Helicopter Money and Zero Coupon Perpentual bonds

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Eight years after the financial crisis, the world’s central banks are trying to boost the global economy as much as ever. Though having arguably prevented financial markets from falling into the abyss in 2008 by lowering interest rates, the central banks are adopting increasingly complex interventions, to which the world economy remains[…]

The Story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf

  Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to see if there are similarities between the story of the boy who Cried Wolf and the the talk of  the USA FED, who is telling us that they are going to raise rates. THE FABLE: The story dates from Classical times, but, since it was[…]

Welcome to the Negative Interest Rate World

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog article we want to elaborate on the fact that the value of negative-yielding bonds – both government and corporate – swelled to US$13.4 trillion this week as negative interest rates and central bank bond buying ripple through the debt market. INTRODUCTION: In market economies, money is the measure[…]

Why Investing in Potassium & Lithium can be Lucrative

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to elaborate on the increasing usage of Potassium and Lithium in our modern society and the best way to invest in them. POTASIUM: Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K, with atom number 19, and is an alkali metal used mainly in the fertiliser industry. The principal[…]

Highlights of the week of July 25, 2016.

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 25, 2016: Diageo reported full-year financial results on Thursday, July 28, 2016. USA Q2-2016 GDP[…]

Gold and Silver at 2-year High

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Thursday, June 30th marked the end of the second quarter and first half of 2016. THE GOLD PRICE: Gold futures advanced 8.5% in June, 6.9% in the second quarter, and 24.6% in the first half of 2016. On Friday July 1st, the yellow metal, rose with US$ 19,09 or 1.45%[…]

Highlights of the Week of June 13, 2016

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 June 16, 2016: Germany’s 10-year sovereign bond yield turn negative for the first time. The USA[…]

Has a new upcycle begun for Precious metals?

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, For investors, the last 12-months and in particular this year has been one gigantic roller coaster ride. We began the year 2016, with the worst two-week start in recorded history for the U.S. Indexes, after the first 10 trading sessions, all three major U.S. indexes were showing losses of between[…]

Oil Rigs count to 6-year low is time to invest in Oil?

  Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Friday, April 22, in its weekly release, Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughe (NYSE: BHI) reported another record fall in the U.S. rig count (number of rigs searching for oil and gas in the country) from the previous week. As can be seen from below chart, the USA[…]

The Gold-to-Oil & Gold-to-Silver Ratio at all Time High.

Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog article, we want to discuss with you the Gold-to-Oil Ratio and the Gold-to-Silver ratio which currently are at an all-time-high might be predicting. GOLD-TO-OIL RATIO: On Friday, March 04, Gold closed on US$ US$ 1,259.10 an ounce and WTI crude at US$ 36.33 a barrel, which consequently brought[…]