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FT Alphaville —
... Investment bankers have delicate egos at the best of times and the past few years have not been the best of times. Now things are looking up, despite the fall in the number and value of mergers and acquisitions. There is less work to go around but bankers at least feel wanted: “I think the days of the broad-based corporate financier are back,” says one. Tim Congdon: Keep the money flowing to stave off deflation The chief executive of International Money Research writes : Has “quantitative easing” been a success or a failure. Should it be dropped, continued or expanded? With ...
UnQEasy drama
FT Alphaville —
... biggest bond fund, and BlackRock Inc. from increasing their holdings of the securities. Guessing which gilts the central bank is going to buy is like “playing Russian roulette,” said Philip Laing, the Edinburgh-based director of government bonds at Standard Life Investments, which has about 118 billion pounds ($191 billion) under management.“While they’ll probably extend it, we are focused on the end of quantitative easing.” More on that last point here . Related links: Keep the money flowing to stave off deflation - FT Doubts grow over quantitative easing - ...
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Gold Market "Weak, Overly Long" as Stocks Rally, US Issues Record Government Debt
GoldSeek.com —
... . "I would have hoped to have seen more positive signs by now," the paper quotes UK and European economist Howard Archer at IHS Global Insight in London . But "So far, QE has been an almost unqualified success," counters monetary economist Tim Congdon in today's Financial Times . If money-supply growth slows further, "the Bank should have no hesitation in expanding its gilt purchases," he believes. "The priority must be to ensure that the quantity of money continues to rise, so keeping the menace of deflation at bay." Today the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised it ...
