Sunday, May 13, 2012

Recycling of precious metals is not too bad!...

Umicore : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umicore
Euronext : UMI






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JPM : London whale - CDS Loss $2 billion

Article : http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/11/uk-jpmorgan-trading-idUKBRE8491I320120511

Mr. Dimon: "He said it wasn't clear whether the bank had broken any laws or violated any rules. "We've had audit, legal, risk, compliance, some of our best people looking at all of that."

In a conference call disclosing the problem on Thursday, Dimon said the $2 billion in losses could rise by a further $1 billion, and acknowledged they were linked to a London-based credit trader Bruno Iksil. Nicknamed the 'London Whale', Iksil amassed an outsized position which hedge funds bet against, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal in April.


The exact nature of the trading loss is still unclear, although sources said a host of asset managers, arbitrageurs and hedge funds were on the other side of the bet, viewing it as good value and a effective way to insure portions of their portfolio.

Blue Mountain, a hedge fund with offices in New York and London, was among those on the other side of JPMorgan's trade, according to two people familiar with the situation.
 
The Democrat co-authored the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law designed to avoid a repeat of the recent credit crisis.

=>  We need to regulate the CDS market, trade them when we have a real exposure to the underlying asset.

Monday, December 12, 2011

DJIA Technical Analysis 12/12/11

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  • Bullish SAR, MACD over the signal line, williamR is overbought and the rsi index is neutral.
    • For the bullish the resistance will be close to 11230pts, and then 12480pts.
    • For the bearish the resistance will be ma20 at 11885pts and then the bullish sar close to 11755pts.

    Sunday, November 20, 2011

    World Gold Council new issue of gold demand trends - Q3 2011



    Silver, GBPUSD, EURGBP

    Where is going Silver, consolidation? here is the death cross with MA50 passing under MA200.
    But investment demand is increasing as supply increase.


    GBP/USD - A 8,3% Unemployment rate (highest since 1994) is killing the pound sterling.

      But EUR/GBP still going down...