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Year-end rate hike once again proves to be launchpad for gold price – FOMC follows through on much anticipated rate-hike of 0.25%– Spot gold responds by heading for biggest gain in three weeks, rising by over 1%– Final meeting for Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen– Yellen does not expect Trump’s tax-cut package to result in significant, strong growth for US economy– No concern for bitcoin which ‘plays a very small...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported last week that the official manufacturing PMI for that country rose from 51.6 in October to 51.8 in November. Since “analysts” were expecting 51.4 (Reuters poll of Economists) it was taken as a positive sign. The same was largely true for the official non-manufacturing PMI, rising like its counterpart here from 54.3 the month prior to 54.8 last month. China Manufacturing...

A new report from the Institute for Science and International Security has found that 49 countries violated sanctions on North Korea to varying degrees between March 2014 and September 2017. You will find more statistics at Statista 13 governments including Cuba, Egypt, Iran and Syria were involved in military violations, which as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, includes either receiving military training from North...

Bitcoin - Plan Your Exit Strategy Now - Maybe With Gold Made money in bitcoin? Well done. Don’t wait until the stampede starts. Here’s what you must do now. by Dominic Frisby in Money Week So there I was on Sunday afternoon, doing what it is one does on a Sunday – very little in my case – and a notification comes up on my phone: “Bitcoin rises over 10% to $11,800”. Bitcoin in USD (1 Year). Source: CoinDesk On a Sunday. When every other market is closed. It’s bad enough that bitcoin is making...

The Census Bureau reported earlier today that US imports of foreign goods jumped 9.9% year-over-year in October. That is the second largest increase since February 2012, just less than the 12% import growth recorded for January earlier this year. US Imports, Jan 2007 - 2017 - Click to enlarge In both monthly cases, however, the almost normal rates of increase which would have at least suggested moving closer to a...

Swiss Franc The Euro has fallen by 0.21% to 1.1679 CHF. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, December 08(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates Sufficient progress will be judged to have been made, and negotiations of the separation between the UK and EU will be allowed to enter the second stage. The formal decision will be made at next week’s EU summit. To be sure, “sufficient...

The value of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, just like any other kind of money, comes fundamentally from what you can do with it. As a follow up to What Backs Bitcoin, I want to dig into that value. The idea, which comes from Austrian economist Carl Menger, is that just as a shovel’s value comes from its ability to dig, a currency’s value comes from its ability to help you do two things: transactions and savings. Think...

Meister der Freihandels-Tricksereien: Niemand verletzt die WTO-Regeln so schamlos wie China (im Bild: Shanghai). Foto: Getty Images Chinas eigenwillige Rolle in der Weltwirtschaft wird zunehmend zum Problem. Wie kürzlich bekannt wurde, ist die chinesische HNA Group bei der Übernahme von Gate Gourmet unter den Verdacht geraten, falsche Angaben gemacht zu haben. Beim Kauf von Syngenta durch Chemchina sind Fragen zur Finanzierung aufgetaucht (Quelle). Und in Osteuropa möchte China...

Bild: Pixabay Nachhaltige Investmentfonds sind in der Schweiz in den letzten zehn Jahren doppelt so schnell gewachsen wie der Gesamtmarkt. Vor allem bei institutionellen Anlegern, aber auch bei jüngeren, gebildeten und meist weiblichen Privatanlegern werden sie beliebter. Das zeigt eine Studie des Instituts für Finanzdienstleistungen Zug IFZ der Hochschule Luzern. Nachhaltige Anlagen waren früher...

Bild: Zurich Insurance Group Die Zurich Insurance Group will ihr Engagement im Bereich nachhaltiges Investieren ausbauen und führt Impact-Ziele ein. Mitte des Jahres hatte die Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) bekannt gegeben, ihr langjähriges Ziel – 2 Milliarden US-Dollar in grüne Anleihen zu investieren – erreicht zu haben. Diese Anlagen sind Bestandteil des Impact-Investment-Portfolios. Mit der...