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Goldman's Cohn concerned about strong dollar
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 2:31PM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The U.S. Dollar: Strong Or Weak, Bear Or Bull?
Rupert Nicholson - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 8:49AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Guess What Happened The Last Time The U.S. Dollar Skyrocketed In Value Like This?
Michael T. Snyder - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 2:57AM CST
Over the past decade, there has been only one other time when the value of the U.S. dollar has increased by so much in such a short period of time. That was in mid-2008 - just before the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression. A surging...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
A Week Of Dollar Weakness: The Greenback Falters, Then Friday It Explodes
Andrew Hecht - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 5:19AM CST
ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), ERO: 43.16 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
A Strong Dollar Does Not Mean Large Cap U.S. Multinationals Underperfom Small Cap Equities
David I. Templeton, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 08, 5:04AM CST
The U.S. Dollar has been on a strengthening trajectory since early 2011 and more so since mid year last year. This move in the Dollar has been a headwind for U.S. domiciled multinational companies' earnings, with many firms citing this as a reason...
VB: 119.86 (+0.63), JKJ: 141.02 (+0.91), FYX: 49.83 (+0.38), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), SCHA: 56.51 (+0.33), ZSML: 26.10 (unch), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Revisions turn January jobs report into blowout beat
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 7:36AM CST
TLH: 136.86 (-0.66), DLBL: 78.14 (+0.78), TLO: 73.76 (-0.77), TENZ: 86.50 (-0.21), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), EDV: 126.88 (-1.85), UBT: 83.49 (-1.42), USDU: 27.70 (unch), TLT: 128.19 (-1.33), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), TBT: 44.22 (+0.88), TMV: 29.17 (+0.87), DLBS: 20.57 (+0.51), LBND: 56.35 (-2.05), ZROZ: 123.35 (-1.57), SBND: 4.44 (+0.08), TBF: 24.63 (+0.25), TTT: 38.96 (+1.14), VGLT: 78.92 (-0.70), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), TYBS: 22.40 (+0.20), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), TMF: 90.04 (-2.88)
Dollar gains ahead of nonfarm payrolls report
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 5:05AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Currency Wars
Comstock Partners - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 3:28AM CST
As our viewers know, we have been sounding the alarm about the deflationary process that is playing out in the world's equity, bond and currency markets for quite some time. Because of the activity by central banks in major and more recently in...
JYN: 48.15 (unch), ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), FXY: 81.87 (+0.09), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), YCL: 14.33 (+0.04), YCS: 87.47 (-0.07), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FXF: 104.56 (-0.56), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), ERO: 43.16 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
Procter & Gamble, The Strong Dollar, And Pepto Bismol
Tony Sagami - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 3:31PM CST
Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT ). Boeing (NYSE: BA ). Coach (NYSE: COH ). Ford (NYSE: F ). Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ). McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD ). Nike (NYSE: NKE ). Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ). What do those household-name companies have in common? Not...
MMM: 165.94 (+0.03), F: 16.30 (-0.06), NKE: 92.04 (+0.04), UTX: 121.25 (+1.66), PFE: 34.64 (-0.23), EMR: 58.68 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), WMT: 85.81 (-0.08), BA: 149.73 (+1.64), INTC: 34.36 (+0.23), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), USDU: 27.70 (unch), COH: 39.85 (+0.64), AMAT: 24.12 (-0.02), MCD: 95.65 (+0.56), PG: 85.90 (-0.13), CAT: 85.13 (+1.60), MSFT: 43.87 (+0.78), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Still Stuck On Step 1
Joseph Calhoun - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 4:27AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Every once in a while, you get the sense that the officialdom is starting to come around to the legion of finance as it actually exists rather than the one printed inside the dusty textbooks still crowded within the halls of...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Something Perturbs 'Dollar' Funding
Joseph Calhoun - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 3:37AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Oh Europe. I have a growing sense that US credit markets are repeating the leadup to last October 15, though there isn't any obvious expression of any such illiquidity (at the moment). For one thing, the eurodollar curve has...
