Forecasting
End of the Quarter 2011 Summary
With today, the 31st of March, marking the end of the 1st quarter of 2011, a look back at the performance of the market presents an opposing view of economic stability considering the long list of issues that is affecting the world. The movement of major indexes were the best of this new century with [...]
Global Anxiety Could Slow US Growth
Because of very unique circumstances, the United States has been able to climb it’s way out of a recession by exporting commodities and manufactured goods. Since the end technical end of the recession in mid-2009, selling these items to the rest of the world has accounted for nearly half of such growth in the country. [...]
The “Double Dip”
One of the more memorable moments to come out of the classic television show Seinfeld is stout George Costanza as he is berated for double-dipping his chip at a party. To sum up, “It’s like you put your whole mouth right in the dip. From now on when you take a chip, just take one [...]
Buffet on Japan: “Great Buying Opportunity”
Warren Buffet has pointed out what most investors knew as a result of the March 11th earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear reactor problems that have affected the area north of Tokyo in Japan. The billionaire investor believes that this series of truly life-changing and horrifying events are the genesis of an extraordinary time where excellent [...]
Trade Gap Limits Economic Recovery
It was reported today that the U.S. trade deficit, (the amount of products imported versus the amount of products exported), widened sharply in January to its highest level in seven months. The North African unrest and surging oil prices has helped to overwhelm a gain in exports by the US. The cost of meeting the [...]
Strategic Oil Reserves
The Obama administration is being presented with the idea of exercising its futures contract on oil by tapping a system of (mostly) underground storage facilities that are the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The events unfolding Libya and throughout the Middle East have brought into spotlight a system where the government is able to dilute the amount [...]
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter: Railroads
Much has been made of Warren Buffett’s positive and optimistic economic outlook for the United States. He goes so far as to close the introduction of the annual report by saying, “We are not natively smarter than we were when our country was founded, nor do we work harder. But look around you and see [...]
Macroeconomic Volatility
Global, national and regional events can have a greater effect on capital markets than any regulation, earnings statement or facility one can think of. We are seeing that right now with the breakout of what will soon be a full out civil war in Libya and the general unrest within the Middle East and North [...]
Financial Times – US homepage- Chinese activist ends odyssey in USDeparture of Chen and his family brings to an end the worst diplomatic spat between Beijing and Washington in over a decade […]
- G8 splits over stimulus versus austerityMerkel resists efforts by other G8 leaders to push eurozone to do more to stimulate growth […]
- Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-offNews Corp’s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ‘a core component’ […]
- Alibaba nears buyback deal with YahooThe deal under discussion would involve the US group selling about $7bn of its stake in the Chinese ecommerce group, valuing Alibaba at $35bn […]
- Faltering start for the new FacebookGlitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday […]
- Moderate leads field among Egypt’s expatriatesOf 38,000 ballots cast by Egyptian expatriates in a dozen diplomatic outposts, Dr Aboul Fotouh received nearly 30 per cent of the votes […]
- Resource stocks mirror global economyDecline of groups involved in supplying essential raw materials for business show how investors really feel about the global economy’s direction […]
- China linked to ‘economic espionage’The Pentagon report says the country will continue to be an ‘aggressive and capable’ collector of sensitive US technological information […]
- Obama ground forces braced for air warPresident’s team says massive grassroots campaign will be needed to withstand bombardment of negative attack ads from Romney and super-Pacs […]
- Spain hit by rise in bad bank loansValue of bad loans held by banking sector increased a third during the past year to €148bn and accounted for 8.4% of their entire loan portfolios […]
- Chinese activist ends odyssey in US
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