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[…]
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[…]
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, 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 May 25, 2015: USA GDP shrank 0.7 percent in first quarter of this year. Brazil Economy contracted with[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to elaborate on the biggest energy deal in a decade: Royal Dutch Shell, (LSE:RDSA) buying BG Group plc (LSE:BG), for 70 billion US-Dollars. ABOUT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL: Royal Dutch Shell plc, is an Anglo-Dutch company that operates as an independent oil and gas company worldwide.[…]
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 March 9, 2015: The rising Dollar and importing deflation in the USA. US-Markets drop for third week in[…]