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Moneylife Digital Team 19 September 2013
Tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labour market, the US Fed said The US Federal Reserve has left its $85 billion per month stimulus programme in place, against broad expectations that it would...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2013
According to Credit Suisse, after months of worry about fragile developed world economies, China has become the main drag on activity important for demand Global growth remains weak in aggregate but it is becoming clear that the latest 'slowdown scare' has come to an end and global...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 May 2013
Quantitative easing is a powerful monetary policy tool to revive markets and the economy. However, recent analysis has shown that there is no difference on how it affects economy. If at all, central banks’ policies has made markets more volatile than before with Warren Buffet stating that if...

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William Gamble 06 May 2013
Bubbles happen all the time in frontier markets. The index in Ghana is up 50% in four months. Assuming you wanted to take the risk, what are the safest investment vehicles and do their returns really represent the mouth-watering  headline numbers? While I was waiting for my interview on...

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William Gamble 29 April 2013
As China slows, the loan defaults will increase as will unhappy customers. In an era of social media, it will be more difficult for the government to prevent people from removing their money from the system Zhang Ke, the vice-chairman of China’s accounting association, is worried. He and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 April 2013
Nomura felt the risks in China were sufficiently non-trivial to assign a one-in-three likelihood of a “hard landing” commencing before the end of 2014 Almost 18 months ago, global brokerage firm Nomura in its China Risks report provided six reasons why it thought the risk of a hard...

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William Gamble 15 April 2013
While much of the recent economic gains have been attributed to the actions of the Federal Reserve, the Fed could be harming as much as it is helping. The question will be what happens when the free money disappears? At that time we will finally know the true state of the US economy and it is...

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William Gamble 01 April 2013
Governments are happy to shift bad debts onto taxpayers, or even better to some other country’s taxpayers. Investors have felt safe that there is no down side, no risk. But two insolvencies in recent weeks may change these expectations and changed expectations are contagious Since the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 March 2013
As per World Steel Dynamics, inventory restocking should continue in China on a broader level as 2012 saw a large destocking of inventory which is still getting replenished The Chinese crude steel production momentum remains strong since October 2012 and has grown in double digits for...

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William Gamble 20 March 2013
In the first part of this two-part article we discussed overheating in credit markets. We now take a look at were the problems exist. Like the Junk Bond ETFs the duration mismatch is not an issue. But if investors began to question the safety of WMPs and stopped buying them, then the whole...

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William Gamble 18 March 2013
Governor Stein pointed out that a lengthy period of low interest rates confirms an assumption of little risk. This encourages agents to increase financial leverage beyond what might be considered normal or even sane. Borrowers must work within the income budget and not borrow simply because...

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William Gamble 11 March 2013
Although the government’s efforts have not been rewarded with either inflation or a healthy economy, it has resulted in the highest sovereign debt in the world at a whopping 200% of GDP. The only reason why Japan is immune from bond vigilantes is because most of the debt is held by locals at...

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William Gamble 04 March 2013
The real problem with the sequestration for both politicians and investors is that the cuts will be phased in over time without an immediate impact. No one is really sure what its effect will be. It is doubtful that either party will feel the need to compromise until there is a consequence...

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William Gamble 18 February 2013
China has a powerful elite class, which like the financiers, are a law unto themselves. For the privileged it can mean vast fortunes. It is one of the few places that can give Wall Street some lessons on greed The US stock market is nearing its all-time high. This appears to be very good...

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William Gamble 12 February 2013
A poor system of taxation denies the citizens the services they have a right to expect from their government. But the crisis, both past and potential, have illustrated that the failure to collect taxes can have much broader effects on markets far from home The origins of a sovereign debt...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 January 2013
The poor performance of the hedge funds industry last year as well as in the last 10 years has prompted many to question their very existence. Are they really worth it? Hedge funds have had a miserable 2012 as they returned just 3% to the investors. By contrast, the S&P 500 index was up...

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MDT/PTI 16 January 2013
World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu says that by 2015, the growth rate of China would be 7.9% and that of India 7%   Washington: India's growth is expected to inch closer to that of China in near future, reports PTI quoting a top economist from the World Bank.   The World...

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William Gamble 14 January 2013
While the low interest rates have allowed many financially stressed municipalities to save money for new projects, they have created their own stresses in other ways. Many of them made generous retirement promises to civil servants, but what they never provided for were the actual funds to...

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MDT/PTI 08 January 2013
Under the agreements, Bank of America would pay $3.55 billion in cash to Fannie Mae and repurchase for $6.75 billion residential mortgage loans it had sold to the government-controlled company Washington: Bank of America said it would pay $11.6 billion to settle claims on soured loans...

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MDT/PTI 04 January 2013
According to Munich Re total economic costs in 2012 from natural disasters worldwide including uninsured losses amounted to $160 billion, compared with the previous year's $400 billion Berlin: Natural disasters cost insurers $65 billion last year, with the United States accounting for...

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