Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Thursday, January 22nd, the “European Central Bank“ (ECB) ‘took out the bazooka’ with bigger than expected QE stimulus package. The ECB chairman, Mr. Draghi, said the ECB would buy a total of €60 billion a month in assets including government bonds, debt securities issued by European institutions and private-sector bonds. The purchases[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Thursday, January 15, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) roiled markets worldwide with its unexpected decision to abandon the Swiss franc’s cap against the Euro. The news of the repeal of the minimum Euro exchange rate against the Swiss franc hit the financial markets like a bomb. As can be seen from below chart,[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to discuss with you the USA September jobs report, which came out on Friday, January 9, 2015. On Friday January 9 at 8:30 am EST, the USA Bureau of statistics (BLS) reported that USA Economy had created 252,000 non-farm jobs in September 2014, which beats analysts’[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to discuss with you why investing in the Chinese Oil Company, CNOOC Ltd., (0883.HK) can be so lucrative. ABOUT CNOOC Ltd.: China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group, is a major national oil company in China. It is the third-largest national oil company in[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend blog edition we want to elaborate on the huge stock and bond market bubble in the West. If you are an investor, your big concern should not be about stocks and stock markets in bubble territories, but also about the bond and currency markets and about the consequences if[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Friday November 28th, the national debt of the United States officially surpassed 18 trillion US Dollars, of which the debt held by the public rose to US$12,922,681,725,432.94, an increase of US$32 billion in one day, as can be seen from below screenshot. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two startling reports[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to discuss with you why Oil and commodities prices are falling and are now at a 5-year low. CRUDE OIL: Oil futures on Friday, November 28th, settled at their lowest level in five years as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ decision to keep[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition we want to discuss some of the most important events that happened in the global capital markets, the world economy and the world of money in the week of November 17, 2014: Japan Back into Recession: China Lowers Interest rate: Russia continues to expand its Gold[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to discuss with you the Peak of Silver production and the fact that US-Mint ran out of the American Silver Eagle coins. Of all the elements on the periodic table, Silver has been dubbed the first to go extinct, which will make it the resource investment[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog edition, we want to discuss with you the BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP), operation report for the quarter ending September 30, 2014, which was released on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. COMPANY PROFILE: BHP Billiton is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is[…]