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Global Market Trends Taking a Beating or Getting Knocked Out?
Tuesday June 14th, 2011
Updated: Bangkok
While just today Nouriel Roubini, perhaps the world’s most respected, yet bearish economist was quoted in a Bloomberg report and by the Financial Times in an editorial that there are 4 definite hot spots, or perfect storms brewing of economic chaos risk, with a better than 30% chance of a 2012-2013 global recession, or major double dip already beginning...
Short Term Gains, …. or Long Term Pains Ahead?
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Bangkok
Asian/ Global Market Trends
…. Both. While Friday Asian stocks rose for a fourth day on optimism that the world economic recovery was on track despite Europe’s debt woes, and the euro was steady after a rally the previous day, the euro rose for the third straight trading day against the U. S. dollar, at $1.21 in New York up from US$1.197 on Wednesday....
Wall Sreet’s Losses Are Asia’s Gains…
Thursday, April 1, 2010
BANGKOK
Asian stock markets opened up Thursday with Japan’s Nikkei up .5% to 11,144.81, an 18-month high, but the yen fell to a 3 month low against the U. S. dollar. A lower yen is a favorable factor to exporters, but also signals a continuation of Japan’s chronic deflation and dependence on export growth. As the U. S. consumer market recovers, Asian export...
Around Asia/Major Stock Indexes…
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Kuala Lumpur was down 6.79 at 1321.4, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (HSI) was up just shy of 20 points, 19.9 to close at 21,228.2. Japan’s Nikkei grew 101 to finish at 10,664.95 and the STI, Singapore’s Straits Times Index was up over 11 to close at 2,879.91.
As of the beginning of March, China was also allowing its yuan to relax from tight trading bands which served...
Current Economic Trends Making Even The Most Savvy Investors Nervous
Global Financial Crisis
EURO at 9 Month Lows
BANGKOK
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Along with current economic trends that are making even the most savvy investors nervous as global fears of market upheaval in the four PIGS economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain continue, current political upheaval in one of Southeast Asia’s biggest economies is also a cause for concern. Bangkok’s...
