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: Lewis Braham writes: Contrarian funds can be a hedge of sorts, though a potentially volatile one as out-of-favor sectors tend to be cyclical and prone to booms and busts. Shorting is inherently dangerous as markets have been trending higher. Brian Singer at William Blair Macro Allocation Fund
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: Former George Soros advisor Takeshi Fujimaki said Abe delaying increasing Japan’s sales tax would worsen Japan’s debt profile, while Fed tapering would cause a fresh credit crunch that would slam Japan’s bond market. When Li Ka-Shing, Asia’s richest man, is turning to Europe as Hong Kong
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Nomura said: The Reserve Bank of India’s surprise policy reversal and the first government debt-sale failures in 10 months risk plans to cut the budget deficit. Vivek Rajpal at Nomura said India is expanding at the slowest pace in a decade and tightening by the RBI will cool growth and strain public finances
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
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tom Levinson at ING said emerging-market currencies are at the beginning of perhaps longer and deeper correction, while this is where the dollar starts to rally potentially for the right reasons because the US business cycle is further developed. Kit Juckes at SocGen said the bull market is over
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bachhraj Bamalwa at All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation said Indian households and temples hold 25,000 metric tons of gold – 10 percent would ensure supplies to Indian jewelers for 3 years. Bamalwa said Indians will continue spending on gold on marriages and in festivals, and with no social security, investment in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: For the first time in 13 years, the real, ruble and rupee are weakening the most among developing-nation currencies, while the yuan has depreciated more than in any other period since its 1994 devaluation. Investors are fleeing the BRICs, after Brazil’s consumer default rate rose to the
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