9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Samsung, Microsoft end contract dispute
The Wall Street Journal: Samsung, Microsoft end contract dispute
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft agree to end a contract dispute over the South Korean handset maker’s use of the Android operating system.
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9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on A Bull In A China Shop
A Bull In A China Shop
Submitted by Shane Obata of Triggers
A Bull In A China Shop
China’s stock market is on fire but its economy is cooling off. Can the divergence last? And what’s next for China? Stay tuned to find out.
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9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Should you write off gold this year?
Should you write off gold this year?
Gold has had a solid 2015 so far, but as the economic picture looks brighter, some analysts have begun to worry about the yellow metal.
9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on China Jan inflation comes in at 0.8%, missing forecasts
China Jan inflation comes in at 0.8%, missing forecasts
China’s annual consumer inflation hit a five-year low in January while factory deflation deepened, underscoring persistent weakness in the economy and heaping more pressures on policymakers to step up their efforts to support growth. The risk of deflation is rising as the world’s second-largest economy faces headwinds from a property market downturn and widespread factory overcapacity, and the situation may have been worsened by falling global commodity prices, analysts say. The consumer price index rose 0.8 percent in January from December, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Dan Loeb Is Scared Of "The Haunted House Market"
Dan Loeb Is Scared Of "The Haunted House Market"
Excerpted from Dan Loeb’s Third Point letter to investors,
2015 has been marked by increasing volatility, prompting a banker friend (hat tip to Jimmy L.) to characterize this as a “haunted house market” where a new scary event lurks around each corner.
9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Think NGDI, not NGDP
Think NGDI, not NGDP
In the standard national income accounting, gross domestic income equals gross domestic output. In the simplest model of all (with no government or trade) you have the following identity:
NGDI = C + S = C + I = NGDP (it also applies to RGDI and RGDP)
9 February, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on US Senator Demands A Federal Reserve Bailout Of Greece
US Senator Demands A Federal Reserve Bailout Of Greece
It should hardly come as a surprise when a hard-core US socialist comes out with demands that his socialist peers in Greece be bailed out by none other than the Federal Reserve: in fact, it does show why while so many quasi-socialists hate when the Fed bails out the “loathsome” banks, they love when the Fed bails out everyone else. And yes, socialists are known to demand for bailouts – in fact the more often, and the more frequently, the better .