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Obama is making more bold moves today. His latest headline-maker is changes in the laws involving American commerce with Cuba. Some investors are jumping with joy on the news. Is there still time to join the action?
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): This is going to be one of those weeks when investors have [...]
With a 93.5% increase in net income for Q4 over the same period last year, this leading provider of distributed power generation systems in China is getting investor attention.
By Laura Cadden, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore (TFN): The share price for A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ:APWR) has risen over 30% this morning on better-than-anticipated results for the fourth [...]
There has never been a more appropriate time to maintain a properly diversified portfolio. The only way to do it is look outside America’s borders.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): With the equities markets now selling at a 40% discount to their recent highs, many investors are finally looking for safety. It is a move [...]
China’s premier car exporter, Brilliance China Automotive (BCAHY) is heading into the European car market. What are the odds they hit it big this year?
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: Brilliance China Automotive Hldg. (OTC:BCAHY), also known as Huachen, predicts that it will have great success in Europe. The company intends to dazzle at the 79th Geneva International [...]
China wants a guarantee that the American currency is solid. If our currency begins to falter, the exporter will feel incredible economic pain. It is prepared to do everything it can to ensure its $2 trillion currency reserves are safe.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): The idea of a four-day rally is fizzling out [...]
The Swiss central bank just cut back interest rates for the franc. World currencies are in a race to the bottom. Only the U.S. dollar seems suiidally determined to remain high…
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: If you’ve been watching currency exchange rates and yields, you can’t help but notice that world currencies seem locked in a [...]
A new twist to the Russian-Ukraininan energy war pushes up Hot Stock Confidential picks BMB Munai Inc. (AMEX:KAZ), Toreador Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:TRGL), and Total (NYSE:TOT)!
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: Back in November 2008, I went on record predicting an energy stand-off between Russia and Ukraine that would pitch Europe into a deep freeze. [...]
The “contrarian” havens… commodities, foreign markets, foreign currencies… are crashing right alongside U.S. equities. Here’ where we see the euro trading by December 2009
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: Yesterday morning, I endangered national security.
Catching an early flight out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where my son had been fencing at the Junior Olympics, I was caught smuggling a [...]
A bill in Congress aims at lifting the travel embargo to Cuba… good news for our old friend, the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (NASDAQ:CUBA)!
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: They say there ain’t a left-wing dictator in the world that Western liberals don’t mind cozying up to.
With all eyes diverted to watch the stimulus bill, Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., has just [...]
Government pork is earmarked to lift San Francisco Bay salt marsh harvest mice from their misery and stimulate infrastructure construction. Migrant Central American labor will yet again be able to send home remittances… good news for Mexican telecom providers like Telmex (NYSE:TMX) and Maxcom Telecomunic (NYSE:MXT).
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: I hope you’ll be glad to know that [...]
At a current tally of close to $10 trillion, government spending on “fixing” the economy shows little effect. We wonder why…
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: “What an incredible article,” writes TFN eNews subscriber Gary H. in response to our “Hope and Change in Action: How government-directed business stimulus looks like”.
He continues: “As an American living in [...]
If you thought America’s future was bleak, take a look at the horrific situation in Zimbabwe. The country is forced to take dramatic action just to stay alive.
By Andrew Snyder, TodayFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): When America’s economy is falling, it is easy to say we have lost our superiority, or our country is permanently damaged, [...]
U.S. GDP growth numbers and Japanese industrial output are contracting rapidly. But so are most non-dollar currencies. In fact, rumors of speculators driving euro and ruble into the ground abound on the markets!
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: The numbers are in: In the last quarter of 2008, the U.S. economy shrank at an annualized rate of 3.8%. [...]
Turbo-Tax Man Timothy Geithner’s charges that China manipulates its currency could be the prelude to a full-blown trade war with China.
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: Something is brewing in Washington and it has nothing to do with stimulus dollars.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy “Turbo-Tax” Geithner has called for China to loosen restrictions on its currency. Geithner said last [...]
The ruble is rolling downhill, the pound got pounded all the way back to 1985. What about that Demise of the Dollar?
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—(TFN): Twenty-five years ago, I was one of eight German exchange students at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Thanks to a relatively strong Deutsche Mark exchange rate, life was good, [...]
For Gazprom (OGZPY), the Russian gas crisis is about to take a turn for the worse..
by J. Christoph Amberger
It’s day 14 of Russia’s natural gas embargo of Ukraine. And a good week since Europe stopped receiving natural gas via Ukrainian transit pipelines. Read more
Hot Stock Confidential, are up 15% on our “belt-and-suspenders” gamble on a severe drop in the Russian markets.
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—(TFN): Russia’s third-largest bank, Gazprombank, just had its credit rating slashed to “junk” status by Standard & Poor’s, which lowered the bank’s long-term and short-term counterparty credit ratings to BB+/B from BB-/A-3, with a negative [...]
All part of the Hope and Change economy?
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore—TFN: “Demand destruction” and “continued weakness” were the favorite terms of analysts today.
Although I was not quite sure if they meant the renewed downward trajectory in oil prices. Or the Detroit Auto Show.
Crude-oil futures fell by more than 7%, to below $38 a barrel [...]
Toyota Motor’s (NYSE:TM) first loss in 71 years indicates that it’s not U.S. carmakers who’re on the wrong track…
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): In the age of globalism, low labor cost and a cheap currency are the best competitive advantage for a national economy. For the longest time, Japan managed to maintain this advantage by [...]
Economists and newsletter gurus cast a wishful eye on China’s foreign currency reserves. Will the Commie Cavalry come to the rescue of capitalism? Hold your horses, says TFN’s J. Christoph Amberger. China’s facing pressure on exports, unemployment, and huge internal debt loads…
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): “With the cashed up reserves of the Chinese [...]
