Despite Fed minutes that left the door open to a December taper contingent on better economic stats, the markets are taking the relatively upbeat data over the last two days in stride....
The taper trade appears to be back on this week. Some of the basic symptoms of this trade are: 1) higher interest rates, 2) higher US dollar, 3) lower gold and 4) weakening stocks. Charts below showing the last 10 days of activity reveal this...
In the below charts we take the average YoY% change in consumer prices for 33 countries around the world. What we see is a trend of disinflation that started in mid-2011 and continued through September....
10 year treasury yields finished 9bps lower on the day today hitting the lowest level since mid-July while gold, silver, copper and the euro all caught a decent bid. The divergence between S&P 500 futures and the 10 year note is now at the most...
With the price of gold up another $23 today, after surging $40 last week, gold stocks are the leaders in the MSCI World index today. Adding fuel to the move is the plunge in the USD today, stepping down by half a point so far...
Over the last month, gold companies have been among the weakest performeres in the MSCI World Index. On average they are down 9.4% over the last 30 days. They also top our ranking for the biggest drop in 30 day relative strength....
The US Dollar (USD) has turned against the Euro…check. It has turned against the GBP…check. It has turned against the Yen…check. It has turned against the Swiss franc…check. And, lastly it has turned against gold…check....
