Highlight of the Week of October 12, 2015

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of October 12, 2015: Anheuser-Bush Inbev agrees to buy SabMiller for 68 billion British Pound Walmart warns that strong US-Dollar[…]

Highlight of the Week of October 5, 2015

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of October 5, 2015: The Chinese Yuan, overtook the Japanese Yen as the world fourth most used payment currency. Suncor[…]

Highlight in the week of September 28, 2015

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of September 28, 2015: ALCOA to split into 2 separate public companies. Carl Icahn, warns that markets are overpriced.[…]

Highlights in the week of September 20, 2015

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of September 20, 2015: Russian Central Bank bought one million ounces of Gold in August. Caterpillar announced restructuring plans.[…]

Why the FED didn’t raise interest rate in the USA

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Investors around the world have been closely watching the USA Central bank’s (The FED) decision on short-term rates, which have been near zero since the financial crisis in a bid to stoke growth and borrowing. That stance has helped propel a six-year-long bull market in stocks and bonds. After keeping the markets[…]

Highlights in the week of September 7, 2015.

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of September 7, 2015: Brazil downgraded to Junk rating by Standard & Poor’s. Huge outflow of gold held for[…]

Capital Markets World Wide Down

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog edition, we want to elaborate on the current correction cycle, that has all the potential of becoming a bear market, which might lead to a global recession or even depression. DEFINITION OF A CORRECTION: A correction is a decline or downward movement of a stock, or a[…]

Commodity Prices at Lowest level Since 1999.

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog edition, we want to elaborate on the current commodities bear market that brought the Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM.IND) on Monday August 24th, to its lowest level since August 1999, as can be seen from below chart. On Monday August 24, the Bloomberg Commodity Index of 22[…]

DOW Jones Index lost more than 1000 points in 4 Days

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog edition, we want to elaborate on the biggest sell-off on Wall Street since November 2011. DOW-JONES INDEX: The USA blue chip Index, the DOW-Jones Industrial, declined from 17,545.18 points on the close of Monday August 17, to close at 16,459.75 points on Friday, August 21st, a decline of 1,085.43 points[…]

Highlights in the week of August 10, 2015

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog edition, we want to elaborate on the following financial news out of China, that has impacted the Global Financial Markets last week: China has devalued its Yuan with approx. 3 percent against the US-Dollar. China has slashed approx. 180 billion US-Dollars in US-Treasuries securities. CHINA HAS DEVALUED ITS[…]