Chesapeake Energy Fights the Good Fight
Oil hit an eight-month low in Asia, keeping consistent in its recent jumpy behavior that tends to mirror news coming out of Europe. This comes down from crude oil’s up position June 11 after a European...
View ArticleGreece’s Pro-bailout Electoral Success and its Effect on the World Currency...
The events of this past weekend were pretty monumental for the world currency industry (and the world in general). Up until Greece’s Sunday elections, animosity regarding the stability of the euro in...
View ArticleAsian Stocks Fall on European Skepticism
Despite yesterday’s surge in investor confidence that provided Asian markets a boost, things appeared to have fallen a bit flat this morning. As reality set in that Spain’s bond yields have hit...
View ArticleThe unfortunate dissonance between an emerging market country’s investment...
Based on its strong natural resources, Argentina should, in theory, be a gold mine for investors. With arguably the third-largest shale gas reserves in the world, the Argentinean economy is only one...
View ArticleHow Social Media can Dent an Industry
Earlier this week, Sina Corp., the company who provides the Chinese social media service called Weibo, saw a 3.8 percent rise in stock prices. Bloomberg reported that Weibo, a micro blogging platform...
View ArticleCurrensee is Featured in Latin Alternative Investor Magazine
This month, we were very excited to learn that Currensee would be featured in the magazine Alternative Latin Investor. This bimonthly publication covers the alternative investing industry in the Latin...
View ArticleHow Key Man Insurance Plays a Role in Investor Due Diligence
Key Man insurance. Morbid, but quite necessary; especially when it comes to hedge funds. In a press release published Monday by risk management and insurance advisory firm SKCG, an arising issue in the...
View ArticleConvergence
The global economy began to stabilize following the most severe downturn since the 1930s during the summer of 2009. The recovery that subsequently materialized outpaced the previous post-1945...
View ArticleTaking a Look at What the Commodity Currencies are Saying
I’ve got a pair of graphics that I think tell and interesting story. They look at a pair of currencies which fall into the commodity category in that they tend to be highly correlated to changes in the...
View ArticleFlawed Thinking
Legions of investors have been schooled to believe that Treasury bond prices and the major stock market indices should move in the same direction. In other words, changes in the valuations that...
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