Which one should you heed? Volatility, volatility, volatility. It’s all the financial world can talk about lately… and, well, for good reason. In the past few months, the world’s stock markets have endured some of the most gut-wrenching price swings since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. But for many investors, it’s still not clear what this volatility means…
Income investors scouting for really juicy yields are often attracted to business development companies (BDCs). These REIT– like vehicles lend to small- and medium-sized businesses, often on a junior or “mezzanine” basis with warrants attached. They then pass the returns through as dividends without paying corporate tax. Now, these vehicles have suffered a rough couple of…
by Dirk Ehnts, Econoblog101 I read an article some days ago about the unemployment trend in Germany. The article was published at heise.de, which features mainly IT-related news. The article states: Die Zeiten stagnierender oder sogar sinkender Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland gehen nach Einschätzung von Volkswirten großer Geldinstitute allmählich zu Ende. [..] Für 2016 rechnen viele Wirtschaftsexperten aber…
Did you know that 11 trillion dollars in global stock market wealth was wiped out during the third quarter of 2015? When I was emailed this figure by a friend, I was stunned for a moment. I knew that things were bad, but were they really this bad? When I first received this information, I had…
Over the past several weeks, Americans (not to mention the market) were forced to grapple with the latest example of congressional infighting and outright legislative gridlock as US lawmakers narrowly averted a government shutdown in the wake of House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation. Now, the debt ceiling battle looms ahead of Boehner’s October 30…
No Lipstick Can be Thrown on this Pig The markets have been hit with yet another negative economic surprise today, this time concerning the indicator that is thought to have the full attention of the representatives of Anglo-Saxon central banking socialism huddling in the Eccles building. The professional soothsayer class has once again failed to…
The unexpectedly poor September US jobs data weakened the greenback’s technical tone, as questions about the underlying strength of the world’s largest economy, and the implications for the Fed’s take-off, intensify. The economic data the US is scheduled to release in the week ahead are not of sufficient heft to alter the pessimism that was…
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW + 200 = 16,472 SPX + 27 = 1951 NAS + 80 = 4707 10 YR YLD – .05 = 1.99% OIL + .92 = 45.66 GOLD + 24.90 = 1139.40 SILV + .74 = 15.37 The economy added a seasonally adjusted 142,000 jobs…
Week in, and week out. Physical gold bullion is flowing from West to East. Lars Schall interviews German banker Folker Hellmeyer “The Physical Markets of the East Will Prevail”
USDCHF: The dollar/franc pair failed to follow through higher on the back of its previous week strength to close lower on Friday. This leaves risk of more weakness on the cards in the new week. On the downside, support comes in at the 0.9644 level. A turn below here will open the door for more…
