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Is The Baltic Dry Index Telling Us Were Heading For Another Great Recession?
Ben Mountifield, February 2nd, 2012
A sudden fall in the Baltic Dry Index used to indicate a slump in demand for raw materials and therefore a possible economic slowdown, and over the past seven weeks the index has fallen 65% to its lowest level in more than 25 years. A 6 Month Chart Of The
Posted in Blog, Commodities, Featured, Fundamental Analysis, News
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Fed Rate Announcement Sends Dollar Lower & Gold Higher
Ben Mountifield, January 26th, 2012
Last night the Federal Reserve announced that it expects to keep interest rates in the US at their record low level until late 2014 – a move which sent the US dollar lower and gold sharply higher. A 6 Month Chart of the US Dollar Index A 6 Month Chart
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Forex, Monetary Policy, News, Precious Metals
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Natural Gas Jumps 7.8% After Producer Cuts Production & Shorts Are Forced To Cover
Steve Wilson, January 24th, 2012
The price of Natural Gas jumped 7.8% in New York yesterday as Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced that it would cut production in order to put a floor under the commodity. Thanks to an exceptionally mild winter and increased production from shale gas, the price of natural gas as listed on
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Happy Birthday Gold Bull Market
Ben Mountifield, January 18th, 2012
Today the gold bull market celebrates its 11th birthday. Gold made its historic low at $257 an ounce back on 18 January 2001 and since than has risen every single year, returning an average of 17.7% per year. An 11 Year Chart of Gold In US Dollars Chart data courtesy
Posted in Blog, News, Precious Metals
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US Dollar Up, Everything Else Down
Adam Tremaine, December 15th, 2011
A raft of bad economic news from around the world, coupled with renewed doubts that leaders in the Eurozone are any closer to resolving the debt crisis, triggered a flight out of almost every asset into the relative safety of the US Dollar and US Treasury bonds. More evidence of
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The New Eurozone Map
Ben Mountifield, December 8th, 2011
So far in 2011 there have been no less than ten Eurozone finance minister meetings and summits. If the leaders of these seventeen nations don’t come up with around €2 trillion pretty soon they will need to issue a new map. Fortunately I’ve saved them the bother. In my
Posted in Blog, Featured, Monetary Policy, News
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Central Banks Scramble To Avoid Credit Crunch II
Ben Mountifield, December 7th, 2011
Last week the US Federal Reserve together with the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland took coordinated action to backstop troubled Eurozone banks. The move cuts the cost of emergency dollar loans to banks struggling to get funding
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Putting Lipstick On These PIIGS May Not Work Much Longer
Ben Mountifield, November 18th, 2011
The phrase ‘putting lipstick on a pig’ has been used in financial circles for years and it is a phrase that I have used to describe the European debt crisis and the countless attempts by its leaders to convince us that it is “resolved”. However as the crisis continues to
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Eurozone Leaders Announce Agreement To Resolve Debt Crisis
Ben Mountifield, October 27th, 2011
After an all night summit in Brussels Eurozone leaders have announced a three-pronged agreement designed to solve the region’s debt crisis. Prong One Greek bondholders have been persuaded to take a 50% haircut in the face value of their bonds. Officials believe this will reduce Greek debt levels to 120%
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The Tsunami of Stimulus Could Begin Arriving Today
Ben Mountifield, October 6th, 2011
The Tsunami Of Stimulus I talked about last month could begin arriving as soon as today. The global coordinated reflation effort could be kicked off today with an announcement of more quantitative easing (QE) by the Bank of England (BoE). Yesterday’s downward revision of GDP by the Office for National
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