TAPR: 31.63 (+0.44), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), GOVT: 25.33 (-0.06), PLW: 33.20 (-0.21)
A Strong Dollar Doesn't Attract Foreign Capital - Expectation Of A Stronger Dollar Does
Bob McTeer - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 1:26AM CST
Whether the dollar is strong or weak matters for our exports and imports because their prices change in foreign currencies. Many people on the financial news networks appear to believe that similar reasoning applies to capital flows, i.e., that a...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Why 2015 Will Be A Good Year For The U.S. Dollar
Will Healy - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 4:59AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The Hard Work Of Strong Dollars
Joseph Calhoun - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 4:04AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Even Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG ) is against the "strong dollar" at this point, which I think says a lot about how financialism has destroyed even this most basic sense of "money." For the record , Harley's...
GDAY: 24.90 (+0.04), FXA: 77.69 (+0.23), CROC: 56.13 (-0.38), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The USD Bull In The Global China Shop
Charles Hugh Smith - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 12:35AM CST
The long-term consequences of primary FX trends may be entirely unintended. Indulge my two "I told you so's": 1. That the U.S. dollar (USD) would rise a lot, confounding those busily digging the dollar's grave. 2. That the...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Whack A Mole - The Saga Of The Dollar And Commodity Prices
Andrew Hecht - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 03, 6:30AM CST
DBC: 18.30 (+0.20), USCI: 47.48 (+0.44), DEE: 58.48 (unch), CMDT: 42.09 (+0.57), SINF: 47.80 (unch), RGRC: 18.39 (+0.01), DYY: 3.95 (+0.15), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), COMT: 41.61 (+0.43), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), USDU: 27.70 (unch), RINF: 30.25 (+0.05), FTGC: 25.57 (+0.26), FINF: 42.47 (-0.64), DDP: 41.94 (-2.87), SBV: 27.97 (+0.56), PDBC: 20.92 (+0.30), INFL: 39.28 (+0.47), UINF: 27.79 (+0.01), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), DPU: 11.22 (unch), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DEFL: 58.00 (unch), BCM: 32.35 (+0.42)
When The Dollar Crashes
Bob Moriarty - Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 03, 2:46AM CST
Editor's note: Originally published on January 26, 2015 Back in late April of 2011, legendary investor Jim Rogers made one brilliant call combined with one incredibly stupid observation. So he was hitting about 50%. That’s not bad, the very...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), SLV: 16.54 (+0.39), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The Forces At Work As Developed World Currencies Diverge
Sober Look - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 8:39AM CST
As Europe still manages fallout from the SNB breaking the Swiss Franc peg earlier this month, we can discuss emerging market countries that might feel similar pressure from Europe and the US soon. It is easy to forget the extent to which emerging...
ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), FXF: 104.56 (-0.56), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), ERO: 43.16 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
Could The U.S. Become The Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Charles Hugh Smith - Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 29, 9:35AM CST
That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Central Bank Action Fuels Global Gold Rally
Epoch Times - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 29, 3:42AM CST
Gold provides safe haven protection from crisis currencies Since Gold reached an all-time high of $1,923 in 2012 it is still down 33 percent in dollar terms. As global central banks started their easing efforts, gold now paints a much different...
BARS: 47.25 (-1.58), OUNZ: 12.26 (+0.06), UGLD: 12.39 (+0.18), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), DZZ: 6.85 (-0.07), DGL: 40.62 (+0.21), USDU: 27.70 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), DGP: 25.12 (+0.28), DGLD: 67.61 (-1.14), SGOL: 120.32 (+0.59), UBG: 31.86 (+0.15), DGZ: 14.99 (-0.06), GLD: 117.98 (+0.64), IAU: 11.89 (+0.06), BAR: 29.93 (+0.49), AGOL: 121.01 (-0.19), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), UGL: 41.23 (+0.32), GLL: 92.03 (-1.02)
Goldman's Cohn concerned about strong dollar
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 2:31PM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The U.S. Dollar: Strong Or Weak, Bear Or Bull?
Rupert Nicholson - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 8:49AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Guess What Happened The Last Time The U.S. Dollar Skyrocketed In Value Like This?
