ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Fundamental Factors Affecting the Gold Market Interesting summary of the fundamentals supporting higher gold prices from David Hightower, President Hightower Report. Video posted on CME Group educational videos (http://www.cmegroup.com/education/videos.html) (tags: gold)
Erika Miller, correspondent at Nightly Business Report, expressed surprise that the CPI showed prices declined year-over-year by 0.2%: “It came as a total surprise to me that grocery prices have fallen nearly 3 percent in the past year, one of the biggest category declines. I would have guessed prices at the supermarket were up.” Ms. … Read more
If inflation expectations remain “contained” why is a record amount of money pouring into commodities this year? Indeed, there is nothing like a rapidly increasing global supply of paper currency to drive interest in hard assets and push prices upward. Reuters summarizes a recent research report from Barclays on investment flows into commodities: “Barclays Capital’s … Read more
Japan's Latest Economic Ailment: Deflation – TIME While much of the rest of the planet frets about a coming rise in inflation — a consequence of economic recovery, massive stimulus spending and a weakening dollar — Japan faces the opposite problem: a potentially devastating bout of deflation. (tags: Japan deflation GDP)
A tale of two American economies – The Globe and Mail The smaller one is slowly recovering, but the larger one is still in a deep downturn (tags: recovery recession Nouriel_Roubini GDP)