Salient to Investors: Michael Snyder writes: Global debt is at record highs, too big to fail banks have never been more reckless, and global financial markets have never been more primed for a collapse. Most people lack the patience to wait for long-term trends to play out so if the stock market is
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: David Bloom at HSBC said to sell emerging market currencies, including the Rand, Ruble and Mexican and Colombian Peso, on increasing signs of US growth supporting the US dollar . Bloom said a mass investor exodus depends on what happens to volatility on long-term US rates moving up – if long
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: A. Gary Shilling at A. Gary Shilling & Co. writes: Short stocks and commodities, go long the dollar and Treasuries – if stocks continue to decline, the safety of Treasuries and investment-grade bonds will outweigh concerns about the end of QE. World economies are growing slowly at
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Themistoklis Fiotakis at Goldman Sachs said to curtail widening current account deficits, the Turkish lira, South African rand and Indian rupee would need to depreciate 30 percent on a trade-weighted basis, while the Brazil real and Chile peso need to fall 20 percent. Fiotakis said the EM bond
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