Salient to Investors: Adam Klopfenstein at Archer Financial Services said the support that gold got from Cyprus is fading, and there are no new reasons to buy. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/gold-headed-for-worst-quarterly-run-since-2001-amid-weak-demand.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Alan Tonelson at the US Business and Industry Council writes: Much of China’s hacking power was Made by the U.S.A. The first known victims of China’s US-enabled cybercapacities were Chinese citizens, including dissidents tracked with technology sold by Cisco Systems and Yahoo! and ordinary people whose online content has been censored with
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ian Lyngen at CRT Capital said Q1 data confirms the US economy is on a better footing, and for the benchmark yield to rise to the median year-end estimate of 2.25 percent, employment must improve, Europe problems subside, and the end of QE in sight. William O’Donnell at Royal Bank
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Steven Ricchiuto at Mizuho Securities USA expects rates to stay around current levels and says the economy is going nowhere quickly and the headwinds keep changing. Robin Marshall at Smith & Williamson Investment Mgmt said the market finds it hard to argue what is happening in Cyprus is
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Addison Armstrong at Tradition Energy said the economy is improving but not robustly. BP said the US accounted for 21 percent of global oil consumption in 2011. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/wti-oil-near-five-week-high-on-u-s-gdp-jobless-claims.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Scotia Canadian Dividend Fund cut bank holdings by 40 percent from the end of 2011 on concern that lending is slowing as consumers retrench. Fund manager Jason Gibbs at GCIC said there is no question that things are going to slow down and is using the released funds to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Citigroup said free cash flow at global non-financial listed companies show a steady increase over the last decade, and free cash flow margins are below the 2004 peak and below the 10-year average. US companies are the best cash flow generators in the world with margins around 7
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Helene Rey at London Business School says the US enjoys an exorbitant privilege from the returns on its assets held in the rest of the world. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas at Berkeley said before 2007, the predicted crisis was that the US would not be able to borrow anymore and the dollar would collapse. Gourinchas
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mark Kiesel at Pimco said: US industries tied to housing will grow 4 times as fast as the economy, making them top picks for investors. Housing starts will increase 15 percent a year until at least 2015 Home prices will rise over 5 percent annually as demand recovers from the worst
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report said: Printing money creates bubbles because it doesn’t flow evenly into the economic system but stays in the financial services industry and among people who have access to these funds like the wealthy. The printing press helped inflate
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