UK house prices declined by 0.2 % in September , following sixteen consecutive monthly price rises. As a result, the annual pace of house price growth moderated to 9.4% from 11% in August . “While September saw a slowing in house price growth, the picture on a quarterly basis (July,…
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UK: Annual house price growth slows in September
UK house prices declined by 0.2 % in September , following sixteen consecutive monthly price rises. As a result, the annual pace of house price growth moderated to 9.4% from 11% in August . “While September saw a slowing in house price growth, the picture on a quarterly basis (July,…
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UK: Annual house price growth slows in September
According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), retail turnover in August 2014 in Germany increased 0.1% in real terms and 0.6% in nominal terms compared with the corresponding month of the previous year. The number of days open for sale was 26 in August 2014 and 27 in…
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German Retail turnover in August 2014: +0.1% in real terms on August 2013
According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), retail turnover in August 2014 in Germany increased 0.1% in real terms and 0.6% in nominal terms compared with the corresponding month of the previous year. The number of days open for sale was 26 in August 2014 and 27 in…
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German Retail turnover in August 2014: +0.1% in real terms on August 2013
Housing starts in Japan declined at a slower rate in August, defying expectations of a faster rate of decline, data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism showed Tuesday. Housing starts dropped 12.5 percent year-over-year in August following the 14.1 percent decline in J…
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Japan Housing Starts Growth Slows Unexpectedly In August
Housing starts in Japan declined at a slower rate in August, defying expectations of a faster rate of decline, data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism showed Tuesday. Housing starts dropped 12.5 percent year-over-year in August following the 14.1 percent decline in J…
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Japan Housing Starts Growth Slows Unexpectedly In August
Shanghai is cracking down on polluters with the introduction of stricter fines to combat the hazardous smog levels that are testing its drive to become a global financial center. Beginning tomorrow, the city will boost the maximum penalty for pollution fivefold to 500,000 yuan ($82,000). Repeat o…
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Smog Clouds Shanghai’s Drive to Become Global Financial Center
Shanghai is cracking down on polluters with the introduction of stricter fines to combat the hazardous smog levels that are testing its drive to become a global financial center. Beginning tomorrow, the city will boost the maximum penalty for pollution fivefold to 500,000 yuan ($82,000). Repeat o…
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Smog Clouds Shanghai’s Drive to Become Global Financial Center
China may be doing everything in its power to divert attention from the simple fact that its housing bubble, the largest in the world in terms of both assets comprising it as well as divergence from fair value, has burst. But while there is no clear threshold of what constitutes a bursting bubble…
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China Housing Bubble Bursts: Q3 Land Sales Crater 50%
“The Wave Principle is a simple rule-based methodology (3 rules) that allows the practitioner to dissect the collective ‘mindset’ of the market’s participants, which allows for defined, attractive/positive risk-reward trading/investing parameters–A game plan.” …
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Where to Place Stops When Using Elliott Wave
The stock market is on a tremendous, multiyear bull market, though of course there have been a lot of dips along the way. But something seems to be different about the recent sell-off in stocks (which is continuing Monday). Dan Greenhaus of BTIG writes: What we find most interesting about t…
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Why The Sell-Off Might Be Different This Time
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) is out with a note advising clients to stay long USD and to resist the temptation to take profit on their long USD positions yet. …
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Stay Long USD But Don’t Get Too Bearish On The EUR – ANZ
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Energy received federal approval late Monday to export liquefied natural gas from its Cove Point terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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Dominion natural gas exports plan gets federal OK
Asian markets were in hesitant mood on Tuesday as investors wondered what China’s response would be to civil unrest in Hong Kong, while the U.S. dollar was on track to post its biggest monthly gain in well over a year. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters blocked Hong Kong streets on Tue…
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Asia stocks unsettled by HK, sluggish China factories
You tend to find out how valuable something truly is after it’s gone. For investment house Pimco, losing “bond king” Bill Gross will likely cost the firm billions. …
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Bill Gross exit could cost Pimco $400 billion
Japan’s real wages fell at a faster annual rate in August, government data showed, in a discouraging sign that consumer spending could suffer as salary gains fail to keep up with inflation. Real wages, which are adjusted to reflect changes in consumer prices, fell 2.6 percent in August from a yea…
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Japan real wages fall at faster pace, cast doubt on consumption
September data signalled only a fractional improvement in overall operating conditions faced by Chinese manufacturers that was identical to that seen in August. Production increased at the slowest pace in the current four-month sequence of expansion, while job shedding across the sector ex…
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HSBC China Manufacturing PMI continue to improve at fractional pace
Fund manager and prominent bear John Hussman is warning investors once again of the potential for a big market plunge, citing a number of troubling divergences in market conditions. And he argues that when it comes, investors will be hard pressed to exit with profits intact. He writes, in his…
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John Hussman: Diverging market forces could be ‘ingredients of a market crash’
Such chains as Dunkin’ Donuts (DNKN) and Krispy Kreme (KKD) are offering customers free coffee today in observance of the new and somewhat dubious “holiday” known as National Coffee Day, which dates back only to around 2005 in the U.S. It’s an obvious marketing opportunity for food companies—much…
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The Higher Cost of Giving Away Free Coffee
Volatility breeds volatility Benoit Mandlebrot taught us. So it’s no surprise that the saw tooth pattern we saw last week continued in the first day of trade this week. What might be surprising – given the performance of Asia shares – is what the supposed catalyst for the selling was. That i…
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Stocks under pressure and US dollar stronger in an aggressive days trade
