Author Archives: Darren Marchal

The Central Bank Crisis On The Immediate Horizon

While the majority keep bashing the Federal Reserve, other central banks seem to escape any criticism. The European Central Bank under Mario Draghi has engaged in what history will call the Great Monetary Experiment of the 21st Century – the daring experiment of negative interest rates. A look behind the scenes reveals that this experiment has…

Late-Cycle Commodity Surge Under Way

According to the Game Plan for Late-Cycle Investing, as the economy moves towards its latter stages, commodities tend to outperform equities and other asset classes. Frank Barbera—market technician, portfolio manager, and editor of the Gold Stock Technician newsletter—believes we’re likely in that process right now and recently discussed his outlook on the stock market, bonds, commodities,…

Sensex Opens Marginally Up; FMCG & Healthcare Stocks Gain

Asian stock markets are higher today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares show gains. The Nikkei 225 is up 1.3% while the Hang Seng is up 0.2%. However, the Shanghai Composite is trading down by 0.5%. Overnight strong corporate earnings helped US stocks closed with gains. Meanwhile, Indian share markets have opened the day marginally up. BSE-Sensex is trading higher by 42 points and NSE-Nifty is…

China’s Monetary Shell Game

Throughout much of last year, we were told repeatedly that the PBOC was tightening monetary policy. China’s central bank had raised its reverse repo rate twice early on, and then once more last December (and would do so again just last month). These moves coincided with Federal Reserve “rate hikes”, seemingly in line with the…