Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, Thursday, June 30th marked the end of the second quarter and first half of 2016. THE GOLD PRICE: Gold futures advanced 8.5% in June, 6.9% in the second quarter, and 24.6% in the first half of 2016. On Friday July 1st, the yellow metal, rose with US$ 19,09 or 1.45%[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, As can be seen from below figure, in a referendum called “BREXIT”, held on Thursday June 23, approx. 51,9 percent of the people of the United Kingdom has voted in favour of Great Britain to leave the European Union, shocking the world and revealing a divided country. That means that[…]
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 June 16, 2016: Germany’s 10-year sovereign bond yield turn negative for the first time. The USA[…]
Dear PGM Capital blog readers, On Friday, June 3, 2016, the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the country’s economy only added 38,000 nonfarm payrolls jobs in May, well below the 160,000 gain anticipated by analysts. The increase was the smallest registered since early 2010, when the US economy was losing jobs. On top[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, For investors, the last 12-months and in particular this year has been one gigantic roller coaster ride. We began the year 2016, with the worst two-week start in recorded history for the U.S. Indexes, after the first 10 trading sessions, all three major U.S. indexes were showing losses of between[…]
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 April 25, 2016: China’s central bank guided the yuan higher at the sharpest pace since 2005.[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Friday, April 22, in its weekly release, Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughe (NYSE: BHI) reported another record fall in the U.S. rig count (number of rigs searching for oil and gas in the country) from the previous week. As can be seen from below chart, the USA[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, On Wednesday, April 13th, Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the largest U.S. coal miner, filed for bankruptcy, marking the end of an era for big publicly traded companies that have fueled American industry for more than a century. Peabody was the last major U.S. coal miner still standing. Arch Coal, Alpha Natural Resources,[…]
Dear PGM Capital Blog readers, In this weekend’s blog article, we want to discuss with you why investing in Royal Dutch Shell can be so lucrative. INTRODUCTION: Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDSA.AS or RDSA.L or NYSE: RDS.A), commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the[…]
Dear PGM Capital blog readers, On Friday, April 1, 2016, the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the country’s economy added 215,000 nonfarm payrolls in March, beating market expectations. The private sector hired 195,000 workers. But wages grew a mere 2.3% compared to a year ago. It’s especially disappointing because the economy has added[…]