Market Update (29 december 2014)

Kredietcrisis

Since 1980, The S&P 500 Has Dumped 320 Stocks Because They Stunk (Business Insider)

How to Save Like the Rich and the Upper Middle Class (Hint: It’s Not With Your House) (Wall Street Journal)

Copper Near Four-Year Low Amid Signs of Slowdown in China (Bloomberg)

Saudi to Dig Into Reserves for 2015 Budget (New York Times)

How Central Banks Saved The World (Stocks) In 2014 (Zero Hedge)

The Keynesian End Game Crystalizes In Japan’s Monetary Madness (Zero Hedge)

Saudi Arabia Said to Plan Stock Market Opening in April (Bloomberg)

Valutacrisis

No need for ECB to buy sovereign bonds now: German economic adviser (Reuters)

Lithuania puts hope in euro as relations with Russia strain (DPA International)

China’s Yuan Weakens on Speculation Importers Buying Greenback (Bloomberg)

China First-World Quandary Exposed as $800 Billion Lending Freed (Bloomberg)

CBR launches SWIFT alternative for domestic payments (Russia Today)

Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis (Federal Reserve)

Geopolitiek

Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security (Spiegel)

Flames Engulf Fifth Oil Tank at Libya’s Largest Port After Rocket Attack (Sputnik News)

Clashes set off huge fire at Al-Sidra oil terminal in Libya (Middle East Online)

Bankers See $1 Trillion of Zombie Investments Stranded in the Oil Fields (Bloomberg)

BRICS

All China Wants for Christmas Is a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin Axis (Russia Insider)

China extends high-speed railway network to remote Xinjiang (South China Morning Post)

“BRICS most important element of global governance” (BRICS Post)

Goud

Miners Extremely Oversold as Tax Loss Selling Ends (The Daily Gold)

Oil Follows Gold’s Crash Pattern (321 gold)

Grafiek/Cartoon van de dag

Goed nieuws! Levensverwachting wereldpopulatie neemt toe, vooral in opkomende landen

Vermogen van de middenklasse in de VS verschraalt