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  • End of QE3, Weak Chinese Data Means Lower Oil Prices Ahead

    By Richard Cox - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: XOM, OIL, UUP

    confluence of events seen this week will likely weigh on the price of oil and other commodities into the end of this year.  Manufacturing weakness in China suggests that general demand for oil and building materials (such as copper and other metals) will remain soft in the coming months.  Moreover, the latest congressional testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated an increased likelihood that policy makers will elect to slow more »

  • Euro is a Buy After ECB Rate Decision

    By Richard Cox - May 10, 2013 | Tickers: FXE, FXY, UUP

    At its May meeting, the European Central Bank elected to reduce its benchmark interest rate from 0.75% to a record low of 0.50% in an attempt to support a deteriorating economy experiencing drop-offs in many key economic indicators.  The macro declines seen in the Euro-area have not been altogether surprising given the early year changes in Eurozone GDP expectations, and this month’s interest rate decision was not more »

  • China’s Welcome Move to Open up Interest Rates

    By Peter Pham - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: DSUM, UUP, CYB

    Interest rate liberalization is an inevitable path towards market efficiency. For China, the plan is between now and 2015 to bring the Yuan (NYSEMKT: CYB) closer to acting as a reserve currency around the Southeast Asia region. This process is speeding up with each deal the Chinese Government cuts with another foreign government. That said, the latest plan put forth should be criticized for lacking details, and for failing to more »

  • Forex Is Back: What Should You Do?

    By Federico Zaldua - April 21, 2013 | Tickers: FXB, FXY, UUPT, UUP

    Central Banks from the US to Japan are making exchange rates fluctuate with increasing volatility. European economic woes, Japanese and American aggressive quantitative easing programs and choppy commodity markets are making currencies an interesting investment theme.
     
    I am not the only one holding this view on currencies. According to the Financial Times, "After long months in the dark, currencies are coming back into the light. Investors have flocked back to more »

  • Forex Is Back. What Should You Do?

    By Federico Zaldua - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: FXB, FXY, UUPT, UUP

    Central Banks from the US to Japan are making exchange rates fluctuate with increasing volatility. European economic woes, Japanese and American aggressive quantitative easing programs and choppy commodity markets are making currencies an interesting investment theme.
     
    I am not the only one holding this view on currencies. According to the Financial Times "After long months in the dark, currencies are coming back into the light. Investors have flocked back to more »

  • Don't Underestimate Europe's Risks

    By Joshua Bondy - March 21, 2013 | Tickers: VXX, UUP, VWO

    Even if they've fallen off the TV news cycle, Europe's economic issues have not disappeared. A number of risk measures point to stresses building up in the continent's financial system. No portfolio can be completely shielded from macro-instabilities, but with a few of the right toos, you can remove some of the risk. 

    What do the numbers show? 

    Interest rates are a rough estimate of risk, since more »

  • This Dollar Is Not Falling

    By Peter Pham - October 1, 2012 | Tickers: FXE, EWS, UUP

    The world’s major central banks, along with the Federal Reserve have all announced some form of open-ended QE in a coordinated attempt to keep the world financial markets from imploding.  Aside from the fire hose the Fed is bringing we have all of these events as well:

    1. The ECB’s new OMT program, essentially unlimited bond buying which will create unlimited moral hazard, regardless of the protestations of Mario more »

  • These Two Markets May be Bullish Post Election

    By John Mylant - September 26, 2012 | Tickers: UUP, SPY, GLD, XLK

    With the election coming soon plus the QE3 taking affect, watch the markets in the short term remain neutral to mildly bullish. There are reasons for this and also nice investment opportunities. Let’s take a look at what is influencing the markets through the end of the year and some investing advice based upon how QE3 will affect certain markets. Take a look at gold and the tech industry more »

  • Yum! Looks Delicious

    By Peter Pham - August 28, 2012 | Tickers: MCD, UUP, YUM

    As China’s population becomes more urbanized over the next decade, Yum forecasts the number of consumers to more than double. As such the company is looking to China for growth opportunities as the US and Europe continue to languish. While US sales across all Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) grew a paltry 1%, China sales grew by 19%.

    Yum’s China business currently accounts for over 40% of operating revenue more »

  • Think Quantitative Easing is Good for the U.S. Economy? Here Are 6 Indicators That Say Otherwise.

    By Mohamed Assed - August 8, 2012 | Tickers: DBC, UUP, SPY, UGA

    Introduction

    Judging whether Quantitative Easing (QE) was successful or not in reviving the U.S Economy is too broad a statement to be of any usefulness. The scope of such a topic impedes 100% sure findings and conclusions. On this basis, this article will attempt to look into the efficacy of QE in stimulating the U.S Economy from its own standpoint by making use of a simple yet intriguingly more »

  • China Expects Bernanke to Weaken Dollar, so Buy Oil Stocks

    By Jonathan Yates - August 3, 2012 | Tickers: CVX, XOM, OXY, UUP, RDSA, RDS-A

    China has recently taken action to lower the value of its currency, the yuan, in preparation for a weaker United States Dollar that will result from any economic stimulus measures initiated by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake.  As economic growth in the United States is declining, the markets are expecting Ben Bernanke to introduce measures like Quantitative Easing 2, which resulted in the United States Dollar falling in value with more »

  • Are Coal Stocks Lit Up?

