Unusual Activity

Futures and commodities markets reaction to the US Air strikes on Syria. Flight to safety with the yield in the 10 year yield lower to 2.551 in pre-US equity open.

Lucky Charms on Wall Street

As the slide starts and the stock markets open in the red on the 1st August , it’s now time to take into consideration what it is that will save you on the floor from losing the house, the wife and the kids because you didn’t know how to deal with the stock crash that’s on its way.

China’s Storm: 2016

There never seems to be a day that goes by without someone predicting that China is going to go down the Yangtze and end up some creek without a paddle.

RJ Reynolds has been ordered by a Florida jury this Friday to pay a total of $23.6 billion to the widow of a chain-smoker that had filed a suit against the company. It’s possibly the largest single plaintiff payout in history for a tobacco manufacturer to date.

The world sits their looking on at China’s economy wondering how they can do it and that we can’t. But, there’s a price to pay for being economically sound and for having a growth rate that is much better than the Western world, even if there are some that say that the figures have been stir-fried in a wok.