Salient to Investors: The median estimates of the 10 most-accurate precious metals analysts tracked by Bloomberg over the past 2 years predicts gold will drop to an average $1,250 in Q4 2013, $1,225 in Q1 2014, $1,195 in Q2 2014, and a 4-year low of $1,175 in Q3 2014 due
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF said: Advanced economies are gradually strengthening while growth in emerging-market economies has slowed. The effects of any failure to repay US debt would be felt right away, leading to potentially major disruptions in financial markets, both in the US and abroad, though this has a
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: John C. Bluedorn, Joerg Decressin and Marco E. Terrones at the IMF said: Slumping asset prices show a recession is probably on its way for the G-7 economies as declining asset prices are significantly associated with the beginning of an economic contraction. From 1970 to 2011, stocks
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The International Programme on the State of the Ocean said the health of the oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously thought, and says conditions are ripe for the sort of mass extinction event that has afflicted them in the past. IPSO said the oceans have
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Christine Lagarde at the IMF said failure to raise the US debt ceiling is a far worse threat to the global economy than the shutdown. Lagarde said the global economic outlook is subdued, but the US and eurozone are picking up steam, and Japan is improving, though
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Nouriel Roubini at NYU writes: The rout in the emerging market asset classes is past midway but more is ahead as the recovering West points to Fed tapering. Many stages in the shift in the US and global monetary and financial conditions are to come within the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: QE and money printing will end one way or the other and cause problems in the world economy, so expect another economic slowdown within the two years. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/money-printing-is-going-to-end.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: As the Chinese get richer and richer, this will drive global tourism. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/chinese-will-drive-global-tourism-market.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: personal loans from I am long the US Dollar because there is much turmoil coming and people see it as a safe haven. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/turmoil-coming-up.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robert Bryce at the Manhattan Institute writes: Any transition away from our existing energy systems will be protracted and costly. Energy transitions occur over decades, even centuries. Coal use in the US is declining, but it is soaring in the developing world and booming in Europe. Global carbon
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