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Japan mit Rekorddefizit im Handel

Die drittgrösste Volkswirtschaft hat im Januar das bisher grösste Handelsdefizit seiner Geschichte verzeichnet. Die Importe stiegen um fast 18 Prozent, während die Exporte bloss um 3,5 Prozent zunahmen. Damit schreibt Japan seit 18 Monaten in Folge «rote Zahlen» in seiner Handelsbilanz.

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US Dollar Comes Back Better Bid

Overview: Although the US January CPI was in line with expectations, the year-over-year rate was a little firmer than expected. Still, the measure that Fed Chair Powell has underscored, core services, excluding shelter, moderated with a 0.3% month-over-month gain. US rates shot up and this lent the dollar support, while weighing on equities and risk sentiment. The US two-year note yield rose to almost 4.64% yesterday, the highest in three months. The greenback is...

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Dollar and Rates Soften a Little Ahead of US CPI

Overview: The focus is on the US CPI report today, but the price action is anything but intuitive. Although the revisions of the basket and methodological changes reinforce expectations for the largest rise in three months, the US dollar continues to trade heavily after rallying last week. The dollar-bloc currencies are underperforming today. And US rates are softer. The US 2- and 10-year yields are 1-2 bp lower. Most of the large bourses in the Asia Pacific rallied....

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This Will Be The Biggest Theft of This Century

In 1983 a total of 6,840 gold bars were stolen from a high security vault in Heathrow in what is still considered to be ‘the crime of the century’. 40 years on and the gold heist is still the biggest single-theft of gold in history. What’s incredible is that the perpetrators never even expected to steal any gold. They were instead expecting to find around £3 million in cash. After failing to get into the targeted vault the armed robbers discovered three tons of gold...

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“Fundamentals and technical analysis are two sides of the same coin”

Interview with Laurent Halmos For most die-hard physical gold investors and students of history like myself and most of my readers and clients, technical analysis is often seen as a bit of a taboo, or at best something irrelevant to our worldview and investment approach. Nevertheless, to paraphrase the old saying about politics, just because you are not interested in the charts doesn’t mean that the charts are not interested in you.  I met Laurent Halmos in the summer of 2020...

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