Warren Buffet who is also called ‘Oracle of Omaha’ for right predictions regarding investment opportunities, has suggested the investors to stay away from Bitcoin in the year 2015. He says, “Stay away from it. It’s a mirage, basically...
Japan Approves $29 billion as stimulus package Tokyo- Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe approved $29 billion as a stimulus package on saturday to boost regional economic activity and consumer spending, right now Japan government seeking to relieve its economy from recession...
According to Wikipedia.org, New Zealand has a 2008 estimated population of around 4.2 million people, which is the first important fact for us to understand for two reasons...
Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world, and while its economic policies and practices largely conform with EU standards, the country's population rejected accession negotiations with the EU in March of 2001...
When Professor Kevin Dowd, a professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University, wrote a piece titled “Bitcoin is bust: Why investors should abandon the doomed cryptocurrency,” a lot of debate took place whether this libertarian and fierce advocate of private money over government-issued and...
The benchmark BSE Sensex on slumped by nearly 300 points at 27,208.61 due to heavy profit-booking, chiefly in IT, oil & gas and power shares, ignoring government approving the ordinance route to implement insurance and coal reforms. The broader NSE Nifty also dipped by 92.90 points or 1...
Saxo Bank is still working on their 2015 annual forecasts but Kitco News spoke with Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategist for the Danish bank to get his preliminary thoughts on the gold market for 2015. “Major investing firms are still lukewarm on gold,” he said...
China stocks Rise most in three weeks as Machinery shares surge China's stocks rebounded from the biggest two days loss in 18 months as its construction and bank shares gained after the government pledged to support machinery exports...
Online payments expert Stripe added Bitcoin payment support to its API, following which users will able to accept payments in digital currency alongside credit cards. The new-feature is scheduled to come out of beta testing in January 2015 and will charge a fee of 0.5% per transaction...
