Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: China is very susceptible to Japanization, and only bold and creative action can avoid it. However, for every pledge to cut excess production capacity, audit government borrowings and tolerate sub-8 percent growth, two others assure markets that growth won’t be allowed to slow too much. Japan
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham said: The biggest issue we face is deterioration of the environment, particularly climate damage. In the US, the biggest problem is coal and tar sands. If we burn half or more of the coal and tar sands in two areas in North America, there is
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Louise Yamada at Technical Research Advisors said steeply declining monthly momentum and moving-average signals indicate gold may resume a slump as the parabolic stop-and-reverse system and the 10-month moving average below the 20-month measure remain intact after the rally. Yamada said gold may near the 34-month low of $1,179.40
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: McKinsey & Co. and Greenwich Associates said: The corporate bond market is unsuitable for full electronic trading because it has more securities compared with listed stocks and its issues trade at a lower frequency. 80 percent of US investors and 55 percent of European investors surveyed said regulations related
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Roelof-Jan van den Akker at ING said the S&P 500 Index may fall as much as 8.7 percent to support around 1,540 after climbing to the upper limit of its rising channel, followed by other markets.Van den Akker said the S&P 500 will then rebound. Read the full article at
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Caroline Baum writes: Obama is great when it comes to platitudes but less adept at outlining the policies needed to achieve those goals. Robert Litan at Bloomberg Government said Obama would like all employers to pay efficiency wages, but does not have an executive order to do that. It is individuals
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers says every major central bank is printing money and you cannot have an efficient and strong economy with artificial money printing. The next economic slowdown will be worse than 2008-2009. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-world-is-floating-on-very-large.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: William Pesek writes: The nightmare for Japan is that it took Abe this long to step in to help Tokyo Electric Power to deal with tons of radioactive groundwater spilling into the Pacific Ocean. Most people still have no idea how close we came to losing Tokyo in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: US Treasury notes and bonds due in a decade or more fell 13 percent in the period, the biggest loss of 174 debt indexes tracked by Bloomberg and the EFFAS. The Citigroup Economic Surprise Index climbed to the highest level since December 31 2012. Kei Katayama at
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: MacNeil Curry at Bank of America said any close for the Dollar Index above its pivot point of 82.41 would be a good sign that we have a base in place and a larger bull trend can resume. Curry said the diamond-top pattern in the euro says that its
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