Fireworks fizzled repeatedly in the second quarter’s final week. Ongoing and persistent efforts by portfolio managers to ‘rotate’ into supposedly attractive values, are primarily a t...
The IMF has been reluctant to participate in the aid package to Greece that runs out the middle of next year. It does not believe that Greek debt is sustainable. Nevertheless, it did recently agree t...
Shandong Sinobioway Biomedicine (SZE: 002581) topped management’s $402 million bid to privatize China vaccine maker Sinovac (NSDQ: SVA) with a $459 million offer of its own (see story). Sinobi...
Fundamental Forecast for Gold: Neutral Gold prices look to close at the monthly lows- nearing critical support into the July open Gold prices were down this week with the precious metal off by 0.98%...
Cactus Wrens have no fear. They are big and bold. They perch and nest in cacti. They announce their presence strutting and fanning their feathers. This nestling sits in its cactus nest, clearly feel...
The key success factor for investors is to spot trends as they arise as opposed to following trends that have run their course (typically when the majority of investors and financial media start payin...
A virus has spread across the markets as the first half drew to a close. Many investors have become giddy. The low vol environment was punctuated by ideas that peak in monetary accommodation is past ...
It has been a trying time for the world’s central bankers, who for decades have been used to the “high finance” community’s adulation, derived from the deliverance of policy wr...
If you are a credit investor, you should be worried right about now. For one thing, you could be a hermit whose only connection to the outside world is a chart of IG and HY credit spreads that update...