Michael T. Snyder - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 2:57AM CST
Over the past decade, there has been only one other time when the value of the U.S. dollar has increased by so much in such a short period of time. That was in mid-2008 - just before the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression. A surging...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
A Week Of Dollar Weakness: The Greenback Falters, Then Friday It Explodes
Andrew Hecht - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 5:19AM CST
ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), ERO: 43.16 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
A Strong Dollar Does Not Mean Large Cap U.S. Multinationals Underperfom Small Cap Equities
David I. Templeton, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 08, 5:04AM CST
The U.S. Dollar has been on a strengthening trajectory since early 2011 and more so since mid year last year. This move in the Dollar has been a headwind for U.S. domiciled multinational companies' earnings, with many firms citing this as a reason...
VB: 119.86 (+0.63), JKJ: 141.02 (+0.91), FYX: 49.83 (+0.38), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), SCHA: 56.51 (+0.33), ZSML: 26.10 (unch), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Revisions turn January jobs report into blowout beat
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 7:36AM CST
TLH: 136.86 (-0.66), DLBL: 78.14 (+0.78), TLO: 73.76 (-0.77), TENZ: 86.50 (-0.21), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), EDV: 126.88 (-1.85), UBT: 83.49 (-1.42), USDU: 27.70 (unch), TLT: 128.19 (-1.33), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), TBT: 44.22 (+0.88), TMV: 29.17 (+0.87), DLBS: 20.57 (+0.51), LBND: 56.35 (-2.05), ZROZ: 123.35 (-1.57), SBND: 4.44 (+0.08), TBF: 24.63 (+0.25), TTT: 38.96 (+1.14), VGLT: 78.92 (-0.70), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), TYBS: 22.40 (+0.20), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), TMF: 90.04 (-2.88)
Dollar gains ahead of nonfarm payrolls report
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 5:05AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Currency Wars
Comstock Partners - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Feb 06, 3:28AM CST
As our viewers know, we have been sounding the alarm about the deflationary process that is playing out in the world's equity, bond and currency markets for quite some time. Because of the activity by central banks in major and more recently in...
JYN: 48.15 (unch), ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), FXY: 81.87 (+0.09), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), YCL: 14.33 (+0.04), YCS: 87.47 (-0.07), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FXF: 104.56 (-0.56), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), ERO: 43.16 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
Procter & Gamble, The Strong Dollar, And Pepto Bismol
Tony Sagami - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 3:31PM CST
Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT ). Boeing (NYSE: BA ). Coach (NYSE: COH ). Ford (NYSE: F ). Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ). McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD ). Nike (NYSE: NKE ). Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ). What do those household-name companies have in common? Not...
MMM: 165.94 (+0.03), F: 16.30 (-0.06), NKE: 92.04 (+0.04), UTX: 121.25 (+1.66), PFE: 34.64 (-0.23), EMR: 58.68 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), WMT: 85.81 (-0.08), BA: 149.73 (+1.64), INTC: 34.36 (+0.23), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), USDU: 27.70 (unch), COH: 39.85 (+0.64), AMAT: 24.12 (-0.02), MCD: 95.65 (+0.56), PG: 85.90 (-0.13), CAT: 85.13 (+1.60), MSFT: 43.87 (+0.78), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Still Stuck On Step 1
Joseph Calhoun - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 4:27AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Every once in a while, you get the sense that the officialdom is starting to come around to the legion of finance as it actually exists rather than the one printed inside the dusty textbooks still crowded within the halls of...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Something Perturbs 'Dollar' Funding
Joseph Calhoun - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 3:37AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Oh Europe. I have a growing sense that US credit markets are repeating the leadup to last October 15, though there isn't any obvious expression of any such illiquidity (at the moment). For one thing, the eurodollar curve has...
