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- The IMF Sees No Green Shoots of Recovery
- Peter Cooper submits: The International Monetary Fund is going to warn that the recession is likely to be ‘unusually long and severe, and the recovery sluggish’ in its next World Economic Outlook, reveals the Daily Telegraph. This does not dovetail with the ‘green shoots of recovery’ noted by President...
- External links 2009-04-19
- George Soros, GM and the next Lehman Brothers
- Peter Cooper submits: The world’s most famous hedge fund manager, George Soros, says the four week rally in U.S .stocks is just a bear market rally, and warns that the financial crisis is like nothing seen before in our lifetimes. You have to wonder, then, what will be the...
- External links 2009-04-07
- Short ETFs Jump, Confirming the Coming Market Correction
- Peter Cooper submits: The US stock market appeared to take a decisive change of direction last night with the S&P closing under 1,000 points and the Nasdaq under 2,000. Short ETFs jumped, particularly the leveraged variety. But tonight will be eagerly watched by the shorts for confirmation of a...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Why Interest Rates Will Go Up
- Peter Cooper submits: How much longer can global central banks depress the true cost of money? If the business world has become a riskier place, then the cost of borrowing should be going up. If governments around the world need to borrow more to finance their spending programs, they...
- External links 2009-05-25
- Is the U.S. Economy More Sound than It Was in the 30s?
- Peter Cooper submits: Economic commentators are quick to point out that the misery of the global economic crisis will be less in the 21st century than in the 1930s because wealth in advanced economies is more evenly spread and the absolute level higher. That may be true. But it...
- External links 2009-04-06
- As History Repeats Itself, Time to Buy Gold and Silver
- Peter Cooper submits: History does not repeat but it does rhyme, said Mark Twain. For an excellent assessment of what a stock market crash can mean for the future we have only turn to The Great Crash 1929 by Professor JK Galbraith. It is all there, a...
- External links 2009-03-29
- U.S. Stocks Look Like They're Still Headed Lower
- Peter Cooper submits: US stocks might have bounced off their lows but have only retreated to the fair value levels of 1991. Typically stock markets tend to over-correct, so we are not at the bottom yet, though it might not be that far away now. by Peter Cooper
- External links 2008-11-30
- Precious Metals Will Depose Cash from Its Temporary Throne
- Peter Cooper submits: ‘We have just been in Bahrain and everybody is cashed up!’ one banker told me today. My reply was that if everybody is now in cash, then it just has to be the wrong place to be. There are some very good reasons to worry about...
- External links 2008-11-17
- Friday's Jump: Sucker's Rally
- Peter Cooper submits: You have to imagine the hedge fund professionals were playing it cool Friday while the Dow rallied by 2.9% on the first day of the New Year. Only they know the size of redemptions that they need to fulfill after the rush to the exit at...
- External links 2009-01-04
- Did Emerging Markets Enter a New Bull Market?
- Peter Cooper submits: Templeton Asset Management chairman Mark Mobius has had a long, and at times successful career as a specialist in emerging markets. He says the next bull rally in emerging markets has just started. Should he be believed? A Reuters report from Shanghai boldly claimed that Dr....
- External links 2009-03-24
- Will Oil and Gold Prices Rise Further on Fed's Latest Moves?
- Peter Cooper submits: Last week’s surprise move by the Federal Reserve to buy $300 billion in long-dated bonds and effectively start printing money brought a sharp fall in the US dollar, and a strong bounce in oil and gold prices. Is this the story of things to...
- External links 2009-03-22
- What the Fed's Announcement Means for Gold
- Peter Cooper submits: The surprise move to quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve yesterday caught the market unaware. The $300 billion bond purchase sent gold prices jumping $50 an ounce and must have given a few gold bears a nasty awakening. Gold prices will surely now go...
- External links 2009-03-19
- Will the U.S. Dollar Be Falling Soon?
- Peter Cooper submits: Calling currency turns is so difficult it is sometimes surprising that analysts even attempt to predict currency movements. And yet so much rides on the rise and fall of the yen, euro, sterling or U.S. dollar. So we all have to try, and if we do...
- External links 2009-02-12
- $850B Stimulus Plan Signals Gold Take-Off
- Peter Cooper submits: Last night the US passed its much anticipated $850 billion Obama stimulus package, representing another huge monetary expansion. Countries all around the world have been at it, and the volume of money in circulation is increasing at a record level. Meantime, gold prices have been perky...
- External links 2009-01-29
- The Calm Before the Next Financial Storm?
- Peter Cooper submits: This particular week has that same unsettling quietness that preceded the collapse in October last year, and to be fair I flagged it up with my article ‘Dow at 7,000, FTSE to 3,300′ at the end of September. Yes we have had stocks rally by 20...
- External links 2009-01-12
- Government's Panicked Response to This Economic Crisis
- Peter Cooper submits: We now know a little more about the global financial crisis from the terrible experience of 2008, and can trace its causes back to cheap credit after the dot-com crash of 2000 and a huge volume of bad lending in the US housing sector which spread...
- External links 2009-01-07
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- Failure of Bond Market Highly Positive for Gold and Silver
- Peter Cooper submits: Analysts say the US will have to triple its bond issuance this year to meet the cost of federal bailout and stimulus packages, while in the UK the printing of money has sent 10-year gilt yields tumbling from 3.64 to 2.94 per cent. The...
- External links 2009-03-17
- VeriSign, Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (VRSN)
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Absolutely. Operator Instructions First up is Peter Cooper at Morgan Stanley. Peter Cooper – Morgan Stanley Hey, great. Thanks very much. I want to focus a little bit on of the things we talked about at the Analyst Day....
- Earnings calls 2006-07-20
- Where to Next for the Global Banking Crisis?
- Peter Cooper submits: What does public ownership, or at least vast government shareholdings mean for the global banking sector? It would be nice to think that this is the end of the global banking crisis. But since when does state support for a collapsing industry have a happy ending?...
- External links 2008-10-19
- Corporate failures put on notice
- THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched its first major legal action over the failings of corporate Australia during the global financial crisis. ASIC said this morning it had launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court against current and former directors and executives of Centro Properties, a former blue-chip...
- News items 2009-10-20
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