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Dave Lutz of Stifel, Nicolaus passes along the top stories that traders are talking about this weekend.
Here are the big ones:
Hedge fund managers have gone short Treasuries for the first time in 2 months (Bloomberg)
Chinese home prices rise at a slower pace in April (China Daily)
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-traders-are-reading-this-weekend-may-19-2013-5#ixzz2TkOQbWD2
For all his endless posturing, North Korea’s Un has done absolutely nothing. And if his inability and unwillingness to translate threats into actions continue, that will pretty much be it for North Korea’s hope to even get a few loose pennies as a nuisance factor. This may be tested in the next 48 hours as South Korea and the US begin two days of joint naval exercises off the country’s east coast, [...]
Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can
I’d not noticed this until someone drew my attention to it, but the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, published last month, comes about as close to declaring Spain insolvent as you are ever likely to see in official analysis of this sort. Of course, it doesn’t actually say this outright. The IMF is far too diplomatic for such language. But that’s [...]
Australia said that so far it has attracted 170 applicants to a new program to develop foreign investment by offering overseas millionaires the right of residency in return for a portion of their wealth, in a bid to help the country compete better against other nations for money and expertise from abroad.
The so-called significant investor visa was launched in November. If all those made so far are accepted, the applications, [...]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s exports shrank unexpectedly in April as sales to China and Europe sputtered, underscoring increasing fragility in global demand, especially for the island’s high-tech products.
April exports fell 1.9 percent from a year earlier, much worse than the 1.35 percent growth forecast in a Reuters poll and compared with growth of 3.3 percent in March.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/more-signs-of-global-slowdown-taiwanese-exports-unexpectedly-sputter-out-2013-5#ixzz2SbmfYoDG
A British tourist has complained after finding ‘cervical cancer with chips’ on the menu at a restaurant in Poland.
Owen Durray, 32, from Kent, found ‘Cervical cancer served on beetroot carpaccio’ being offered at the Bee Jays restaurant in Poznan.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Restaurant_offers_cancer…
ASK ordinary people about their own Chinese dream, and you find owning a home is high on the list.
But years of rising house prices have put that dream out of reach of many. A slowing economy appeared to take some of the heat out.
Now, alas, the residential property market is soaring again (see chart). A new survey of developers and property firms on May 2nd showed average house prices up [...]
May 2, 2013 – INDIA - A platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection. They finally reached their destination and pitched a tent in the barren Depsang Valley in the Ladakh region, a symbolic [...]
Pastors David Herzog and Paul Keith Davis sit down with each other in this special webinar, and share insights on what is taking place and what is coming:
Click here to go straight to the info:
Or fast-forward below to 17:15
the segment i’m referring to is only like 5 mins long but:
economic collapse followed by nuke attack (china, NK, Russia, or perhaps FF and their used as scape goats, unsure)
Thousands of foreign [...]
Time for them to join the current global dick-measuring contests.
Strike by even a midget nuke will invite massive response, India warns Pak
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-30/india/38928972_1_pakistan-shyam-saran-india
“NEW DELHI: India will retaliate massively even if Pakistan uses tactical nuclear weapons against it. With Pakistan developing “tactical” nuclear warheads, that is, miniaturizing its weapons to be carried on short-range missiles, India will protect its security interests by retaliating to a “smaller” tactical attack in exactly the same [...]
Over the last three days, countries around the world have been publishing their manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) reports.
And the message around the world is clear: manufacturing activity decelerated sharply in April.
The U.S. and China are growing marginally, but both decelerated. Europe continues to be in sharp contraction. And even Germany saw its manufacturing sector begin to contract in April.
According to JP Morgan, the global manufacturing PMI fell to 50.5 in April, down from [...]
A new mental health law that takes effect in China on May 1, 2013 grants unprecedented patient rights and personal liberties. Meanwhile, back in the USSA, those very same rights are being eliminated. Go figure.
Under the new Chinese law, which has been debated and revised since 1985, mental health treatment has been deemed voluntary in the vast majority of cases. This is sure to come as a relief to a [...]
The Chinese Government suspects that there have already been human-to-human cases – proof that the virus has developed the capacity to spread by people. Of the patients analyzed so far, half appear to have had no contact whatsoever with poultry.Officials from the World Health Organization have confirmed that this new strain transmits to humans more easily than previous bird flues. American health authorities have confirmed the human spread.
Moreover, a case has already [...]
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Yonhap) — Top U.S. and Japanese defense officials agreed Monday to step up cooperation on two of the thorniest regional security issues — North Korea’s threats and China’s growing territorial assertiveness.
