Salient to Investors: Bob Brackett at Sanford C. Bernstein said oil at $79.78 a barrel renders one-third of US shale oil production uneconomic. Bernstein said the price will rise to a level where more output is economic. Vikas Dwivedi at Macquarie said any slower increase in US output would reshape the way
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Zhu Haibin at JPMorgan Chase said the lack of good unemployment data is the main reason why China still focuses so much on GDP, and since China is more concerned about employment and inflation, it refrains from big stimulus. Zhu said China’s current registered unemployment rate is
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Cash transactions accounted for 24% versus 33% a year ago. Investors, 63% of whom paid cash, were 14% of the market last month versus 19% in September 2013. Foreclosures and short sales were 10% of the total. First-time buyers accounted for 29% versus the historical average of 40%. The average
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Justin Haque at Hobart Capital Markets said the ECB was slow to start and it is still not US-style QE, but they are trying to talk up the market – the appetite to short is now sated, so why not run long with the ECB? Read the full article
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ronan Carr at Morgan Stanley said they are tactically overweight Russian stocks – upped to Buy from Sell – and that the situation is not deteriorating and that worst case outcomes, like additional sanctions, now appear less likely. JPMorgan Chase said Russian stocks are likely to extend
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corp is believed to have said: US stocks will outperform other equity markets for the rest of 2014. The bubble in global credit will burst one day. If we maintain the status quo on QE, we will end up like Greece
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Fed misses those who are employed who are overqualified for their job or would like to work more hours, so the significant under-utilization of labor resources is probably even more severe than currently estimated. Michelle Meyer at Bank of America said we have more slack than
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Peter Hayes at Blackrock said nobody really expects rates to rally significantly from here and everybody is waiting for a pullback. Hayes said the muni market is overpriced and said sell into strength and wait for better opportunities. Munis have rallied in each of the first 9 months
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: David Einhorn at Greenlight Capital is believed to have recommended renewable power companies on the declining cost of solar energy and rising price of electricity, while betting against French sovereign debt. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-20/greenlight-s-einhorn-said-to-back-solar-stocks-at-robin-hood.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Eric Zoldan at JHS Capital Advisors said that over the last two weeks, it is much clearer that while money is flowing out of all asset classes, it is not flowing out of the gold market, and that deteriorating global growth and demand is leading investors back to gold.
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