Monthly Archives: January 2012

Canadian financials looking hauntingly familiar?

This updated overview of the Canadian financial sector (XFN) offers some cause for pause. Source:  Cory Venable, CMT, Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc.

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Pimco’s El Erian: “Fed does not have enough policy instruments” to fix economy

Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., talks about Federal Reserve monetary policy, the European debt crisis and investment strategy.  Watch the clip here.

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China’s demographic tsunumia now underway

Excellent article today on the greying of China.  “Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Jan. 9 issue: The latest government census shows 178 million Chinese were over 60 in 2009. That figure could reach 437 million — one third of the population … Continue reading

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