Salient to Investors: Royal Dutch Shell’s surprise Q4 earnings decline to the lowest since 2009 shows the rising cost of developing new fields has cut into profit. Brent oil prices have spent 3 straight years above $100 a barrel, but getting crude out of the ground is only getting more
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said contrary to the hype from Wall Street and the press, stocks do not always go up – there are long periods when they do nothing and other investments are better. Read the full article at http://jimrogers-blog.blogspot.com/2014/01/stocks-do-not-always-go-up.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: The 3 largest components of India’s huge balance of trade deficit are oil, gold and cooking oil. They cannot do anything about oil or cooking oil, so are blaming their problems on gold, which is only a symptom of their problems. Read the full
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: The Japanese Central Bank said it will print unlimited amounts of money, is doing it, and 20 years from now people will say that is what killed Japan. In the meantime, all the money will go into Japanese shares. Read the full article at http://jimrogers-blog.blogspot.com/2014/01/this-may-destroy-japans-economy-in.html
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: US markets rose because people said (beginning tapering) is done so we do not have to worry anymore. But at some point markets will start to suffer as the Fed tapers and the Fed will panic and loosen again – they are in a
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: The heads of most central banks are all rock stars, but only a phenomenon of the last 20 years as they pump money into the markets. One day people will realize that they have led us down a terrible path. The Fed balance sheet
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Joseph Pacini at BlackRock said: Asian institutions’ appetite for regional real estate investments has returned as they hunt for yield for their growing assets amid low interest rates and are expected to deploy more money and a bigger percentage of their property allocations to Asia, especially in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Roger Loh of SingaporeManagementUniversity and René Stulz of Ohio State found that analysts’ upgrades and downgrades from 1993 to 2011 had a greater probability of influencing a stock when market conditions are bad. Read the full article at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-16/analyst-calls-matter-under-these-market-conditions#r=lr-sr Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The World Economic Forum said the widening income inequality poses the most likely threat to the global economy over the next decade. Jennifer Blanke at the Forum said people won’t stand for it. David Cole at Swiss Re said the balkanizing of finance, aversion to migration and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: On April 8, Microsoft cuts off tech support for Windows XP, meaning that most of the 420,000 ATMs in the US running XP will no longer receive regular security patches and won’t be in compliance with industry standards. Most machines that get upgraded will shift to Windows
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