    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | truthingold.com / By truthing / May 24, 2013, 08:05 Trading in gold using the Chinese currency has tripled in Hong Kong this year as the yuan’s rally to a 19-year high helps limit risks for jewelers. Average daily volume was 6.5 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in the first five months of this year, compared with [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 23, 2013, 21:12 -0400 As if China was not suffering enough from a slumping economy, the South China Morning Post now reports that the H7N9 ‘bird flu’ virus that has infected 131 people (and killed 36) so far can be transmitted not only by close contact but by [...] A Chinese propaganda poster from 1982. Stripped bare, the BRICS miracle is really about China, and even the Politburo has run into diminishing returns after ramping up credit from $9 trillion to $23 trillion in four years telegraph.co.uk / By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / 9:01PM BST 22 May 2013 The stock of capital [...] acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / May 23, 2013 Bad News Finally Have an Effect Even though the market moves in the US were fairly large and volatile, the action became a great deal more pronounced when Japan started trading. At first there was such a heavy sell-off in JGBs that the market was (once [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 23, 2013, 10:06 -0400 In all the hoopla over Japan’s stock market crash and China’s PMI miss last night, the biggest news of the day was largely ignored: copper, and the fact that copper’s ubiquitous arbitrage and rehypothecation role in China’s economy through the use [...] caseyresearch.com / By Chuck Butler / May 23, 2013, 1:23pm Good day. And a Tub Thumpin’ Thursday to you! What the heck was I thinking, was running through my mind when the alarm went off this morning. In an attempt to relieve Chris from having to write the Pfennig this morning, I told him not [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 23, 2013, 07:21 -0400 Once again: The FOMC minutes had nothing to do with overnight’s events, especially since both Ben Bernanke and Bill Dudley made it very clear previously that for any tapering to occur (and which is supposedly bullish according to David Tepper, who may finally be [...] traderdannorcini.blogspot.com / By Dan Norcini / Wednesday, May 22, 2013 It appears as if the globe is convinced that any economic recovery is going to begin here in the US first. It certainly is not going to be Europe that is leading the way. Data from China continues mixed while Japan is gaining traction at [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 22, 2013, 22:04 -0400 For the first time since October 2012, HSBC’s China PMI (Flash) printed at a sub-50 level (49.6) missing expectations (50.4) quite notably. This is the worst two-month drop in 17 months. This is problematic for the PBoC who are being arbitraged left, right, and [...] acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / May 22, 2013 The Out of Touch Eurocracy Not a day passes without the citizens of the EU witnessing new absurdities being imposed by the apparatus of compulsion and coercion in Brussels. The decrees emanating from the EU’s center of power of course have to be read by the [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 22, 2013, 21:33 -0400 Well, they’ve finally done it. As the following chart of the day from Bloomberg shows, as of this week, hedge funds have made “the biggest bet ever“ against gold by taking Comex gold shorts to all time highs. To their reflexive benefit, we will [...] cnbc.com / By Dhara Ranasinghe / Monday, 20 May 2013 | 10:38 PM ET Reports that China may step up the diversification of its huge foreign exchange reserves is not great news for U.S. Treasurys, already under pressure from talk about an easing in the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program. But, the fall-out from such [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 22, 2013, 11:09 -0400 Perhaps the best answer to the question posed to Bernanke moments ago whether US unemployment is structural or cyclical comes courtesy of Microsoft, which announced earlier that it was set to hire “several thousand” workers. Sadly, the catch is that the [...] goldcore.com / By Mark O’Byrne / May 22, 2013 Net platinum imports into China jumped to 8.9 metric tonnes last month, marking the strongest inflow in about a year according to UBS. This reflected a 14% increase from March, and year-on-year growth of 29%. The trade data coincides with strong platinum volumes [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / Tuesday, May 21, 2013 China to the rescue of Argentina with a 10 billion dollars equivalent swap … Argentina is negotiating with China, a new 10 billon dollars equivalent swap of international reserves support based on the experience of 2009 When the global financial crisis. The new accord [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Greg Canavan / May 21st, 2013 Now’s not the time to buy, but it’s certainly a time to do your research and work out who will continue to perform well in a more subdued spending environment. The question is though, just how subdued will the spending environment become as the China rebalancing [...] goldcore.com / By Mark O’Byrne / May 21, 2013 This theory is bolstered by the fact that the 10% losses were due to a handful of a very large trades in a low volume session in Asia, while silver’s subsequent 12% reversal to the upside came amid extremely high trading volume with [...] acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / May 20, 2013 EU Imposes Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels The EU has finally decided to give in to the lobbying of an industry group that wants to get government protection against the alleged ‘dumping’ of goods by solar panel manufacturers in China. Apparently no-one in [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 20, 2013, 11:50 -0400 While we have wondered on numerous occasions previously if the collapse in lumber prices is the far more accurate indicator of end demand for housing (as confirmed by the recent collapse in multi-family housing starts), perhaps an even better indicator of trends in housing [...] globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / By Mike “Mish” Shedlock / May 20, 2013 12:41 AM The threat by the EU to impose huge tariffs on solar panels from China has run into staunch opposition. The Financial Times reports Germany warns EU solar tariffs would be ‘grave mistake’ Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister [...] blog.milesfranklin.com / By Bill Holter / May 20, 2013 “How much Gold do they really have?” This is a question which is asked all the time regarding the ETFs and of inventories such as the COMEX and in London. Of course the real hardcore whack jobs ask even more “conspiratorial” question like how much gold [...] armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong / May 19, 2013 QUESTION: I’m a reader from China and one of the big fans of you in our country. I want to ask you a question and would be very happy to get your reply. If my memories are correct, you have been a bull [...] silverdoctors.com / By The Doc / May 18, 2013 When the Rothchild’s HKMEx was launched in 2011, much of the metals community assumed that the COMEX & LBMA, were they not to outright default, would fade into irrelevance with the advent of the new Asian metals exchange. Two years after the exchange’s launch however, in [...] golemxiv.co.uk / By Golem XIV / May 17, 2013 The Chinese authorities have, for some time now, been talking about the desirability of moving their economy from being overly reliant on exports to one which has a significant domestic component of goods produced in China for consumption in China. The central authorities have wished rather [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 17, 2013, 09:44 -0400 For the third year in a row (since the crisis) average pay at private companies in China surge by greater than double digits – far outstripping GDP growth. 2012 saw a 17.1% nominal rise in average wages for private companies to Yuan 28,752 per [...] reuters.com / By Lewa Pardomuan / May 16, 2013, 1:58am EDT SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters) – Premiums for gold bars rallied to all-time highs in Hong Kong and Singapore on Thursday after bullion’s steepest drop since its April sell-off fuelled another round of buying, constricting supply. Gold bars in Hong Kong fetched premiums of up [...] marctomarket.com / By Marc Chandler / THURSDAY, May 16, 2013 The dramatic sell-off of the Australian dollar is the latest of a series of price developments that have surprised the market. The sell-off in JGBs, which appears to have stabilized, has seen 10-year yields in Japan nearly double, despite the BOJ’s commitment to buy 70% [...] |
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