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The Australian car manufacturing industry cannot survive. Just one week after Holden reluctantly revealed the true value of taxpayer support it received over the past 12 years (an incredible $2.18 billion) the company declared it would axe a further 500 manufacturing and engineering workers. The Australian taxpayer has tipped an incredible sum into the local […]

Those were the words of Zhang Ke of the Chinese accounting firm ShineWing as he told reporters that local government debt in the country is “out of control.” Mr. Zhang said that ShineWing “audited some local government bond issues and found them very dangerous, so we pulled out.  Most don’t have strong debt servicing abilities. […]

If you want to know which way gold is going to move the best thing to do is watch it every day on ADVFN and you should build up a feel for its real value. Gold should be a small part of your investment portfolio and nothing beats keeping tabs on your investments and the […]

Earlier today, the International Monetary Fund released its semi-annual World Economic Outlook, subtitled “Hopes, Realities, Risks.” From a 30,000 foot view, the IMF thinks that the world economy is beginning to recovery from a slow 2012 although risks to the economy are still being considered high “in the medium term.”  The report cited two major […]

Gold crashes because… There is always a reason in the media when big things happen. The market is up a lot one day because QE is failing so there is more to come. The next day the market is up because QE is succeeding so the economy is better. I remember a company I ran […]

“There’s fool’s gold—pyrite—and then there’s fool’s gold—gold owned by idiots willing to trade it for worthless dollars.” ~ Jarod Kintz Some blame Cyprus.  Others blame China.  Yet others blame the U.S.  Regardless of whom you choose to blame, the price of gold has declined in the last two days of trading from $1,561 per ounce […]

Mediterranean Oil & Gas (LSE:MOG) and Noble Energy (NYSE:NE) have been making waves waves in the Mediterranean lately.  It appears that the front-end investment period in some of their Mediterranean projects is over and the fun part is about to begin. MOG is probably the smaller of the two stories.  Nonetheless, it is poised to […]

UK mining share prices rallied today with a a long list of gainers on the F3MNG Index.  The entire sector was up by just under 3.0% at mid-afternoon, it’s biggest gain in a month. Kenmare Resources (LSE:KMR) was up 5.46% to 29.85.  Hochschild Mining (LSE:HOC) was up 4.82% to 280.50.  Petropavlosk (LSE:POG) gained 4.91% to […]

It’s that time again and despite being a shortened week post-Easter it has been a busy one. Disappointing Manufacturing updates from Japan, China and the US while we were scoffing chocolate were offset on our return by slightly better figures from Europe which saw the week start on the front foot and the UK flagship […]

The country is just over a day past the Bank of Japan’s astonishing and aggressive steps of monetary easing, and, so far, the financial reactions are exactly what the bank had predicted. The Nikkei closed up 1.6% at 12,833.64, but not before exceeding 13,000 in intra-day trading, reaching its highest level in nearly five years […]