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Asian shares skid as weak China PMI revives demand concerns
July 24th, 2015
Asian equities stumbled on Friday after a survey showed China’s manufacturing activity crumbled to 15-month lows, rekindling concerns for the region’s exports as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to arrest a broad downturn. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ...
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
July 23rd, 2015
If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead of ...
Chinese economy concerns wipe $40bn off value of Apple
July 23rd, 2015
Fall in share price of world’s biggest company mirrored by slide in stocks in mining and commodity firms to their lowest level since market crash of 2008 Growing concerns about the health of the Chinese economy helped wipe $40bn off the ...
Asian shares slip on weak data, dollar strong
July 23rd, 2015
Asian shares edged lower on Thursday as mixed regional data and overnight declines on Wall Street prompted investors to take profits, while the dollar held steady as expectations for a rise in U.S. interest rates were strengthened by buoyant ...
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, ...
A profound change for China’s SOEs
July 22nd, 2015
The rapid rise of China’s outbound direct investment in the past decade is a significant economic phenomenon, one met with a lot of resistance in some destination countries, particularly due to the abundance of state-owned enterprises. But despite concerns over ...
Apple gives weak forecast, shares fall nearly 7 percent
July 22nd, 2015
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shares slumped nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading as its fourth-quarter revenue forecast fell short of estimates and it missed some targets for iPhone sales. The shares dropped to $121 after the company released its results ...
Investors Flee Commodities
July 21st, 2015
The prices of raw materials from oil and gold to copper, cotton and sugar tumbled, underscoring an increasing aversion to commodity investments as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. ...
ATHEX risks turning into a ghost market
July 20th, 2015
The ghost of a marginalized Greek stock market, as it was before the country’s access to the eurozone, is now haunting Athinon Avenue, threatening to turn into a bunch of idle stocks, trapped shareholders and loss-making investors. It has ...
Gold tumbles to more than five-year low, China shares fall
July 20th, 2015
Gold tumbled to a more than five-year low Monday, and China shares drifted lower after authorities’ weekend move to tighten the use of informal lending channels by stock investors. Gold GCQ5, -2.31% fell 2.3% from its opening price Monday ...
