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Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:17 |
By Barry Elias
August 24, 2011
Twenty Three percentage points !
That represents the current difference in yield between 2-year and 10- year Greek government bonds, 39% and 16% respectively.
The yield inversion (2-year exceeds 10-year) suggests greater near term economic risk (e.g., slower growth).
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By Barry Elias
April 23, 2011
In a recent presentation to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Dow Chemical CEO, Andrew Liveris, was astonished to learn that 70% seek careers in finance.
This type of thinking precipitated the systemic failure of our economy.
I will return to the prescient presentation delivered by Mr. Liveris later in this piece.
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By Barry Elias
Tuesday, March 30, 2011
Global uncertainties abound: geopolitical, financial, and economic.
The aforementioned is a strong underlying driver for a more stable medium of exchange. The confluence of these events suggests $4,000 gold (per ounce) by 2020 seems more probable.
I recently added a significant position in gold and gold mining assets to my portfolio.
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 21:15 |
Since placing the bottom of 1017.75 on November 21, 2008, the index started a bullish wave that has been organized inside an ascending wave. This bullish channel is still controlling the movements until now as seen on the provided chart below.
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:58 |
In 2010, we witnessed placing new records for gold, upside waves despite many conditions that normally cause a decrease in the price of gold.
The high price of the U.S. dollar, increasing demand for higher-yields’ assets –stocks mainly-, and low levels of inflation in many countries, and risks of deflation in countries such as Japan and Switzerland, all of these reasons were supposed to cause a decline in the gold price, according to the usual relationship between the price of gold and inflation and between the gold price and exchange rate for the dollar in financial markets, but in the end, we have seen gold flying very high.
We start 2010 with optimism in the financial markets that was mixed with fears of European debt crisis, 2010 entered with expectations that the international economy may witness acceleration in growth, especially after the announcement that the global economy has come out of the deepest economic recession and the worst since the period after World War II.
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Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:10 |
by John Tardogno
Fundamental analysis and technical analysis are the two most widely used methods for making trade decisions in the Forex market. Fundamental analysis shows traders the “fundamental” characteristics of a currency and a reason for it's direction. Analyzing fundamentals such as interest rates, trade balance and monetary policy gives a trader an idea on how to forecast future price moves and make profitable trades.
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:12 |
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The weekly chart for USDCHF pair shows how a major bearish channel has organized the descending movements as seen on the chart below.
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Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:20 |
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When we study the monthly chart for the pair, we will discover that trading has been to the downside during the previous years. Since mid 2007, we witnessed a serious acceleration to the downside as seen on the chart below.
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 20:03 |
In 2010, we witnessed placing new records for gold, upside waves despite many conditions that
normally cause a decrease in the price of gold.
The high price of the U.S. dollar, increasing demand for higher-yields’ assets –stocks mainly-,
and low levels of inflation in many countries, and risks of deflation in countries such as Japan and
Switzerland, all of these reasons were supposed to cause a decline in the gold price, according
to the usual relationship between the price of gold and inflation and between the gold price and
exchange rate for the dollar in financial markets, but in the end, we have seen gold flying very
high.
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