Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Thursday, March 10, 2016, the European Central Bank (ECB) during its monetary policy meeting took the following monetary policy decisions: The interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem will be decreased by 5 basis points to 0.00%, starting from the operation to be settled on March[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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 August 3, 2015: DOW-Jones Industrial 7-day losing streak. Americans not in labor force rise to record 93.8 million.[…]
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 July 20, 2015: Bad start of earnings season Q2-2015 DOW Jones Down YTD Gold falls below US$ 1,100.00[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, After six months of chaos, and Eyeball to Eyeball negotiation between Greece and its Creditors, it looks like Greece has blinked in a showdown with European leaders over its financial crash. Before analyzing the events of last week, after the July 5th, referendum, where 61% of the Greeks voted “NO” or “OXI”[…]