This post is a guest contribution by Dian Chu, market analyst, trader and author of the Economic Forecasts and Opinions blog.It all started almost a month ago when Dagong, the largest credit-rating agency in China, took on...
Read MoreSource: Nick Anderson, Comics.com, August 5, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreNon-manufacturing/services PMIs for July surprised economists and analysts on the upside. Where the flash estimate for the euro zone caught the pundits totally off guard earlier this month, the non-manufacturing ISM survey also...
Read MoreIn this video, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, said the Fed will “print and print and print, until the final crisis wipes out the entire system”.Click through for a wide-ranging discussion.Source:...
Read MoreThe comments below were provided by Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ.The S&P 500 recently took out a resistance area (see chart below) near 1,115. The 100-day moving average (1,128) and the intraday highs near 1,131 stand in the way...
Read MoreA look at whether the data we’re seeing is a sign of a real turnaround in the financial sector, with Meredith Whitney, CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group.Source: CNBC, August 3, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click...
Read MoreAnalysts expect that the US non-farm payrolls to be published later today will show the US economy continued to shed jobs in July. Yes, initial jobless claims published yesterday were up on the week before. Our analysis differs,...
Read MoreSource: Jeff Stahler, Comics.com, August 5, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreAlthough data from the euro zone surprised on the upside the recently published Manufacturing PMIs for all major economies hint at a significant moderation in manufacturing production growth.Sources: ISM; Markit; CFLP.OECD...
Read MoreIn this video, Charlie Rose sits down with Wilbur Ross, anAmerican investor known for restructuring failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, telecommunications, foreign investment and textiles. He specializes in...
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