Salient to Investors: Margie Patel at Wells Capital Mgmt says the market will rise over the balance of the year because the fundamentals are so good – any correction will be mild and either now or in the summer. Charles Evans at FRB of Chicago sees self-sustaining growth at escape
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The average of the 17 strategists predictions for year-end for the S&P 500 was 1,601. overnight loans with bad credit australia Goldman Sachs expects the index to exceed 1900 by 2016 but says most of its valuation engines show the market is currently at or above fair
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Regional lenders were the primary source of loans for landlords buying properties before the real estate collapse crash. Since then, at least 475 banks have failed and larger banks have tightened mortgage underwriting standards and are focusing on the biggest investors. Home prices are 29 percent below the 2006 peak. Millions of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bond investors are gaining confidence that Bernanke will unwind the Fed’s $3.3 trillion balance sheet without sparking a crash similar to 1994. Money managers from JP Morgan to Fidelity say this time will be different, in part because of Bernanke’s transparency. Edward Fitzpatrick at JPMorgan said the Fed’s transparency should help offset
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Goldman Sachs: Lowered its 3- and 12-month return forecasts for the S&P GSCI index of 24 commodities to 2.5 percent in 3 months and 3 percent in 12 months, and cut its near-term outlook on commodities to neutral from overweight, amid prospects for weak global demand. Exited its
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Tao Dong at Credit Suisse said China has been a very narrowly based recovery, predominantly driven by infrastructure investment, which is also apparently slowing down. easy money made online Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JPMorgan Chase cut estimates for 2013 expansion to 7.8 percent. Qu
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Asian state-owned oil companies are making inroads in the contest for East Africa’s energy reserves. Fields off Mozambique are estimated to hold enough gas to meet global demand for 2 years. Brett Olsher at Goldman Sachs said state producers have a national interest initiative to secure significant
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeff Currie and Damien Courvalin at Goldman Sachs says: The selloff in gold was sparked by investor concern that European governments may have to follow Cyprus in selling part of their holdings, and exacerbated by the drop below a key technical-support level at $1,530, and then below the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The most important factor in gold’s decline is that global inflation is falling and gold bugs are scrambling to exit their gold positions at any price. The JPMorgan Chase global consumer price index shows global inflation peaked at 4 percent in 2011 and has fallen steadily since. JPMorgan’s main
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The median economist expects GDP to rise at a 3 percent annualized rate in Q1, fall to a 1.5 percent pace in Q2, and accelerate to a 2.4 percent rate in half2 2013, and 970,000 housing starts in 2013 , the most since 2007. Vincent Reinhart at Morgan
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