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Asian Stocks Slide On iPhone X Demand Fears; US Futures Flat In Thin Holiday Trading

By silveristhenew | Published December 26, 2017

For the second day in a row, most Asian markets – at least the ones that are open – were dragged lower by tech stocks and Apple suppliers, with the MSCI Asia Pacific Index down 0.2% led by Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in response to the previously noted report that Apple will slash […]

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2018: The Year Central Banks Begin Buying Cryptocurrency

By silveristhenew | Published December 17, 2017

Authored by Eugene Etsebeth via CoinDesk.com, Behind closed doors, G7 central banks are sluggish traders that buy and sell the same foreign currencies, marketable securities, special drawing rights (SDR) and gold day in and day out. Central bank traders follow the investment policy enforced by the executive committees with specific asset allocation targets. In order […]

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An Interview with GoldCore Founder, Mark O’Byrne

By silveristhenew | Published December 2, 2017

An Interview with GoldCore Founder, Mark O’Byrne “Uber-bull predictions of gold at over $5,000 per ounce are not beyond the realms of possibility…” So says GoldCore founder and self-confessed gold bug, Mark O’Byrne. Indeed, I recently caught up with Mark to get his thoughts on gold and what’s going on with it right now… But […]

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Keep Calm & Carry On

By silveristhenew | Published November 17, 2017

Authored by 720Global's Michael Liebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Before long, we will all begin to find out the extent to which Brexit is a gentle stroll along a smooth path to a land of cake and consumption.” – Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor In 1939, the British Government, through the Ministry of Information, produced a […]

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Brandon Smith Warns: The Saudi Coup Signals War And The New World Order Reset

By silveristhenew | Published November 15, 2017

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, For years now, I have been warning about the relationship of interdependency between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and how this relationship, if ended, would mean disaster for the petrodollar system and by extension the dollar's world reserve status. In my recent articles 'Lies And Distractions Surrounding The Diminishing […]

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NYU’s ‘Dean Of Valuation’: Bitcoin’s Not A Fraud, It’s A Currency

By silveristhenew | Published October 25, 2017

Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at the NYU's Stern School of Business, disagrees with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon that bitcoin is a "fraud," and explains that, in his view, the cryptocurrency is a currency rather than an asset in a new blog post. Often referred to as Wall Street's "Dean of Valuation," Damodaran […]

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Chinese Capital Outflows Return As Soon As PBOC Halts FX Intervention

By silveristhenew | Published October 19, 2017

Since the addition of the Chinese renminbi (RMB), i.e. Yuan, to the IMF’s SDR basket of reserve currencies last October, more than 60 countries and regions have added and adopted the renminbi as a new reserve currency, according to the latest report on renminbi internationalization by the People’s Bank of China. As a reminder, one […]

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Here’s How Much Each HSBC Trader Made In Their FX Front-Running Scheme

By silveristhenew | Published October 16, 2017

Last week we wrote about how some former HSBC FX traders, led by Mark Johnson, orchestrated a carefully crafted plan to front-run a massive buy order for British Pounds using the code phrase “my watch is off.”  Now, courtesy of court filings in a British case to extradite one of the participants, Stuart Scott, we […]

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The US Dollar Will Lose The Currency Reserve Status Fast

By silveristhenew | Published September 19, 2017

When the US Dollar replaced the British Pound (GBP) as the world`s reserve currency, there was no one really  … READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ON THE NEW WEBSITE: JIM ROGERS TALKS MARKETS  

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Global Stocks Hit Another Record High, Ignore Slowing Chinese Trade

By silveristhenew | Published August 8, 2017

Following a sleepy overnight session, US futures are flat as are markets in Europe, while Asian stocks rose despite overnight trade data from China which unexpectedly missed across the board. As reported last night, Chinese export growth was the slowest since February while Import growth the weakest since Dec 2016, as both missed consensus estimtes. […]

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