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Today’s AM fix was USD 1,476.50, EUR 1,124.95 and GBP 949.34 per ounce. Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg) Gold rose $8.10 or 0.56% yesterday to $1,466.80/oz and silver finished + 0.68%. Physical demand for coins and bars internationally continues and is the strongest since the immediate aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse on September 15, 2008, and the consequent global [...] by GoldCore
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,462.25, EUR 1,123.43 and GBP 947.79 per ounce. Comex Gold Inventory Plummet Gold climbed $33.90 or 2.37% yesterday to $1,464.30/oz and silver surged +4.83%. Gold has surged 4.9% in dollar terms so far this week and is headed for its biggest weekly gain in one-and-a-half years. Gold has recovered in all currencies and is up [...] Underneath The Surface, People Are Seeing Signs That The Stock Market Is Breaking Down Doug Kass says the same thing today, pointing to “subsurface weakness” in the market. Here are a few points Kass highlights in his note: The Russell 2000 underperformed on Monday (-1.3%) and was down (-0.5%) on an up day on Tuesday. The advance/decline line is eroding as the market’s rise narrows. Breadth disappointed – yesterday, NYSE decliners eclipsed advancing issues by over 200, excluding ETFs and fixed-income [...] Why You Can Trust Your Analyst Again: Ingrid Rico Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (2/11/13) Within the universe of junior mining companies, investors need to be choosy, says Ingrid Rico, mining analyst at Toronto-based investment bank M Partners. In this interview with The Gold Report, Rico explains how analysts value miners and reveals how she will be looking at junior mining companies in 2013—with a skeptical eye, preferring those funded to [...] From The Reformed Broker: Long before Greg Smith… or the Vampire Squid… or Zero Hedge… or the Billion Dollar Global Settlement… or the repeal of Glass-Steagal, there was Sandy “S.B.” Lewis, the original Reformed Broker. Before I was even born (let alone blogging), Sandy was puttin’ the wood to ‘em and telling the truth. He became disgusted at an early time in his career, tried to do things right, got along with no [...] From The Reformed Broker: (Interior: an oak paneled boardroom with dimmed lights, the muffled sound of thunder from outside the building can be heard intermittently.) OK, settle down, thank you all for coming this morning. As the heads of the 25 largest financial institutions in the country, I realize you’re all very busy, so I’ll keep this brief. I have a plan, you see. It’s a daring idea, but a brilliant one. It [...] Merrill Lynch is quietly circulating a memo which tells its affluent clients to reposition themselves — and their portfolios — for a fundamental geopolitical shift. http://m.cnbc.com/us_news/48129124?refresh=true
The only way brokerages make money from their clients is when they can get their clients to move money from one investment to another. They have no use for the “buy & hold” clients.
HONG KONG: Investment banks and brokerages across Asia have launched a sweeping round of job cuts as Europe’s debt crisis and China’s economic slowdown bite into the region’s financial activity. Speaking to bankers and other industry sources, Reuters was able to confirm at least 50 people were let go in the past three weeks, a cull that includes senior expatriates as well as junior bankers. The cuts mainly target the equities business, with [...] “It was like signing up for iTunes,” said Austin Bousley, 25, who applied on the Internet for a private loan from SLM, known as Sallie Mae, as a student at Suffolk University in Boston. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-05/students-pay-slm-9-25-on-exploitive-loans-for-college.html Wall Street CEO Pay Rises 20% With KKR’s Kravis No. 1 A NEW YORK broker has asked Nasdaq to compensate it for up to $US35 million ($A36.01 million) in losses on the Facebook initial public offering due to the market’s computer problems on the first day of trade. Knight Capital said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission late on Wednesday that it had submitted a claim to Nasdaq over losses related to Friday’s computer problems, which disrupted buy [...] Investors who want Facebook Inc shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies. Morgan Stanley & Co did the same, according to three advisers at the firm who declined to be named because they are not [...] Wed May 9, 2012 3:47pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/09/us-merrill-brokers-elite-idUSBRE84817N20120509 by George Washington
As of 2010, 50-70% of all stock trades were done by high frequency trading computer algorithms. And many other asset classes are dominated by high frequency trading as well. High-frequency trading distorts the markets. And see this and this. And it lets the big banks peak at what the real traders are buying and selling, and then trade on the insider information. See this, this, this, and this. Morgan Stanley has just shown (via the Financial Times) that the percentage of high frequency trading in [...] The bonuses can reach $15million for some teams over the course of years Bonuses offered by the U.S.’s biggest securities companies to recruit top brokers are reaching their loftiest levels since the financial crisis, and none of the big firms are [...] By V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch HONG KONG – The possibility that China will suffer an economic shock within the next three years is remote, but the risks are very real and the country may have to navigate several major hazards to avert it, according to fund managers and economists polled by MarketWatch. Nine of the 19 major global investment managers and brokerages that participated in the survey said a [...] January 20, 2012 Greetings once again. It’s another beautiful, sunny day in Chile today, and I’m about off to our farm south of town to spend a wonderful weekend with good food and great friends. Before I sign off for the week, though, there are a few questions I wanted to address: First, Louise asks, “Simon, that last edition of SMC really blew me away, I appreciate you serving up such [...] From Reddit: I work in Wall Street and work in hedge fund analysis. I’m the only person in my office who supports OWS This is a self-post, so I’m not trying to karma-whore or anything. I have a message I want to share with anyone who’s interested. I’m writing this in hopes that the OWS movement can have a better understanding of the hedge fund industry and the financial markets. With OWS being the [...] Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds Fed Aims At Mortgage Fraud, Shoots Housing Market In The Gut The problem with mortgage fraud wasn’t broker compensation: it was the ease of the fraud and the incentives throughout the food chain for collusion. New Fed rules simply wipe out competitors to the “too big to fail” mortgage banks. Why are we not surprised that the Fed took aim at [...] by TheRedPills Over a year ago, one of the “experts†on a cable financial news show was challenged to find out who was buying US stocks that seemed to be invariably rising in prices day by day, without regard as to whether there was poor financial news, no news, or good news. For a year this so-called expert tried to identify just who was purchasing, for instance, the stocks in the Dow [...] by Vics I went through the earnings calendar at YAHOO and randomly picked some of the more widely known names. I had heard some of the reports throughout the week and others I hadn’t….but I was curious. How has the market reacted to the BTE? After all, it’s the reaction that counts. Below is my random sampling of some of the larger, [...] The current economic disaster is the result of the combination of negligence, hubris, and wrong economic theory. For decades, an economic and monetary policy has been practiced based on the illusion of, “It doesn’t matter.” At first it was, “Deficits don’t matter.” From that, the policy of “it doesn’t matter” got extended to money creation, the credit expansion, the stock-market bubble, and the housing boom. Now, we’re being told that [...] |
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