Salient to Investors: Richard Segal at Jefferies Intl said Russia’s reserves are too large relative to emerging-market dollar bonds so it will be difficult for it to stop buying US, European and Japanese bonds. Luis Costa at Citigroup said Russia’s bond-diversification plan sounds like posturing as the size of its sovereign-wealth
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: China’s deepening slump is re-establishing the link between currencies and commodities, weakening the Australia dollar, New Zealand kiwi and Canadian loonie on concern their economies will slow and outweigh their relatively high interest rates. Shahab Jalinoos at Credit Suisse said you can only resist gravity for so
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The resumption of growth in the US and UK is in stark contrast to the 25-yr yield curve for government bonds of the developed economies, which indicate government borrowing real costs of negative or zero for up to 25 years. The contradiction implies investors do not expect
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Andrew Swan at BlackRock said: Blackrock has an overweight position in Korea stocks as a lot of negativity is already priced in and the market is so cheap. The South Korean equity market could be in the early stages of bottoming. A recovery in domestic demand may help
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Moody’s Investors Service said: The 25 largest US public pensions – 40% of the $5.3 trillion in US public pensions – face $2 trillion in unfunded liabilities, showing that investment returns cannot keep up with ballooning obligations and inadequate pension contributions – from 2004 to 2013 an average
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jonathan Garner at Morgan Stanley said the problems are more than just reaction to a Fed tightening, but include declining relative return on equity compared to developed markets. The Russian Micex is at 5 x estimated earnings, the cheapest in emerging markets. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Analysts say the easing of tensions in Ukraine offers little respite to Russia as low oil prices threaten a recession. 58% of 19 economists say Russia needs its main export crude blend to trade at $100 per barrel or more to avoid a recession, while 19% say
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Robin Brooks at Goldman Sachs said: The dollar’s rise is small in historical and economic terms as many traders wait/hope for a pull-back which won’t come. Euro-dollar levels are not remotely pricing in the kind of balance sheet expansion that Draghi talked about in September, so future ECB press conferences
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: 10-yr T-notes are at the widest yield gap, 0.89%, to their G-7 counterparts since June 2007. Charles Comiskey at Bank of Nova Scotia said people are being forced to buy Treasurys because both emerging-market currencies and stocks are getting hammered. Adrian Miller at GMP Securities said investors are bullish
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Louis Navellier looks for stocks with strong fundamentals, including sales growth, earnings growth with smart leadership, and with strong buying pressure. For the complete list go to http://navelliergrowth.investorplace.com/free-report/top50stocks/index.html?atg_sid=IZ8547&atg_sid_pay=UK8527&en=4434405
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