For the Baby Boomers in the crowd who are between 51 and 70-years old, remember your first job? Mine was working for a caterer when I was 12 or 13-years old where I would arrive at their cooking facility at around
February 27, 2016
Well, brace yourselves, everyone. There are FOUR major scheduled events coming up. The first is this weekend, the G20 (which, apparently, is a big fat non-event). The next three are tightly clustered together. It’s going to be a wild –
Fundamental Forecast for Yen:Bullish Lackluster Japanese Consumer Price Index inflation data keeps status quo for the Yen Look for the Yen to gain if we see continued turmoil in Chinese financial markets Trading not going your way? These are the most common pitfalls
Judging from Spain, ECB president Mario Draghi is deep in the hole on his target of “close to but not exceeding 2% inflation”. In January, Spain’s CPI was -0.3%. This month, Spanish CPI went further into deflationary territory with a
Anyone hoping this week’s G-20 meeting would yield some manner of “Shanghai Accord” to revive sluggish global growth, pull the global economy out of the deflationary doldrums and calm jittery markets that have seen harrowing bouts of volatility in the
The 88th Academy Awards will revere the best films of 2015 this Sunday evening. While the star-studded event is sure to pump up the adrenalin of nominees and moviegoers, it should keep investors on the edge of their seats too.
It was a positive week for risk assets, we consolidated recent gains and even finished the week higher in most risk assets. Gasoline had a stellar week, and points to a bottom in the Oil Market.
I can hardly believe that two months of 2016 are already in the books and that I’m already looking towards my potential March buys. The first two months of the year have definitely been a roller coaster ride as we
Photo Credit: Friends of the Earth International || Note: the above is just a photo to illustrate a point. I do not endorse debt cancellation under most circumstances. I do support debt-for-equity swaps to delever the system. Debt, debt, debt… debt is
In recent days, more strategists are indicating the emerging market asset class is providing investors with a ‘trade of the decade” opportunity. The most recent is Robert Arnott and Christopher Brightman of Research Affiliates when they note in their February All
