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15 Unzen Gold als Investment ?☺️

2020-04-15

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2020-04-15

Aktuell kaufe ich jeden Monat eine Unze Gold in Form einer Münze. Bis Ende des Jahres sieht mein Plan vor, insgesamt 15 Unzen Gold in meinem Portfolio zu haben. Die Münzen werden natürlich sicher in einem Bankschliessfach aufbewahrt. Gold als InvestmentManche fragen sich vielleicht, wieso ich Geld in Gold investiere.

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2020 04 11 DC MarketReport

2020-04-14

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ZUM AKTUELLEN SEMINAR: https://daytradingcoach.de/cot-trading-seminar/

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FX Daily, April 14: Equities are Firm but New Developments Needed or Risk Appetites may Become Satiated

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

Overview: Risk appetites have returned today after taking yesterday off. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced every day last week, slipped yesterday, and jumped back today. Most of the national benchmark advanced at least 1.5%, and the Nikkei led the way with a 3% rally to reach its best level since mid-March.

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A reality check on China’s return to work

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

The recent recovery in industrial activity seems to have stalled, probably because of the collapse in external demand and high levels of vigilance inside China. Since the large-scale coronavirus infection was contained, the Chinese government has been trying hard to get the economy back on track. The end of the lockdown in Wuhan after two in a half months is an important milestone in that respect.

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What to Expect from the World Bank and IMF

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

The spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF will be held virtually this week amid a profound economic crisis spurred by a novel coronavirus.  Unlike previous such viruses, this went global in such a destructive way that many countries have responded the same way.  Encouraging social distancing, closing non-essential businesses, and enforcing lockdowns. 

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One fifth of pupils ‘falling though remote learning net’

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

There is a big difference in the amount of time pupils are spending at their studies during the corona school closures, a Swiss-led study has found. Some children are doing five or more hours a day, others just one or two.

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What Is Entrepreneurship?

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

We shall concentrate on the capitalist-entrepreneurs, economically the more important type of entrepreneur. These are the men who invest in "capital" (land and/or capital goods) used in the productive process….

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All of the Economic Recovery Models Will Be Wrong Too

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

“All of the projection models were wrong. All of them,” admitted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in an interview last week with MSNBC. Governor Cuomo had been issuing frantic demands for tens of thousands of ventilators... that turned out not to be needed as the rate of new hospitalizations for COVID-19 infections in New York plunged with surprising speed.

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There’s No Going Back, We Can Only Go Forward

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

US financial assets now 5.6 times GDP
What I see is a global collapse of intangible capital that is invisible to most people. It's only natural that the conventional expectation is a return to the pre-pandemic world is just a matter of time. Whether it's three months or six months or 18 months, "the good old days" will return just as if we turned back the clock.

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Cool Video: CNBC Asia

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

As the markets were re-opening in Asia earlier today, I joined Martin Soong and Sir Jegarajah on CNBC Asia.  I had returned from a business trip and visited our summer house on the Jersey shore for what I thought was going to be a weekend more than a month ago.  

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GBP to CHF Rate: Sterling Supported Against the Swiss Franc as Boris Johnson’s Health Improves

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

The GBP to CHF interbank exchange rate today has been ranging between 1.2017 and 1.2092. The pound looks supportive today on the back that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is on the road to recovery from Covid-19.

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Coronavirus: Switzerland extends lockdown until 26 April

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

On 8 April 2020, Switzerland’s government decided to extend the country’s lockdown measures for a further week. In a press release the Federal Council said the measures would be extended for another week and then possibly progressively loosened before the end of April.

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Cradle of agriculture in the Amazon region much older

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

People began growing manioc and squash much earlier than previously thought, a team of researchers led by the Swiss university of Bern has found. A study shows that the earliest human inhabitants of Moxos plains began transforming the tropical savanna eco-region in Bolivia 10,000 years ago, that is 8,000 earlier than previously thought.

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Buy The Tumor, Sell the News

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

Apple Monthly, 2005-2021
The fictitious valuation of the stock market will eventually re-connect with reality in a violent decline. No, buy the tumor, sell the news (tm) is not a typo: the stock market is a lethal tumor in our economy and society. 

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Keynes Called Himself a Socialist. He Was Right.

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

In 1997 Ralph Raico published an article titled “Keynes and the Reds.” Raico’s article highlighted John Maynard Keynes’s review of a 1936 book by the British socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb called Soviet Communism. In his review, Keynes discusses Joseph Stalin’s USSR and concludes: “The result is impressive.”

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Government Overreach in the Age of COVID-19

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

In times of crisis, governments have a tendency to overcompensate for risk. This tendency may be in the public’s best interest, but it could also serve broader governmental interests. The public and government’s interest are not always one and the same.

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Central banks to the rescue

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

While expecting long-term yields to be capped, we remain neutral on US Treasuries. We think peripheral euro area bonds to avoid the levels of stress seen during the sovereign debt crisis.

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Insanity: As The US Enters A Depression, Stocks Are Now The Most Overvalued Ever

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

S&P 500 NTM, January-March 2020
Two days ago, when a platoon of clueless CNBC hacks said that stocks were extremely undervalued, and must be bought (on their fundamentals, not because the Fed was about to nationalize the entire bond market and is set to start buying equity ETFs in the next crash), we showed just how "undervalued" the market was.

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New debt relief measures on the horizon for struggling firms

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

The Swiss government is examining plans to stave off bankruptcies of companies struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis. But regular debt collection procedures will resume on April 20. Justice Minster Karin Keller-Sutter said the aim was to stabilise the economy and to secure jobs.

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Swiss consortium launches bitcoin on Tezos blockchain

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

A consortium of Swiss cryptocurrency companies has incorporated bitcoin onto the Tezos blockchain. The move brings Tezos, which has based its foundation in Switzerland, a step closer to rival blockchain Ethereum. Launched in 2018, the Tezos blockchain was designed to play host to a new generation of decentralised finance, business and social projects.

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