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Yuan Wars: An Emerging Global Threat, Let’s get tough with China.

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(Barron’s) A U.S.-CHINA TRADE WAR IS RAPIDLY brewing, as President Barack Obama pushes China to adopt a “market-oriented exchange-rate policy” and Premier Wen Jiabao sharply retorts that the yuan isn’t undervalued. Meanwhile, 130 members of the U.S. House [More...]

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India’s Unexpected Interest Rate Rise ‘Sign of Things to Come’

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(Bloomberg) — India’s central bank will probably raise interest rates again next month as the first increase in two years is only the initial step in the battle against inflation, BNP Paribas SA and Standard Chartered Plc said. The Reserve Bank of [More...]

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CFTC to Hold Public Meeting to Examine Futures and Options Trading in Metals Markets Live Webcast

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CFTC Press Release: Washington, DC – United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler today announced that the agency will hold a public meeting on March 25, 2010, to examine the trading of futures and options in the [More...]

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Kevin Kerr of Commodities Watch Discusses Commodities on BNN

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Kevin Kerr of Commodities Wa,tch Discusses Commodities on BNN. Markets discussed are corn, soybeans and other ags as well as the softs: sugar cocoa and coffee, energies: oil and natrual gas and gold. Kerr likes ags, sugar, coffee and gold on [More...]

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Currency stress tests indicate Beijing ‘readying’ yuan move

(MarketWatch) — SocGen says one-off 5%-10% appreciation coming in April or May. Additional evidence that China is preparing to allow its currency to appreciate is accumulating, with various government bureaus reportedly conducting their own “stress tests” [More...]

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India Unexpectedly Raises Interest Rates After Inflation Hit 16-Month High

(Bloomberg) — India’s central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates for the first time since July 2008 after inflation accelerated to a 16-month high. The Reserve Bank of India increased the benchmark reverse repurchase rate to 3.5 percent from a [More...]

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David Tice: Unemployment will hit 15%…

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David Tice The Prudent Bear, on Bloomberg TV. We have not yet worked off all the excesses from the credit bubble…Tice says unemployment will hit 15%, …The $3 Trillion has been poured into the economy is helping only at the margin…video [More...]

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Rate Hike: Fed May Boost Discount Rate Before Next Meeting, Economists Say

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(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve may increase the discount rate, charged on direct loans to banks, before the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on April 28, economists said. “It’s going to happen at some point,” said Michael Feroli, [More...]

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United States tells China yuan issue is of “real concern”

(Reuters) – The United States kept up pressure on China on Thursday to let its yuan currency climb as Beijing disclosed it was sounding out exporters on whether they could cope with a stronger exchange rate. Washington wants Beijing to abandon a [More...]

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Goldman Sachs’ O’Neill Says Yuan Poised to Become Reserve Currency

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(Bloomberg) — China’s yuan is destined to become a global reserve currency rivaling the dollar and the euro, as the nation’s economic power increases the currency’s allure, said Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Chinese [More...]

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Free Markets? German spies may target speculators

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(Telegraph.co.uk) Germany takes its fear of financial speculators to new heights by suggesting it may deploy spies to monitor investors who target currencies. Wolfgang Schaeuble, German finance minister, told the Bundestag that to protect the euro the [More...]

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Commodities Hedge Fund: Agricultural Investors Are Eyeing More Deals For Fertile Farmland

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(Reuters) Investors are growing more bullish on farmland as softness in some sectors spurs increased competition for buying quality acres, a top agricultural investing group says. New hedge fund players are among large and small investment groups [More...]

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Gold Chart: Technically this current triangle formation looks very similar to the last one prior to the big run up….

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Gold Chart with RSI, MACD and Stochastics. Technically this current triangle formation looks very similar to the last one prior to the big run up….also note the covergence between price and stochastic, typically a bullish sign…though not necessarily…

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The Russians are coming – to drill in our own backyard: Obama surrenders Gulf of Mexico Oil to Russia

(The Washington Times) The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United [More...]

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Yale ups commodities allocation

(Reuters) – Yale University Chief Investment Officer David Swensen’s losses on big bets in private equity, real estate and commodities have not deterred the noted contrarian. Yale disclosed on Thursday that it had increased significantly its [More...]

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Yuan Wars: U.S. Ambassador Calls China’s Currency Stance ‘a Real Concern’

(NYT) China’s reluctance to allow the value of its currency to rise “is a real concern” to both the United States and to China’s other major trading partners and could be subject to negotiations in coming weeks, the American ambassador to China said on [More...]

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Germany Backtracks on Europe Rescue for Greece, Whacks Euro

(NYT) The onus for resolving Greece’s financial crisis appeared to move closer to the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, as Berlin distanced itself from any bilateral or European support for the Greek government. Given the legal hurdles, the [More...]

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Market Rumor Of Another Discount Rate Hike

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(Zero Hedge) A rumor is circulating that barely a month since the last hike, the Fed is about to hike the discount rate (which is completely irrelevant of course, due to the whole $1.2 trillion in excess reserves thing) as early as today. When aksed [More...]

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Comic Relief for Traders: ‘South Park’ Makes Video Game of Tiger Woods’ Troubles

(Comedy Central) Mid-day break: Tiger Woods Marital Troubles video game for Comic Relief for Traders etc.: ‘South Park’ Makes Video Game of Tiger Woods’ Troubles… Video below:

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John Williams Shadow Stats for March 18th, 2010

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(John Williams – Shadow Government Statistics) March 18th, 2010 CPI to Jump in Next Month’s Reporting. Although oil and oil-related prices continue to dominate CPI and PPI inflation reporting, anecdotal evidence continues to mount of higher [More...]

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