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2013-05-02 by CoinInvest

The D word haunts everyone — FIU

Deflation is the scariest word! The FOMC statement last night managed somehow to avoid saying what surely should be what is on every member of the FOMCs’ lips- DEFLATION. The recent Federal Reserve Bank regional surveys have shown that inflation is falling and quickly, and the recent Business surveys from ISM in the US have […]

2013-04-16 by CoinInvest

Dramatic moves in commodities — FIU

Taking stock of what has happened. The last week has seen dramatic moves in commodities and none more so than in Gold. There is lots of speculation as to what has caused this selling of commodities but the simple matter of fact is that there were more sellers than buyers at the levels of last […]

2013-04-04 by CoinInvest

European Central Banks offer no new support to the economies — FIU

European Central Banks offer no new support to the economies.- they leave it to the Governments to find a solution. The BoE and ECB left interest rates unchanged and both, against some investors’ expectations, did not increase QE (BoE) or allow lower quality collateral to be used in Repo operations (ECB). In the ECB’s President’s […]

2013-02-27 by CoinInvest

The Italian Crisis — FIU

Italy took centre stage yesterday after the inconclusive result from the general election. Price action in Italian Government bonds is certainly not positive for the markets. After an initial weak opening, domestic institutions took prices higher and yields lower after the initial re-pricing of the yield curve. The gradual selling throughout most of the day, […]

2013-02-21 by CoinInvest

Chaotic Markets — FIU

Today was a day that the financial markets used to have back in 2008. It was a fairly quiet start to the European trading session which was dominated by a poor German 10yr Bund auction which saw German 10yr yields hit 1.675% at the end of the morning session. There had been some US Investment […]