An RSS feed generated from the blog aggregator for CPI Financial http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:34:25 -0500 copyrights 2013 CPI Financial. All rights reserved. en A few years ago – even last summer – talk of another equity market bubble would have seemed premature, if not absurd. But now that global equities have risen approximately 25 per cent in dollar terms from last June through late April, the question on many investors’ minds is: Are we in a bubble? http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20777/are-we-in-a-bubble-where-and-how-to-find-value-in-todays-market net.cpifinancial.news.news-20777 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets Another bad week for the gold price without a single day of rising prices, short covering, etc; palladium is the hands-down winner of last week’s proceedings. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20723/precious-metals-report-good-week-for-palladium-bad-for-gold net.cpifinancial.news.news-20723 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets It is starting to sound like we’re saying this almost every week, but once again stock prices moved higher and set new records. Last week marked the first time the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000, moving up 1% to end the week at 15,118. The S&P 500 Index likewise reached a new record, rising 1.2% to 1,633. The Nasdaq Composite also rose, climbing 1.7% to 3,436. In fixed income markets, Treasury yields continued to climb (as prices fell), with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury moving from 1.74% to 1.90%. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20627/stocks-and-treasury-yields-both-jump net.cpifinancial.news.news-20627 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Markets Investments Gold prices tried and failed last week again to break the initial resistance level at $1485. This level has now been tested twice and will provide a decent resistance level for the near future. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20529/precious-metals-report-resistance-is-not-futile net.cpifinancial.news.news-20529 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Markets The point of maximum pessimism is often an inflection point in the land where pessimism has been entirely rational for centuries or at least since October 1917. Russia, once again, is a focus of investment angst (though Yandex ADR did rise 30% last week, Spasiba tovarichi!) for good reason. Cyprus, growth fears, fall in gold/oil, the epic Gazprom meltdown, skepticism about the reform agenda, energy policies of the Kremlin siloviki have all lead to disillusionment with Russia. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20403/from-russia-with-love-and-alpha net.cpifinancial.news.news-20403 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets Gold prices held up reasonably well over the course of last week, with the Chinese physical markets closed for the first three days of the week. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20365/precious-metals-report-the-china-syndrome net.cpifinancial.news.news-20365 Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets If only E.M. Forster and Dr. Aziz did macro! A $ 25 fall in Brent crude and a $250 fall  in gold is nirvana for India’s current account deficit  at a time when the  March wholesale price inflation has fallen to 6% and Finance minister Chidambaram could well slash taxes on G-Secs to encourage offshore money into Dalal Street debt markets. A 60 basis point RBI rate cut in May is all too possible to ignite a secular rally in Indian rupee government/corporate debt market that is simply not reflected in current prices. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20229/macro-ideas-my-macro-passage-to-indian-debt net.cpifinancial.news.news-20229 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets It is difficult for an investment strategist to assess geopolitical risk.  After all, even the CIA was unable to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union or the Shah of Iran’s loss of his Peacock Throne.  Yet the current crisis in North Korea has such potential significance to international relations, the future of Asian finance/markets that it is no longer possible to remain blissfully ignorant of the world’s last bizarre Stalinist Hermit Kingdom, a third generation House of Kim dynastic dictatorship.  North Korea is incapable of reform in the Chinese/Vietnamese model since its elite would be wiped out if the DMZ ever thawed akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall. http://www.cpifinancial.net/blog/category/investments/post/20124/the-enigma-of-north-korea net.cpifinancial.news.news-20124 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 CPI Financial Blog Channel Investments Economics Markets