Here are today’s gold stock screens and data, along with cycle conditions and projections for gold and HUI index, and Chart of the Day...
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Reposted from an email bulletin- I’m finally back up to speed after my trip back from my summer base in Canada to base camp FL. Yesterday I posted a Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Fed Report update. This is an excerpt from that report. The Fed’s security holdings rose in the week ended 10/12/11...
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The Fed’s balance sheet took a big jump last week as settlements of forward MBS purchases more than offset reductions in the alphabet soup programs being shut down as well as the little noticed roll off of some maturing GSE paper. GSE maturities totaling $29 billion over the next year will play a small...
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Its balance sheet grew this week as the Fed closed on a large amount of forward purchases of MBS. That and their GSE and Treasury purchases were enough to offset a large decline in alphabet soup. Since mid March, the trend of increasing Fed securities holdings and declining alphabet soup have exactly offset one...
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The Fed only slightly increased the size of the Fed’s balance sheet this week as MBS and GSE holdings increased while Alphabet Soup programs declined slightly. This small net addition in the Fed’s balance sheet was not nearly enough to halt the continuing meltdown in the stock market and Treasury market. Click here to...
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I got this question this morning from a poster over on the Stool Pigeons Wire. Am I correct in stating that regardless of whether or not the new reserves that will be added once the FED purchases the GSE/MBS paper are utilized to increase fractional-reserve lending (at least initially), there would still be substantial...
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Today I got sick to my stomach when the Fed announced two more alphabet soup du jour programs. One program will involve the direct purchase of GSE and MBS paper by the Fed. that’s another $600 billion that the Fed will add to its books. This action was necessitated by the ending of the...
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