Dear PGM-Capital Blog readers, During the last 3 years we have been warning investors for the crash of the ultimate Bubble, the Bond market. In the course of history we have seen a lot of bubbles forming and subsequently bursting. The most recent ones were the IT-Bubble of 1997- 1999 and the housing market bubble of 2002-2007. In all these cases bursting of[…]
Dear PGM Capital, Blog readers, In our blog post of Last Sunday, May 6th 2012, entitled “Are You Prepared for a World Heading for Populism?” we analyzed how growing populism, combined with excessive debt and aging population in the west, may trigger a very hard, deep and long depression. Although we dislike being right about[…]
Dear PGM CAPITAL Blog readers, Today Monday, April 30 2012, after the bell Canadian Oil Sand Ltd (TSX: COS), (ISIN CA13643E1051), reported its financial results for the three months period ended March 31, 2012. Highlights: Cash flow from operations was $454 million ($0.94 per Share) in the first quarter of 2012, down five per cent from cash flow from[…]
Dear PGM-Capital Blog readers, During this weekend we took some time to read the book “Der Staatsbankrott kommt” (The state bankruptcy is coming!) by Michael Grandt, with the fitting sub-title “Retten Sie Ihr Vermögen, solange Sie es noch können!” (Save your wealth as long this is still possible). Using lots of examples taken from Greece, Michael Grant[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, today March 14 2012, Baytex Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTE), (TSX: BTE) (ISIN: CA07317Q1054) reported its Q4-2011 and FY 2011 results. Hightlights: Produced record quarterly production of 53,054 boe/d in Q4-2011 (an increase of 18% over Q4-2010) and record annual production of 50,132 boe/d in FY 2011 (an increase of 13%[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, today March 9th 2012, Companhia de Bebidas das Américas (AmBev) (NYSE: ABV) reported its Q4-2011 and full year 2011 financial results Highlights: In the fourth quarter, Net sales increased 11.6%, while for the whole fiscal year 2011, net sales increassed with 9.9% Normalized EBITDA reached R$ 4,506.1 million in Q4 2011, an organic[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Today February 22nd 2012, the Bank of England published the minutes of their February 8 & 9 2012, Monetary Policy Meeting, which shows that members had considered increasing its quantitative easing programme by more than the 50 billion British Pound cash injection made earlier this month. Policymakers voted by seven to two[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Brazil’s biggest private oil company, OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA (OTCBB: OGXPY; ISIN: US6708491088) says in a statement it began producing the oil Tuesday at the OGX-26HP well in the Campos Basin’s Waimea field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro The first barrel of OGX oil was extracted from the Waimea accumulation,[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, we believe that the year 2011 that came to an end approx. 10 days ago will go into history as the year of the big lie, a year in which you were led to believe that the safest asset on earth is the US-Treasury Bond. The media lying to investors is nothing new. If we go back 12 years we see[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, first of all we want to wish you a Happy Holiday and a very prosperous 2012. I think that most of you are happy that the year 2011, which will go into history as one of the most volatile and non-realistic markets dominated by fear, has come to an end.[…]