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Asian Shares Gain After Rosy China Data
August 5th, 2015
IMF says China likely needs more market liberalization before labeling yuan a reserve currency Asian shares pared earlier losses to trade higher Wednesday after a gauge of China’s service sector reached an 11-month high, outweighing concerns that a rise ...
Asian shares up despite weak US lead
August 4th, 2015
Asian markets traded mostly higher on Tuesday despite a lacklustre lead from Wall Street, where US stocks closed down on weak economic data. US data on Monday showed weaker manufacturing activity and a modest gain in consumer spending as ...
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 ...
China’s stock market crashes again as panicking sellers lose faith
July 27th, 2015
Beijing is struggling to rein in the self-preservation instincts of small investors. All that’s left to happen in China’s stock market is for government leaders to admit they are powerless to stop a selloff. Monday’s panic selling was the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
