After witnessing the strength the US markets demonstrated, Asia opened on a positive note but couldn’t hold it. Interesting that although the opening appeared strong, for the balance of the day prices were hit across the region affecting both core and peripheral markets. The Shanghai and hang Seng both found it difficult making any headway, […]
You really cannot make up a story like this, because it sounds just so unbelievable. I am in Germany on business and did not see the place overrun with refugees as on my last trip. So I made some inquiries. To my complete astonishment, the German government is actually giving refugees three weeks paid vacations […]
QUESTION: Thank you very much for your blog and all the knowledge that you pas on. You are well known in many circles and I would think have great influence in the inner circles and behind the curtain. Now then your computer forecasts can sway a lot of people because of that. If you were to […]
The teens are turning to the latest thing – Flop Accounts. An account typically found on Instagram and are normally fandom based (fan based subculture) to make fun of and demean what they call “flops” and things they find “cringey”. Most are petty and cheap stabs at young artists and people trying to have fun. However, they […]
The optimistic rally seen earlier in the week over possible US / China Trade agreement, was soon to face the cold light of day and todays price action reflects just that. Both Shanghai and Hang Seng demonstrated this today as both fell over 2% and closed on the days lows. The Nikkei has also seen […]
The talk behind the curtain remains that the Fed is still under pressure to PLEASE don’t raise rates. The lobbying continues from the IMF, ECB, and Emerging Markets. Meanwhile, the Fed leaves rates unchanged, but it upgraded its view of the US economy to ‘strong’ which remains a signal that the Fed is still prone to raise rates […]
The talk behind the curtain remains that the Fed is still under pressure to PLEASE don’t raise rates. The lobbying continues from the IMF, ECB, and Emerging Markets. Meanwhile, the Fed leaves rates unchanged, but it upgraded its view of the US economy to ‘strong’ which remains a signal that the Fed is still prone to raise rates […]
QUESTION: Dear Mr Amstrong, Following up on the Magnitsky Affair, you might be in a position to answer a question which has always puzzled me : Has Edmond Safra been murdered by the Russians instead of having died accidentally in his burning flat in Monaco? What is you opinion? Many thanks, VP ANSWER: I knew Dominick […]
In the movie The Forecaster, I explained that they got Yeltsin to take money from the IMF loans and then they steered that wire through the Bank of New York. As soon as that wire hit, Republic National Bank and Edmond Safra, who was the MAJORITY shareholder of Hermitage Capital at that time, ran to […]
The China/US Trade Talks headline obviously spooked both Shanghai and the Hang Seng indices and we saw nervous selling of stock. Shanghai was hit most closing down -1.8% after having seen a positive opening move. However, the tariffs hit today and even though they plan to talk the impact on sentiment is immediate. Prices traded […]
