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Of Buffett and Soros – No just a lot of the Ira Sohn conference

Our Monday morning riser was holding a lot of this so we dedicated a new post to more from the Ira Sohn Conference note. In short, ( pun not intended) buy Korea is right, sell Japan is more like a

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US Economy: Fed may modify Treasury/MBS purchase programs(increase it too), ECB cuts rate by 25 bp (May 1-2, 2013)

Yesterday’s Fed Statement is largely a repeat of the situation it reported in March 2013 when Chairman Ben Bernanke met the press later and did not let on the Fed’s wavering on maintaining the $85 B in purchases of Treasuries

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Bank Policy Tuesday: DMK steals policy limelight, Rate cut hopes of India Inc

Though we did not suspect the political mulligatawny soup that will lead to a face off in the Parliament on the Lankan Tamils issue and should in fact be used by Indian polity to align to US on this issue and come

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Europe gets comfortable with new Banking caveat | Banking insight

Even as regulatory costs become part of a banking brand makeover especially in Big Bad London which is also holding out on Europe, the momenutum for credit has caught on  with banks in the last fe months, giving a positive

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The Euro comes home (2012): How the Finns plan to influence the ennobled world!

The Swedes of course sweeten the pot for Economics and Life Sciences, Research in Physics and Chemistry and even subjects like Peace to bring their unique brand of influence on the World moving forward. The Finns in turn have created

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, US

China under new leadership, Hoping for stimulus and other overdone themes of the age of ‘oversupply’ | China wins again!

Technically the entire 2011 and most of 2012 continues in a zone of oversupply for most base and industrial metals and as indian and indonesian IIPs and GDP data  just proved, it’s not just China that is suffering for the

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Posted in China, Financial Markets, Global

US Morning Report: Draghi says to take the high road, honey!

Here’s what happened. Someone punched in call credentials on a Conference Call to promise only those who take the high road will survive. Corny meatballs which dish out platitudes like, We’d hate to say we told you so! would hardly

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, US

US Morning Report: FOMC starts tomorrow, ECB will be buying bonds, Japan is ready to join the good guys

The honest to god assessment of Geithener’s meeting with Draghi and German Finance minister Schauble today or the ECB meeting on Wednesday is that US and Europe in a Coordinated Central Bank effort willl affirm to more Central Bank Liquidity

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Posted in Amitonomics, European Sovereign Debt crisis, Global, Retail Lifestyle, US

The Thursday Fed Update: (Early Report) Budget Deficit Recovers strength

Though the average deficit for each month (Econoday commentary) is still double the traade deficit of $50 B at $904 B for the first 9 months of the Fiscal year, excluding calendaring it is still 12% down over the same

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Posted in Amitonomics

The Thursday Fed Update: German Bunds giving US a run for the money Euro translates into hard times for the Dollar

Dollar gets harder ith every Euro tick going don but the Aussie and the Yuan are catching on and that is keeping ( the latter) the US dollar from impoding on itself as US Trade keeps on improving with China

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Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, TARP, US