November 9, 2009 @ 12:40 pm | Breaking News, Leading Indicators |
Call it the great inflation vs. deflation battle. On the one side, the U.S. TIPS market. In the last few months demand for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities from investors worried about a resurgence of inflation has reduced supplies of the bonds at Wall Street...
October 15, 2009 @ 12:19 pm | Breaking News, Leading Indicators |
So much for restraint. Back in August it looked like the Chinese government, concerned about rising prices for stocks and real estate, had decided to slow down bank lending. Forget it. In September it was back to the races. New bank lending climbed to $76 billion in...
August 17, 2009 @ 10:30 am | Update |
A good second quarter from Kinross Gold (KGC)–considering the uncertainties of the mining business where anything from an ore body running a lower grade than expected to floods to civil war can disrupt production. Earnings of 12 cents a share for the second...
August 11, 2009 @ 11:15 pm | Breaking News, Leading Indicators |
At a little after 2 p.m. on Wednesday August 12 the Federal Reserve will be either naughty or nice. From Wall Street’s perspective, anyway. Naughty, according to Wall Street, would be a press release that confirms the Fed’s view that the economy is in a...
July 17, 2009 @ 9:55 am | Breaking News |
To make money off inflation you need to get both the direction and the timing right. Get the direction wrong—buy gold, on a bet that inflation is climbing when inflation is actually falling, for example—and you lose money. Get the timing wrong—buy gold, again on a bet...