Guess what, the Chinese are now ready to invest...in apparently anything but more U.S. Treasury notes. A great deal of evidence suggests they are seeking to diversify.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
To paraphrase Mr. Gartman, "when I don't understand what is happening, I get out the market."
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
You know we have a problem when Moscow begins searching for an alternative to investing in U.S. Treasury notes.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
Speculation and psychology go hand in hand. The Department of Energy has it within its powers to change the temper of the marketplace.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
The good nabobs of OPEC are going to Vienna to munch their strudel, lamenting about the urgency to push prices to the $75-80/bbl level before they can order a second course.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
When the Chinese stop -- or dramatically curtail -- their purchase of U.S. Treasury notes Washington is going to have to find a new creditor. Good luck.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
Low incomes are what defines a Third World economy. High incomes are what power and define a First World, prosperous, economy.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business
It is good news that the CFTC is awakening from its reverie and beginning to deal with the core issues of oil trading. But it is still too much of a hit/miss operation with a degree of insouciance.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
The price of oil has done for Russia what the cold war Kremlin was unable to achieve with all its missiles, tanks and mind numbing divisions of men and armor.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business
Hugo Chavez is not a friend of ours, but he does come up with some good ideas, since we are dealing with a commodity that has left all ballast of free market determination far behind.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | World