In recent years, buy-and-hold investors such as pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have gradually increased their investments in alternative assets to diversify their portfolios and boost returns. ‘Alternatives’ make up 23% of SWF portfolios and 24% of global pension funds, up from single digits in 2000.Alternatives can offer attracti...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
Looking back to the last quarter of 2017, the average accuracy of MBR forecasts published in the Steel Market Tracker was 94% (when compared to forecasts published in the September issue). Our forecasts of European flat steel prices proved to be precise once again, with European domestic CRC and HRC prices scoring 99% and 98% accuracy respectively. Although we considered Chinese domestic rebar pri...Read More
(IDEX Online) - British actress and model, Elizabeth Hurley, will be the show ambassador and special guest for CARAT+ 2018 in May. The film and TV star will open CARAT+ Night on May 6, before meeting exhibitors and discovering the loose diamonds, diamond jewelry and colored gemstones on display. Elizabeth 'Liz' Hurley has long been associated with some of the world most glamorous and...Read More
While sitting in my Barcalounger in the nice relaxed atmosphere one gets after a trip to the gym, I happened to catch the first half of the Donald Trump State of the Union. Like all SOTUs, it was a snoozefest - a laundry list of pats on the back and goals for next year.Here's a sentence the speech needs: "Please save your applause until the end." Is there any other speech format where the clappin...Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Lance RobertsThere is a general consensus that the markets have entered into a permanently high plateau, coupled with an overwhelming sense of complacency: Debt doesn't matter as long as interest rates are low.But rising debt levels have a negative economic consequence. Today it requires $3.83 to create a Reagan-era $1....Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Howard KunstlerThe blow-off in the stock markets is supposedly America's consolation prize for what many regard as the bad acid trip of the Trump presidency. But it's just another hallucination, and while the markets have roared up, reality is at work, namely in the dollar and bond markets.A financial smash-up is the on...Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by David StockmanWe are in record territory; the market has had 395 trading days since it's had a 5% drop, and that has never happened before in recorded history.The world's central banks had never dreamed of snatching $22 trillion of fiat credit from thin air prior to 1995, either. But in the 9 years since the financial c...Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Craig HemkeLate Friday, reports hit Reuters that the CFTC would soon levy fines for spoofing (placing buy and sell orders with the intent to cancel them before completing the transactions) and price manipulation in the futures markets, and that has come to pass. Read the entire press releaseIn short, Deutsche Bank, UBS...Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by SRSRocco ReportLeverage in the economic system has become so extreme that investors have no idea of the disaster in store during the next stock market crash. The 2008 crash was merely a warm up for the continued disintegration of the global financial system.While the US and global economies have continued as usual sinc...Read More
The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Brian BainAvi Gilburt is a leading contributor on Seeking Alpha and one of 21 Seeking Alpha contributors who participated in the January 2018 DIY Investing Summit.Avi was asked what his long-term views are on gold. He said he believes we are on the cusp of a decades-long bull market.How big of a deal could this be? He c...Read More
Ounces of gold required to 'buy' one unit of the Dow JonesThe Dow / Gold Ratio has only been higher twice in the past 118 years.Sources: MeasuringWorth.com; Thomson Reuters Datastream; BMG Group Inc.Read More
"If the CFTC was intending that this week's announcements showed that it was truly cracking down on bad actors in silver and gold, then it failed..."by Ted Butler via Silver SeekThe big news this week was the filing of charges and settlements for price manipulation and "spoofing" brought by the CFTC, in conjunction with the DOJ and FBI, against three banks and a half dozen individual traders; most...Read More
Episode 37 - Why GE Could Be the Next Enron & How to Fix Corporate AmericaPorter reveals why no major media outlet will cover his best-selling book, American Jubilee, which has sold over 50,000 copies in the last few months. Is the dirty math at General Electric about to get a lot worse? Porter has new information about dubious accounting practices used at GE that can potentially put the conglomer...Read More
Some children are better at paying attention than others. Some can cope with, or even enjoy, a school classroom setting. Some kids have more energy than others. Some are good at following directions, and some are easily distracted.But just because a classroom is not a good environment for many children does not mean they have a disorder. They may have an Attention Deficit because they are bored. T...Read More