Archive - Aug 12, 2014 - Blog entry
Bank Of America & Morgan Stanley Comment On Commodities
Submitted by CalibratedConfidence on 08/12/2014 17:03 -0500Coal production in the U.S YoY is down 0.3 percent and continued production slowdowns could continue to hurt firms like Peabody Energy which is down almost 19 percent YTD.
All Eyes Should Be on Volatility
Submitted by Capitalist Exploits on 08/12/2014 16:26 -0500Historically market corrections and volatility spikes have been very good entry points for purchasing shares in ZIV
The Total Mispricing of Risk Courtesy of the Fed
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 08/12/2014 14:04 -0500These bonds are the benchmarks for “risk” in the financial system. Stocks, corporate bonds, mortgages, auto loans, emerging market stocks… everything you can name are ultimately priced based on their perceived risk relative to the “risk free” rate of lending money to the US for 10 years.
Not As Much Labor Force Slack as Yellen Believes
Submitted by EconMatters on 08/12/2014 13:39 -0500The Fed keeps moving their targets, and came up with this ‘slack in the labor force’ argument helped of course by Wall Street or should I say the Big Banks.....
DR STRaNGe BoMB...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 08/12/2014 12:40 -0500Or "How I stopped worrying and learned to love bombing Iraq..."
The REAL Reason for New U.S. and French Military Involvement In Iraq
Submitted by George Washington on 08/12/2014 10:39 -0500It's All About Erbil
Fed Vice Chair Fischer On U.S. Bailin "Proposals"
Submitted by GoldCore on 08/12/2014 08:00 -0500Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer delivered his first speech on the global economy in Stockholm, Sweden yesterday. Fischer headed Israel’s central bank from 2005 through 2013 and is now number two at the Federal Reserve in the U.S. after Janet Yellen. Fischer’s comments that the U.S. is “preparing a proposal” for bail-ins is at odds with FDIC and Bank of England officials who have said that bail-in legislation could be used today and "I mean today ... "
