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Being the “Glass Half Empty” kind of guy, the eternal pessimist, it is hard for me to get excited over things like FOMC minutes and Federal Reserve speechmakers. Month after month for too many years, politicians and economists have all staked their reputations on the end of the recession and the return of growth. Every […]
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Remember the Fed is your Friend. Those who follow it are often rewarded with handsome profits. It is not as easy as it seems on the surface because the Federal Reserve Bank does not directly advise on gold, silver, stocks and bonds. To understand the Fed one must know the language, the “lingo” the “jargon”
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If you stop and review the economic data release by the Portuguese government since the beginning of the month, shivers should run up your spine. Recently the EU approved the next tranche of bailout funds for Portugal, but economic indicators released in this month show a much larger economic problem brewing then the EU and
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Wikipedia states a Stress Test “is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Stress testing may have a more specific meaning in certain industry”. Under Financial Stress
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Last week, the Irish Prime Minister announced that Ireland would be holding a vote on the European Union’s Financial Pact before the year’s end. The news came as a surprise in both Dublin and Brussels. The news was issued by the Irish Prime Minister, Edna Kenny, without warning. Enda Kenny’s party had been objecting saying
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Nations ‘ is forecasting a flat market for oil due to slow growth in emerging nations. OPEC s’ latest monthly outlook projects world oil demand to increase by 900,000 barrels a day unvaried from its prior report. In its prediction issued today , OPEC determined “the low rate of
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The most recent inflation report carried confused signals: a reasonable rate of inflation for the moment, but ill-omened evidence of pressure from oil costs. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics claimed that inflation for the month of Jan was 0.2 %. There are bad and good sides to this: 0.2 % is a reasonably moderate
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Today the ECB kept its key lending rate at 1.00% as expected. The committee noted that , “it has spent the past two years wrestling with the proven fact that although inflation appeared stuck well above the two percent target, the base weakness in the economy meant there were reasons to fret that inflation would
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“All We Are Saying Is Give Greece A Chance.” Are Strawberry Fields Forever? Oh no, not The Beatles. Apologies readers, but as a native of Liverpool it’s often stomach churning to witness them being used to promote movements or ideals. It’s beyond parody how much the iconoclasm of the group is maintained. By the way,
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“A hedge fund is an investment fund that can undertake a wider range of investment and trading activities than other funds, but which is only open for investment from particular types of investors specified by regulators. These investors are typically institutions, such as pension funds, university endowments and foundations, or high net worth individuals. As
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