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usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Oct 21, 2011 16:32
In Thread: USD
So, Ashraf,

Now that Ber'danke has made up his mind with NGDP targeting and inevitably ensuing QE3 disguised as AMBS large scale purchases, do you think it's time to call off 1.29 objective?
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Oct 19, 2011 21:34
Ashraf,

Thank you for putting up that Stock holm performance!. Great patterns in big picture overview, very edifying
usikpa
Russia
Posted Anonymously
13 years ago
Sep 29, 2011 22:17
Ashraf, Dave, Oshun123

Thank you for your replies and comments.

Dave, your two points are well taken. These are the times to stay nimble and try to preserve rather than make huge bets.

And, Ashraf, no, thats not too long term (say, by the FOMC meeting in December?..)
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Sep 29, 2011 8:32
Ashraf,

I respect very much what you do, but your Premium service, I understand it, is for intraday speculators, which just isn't my cup of tea. I try to follow major, fundamentally driven moves.
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Sep 22, 2011 7:07
Ashraf,

In your view, will the corrective moves be multiple and shallow, or 1.29 is the level for a major correction to start? Thanks
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Jun 23, 2011 13:15
In Thread: EUR
As Felix Zulauf suggested earlier in the Barron's, and Chris Williamson of Markit confirmed today on the reuters-tv , apart from Germany and France, and regardless of still some vigor in the services sector, the rest of euro zone economies apparently are back in the contraction mode now.

Is there anyone on this site, still possibly involved with the real economy who could attest to that? Are things close to that in Germany, given that export orders are contracting now?

usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Jun 1, 2011 8:18
In Thread: EUR
Spanish PMI in May negative (below 50)
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
May 18, 2011 11:29
In Thread: EUR
Ashraf, if you can, please comment on this rumor that A. Weber will be next IMF chief...
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Apr 27, 2011 18:04
In Thread: USD
Ashraf

Just interested to learn your view why there have been no dissenters, and why "extended period" has been retained while "inflation" mentioned 11 times?
usikpa
Moscow, Russia
Posts: 77
13 years ago
Apr 22, 2011 7:35
In Thread: USD
So, Ashraf has finally lost all his hope for the dollar, staying committed to 1.49 for the Euro in its current upleg.

Could it just be like back in the end of 2009 when he said he had envisioned 1.57 by the end of that year, only to witness a grand reversal at 1.51?

After all, German Ifo and PMI look like rolled over the hill, the last PPI m-o-m was almost flat, and the so hot german GDP growth in the 1st quarter is projected a meager 0,8 per cent, which is what ... twice as low as in the US?

Technically the Fed should start hiking as soon as the core CPI is close or over 1.6% (it is 1.2% in the US vs 1.3% in Europe now). This is so because by the time the Fed has raised to 1 per cent, the core may well have swung over the 2 per cent threshold. And the core is on the rise (just look at the prices received in the Fed's local reports)

And Ben Bernanke is NOT Alan Greenspan. The treasury bubble is to burst.

Everywhere we look, the charts are parabolic. Feels like a correction is in the air.

Thoughts on the dollar, anyone?