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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, Gold continues to be a great investment reaching record highs – all because the USD is being devalued. Copper stockpiles are said to be extremely low, which supports further bullishness in emerging markets. One of the reasons I see for the moves in Commodities is an extension of the Bush tax cuts by [...]

G’day Traders, Well, we had another quiet day on Friday as the market prepares for Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s announcements. Some believe the results of the mid-terms, giving Republicans control of the House, would be a good outcome and see the markets rally. The market has always performed better when the President is a Democrat and [...]

G’day Traders, Back to a shorter, sweeter, format today. I tweeted a few interesting notes and one interesting article this morning. All tweets were news on the bond market, with the article directly relevant. The article makes a great articulation for the current state of the markets and shows the divide between what the UK [...]

G’day Traders, I seem to recall that the reason the Roman Empire may have crumbled was because it made itself sick trying to have a luxury lifestyle. What I heard happened was that they put in lead piping so they could all have ‘fresh’ water. Of course there were other factors, but doesn’t it remind [...]

G’day Traders, All the good figures and stimulus in the world isn’t getting corporations to invest. We keep hearing companies have lots of cash, but if they do and the economy is so great why aren’t they using that to invest and hire? Especially considering labor is so cheap with the high unemployment. There are [...]

G’day Traders, I ask you this question because sometimes we forget how the Australian stock market works – and how our currency works. You see when anything bad tends to happen the AUD and the ASX200 tend to cop it. You see, we have been living in a world of correlations of late where if [...]

G’day Traders, Last night I had a relaxing time with my wife at home and was surprised by our PM on Q&A. But by tomorrow morning we will have some real clarity (I hope) on many things from the Fed and I believe it could set in place some moves. I tweeted this morning about [...]

G’day Traders, I went to bed last night worrying I had said the wrong thing in my update. Just when I came out to say the equity markets may settle down, although to stick to any trends. Then the market fell on the open, breaking the uptrend. The strange thing was that, although bonds rallied, [...]