In September 2014 the index of producer prices for industrial products fell by 1.0% compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year. In August 2014 the annual rate of change all over had been –0.8%. Prices of intermediate goods decreased by 0.3% and energy prices by 3.8%, while prices of…
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German Producer prices in September 2014: –1.0% on September 2013
“The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs” By Hans-Werner Sinn. Oxford University Press; 380 pages. “The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis” By Yannis Palaiologos. Portobello; 270 pages. THE euro crisis never seems to end. From an acute phase of worries abou…
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Why The Euro Crisis Is Far From Over
Compared with the last assessment in July 2014, the Tohoku region revised its assessment downward by noting that the pace of economic recovery had moderated, but the other eight regions reported that their assessments regarding the pace of economic improvement had remained unchanged. All regions,…
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BOJ Regional Economic Report: October 2014
Monday’s a light day for economic reports, but the crowd’s still hungry for new macro perspective after last week’s roller coaster ride in the capital markets. Today’s main event for satisfying the demand for fresh data in Europe is an update on producer prices for Germany. Later, we’ll see new n…
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3 Numbers: German deflation insouciance, Italian industry, US yields
The face of automation on Wall Street is a computer hooked up to nine blinking screens that goes by the name Quantitative Market Maker, or Q.M.M. Until last year, the work that Q.M.M. performs was handled by human traders at JPMorgan Chase, who would shout prices into a phone and yell “Done!” whe…
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Shouts on Bond-Trading Floor Yield to Robot Beeps
Last week’s financial-market gyrations sent me back to one of my favorite books about the crash. Its wisdom seems freshly relevant. “Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism” by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller (both Nobel laureates) was p…
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The Economics of Mood Control
November 30, 2014. Mark that day on your calendar because it’s likely to be the day that will change the gold market forever. The Swiss people will vote on a referendum that’ll refresh the country’s centuries-long affinity for gold and restrain paper money. Bringing this issue to a vote has be…
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November 30: Zero Hour for Gold
Nearly half of Japanese firms think the government should start defending the yen at this month’s dollar high of 110, a Reuters survey shows, underscoring the threat that rising fuel and other import costs pose to a fragile economy. Over the past two years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to…
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Yen at around 110 to the dollar a key pain point for Japan firms: Reuters poll
Over the last few days to finish out last week Gold ran into the previous key level at $1240 which has resisted and forced gold a little lower, although it did rally and surge through to reach four week high in the process. During this period, Gold has consolidated and traded within a narrow range…
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Gold – Continues to Hover Just Below Key Level at $1240
I’d like to thank Leading Age Services Australia for the opportunity to be here today. I want to focus on some implications of population ageing for the longer-term outlook. Before that, I’ll make two remarks about the near-term outlook. First, with inflation expected to remain consistent with th…
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Kent: Ageing and Australia’s Economic Outlook
The Bank of Canada is already seriously disinclined toward raising interest rates over the next year. Now it has all the reasons in the world not to. As the central bank prepares to deliver its next rate decision and quarterly Monetary Policy Report on Wednesday, its staff writers have no doubt b…
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Bank of Canada expected to remain cautious on interest rates
In the pantheon of odd market indicators, the Barron’s magazine cover is probably one of the more unreliable contrarian indicators followed by many (See here, here, here, here, here, and here). So, don’t be surprised on Monday when a market pundit appears on CNBC or Bloomberg TV and invokes the n…
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The New Barron’s Cover Looks Bullish
The GBPUSD has some key events this week. The technical analysis and trade bias will be determined from the price action through these events. On Wednesday, the Monetary Policy Committee will release the meeting minutes from their last interest rate decision. On Thursday< Retail Sales will be...
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GBPUSD setting up for the news this week (October 20, 2014)
Charles-Henri Sabet’s GLIO Holdings has been issued 20,983,213 ordinary shares, 59,952,038 convertible loan notes, and 80,935,251 warrants …
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London Capital Group closes £17 million financing
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper on Sunday that he wanted to increase investment spending and improve competitiveness in Europe’s biggest economy but not at the expense of achieving a balanced budget next year. A raft of gloomy economic data and expectations of a slowdo…
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Germany’s Schaeuble wants more investment but no new debt
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper on Sunday that he wanted to increase investment spending and improve competitiveness in Europe’s biggest economy but not at the expense of achieving a balanced budget next year. A raft of gloomy economic data and expectations of a slowdo…
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Germany’s Schaeuble wants more investment but no new debt
Germany and France are secretly discussing a deal to enable the European Commission to approve Paris’s draft 2015 budget even though it breaks past deficit-cutting commitments, German weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday. The two governments are working on a written agreement under which France wil…
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Paris, Berlin work on French budget deal for EU: Spiegel
Germany and France are secretly discussing a deal to enable the European Commission to approve Paris’s draft 2015 budget even though it breaks past deficit-cutting commitments, German weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday. The two governments are working on a written agreement under which France wil…
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Paris, Berlin work on French budget deal for EU: Spiegel
– The Euro may have its own problems, but it may be able to lever the US Dollar’s moment of vulnerability. – The retail crowd’s shift in the US Dollar is led by what could be a bottom forming in EURUSD led by sentiment. – Have a bullish (or bearish) bias on the Euro, but don’t know which pair …
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Euro Faces Economic Headwinds with Weakening German, Euro-Zone PMIs
– The Euro may have its own problems, but it may be able to lever the US Dollar’s moment of vulnerability. – The retail crowd’s shift in the US Dollar is led by what could be a bottom forming in EURUSD led by sentiment. – Have a bullish (or bearish) bias on the Euro, but don’t know which pair …
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Euro Faces Economic Headwinds with Weakening German, Euro-Zone PMIs
