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Market Roundup - 25th January 2011
This is the Live Market Roundup presented at the TIC meeting in January which was cut short due to time constraints. Kevin recorded a more complete version following the meeting which is available here.
The fortune of the US Dollar will largely determine the direction of global asset prices during the year ahead. Recently, the Dollar has been weakening against the basket of global currencies.
Is this a trend reversal or merely a pullback in a long-term bullish Dollar story?
What asset has appreciated steadily over the last fifty years increasing in value almost ten times during that period? It has outperformed gold, the current market darling, by a wide margin.
We will take a closer look this evening and discuss a very low-risk strategy for getting on board this sparkling opportunity.
The US banking crisis will look like a storm in a teacup when compared to the impending disaster that is the declining finances of US cities and states. Municipal Bond defaults look like being this year's elephant in the room.
Tonight, we look at a strategy for taking advantage of the depreciating situation.