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Gold coasts along as stocks perk up, possible Fed hike delay supports
August 27th, 2015
Gold in tight range after three-day slide Fed’s Dudley says Sept rate rise “less compelling” Coming up: U.S. Q2 GDP second estimate at 1230 GMT (Adds analysts’ comments, updates prices) Gold steadied on Thursday after suffering its biggest fall ...
China’s Stocks Sink Most Since 2007 as State Intervention Fails
August 24th, 2015
China’s stocks plunged the most since 2007 as government support measures failed to allay investor concern that a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is deepening. The Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 8.5 percent to 3,209.91 at the close to ...
China, the Hollow Dragon
August 17th, 2015
In terms of profitability and trade-generated wealth, China is a hollow dragon. It is widely assumed that manufacturing (a.k.a. the world’s workshop) is the source of China’s wealth. But how can this be true, given that manufacturing profit margins ...
Dollar Gains as Yuan Fallout Continues for Emerging Assets
August 17th, 2015
The dollar strengthened as China’s shift to a more market-oriented exchange rate continued to reverberate through emerging economies, driving stocks and the ringgit lower. Oil fell, leading a gauge of commodities to a 13-year low. The dollar was stronger ...
China About To Make History — Again
August 10th, 2015
Any discussion of China has to open with the now-widely-understood fact that the numbers it reports are not to be trusted. Knowing this makes it easy to dismiss claims of high and consistently-on-target GDP growth, for instance, as a ...
Asian shares edge up, wary of China volatility
July 31st, 2015
Asia markets record monthly loss after China drop U.S. GDP data reinforces bets that Fed is on track to hike Nikkei down after Japanese data disappoints Gold, copper record losses on stronger dollar Asian shares inched higher on ...
Euro static as Greek bailout talks resume – Euro Currency update
July 29th, 2015
Euro The Greek bailout talks resumed on Tuesday with a high security presence, but as no interesting news emerged from the discussions the Euro was left trading fairly statically against a number of its peers. The common currency did ...
China: Major Devaluation Coming
July 28th, 2015
The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed about $15 trillion (an amount that dwarfs the US Fed’s ...
Copper, China And World Trade Are All Screaming That The Next Economic Crisis Is Here
July 27th, 2015
If you are looking for a “canary in a coal mine” type of warning for the entire global economy, you have a whole bunch to pick from right now. “Dr. Copper” just hit a six year low, Morgan Stanley ...
Does A Commodities Crash Mean Global Depression, Mass-Devaluation Or Both?
July 22nd, 2015
First, precious metals peaked and began drifting lower. Then copper fell, oil plunged and it became obvious that these weren’t isolated events. The entire commodities complex — that is, all the physical inputs a modern economy uses to power, ...