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’Would that be the smell of burnt GBP fingers?
Oooh, here’s some hubris for you.
Just when the pound was notching up some stellar gains against the euro on the back of a larger than expected fall in the UK jobless claimant count, Jim Rogers — he of ultimate sterling weakness talk — was on CNBC Europe reiterating his position on the Great British Krona.
“I urge you not to become a US bailout nation”
Outstanding.
Vince ‘I would like to recall the earlier press release’ Stanzione hasn’t just got something to say about sterling. The self-styled ‘controversial trader and investment coach’ has also got some advice for the German chancellor,
Vince Stanzione, sterling showman
Sterling seems to have quieted down after a somewhat ructious start to the week. But this might just be the calm before the storm, especially if self-styled investor/guru Vince Stanzione has anything say about it.
Vince Stanzione would like to recall “Pound Could Collapse Within Weeks”
Much hilarity on the Jim Rogers front.
The man organising the Trading Day Seminar in London next month at which Jim Rogers is was due to speak has issued a retraction of the press release issued on Thursday,
Shock! Jim Rogers didn’t say sterling shall collapse!
INVESTOR IMPERSONATION *ALERT*
On Thursday the outspoken bow-tied investor was quoted in a press release for something called the Global Financial Trading Day Seminar. The release, for those who’ve forgotten already,
The Great British Krona
The reason for the fall to a nine month low?
Some traders are pinning it on Thursday’s poor business investment figures
That release seems to have put paid to hopes that there could be an upward revision to GDP on Friday,
China property bubble: Real or imaginary?
It really seems to be a case of who you want to believe.
The highly opinionated investor Jim Rogers waded into the debate over Hong Kong’s sizzling property prices to warn on Tuesday that values in Shanghai and Hong Kong may fall after being driven higher by speculative demand.
Japan, Einhorn and ‘tontine’ fantasies
Just about “everyone and their uncle” seems to be shorting Japanese government bonds at the moment, notes Louis-Vincent Gave in the latest note from the asset allocation and research house Gavekal.
Friends on trading desks call it the “Einhorn Effect”,
Machine-readable Rogers
How’s this for a public service: a blog aggregating Jim Roger’s various media appearances around the world – which must be something pretty close to a full time job.
The 15th entry so far in October at the Jim Rogers Blog has to do with Jim’s view there is going to be a stock market correction. As he told Reuters:
Battle of the financial pundits
We at FT Alphaville are not getting involved in this one, though we think our readers might want to wade in.
The very vocal Janet Tavakoli, of Tavakoli Structured Finance, has been in an ongoing spat with Black Swan man Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Rogers: Time for a dollar crisis
Amid some undoubtedly premature waves of optimism in the markets about economic, corporate and financial trends, the dollar’s recent rally has generated some bullish speculation about its medium-term trajectory.
Rogers turns his sights on the US and many other things
Not content with savaging the battered British economy and its floundering pound, investment guru Jim Rogers has now turned his sites on the US, its ailing banks and most of all, AIG (while his attack on the UK drew some acid responses,
In defence of sterling
Sterling continues its daily plunge:
Ever contrarian, we here at FT Alphaville feel it is therefore our intrinsic duty to put forward the case for the UK’s beleaguered currency.
For one, the position of sterling as a global reserve currency must be considered.
Dear Jim Rogers… (Cc: David Cameron)
RBS analysts wrote a thoughtful letter to Jim Rogers earlier today – in riposte to his “Armageddon-esque vision of Britain”.
Perhaps they should Cc. in David Cameron…
David Cameron warned yesterday that Britain was “running the risk”
Dear Mr Rogers…
From RBS:
Dear Mr Rogers,
We followed with interest this week’s media scrum around your Armageddon-esque vision of Britain.
That the UK economy faces serious recession is beyond doubt. Few doubt either that the pound is at risk of further decline,
Rogers: ‘The UK is finished’
So it’s time to sell the British peso, according to Jim Rogers, chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holding. As sterling dropped to a record low of 127.44 against the yen and the weakest level since 2002 against the dollar (1.4133) on Monday night – on concerns the government will have to rescue more banks amid the worst recession since World War II – Rogers,
The point at which markets reversed their opinion on the Paulson bailout
This guy is such VFM. Jim Rogers sharing a piece of his mind on Bloomberg Television.
Bloomberg news story (video link in the left hand column).
Key paragraph on Fannie and Freddie:
It’s an unmitigated disaster.
Jim Rogers: China is a buy, buy, buy
Renowned investor Jim Rogers has revealed that he has begun buying Chinese shares again as the market has bottomed, reports The Daily Telegraph. Rogers, who founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in the 1970s,
Jim Rogers on Chinese bubbles and Bernanke’s printing press
The former sidekick of George Soros is never short of an opinion – and in this three-part View from the Markets video interview on the FT Jim Rogers’ doesn’t disappoint.
Some highlights:
The dollar is a flawed currency.
Jim’s advice to Ben: “Don’t do it”
How’s this for a set of newswire snaps:
BEELAND’S ROGERS SEES WHEAT PRICE ‘CONSOLIDATING’
*BEELAND’S ROGERS RECOMMENDS OWNING ASIAN CURRENCIES
*BEELAND’S ROGERS SAYS SOME BANKS ARE `UNBELIEVABLY’
The stock is dead, long live commodities – and China
Quantum Fund co-founder and investment guru Jim Rogers believes the bull market for stock and bond markets is over, and investors should get into commodities, reports FinanceAsia.com.
Stocks and bonds might be passé,