Global equity markets have been hemorrhaging from the debt crisis in the European Union that began in Greece and subsequently spread to Portugal and Spain’s equity markets, losing more than 15% in terms of US dollars since the...
Read MoreDavid Rosenberg, chief economist of Gluskin Sheff & Associates talks with Bloomberg about the outlook for U.S. stocks and gold prices.Source: Bloomberg (via YouTube), May 28, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here...
Read MoreIn this discussion, Hugh Hendry of Eclectica Asset Management, Gillian Tett of the Financial Times and Prof Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University discuss the European banking situation.“I would recommend you panic. The European...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore vice president and economist of The Northern Trust Company.The Greece, Portugal and Spain crisis/EU crisis unsettled financial markets and led to immediate favorable and...
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Read MoreThe current U.S. economic rebound remains sub-par, as clearly seen in the chart below, courtesy of Goldman Sachs (via Clusterstock – Business Insider). As indicated by the blue line, a great deal of improvement still needs to...
Read MoreIn this very funny video clip, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe calculate the cost of the European debt crisis. A question of laughing as you sink!Click here or on the image below to view the video.Click here for a transcript of the...
Read MoreBill Gross, co-founder and co-CIO of PIMCO, is to my mind one of the shrewdest money men around. His monthly newsletter, this month entitled “Three will get you two (or) two will get you three”, therefore always makes for...
Read MoreSource: Dick Locher, Slate.com, May 21, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreAfter the market meltdown on Monday and for the first part of yesterday and subsequent reversal, Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ said: “We thought it would be wise to review our VIX deviation from trend (i.e. its deviation from its...
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