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It is obvious that the Chinese will not be taking instructions from anybody regarding the revaluation of the renminbi, but will do so when it suits them. [...]
This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Wealthy Congressmen Don't Feel Your Pain (Money Morning, 1/9/12) Country Indices Annual Returns from 2001 to 2010 (Top Foreign Stocks, 10/5/11) Breaking: Bradley Manning likely to face court martial! Berkeley, California mourns the decision! (The Political and Financial Mark..., 1/12/12)
“The banana kingdom was in deep trouble. After the failure and rescue of Banana Bank, the government poured lots of funds into the bank and enjoyed a temporary revival. But the economy fell back into recession and unemployment grew,” said Andrew Sheng in this humorous post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices? (the Underground Investor, 12/26/11) The One Question We Must All Ask Ourselves (Money Morning, 1/5/12) JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) Earnings: Don't Be Misled by Sagging Banking Sector (Money Morning, 1/12/12)
I have never thought it particularly clever for the US to spit in the face of its largest creditor. [...]
The major stock market indices added to their gains this week – obtaining comfort from the Fed’s policy statement that the “juice” was not about to be removed anytime soon – and hit 18-month highs before closing down on Friday as “quadruple witching day” in the US weighed on sentiment. A day earlier on Thursday, the S&P 500 tracking ETF (SPY) broke a 14-day winning streak – its longest since the launch of the ETF in 1993. [...]
Considering the last few days, it would seem if small caps have been tiring, resulting in the Russell 2000 Index being the only major US stock market index registering a loss for the past week. Read on … [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Thirty Russell 2000 Stocks with over 10% Dividend Yields (Top Foreign Stocks, 1/27/10) Another view of the big-picture down-trendline resistance in equities features Russell 2000: Char... (UnBiasedTrading (TM), 12/11/09) Russell 2000 "catches up" with flair as Dow marks time closer to cycle (UnBiasedTrading (TM), 12/14/09) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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