TAPR: 31.63 (+0.44), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), GOVT: 25.33 (-0.06), PLW: 33.20 (-0.21)
A Strong Dollar Doesn't Attract Foreign Capital - Expectation Of A Stronger Dollar Does
Bob McTeer - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 1:26AM CST
Whether the dollar is strong or weak matters for our exports and imports because their prices change in foreign currencies. Many people on the financial news networks appear to believe that similar reasoning applies to capital flows, i.e., that a...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Why 2015 Will Be A Good Year For The U.S. Dollar
Will Healy - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 4:59AM CST
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The Hard Work Of Strong Dollars
Joseph Calhoun - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 4:04AM CST
By Jeffrey P. Snider Even Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG ) is against the "strong dollar" at this point, which I think says a lot about how financialism has destroyed even this most basic sense of "money." For the record , Harley's...
GDAY: 24.90 (+0.04), FXA: 77.69 (+0.23), CROC: 56.13 (-0.38), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The USD Bull In The Global China Shop
Charles Hugh Smith - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 12:35AM CST
The long-term consequences of primary FX trends may be entirely unintended. Indulge my two "I told you so's": 1. That the U.S. dollar (USD) would rise a lot, confounding those busily digging the dollar's grave. 2. That the...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Whack A Mole - The Saga Of The Dollar And Commodity Prices
Andrew Hecht - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 03, 6:30AM CST
DBC: 18.30 (+0.20), USCI: 47.48 (+0.44), DEE: 58.48 (unch), CMDT: 42.09 (+0.57), SINF: 47.80 (unch), RGRC: 18.39 (+0.01), DYY: 3.95 (+0.15), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), COMT: 41.61 (+0.43), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), USDU: 27.70 (unch), RINF: 30.25 (+0.05), FTGC: 25.57 (+0.26), FINF: 42.47 (-0.64), DDP: 41.94 (-2.87), SBV: 27.97 (+0.56), PDBC: 20.92 (+0.30), INFL: 39.28 (+0.47), UINF: 27.79 (+0.01), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), DPU: 11.22 (unch), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DEFL: 58.00 (unch), BCM: 32.35 (+0.42)
When The Dollar Crashes
Bob Moriarty - Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 03, 2:46AM CST
Editor's note: Originally published on January 26, 2015 Back in late April of 2011, legendary investor Jim Rogers made one brilliant call combined with one incredibly stupid observation. So he was hitting about 50%. That’s not bad, the very...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), SLV: 16.54 (+0.39), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
The Forces At Work As Developed World Currencies Diverge
Sober Look - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 8:39AM CST
As Europe still manages fallout from the SNB breaking the Swiss Franc peg earlier this month, we can discuss emerging market countries that might feel similar pressure from Europe and the US soon. It is easy to forget the extent to which emerging...
ULE: 17.62 (-0.02), URR: 19.48 (+0.08), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), FXF: 104.56 (-0.56), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), EUO: 24.16 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), EUFX: 42.41 (+0.07), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), ERO: 43.16 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), DRR: 55.92 (-0.18)
Could The U.S. Become The Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Charles Hugh Smith - Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 29, 9:35AM CST
That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers...
UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), USDU: 27.70 (unch), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02)
Central Bank Action Fuels Global Gold Rally
Epoch Times - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Jan 29, 3:42AM CST
Gold provides safe haven protection from crisis currencies Since Gold reached an all-time high of $1,923 in 2012 it is still down 33 percent in dollar terms. As global central banks started their easing efforts, gold now paints a much different...
BARS: 47.25 (-1.58), OUNZ: 12.26 (+0.06), UGLD: 12.39 (+0.18), UUPT: 29.68 (-0.04), DZZ: 6.85 (-0.07), DGL: 40.62 (+0.21), USDU: 27.70 (unch), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01), DGP: 25.12 (+0.28), DGLD: 67.61 (-1.14), SGOL: 120.32 (+0.59), UBG: 31.86 (+0.15), DGZ: 14.99 (-0.06), GLD: 117.98 (+0.64), IAU: 11.89 (+0.06), BAR: 29.93 (+0.49), AGOL: 121.01 (-0.19), UDN: 22.76 (+0.03), FORX: 44.02 (+0.09), UDNT: 10.42 (-0.02), UGL: 41.23 (+0.32), GLL: 92.03 (-1.02)
