This post is a guest contribution by Rebecca Wilder, author of the News N Economics blog.Across the OECD, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.5% in July 2010.The chart illustrates the harmonised unemployment rates for 28...
Read MoreDon Coxe has updated his popular webcast on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – good news for his followers. You can access the recording here or from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site (the column on the right-hand side) by...
Read MoreSource: Steve Sack, GoComics.com, September 7, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreThe ECRI Weekly Indicator for the week ended September 3 came in at 122.0 compared to the previous week’s 120.5. The closely watched ECRI WLI Smoothed Annualised Growth Rate came in at -10.1% compared to -10.2% of the previous...
Read MoreMohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of PIMCO, talks about Japan’s intervention in the foreign-exchange market to weaken the yen. He also discusses the ineffectiveness of economic policies.Still on the same topic of the...
Read MoreHow badly did the U.S. economy tank during the “summer of recovery”? Which party is winning the Twitter war over tax cuts?Source: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, September 14, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore of The Northern Trust Company.Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have grown to $4.065 trillion in July 2010 from $2.21 trillion in August 2007, the month the...
Read MoreSource: Clay Jones, Slate.com, September 15, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreInvestors in mature-market equities, commodity prices, emerging markets and commodity-related currencies cheered the August PMIs released earlier this month as they came in better than expected, especially those of China. At the...
Read MoreMohamed El-Erian, CEO of Pimco, and Dick Berner, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley, debate whether we’re experiencing an economic soft patch or double dip.Source: CNBC, September 14, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click...
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