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- ECB Does Nothing, Indicates Monetary Tightening
- The Prudent Investor submits: Leaving its key interest rate unchanged at 1% on Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears to remain in standby mode, keeping financial institutions flush with cheap liquidity. The only new twist in President Jean-Claude Trichet's repetitive flood of calming words came in...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Austria's Bond Issuer Agency Piles Up SIV Losses
- The Prudent Investor submits: Austria's series of bad headlines refuses to stop. According to a paper by the Rechnungshof, literally Austria's General Accounting Office, Federal Financing Agency OeBFA sits on 1.8% of all issued US Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV), counting so far €616 million of losses on...
- External links 2009-07-15
- The U.S. Mint Again Suspends Gold Coin Sales: Is It Really Out of Gold?
- The Prudent Investor submits: I may have missed one or the other suspension of gold coin sales by the US Mint. But here we go again: Checking the online store of the US Mint I came across notices of delays and suspensions with golden Eagles and Buffalos,...
- External links 2009-07-13
- Former Assistant Treasury Secretary: 'The Treasury Works for Goldman Sachs'
- The Prudent Investor submits: Continuing the series of sunny summer day bloggin' lite, please enjoy the video below. For those busy with saving the world from its banks' irresponsibilities, read the quotes and find yourself in a financial world bare of any Chinese walls. It's all...
- External links 2009-07-10
- European Credit Rankings: No Up-Trend to Be Found
- The Prudent Investor submits: Catch this graph of brand new credit rankings by European credit insurer Coface: Stable at lower levels at best, no positive outlook anywhere. This chart is from the Austrian daily Der Standard. click to enlargeGRAPH: European map by credit rankings. The eventual bottoming...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Goldman 'Too Big to Fail'? History Shows There's No Such Thing
- The Prudent Investor submits: I have been reading and hearing a lot about the "too big to fail" (TBTF) theory in the mainstream media since the onset of the credit crisis. There is only one fundamental problem: Not one former TBTF-candidate has remained alive very long...
- External links 2009-07-06
- Why German Customers at Austrian Banks Are Suddenly Silver Bulls
- The Prudent Investor submits: It has become rare under ever tightening money transfer laws - allegedly because this helps fight "terrorism" - to be able to issue an alert that may help those cautious Germans who survived the market's tsunami of 2008 to repatriate money from...
- External links 2009-07-05
- OECD Gives Austria Good Marks but Warns of Deterioration
- The Prudent Investor submits: One can literally feel a breathe of relief that blew some fresh air in the Vienna city, three square kilometres densely packed with the executive offices for Austria's financial and economic upper crust. The Angst about more criticism on Austria's economic...
- External links 2009-07-02
- With Rates on Hold, ECB's Trichet's Quite Complacent for the Moment
- The Prudent Investor submits: It's summertime and the livin' is... (fill with adjective best describing your situation.) The European Central Bank (ECB) has gone into a wait and see mode, leaving main interest rates unchanged and forecasting a return to mild inflation after Eurostat had issued a...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Bernanke Outlines the Fed's Exit Strategy
- The Prudent Investor submits: On Tuesday Treasury markets signaled re-emerging confidence that the Federal Reserve may be able to absorb the oceans of liquidity it has pumped into markets in the last 2 years. The nice rally across the curve was based on an OpEd piece by...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Two Austrian Banks Cannot Pay Interest on Public Capital Infusion
- The Prudent Investor submits: In contrast to the optimistic utterances from Austria's central bank, the Austrian Treasury fears that its public capital infusions may turn into large write-offs. According to a spokesperson from the finance ministry, it is expected that Oesterreichische Volksbanken AG OeVAG and the Hypo...
- External links 2009-07-28
- Who Let China's Silver Bulls Out?
- The Prudent Investor submits: Official Chinese TV announced last week that silver bullion is now available for the investing public. China, once on a silver standard where nobody knows today what happened to the hoard, now offers 500 gram, 1-, 2- and 5 kilo bars. The newslady...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Bundesbank Agrees to Sell Gold
- The Prudent Investor submits: The German Bundesbank has announced it will sell a maximum of 6.5 tons of gold in the current fiscal year under the Central Bank Gold Sales Agreement (CBGSA). Germany sits on a hoard of 3,408 tons, the second largest gold stash...
- External links 2009-09-29
- The Numbers Are Too Big: IMF Research on Euro Policy Without a Single Absolute Figure
- The Prudent Investor submits: On Tuesday the IMF published a research paper that states "Euro Area Monetary Policy in Uncharted Waters". It is time to ring the bell for the Euro system when the IMF manages to publish a 36-page paper without a single absolute € figure...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Apple vs. Microsoft: Apple's OS Wins Hands Down
- The Prudent Investor submits: Currently being absolutely devastated that a friend spilled his orange juice a week ago on my MacBookPro, blogging will remain rather light until I get a replacement which may take up to 6 weeks for the new matt screens on the 15-inch Mac...
- External links 2009-08-28
- A Four-Minute Tour of the Chinese Property Bubble
- The Prudent Investor submits: As I still have not come across any temptations - except a table full of Beijing Duck without oyster sauce (!) - to visit China and take in state sponsored growth on steroids bad loans, Hedge Fund Manager Hugh Hendry Brief of Eclectica...
- External links 2009-08-18
- A Detailed Overview of Central and Eastern European Bank Players
- The Prudent Investor submits: Unicredit analysts have compiled a detailed study on the Central Eastern European (CEE) banking sector HT Ed Hugh. While I cannot share their wishful thinking in terms of a speedy recovery, this is nevertheless a compact first-hand guide to the area that will...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Take Today's FOMC Statement with a Grain of Salt
- The Prudent Investor submits: Gotcha! Stop immediately playing Klondike while waiting for the release of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement later on Wednesday. Here comes a version that was not agreed on next to the fireplace in the FOMC meeting salon but that may...
- External links 2009-08-12
- People's Bank of China to Continue Lending at High Levels: Bubble Underway?
- The Prudent Investor submits: Fighting a harder Yuan while increasing domestic lending may pose new problems for China's central bank, The PBoC. The Chinese central bank promised in a press conference last Friday to keep monetary policy loose. From Chinadaily: by The Prudent Investor
- External links 2009-08-10
- New Central Bank Gold Agreement Cuts Back on Sales
- The Prudent Investor submits: The ECB on Friday released the extension of its central bank gold sales agreement (CBGSA) for another 5 years while cutting back planned sales from 500 to 400 tons annually. Maybe central banks have rediscovered that gold reserves are undoubtedly the best performing...
- External links 2009-08-10
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