Monday, September 3, 2012

DailyMarkets.com - Commodities May Drift Higher This Week As QE3 Bets Build Into NFP

DailyMarkets.com - Commodities May Drift Higher This Week As QE3 Bets Build Into NFP

Commodities May Drift Higher This Week As QE3 Bets Build Into NFP

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:57 AM PDT

Talking Points

Commodities May Find Support as QE3 Expectations Build Before US Jobs Report
Quiet Start to the Week Likely with US Markets Sidelined for Labor Day Holiday

Commodity prices scored broad-based gains on Friday as traders interpreted Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech at the Jackson Hole Symposium to be opening the door for a third round of quantitative easing (QE3). While Bernanke did not give explicit guidance, the central theme of his remarks appeared to center on the idea … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

There Is Something Wrong With This Picture

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:38 AM PDT

The market is still holding onto gains sourced from ECB President Mario Draghi comments. But how long can the SP500 divergence from the real economy last.

Source: Draghi Says ECB Will Do What's Needed to Preserve Euro: Economy

ECB Draghi comments.

Extract..

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said policy makers will do whatever is needed to preserve the euro, suggesting they may intervene in bond markets as surging yields in Spain and Italy threaten the existence of the … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

High Yield Portfolio: What Is HYP Investing?

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT

HYP is a passive/non-trading large-cap income investing strategy articulated by writer/investor, Stephen Bland back in 2000. It aims to achieve – as an alternative to purchasing an annuity - a well diversified portfolio of shares in big, solid companies chosen primarily for high yield (i.e. significantly above the FTSE 100 average), as well as some other characteristics that help to ensure security of dividend (and to a less extent, capital). A HYP portfolio typically has 10-15 … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Do Something, Anything!

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:02 AM PDT

As the financial world holds its breath and waits for Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech, I offer for consideration this BIS research paper entitled The Effectiveness of Unconventional Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: A Cross-Country Analysis, Here is the abstract [emphasis added]:
This paper assesses the macroeconomic effects of unconventional monetary policies by estimating a panel VAR with monthly data from eight advanced economies over a sample spanning the period since the … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards
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