Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Netanyahu’s alternative to the Iran nuclear deal is divorced from reality – his predictions about Iran’s nuclear threat have been wrong for 25 years. Without a nuclear deal, Iran in 10 years will have 50,000 centrifuges, massive stocks of highly enriched uranium, new facilities, thousands of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Ookla Net index ranks the US 27th in broadband download speed. New America says the majority of US Internet customers pay more than their counterparts in Europe and Asia. Watch the video at http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/category/gps-episodes/ or read the full transcript at http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/01/fzgps.01.html
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Taro Saito at NLI Research Institute said the latest economic report reflects a pretty bleak picture of Japan’s economy. Jeff Kingston at Temple University Japan said Abe is fortunate enough to be up against a politician who is extremely uninspiring and who represents a party not ready
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mark Wiseman et al at Goldman Sachs said: LNG projects in Africa, Canada and Australia face delays or cancellations as global demand slows, US output increases, nuclear reactors restart in Japan, China’s success in shale-gas E&P, and economic conditions in ASEAN. Global demand will compound at 5%
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tim Bajarin at Creative Strategies said one of Apple’s biggest moves is in Southeast Asia, given Android has passed Apple in smartphones and has made huge strides in tablets in 2014. Gartner said Android smartphones comprised 78 percent of the global market in 2013 versus 66 percent
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ramin Toloui at Pimco said: Asian growth is stabilizing but not stellar but may receive a boost in 2014 as developed markets accelerate. Asia’s trajectory will continue to be shaped critically by the growth path in the U.S. and Europe China’s growth in the next decade requires
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: William Pesek is writes: The “Greenspan put” that flooded markets with cash whenever things got dicey has become the default position in Washington, while in Asia there is an even more dangerous escalation of this policy in papering over cracks in economies that desperately need tougher, structural
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: John Gilbert at General Re-New England Asset Mgmt, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway, said: Fed policy has lifted stocks but has created systemic risk in the world financial system for which they take little responsibility, because what happens outside the US is not their assignment. A slowdown
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: China’s declaration of a vast air defense identification zone belies all the talk of its peaceful, magnanimous rise as a world power. A tiny accident or miscalculation in the skies above the disputed islands could easily spiral out of control, dragging Washington into a
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: Asia represents more than half the global economy. Softbank founder Masayoshi Son’s $326 million purchase of Tokyo’s landmark Tiffany Building may be a sign Japan’s long-suffering property market is turning around – the success of this investment will be a good barometer. Every scrap
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