“The United States, like all of our allies in the region, as well as over 80 countries of the world, are very concerned about the situation on the Korean Peninsula,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2013/04/30/….HTML
But here’s the thing: Jiang only made $185,000 a year. As the Financial Times notes, that’s less than 1% of the pay package of Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein. And at least on a dollar-adjusted basis, Jiang is down more than 21% from his 2008 salary of $234,700.
http://qz.com/79225/chinas-best-paid-banking-boss-only-made-185000-last-year/
AFP - There is no evidence that the deadly H7N9 bird flu has yet spread between humans in China but health authorities must be ready for the virus to mutate at any time, a top US virologist has warned.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said officials in China had studied more than 1,000 close contacts of confirmed cases and not found any evidence [...]
http://au.businessinsider.com/chinese-and-american-politician-wealth-2013-4
There’s a growing perception in New Delhi that China, under its new president and commander-in-chief, Xi Jinping, is becoming more belligerent – a view bolstered by the recent infiltration of Chinese troops 10 km into the Indian border district of Ladakh.
This flies in the face of Xi’s imaging so far as a sober and friendly leader, widely seen as someone trying to resolve China’s domestic challenges and taking advantage of [...]
this is interesting :
http://ransquawk.com/headlines/china-has-approved-the-navy-to-point-thei…
China has approved the Navy to point their artillery at Japanese ships, according to Sankei
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130424/180813766/NKorea-Builds-Barricades-on-B…
N.Korea Builds Barricades on Border with South – Media
http://freebeacon.com/troops-in-motion/
Chinese troops continue mobilization along N. Korean border
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-pull-back-china-wants-india-to-give…
China puts pre-conditions to pull back, wants India to give up its posts
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Now-Chinese-choppers-enter-seve…
Now, Chinese choppers enter several hundred kilometres inside India
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/is-china-changing-its-position…
Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons?
A Chinese white paper on defense, released on Tuesday, falls into this category [...]
NWO Marches on as China continues to morph. Dempsey looks so proud! Positively BEAMING!
From the department of interesting timing.
This week we saw our first real market rattling in awhile.
Commodities got absolutely hammered, and the renewed deflationary chill law to a series of violent up and down swings, resulting in the worst week in some time.
Also, US data is softening (and things aren’t hot in Europe or China either).
And yet. At least as of very recently, big money managers are bullish on historical levels.
From Barron’s [...]
John Manfreda of Wall Street for Main Street interviews Gregory Mannarino about the Precious Metals Takedown, the upcoming Metal Mania, China, Putin, Resource Scarcity, his book the Politics of Money, and many more topics
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In a deep incursion, Chinese troops have entered the Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldi(DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh and erected a tented post, setting the stage for a face-off with Indian troops.
A Platoon-strength contingent of China’s People’s Liberation Army(PLA) came 10 km inside the Indian territory in Burthe in DBO sector, which is at an altitude of about 17,000 feet, on the night of April 15 and established a [...]
The CFTC is sitting on information that implicates JPMorgan as manipulating the futures market in Silver and Gold.
An ex JP Mongan employee ( whistleblower ) spills the truth about JP Morgans crooked trading – this could be huge – the guy had to hide out in china over the last year because they would of killed him. You really think Fort Knox has any gold left with JP Morgan running [...]
Bank of America says the gold crash since Friday has already discounted sales of the entire Cypriot, Portuguese and Greek gold reserves combined. “As we believe additional gold selling in the European periphery is highly unlikely, we find it hard to fully justify the sell-off,” it said.
The Fed assault began in February when it published a paper warning that the longer quantitative easing continues, the harder it will be for [...]
First it was floating dead pigs, then ducks, then black swans, then mass chicken exterminations, then fish, and now more pigs and also a brand new entrant to the Chinese animal apocalypse: dogs.
AP reports that hundreds more pigs have been found dead in China – this time together with dozens of dogs. “A total of 410 pigs and 122 dogs were discovered in homes and at farms earlier this week in a village that comes under Yanshi [...]
PanArmenian.net
April 17, 2013
Two more people in China have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 16 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, and the government has warned that the number of infections could rise.
The latest victims were from the commercial capital of Shanghai, where the majority of the 77 cases have been found, Reuters reported citing the official Xinhua news agency.
The exact source of infection [...]
HONG KONG — The American film “Django Unchained” was abruptly pulled from theaters in China on Thursday, its opening day, a surprising move that underscored the fragility of Hollywood’s evolving relationship with the Chinese movie industry.
No reason was given for the decision to suspend “Django Unchained,” which was written and directed byQuentin Tarantino and won two Oscars in February. The move comes after some scenes were reported to have been [...]
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