    By Jonathan Yates - July 10, 2012 | Tickers: JRCC, KOL, BTU, UUP, GLD, USO

    Even though coal usage is falling in the United States and stagnant globally, coal stocks are soaring in recent market action.  Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the world's largest private sector coal company in the country, is up 17.33% for the last week and 10.44% for the last month of trading.  Year to date, Peabody Energy is off by 20.67%.  James River (NASDAQ: JRCC), a small cap more »

  • PMI and ISM Prints Say “To the Moon!”

    By Peter Pham - July 9, 2012 | Tickers: FXE, UUP, SPY, BNO

    The ISM announced their Manufacturing index number on Monday which came in at 49.7 for June, a number that should not be surprising to anyone other than an economist at the Federal Reserve.  It was a full point lower than the lowest of the estimates, which speaks to the amount of hope that has been built into these markets and the analysts covering them. 

    If we look closely at more »

  • Bet with Bernanke: The House Always Wins

    By Jonathan Yates - July 6, 2012 | Tickers: ^DJI, TLT, UUP, SPY, DIA

    Without question, the most significant development for the global economy from The Great Recession has been the emergence of the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke as the uber market maker of all time.  Market makers profit by matching buyers and sellers.  It is a very lucrative role as market makers, in addition to making a commission, are also positioned to know who is buying and who is selling at exactly more »

  • Oil is Headed Lower, so the US Dollar is Headed Higher

    By Jonathan Yates - July 6, 2012 | Tickers: XOM, UUP, UNG, USO

    A recent article in USA Today by Gary Straus blared the headline, "Gas could hit $3 by Fall."  As a result of decreasing demand, bulging inventories, and rising production due to new technology, fossil fuel prices are plunging.  Due to the inverse relationship, the US Dollar will be heading higher as the prices for oil and natural gas continue to nosedive.  Profits can be made by going long on the more »

  • Yen Strength Creates Large Ripples

    By Peter Pham - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: FXY, UUP, TM

    On the heels of the news that China and Japan have agreed to openly trade Yuan and Yen comes the news that China is actively involved in buying up distressed Spanish assets.  State Grid Corp. is going to buy high voltage transmission assets in Brazil from Spain’s Actividades de Construccion y Servicios for $938 million.  This is just one example of how the deflationary spiral of the European periphery more »

  • Deja Vu 2008

    By Peter Pham - May 31, 2012 | Tickers: FXA, GCC, NES.DL, UUP, GLD

    If you live long enough you come to realize the wisdom in the statement that history doesn’t repeat but is certainly does rhyme.  The price action this spring is so reminiscent in feel to 2008 that waking up every morning feels like Groundhog Day. 

    In 2008 gold touched a high of $1033 per ounce the evening the news broke that JPMorgan had bought Bear Stearns for $10 per share more »

  • Find The Value In Big Energy Here

    By Ali Ghorbanzadeh - May 29, 2012 | Tickers: CVX, XOM, UUP, USO

    Remarkably, crude oil in just the last month has fallen over 15% from $107 per barrel to approximately $90 as demonstrated by the wildly popular exchange-traded fund, United States Oil (NYSEMKT: USO), falling from approximately $40 to $34 over the same time period. The reasons are valid as crude oil stockpiles are now at 22-year highs, the dollar has perked up as the euro continues to be viewed as unstable more »

  • Iran, the BRICS and Why Gold is Now Money

    By Peter Pham - May 28, 2012 | Tickers: FXRU, UUP, SPY, GLD, BNO | Editor's Choice

    While seemingly the entire world was focused, self-referentially, on the Facebook IPO, from my perspective far larger issues were being ignored.  The S&P 500, traded as the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY), is within 3% of its opening price for the year, having wiped out in 13 days nearly the entire first quarter rally that had everyone so ready to jump on the Facebook bandwagon

    Looking at more »

  • Gold Bears Roar as Metals Retreat Further

    By J. Keith Johnson - April 13, 2012 | Tickers: UDN, UUP, GLD, PHYS

    Whether it’s because of Ben’s speech, the dollar’s strength, unfounded optimism over the Eurozone or happy Apple stockholders, lately it seems that almost any news is bad news for the Midas metal.

    However, short-term movements do not trends make, which can be difficult for myopic investors to grasp. In many ways our culture has become so enamored with instant gratification that having confidence in a long-term investment more »

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