Greek Debt Risk Still Present revisited

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   I won’t say I told you so, but I will highlight that just one week ago on 4 July, 2011 I said that “Greek debt risk [was] still present,” specifically saying: “Last week the Standard & Poors 500 Index surged 5.6% having almost everything to do with the possibility of a resolution to the Greek debt crisis.  Most market participants felt that the situation was...
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Important Global Regulators Call For More Regulation

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   Yesterday the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, called for increased regulation of non-bank financial institutions.  Specifically he was quoted as saying: “Strengthening resilience is absolutely essential given the fragility exhibited by the global economy.”  He went on to ask for a, “serious advance in the way we regulate systemic...
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what my intuition tells me now: Chinese Inflationary Pressures Just Won’t Go Away

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 10, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments Two pieces of news this weekend only serve to reinforce my view that China is experiencing massive inflation.  Chinese inflationary pressures just won’t go away despite the Chinese governments efforts to rein them in. The first piece of news comes from China’s National Bureau of Statistics which reported that June 2011 inflation, as compared to June 2010, surged by 6.4%.  In May, the...
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AskMen.com Feature – Bad Investment Signs

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 8, 2011 in News & Events | 3 comments Hello loyal fans and blog readers!  Very good news, AskMen.com – that superstar Internet site with 15 million readers a month – is featuring Yours Truly on their home page, in their very popular Top 10 section, and in their finance and investing section. The name of the piece that I wrote is entitled, “Bad Investment Signs.”  I consider this to be one of the more...
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Bad News on U.S. Unemployment

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 8, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments   Ah yes, the last 24 hours is one of those brief spans as an investor and a finance blog writer designed to make you look foolish.  First we had good news on U.S. unemployment and now, today, we have bad news on U.S. unemployment. Yesterday ADP (the private payroll processing firm) said that there had been 157,000 private sector jobs created in June.  Today, the official number of jobs...
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Good News on U.S. Unemployment

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 8, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   The late May and early June financial market sell off had many causes, but among the most important was the sputtering recovery in the U.S. jobs market.  In fact, the data for about five weeks now has been mixed to down.  Until now. Separate jobs figures this week indicate a job market that appears to be picking up steam. First, Automatic Data Processing (ADP) the massive payroll firm,...
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Credit Ratings Independence Tested

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 7, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments   You might have heard that the debt of the country of Portugal was lowered to “junk” status on 5 July, 2011 by Moody’s, one of the three major international debt ratings agencies.  Now various European governmental officials are criticizing the credit ratings agencies, challenging their independence and independent voice. Here are three quotes from European officials:...
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