SNB & CHF

Zum Franken verliert der Euro weiter an Wert und nähert sich der Euro bei einem Stand von 1,0424 langsam der 1,04er Marke an. Der US-Dollar macht mit 0,9252 Franken die Verluste wieder wett und notiert etwa auf dem Niveau vom Morgen. “Die Schweizerische Nationalbank gesteht dem Franken Kursgewinne zu”, schreibt die VP Bank. “Selbst Notierungen von unter 1,05 gegenüber dem Euro sind für die eidgenössischen Währungshüter kein Tabuthema mehr.” Das lasse sich an der...

Black Friday 2021 saw the largest stock market sell-off since 1931. Is this the start of a bigger crash, has the trend changed or is this just a one-time blip? We ask Gareth Soloway of InTheMoneyStocks.com what his charts are suggesting and why he is so bullish on gold [embedded content] Make sure you don’t miss a single episode… Subscribe to our YouTube channel [embedded content] You Might Also Like...

Overview: The fire that burnt through the capital markets before the weekend, triggered by the new Covid mutation, burned itself out in the Asian Pacific equity trading earlier today. A semblance of stability, albeit fragile and tentative, has emerged. Europe's Stoxx 600 is up about 1%, led by real estate, information technology, and energy.  US index futures are trading higher, with the NASDAQ leading.  Benchmark 10-year yields are firmer.  The US 10-year Treasury...

YouTube hatte schon vor einiger Zeit angekündigt, gegen Inhalte auf der Plattform vorzugehen, die unseriöse Finanzprodukte bewerben. Davon betroffen waren auch Inhalte über Cryptocoins. Viele Video-Creator der Crypto-Szene berichteten darauf, dass YouTube ihre Videos demonetarisieren und zensieren würde – einige Creator wurden sogar komplett auf YouTube gesperrt. Doch geholfen haben diese Maßnahmen offenbar wenig. Crypto News: Immer mehr Crypto SCAMs auf YouTube...

Opposing Monetary Directions “Real estate is the future of the monetary system,” declares a real estate bug. Does this make any sense? We would ask him this. “OK how will houses be borrowed and lent?” “Look at this housing bond,” he says, pointing to a bond denominated in dollars, with principal and interest paid in dollars. “What do you mean ‘housing’ bond’,” we ask, “it’s a bond denominated in dollars!” “Yes, but housing is the collateral.” OK, so it’s not a...

For the Wall Street sequel, the subtitle was Money Never Sleeps. But the Oliver Stone reprisal of Gordon Gecko was the stuff of 2010. In America, a decade plus ago, money slept. Now, it truly doesn’t, with cryptocurrency prices gyrating 24/7/365. This frantic activity has spread to other asset markets. Once real estate was stable and slow moving. Buyers would walk through a home, and walk it again with someone they trusted, before making an offer. But, as Francesca...

© Petrina Calabalic | Dreamstime.com The gross mean household income in Switzerland was CHF 114,984 (US$ 125,000) in 2019, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Overall, 40% of households in Switzerland had income over this mean while 60% brought in less. 73% of this income came from working, 23% came from pensions, welfare and household transfers such as alimony, and 4% from investment income. In many places an income this high would offer a life of...

Charles Hugh Smith is a thought provoking author who runs the “Of Two Minds” blog since May 2005 as a side project of self-expression, and in an unpredictable twist of evolutionary incaution, that project has ballooned into a website with about 3,500 pages that has drawn almost 60 million page views. The site's primary asset may well be the extensive global network of friends and correspondents I draw upon for intelligence and analysis. The blog is #7 in CNBC's top alternative...

The nominal value of Chinese imports of iron ore, German exports and Japanese exports all look pretty, pretty good. But the unit volume is pretty, pretty awful. There are fewer units being utilized! This is an economic warning that is presently hidden behind hire prices (value = unit * price). -----EP. 168c TOPICS------ 00:00 INTRO: The 2021 reflation is following a pattern we have observed three times already. 00:55 What is a "growth scare"? 02:29 What is a "money...

The new covid variant injected a new dynamic into the foreign exchange market.  The World Health Organization cautioned against the need to impose travel restrictions, but policymakers, by and large, do not want to be bitten by the same dog twice.  To err on the side of caution is to minimize one's biggest regret.  The risk is that the uncertainty is not lifted quickly but lingers, which would likely unpin volatility.  US and European benchmark 10-year yields fell...