G’day Traders, Well yes, it’s been two years since US unemployment has officially been below 9%! I say officially, because when recently have we seen lots of jobs created? It wasn’t that long ago we were flirting with 10% unemployment. Still at the current pace I think it would take until 2019 to get unemployment [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. This morning I feel great (except I have to play horrible music to keep baby Otakar sleeping). Yesterday, I had a day off and really recharged – I needed to as I have a huge day [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Let’s get straight to it… With everything that is going on in the Middle East and North Africa we now have Oil hitting $100 and the US was down another 0.6% overnight and the FSTE was [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Firstly, it has been a US holiday and the markets moved overnight – therefore I m hunting for signals today – there has been a lot happening. I guess during the Brisbane floods and then the [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Firstly, I won’t be doing a Daily Update until next Wednesday due to the US holiday. Last night I found some awesome articles and re-tweeted them. There is information there on global food prices, weakening Emerging [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. The US stock market was strong again Friday and it’s a very good rally since September. The great thing about this is that it creates confidence and flows into the economy. Although, if you ask people [...]

G’day Traders, If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Whilst equities seem on track to go higher I am very worried about a fast turn around. Overnight Bernanke told us that US unemployment will remain elevated. This tells me he has no idea how to [...]

G’day Traders, While I am over here in the US I have noticed a big pick up in confidence compared to three months ago. There are more people out shopping and they seem happier. Talking to others at the conference, they have also seen this positivity in places around the US. This of course eventually [...]

G’day Traders, Some brief comments today. I said earlier that I thought too much money had been flowing into Emerging Markets over the past few months. What I meant by that was I thought the inflows didn’t take into account the extra risks. On Friday we also saw markets fall big time on Egypt and [...]

G’day Traders, Note: Tomorrow (January 26) is the Australia Day public holiday, Lifestyle Group business will resume as normal as on January 27. Mr Scott Goold will not be writing a Daily Update tomorrow. If you would like to listen to an audio recording of this Daily Update, please click here. Well first of all [...]