31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on US-Israeli Relations In 1 Cartoon
US-Israeli Relations In 1 Cartoon
31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Coming Slump
The Coming Slump
Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via The Cobden Centre blog,
Governments and central banks have made little or no progress in recovering from the Lehman crisis six years ago. The problem is not helped by dependence on statistics which are downright misleading. This is particularly true of real GDP, comprised of nominal GDP deflated by an estimate of price inflation. First, we must discuss the inflation adjustment.
31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Israel, Hamas agree to 3-day cease-fire
The Wall Street Journal: Israel, Hamas agree to 3-day cease-fire
Israel and Hamas agree to a three-day cease-fire in the Gaza conflict with the hope of forging a more lasting peace.
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31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on China PMI Jumps To 2 Year Highs (Jobs Contract For 27 Months), Japan PMI Slips (Jobs Worst In 11 Months)
China PMI Jumps To 2 Year Highs (Jobs Contract For 27 Months), Japan PMI Slips (Jobs Worst In 11 Months)
China’s official manufacturing PMI beat expectations by the most since Nov 2013 and jumped to its highest since April 2012 – sure it did after all the forget-the-reforms liquidity, QE-lite, and local government spending dragged forward.
31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Israel, Gaza and Palestine: What Americans Need to Know
Israel, Gaza and Palestine: What Americans Need to Know
So much has happened in the last week that we had to do a new round-up:
Apartheid and Occupation
31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Previewing Tomorrow’s ‘Anti-Goldilocks’ Payrolls Data
Previewing Tomorrow’s ‘Anti-Goldilocks’ Payrolls Data
It appears – judging by today’s shenanigans – that good news for Main Street (rising employment costs) is bad news (for stocks), though obviously there are other factors; but tomorrow’s payrolls data is the last best hope before the Fed finishes its taper for them to pull a ‘data-driven’ U-turn out of the bag. Consensus is for a drop from last month’s exuberance at 288k to 230k (with Barclays slightly cold and Deutsche slightly hot).
31 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Bloomberg Unveils New Ticker Plant for Toronto’s Institutional Market
Bloomberg Unveils New Ticker Plant for Toronto’s Institutional Market
The new facility collects market data for Canadian equities, options and futures from regional exchanges.