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Marc Faber: Financial System Steering Toward Foreboding Iceberg, What Belongs In Your Lifeboat
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 2:38pm | 387Read More...Famous investor and publisher of the "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," Marc Faber was on CNBC recently to discuss whether central banks across the world will stop their quantitative easing and what would be the consequences if they don’t. Asset Buying Will Continue "Not only the U.S....
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JPMorgan Booking Profits On U.S. Dollar, But Bullish Over Medium-Term
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 3:08pm | 394Read More...Sally Auld, interest rate strategist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), was on CNBC Monday to discuss the short-term and medium-term outlook of the U.S. dollar. She also shared currency trades that are currently looking attractive and her view on the Chinese economy. View On The Dollar...
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Ron Insana Vs. Peter Schiff: Already The Debate Of The Year?
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 11:08am | 838Read More...Peter Schiff and Ron Insana can agree on one thing: The Federal Reserve probably won’t be able to raise interest rates in 2015. And that’s it. Finished. Done. Complete. From that point on, they disagree on practically everything else. But each has a wealth of knowledge on the...
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Market Wrap For December 11: S&P 500 Drops Most in a Month, Dow Suffers Triple Digit Losses
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1987Read More...Major indices began selling straight at the opening bell as investors drew closer to the conclusion that the Fed could scale back its bond buying activity as soon as next week following the new budget deal. Helping the Fed taper argument was a report released by BlackRock which made the case...
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Benzinga Market Primer: Friday, July 5: Non-Farm Payrolls Edition
Friday, July 5, 2013 - 7:22am | 816Read More...Futures Rise Into Payrolls, Central Bank Guidance As Metals Plummet U.S. equity futures rose into the much anticipated Employment Situation Report. Non-Farm Payrolls are expected to have gained 161 thousand in June, below the pace set in May, but the unemployment rate is expected to tick down to 7...
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What Are Central Banks Expected To Do In 2012?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 8:10pm | 373Read More...Kathy Lien: The New Year has begun and it is important to see what the market is pricing in for central banks this year. As you may know, central bank rate hike expectations change often but as of last week, most central banks are expected to keep monetary policy unchanged in the coming year but...
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On Bernanke's Folly
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 3:00pm | 210Read More...I've been asked a few times by email and in posts on the forum the following question: Were I Ben Bernanke, what would I do? That's pretty simple, really. See, sound lending (absent intentional distortion by governments and central banks) is based on one fundamental fact: Borrowing always has a...
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Indonesian Growth, Inflation Remain Attractive as Central Bank Meets
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:21pm | 600Read More...While core inflation surprised to the upside earlier this week, registering 5.15% y/y compared with consensus expectations of 4.6% (and the first 5% plus month since June 2009, most economists still believe that Bank Indonesia (BI) will likely keep its 6.75% policy rate unchanged when it meets...
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Hong Kong Adds To Mainland Stocks To Its Reserves
Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 3:48pm | 248Read More...Hong Kong's Central Bank is the latest institutional investor to get “China Fever”, with the city's Monetary Authority adding mainland Chinese stock and bonds to its exchange reserves fund. In November, Hong Kong joined other central banks and sovereign wealth funds by being granted Qualified...
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Are Central Banks Fighting to Reduce the Price of Precious Metals?
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 4:29pm | 329Read More...Only the central banks can answer that one. But if Eric Sprott's assumption is correct, they might have more to do with the price than meets the eye. "One of my ongoing assumptions when I first got involved in precious metals in 2000 is that certainly central banks want to keep the price of metals...
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All Eyes on Central Banks Thursday (FXE, FXY)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 10:27pm | 162Read More...The Bank of Japan is expected to make no changes to its standing monetary policy at a meeting finishing Thursday, but markets do expect the government to continue to support an economy disrupted by the earthquake. The yen continues has continued to fall this month, hitting 85.34 against the dollar...
