Category: World Markets

Congratulations on joining our community! Here is some important information:

The fact that you can read this shows that the article submission process is working. You’ll now start to receive UNIQUE articles that match your selected categories, up to the “daily maximum limit” you set.

If you no longer wish to receive articles, or you wish to change the maximum number of articles you receive each day, simply update your preferences in the UAW Control Panel.

Also check to see if you have enabled the special UAW link so that your readers can get their own unique version of this articles, thereby preventing you from suffering from the duplicate content filters. Look at the bottom of this article to see if this link is activated or not. Without that link people will simply copy the article directly from your site, which means they will be posting content that is a duplicate of yours. If their site happens to have higher rankings than yours, then your site will suffer from the duplicate filters.

If the link is activated, you can also earn 20% recurring commissions on any UAW signups resulting from people clicking on that link. That’s right - you can earn passive income just by publishing UAW articles on your site. If you haven’t already signed up for our free affiliate program, you can do so now here.

Indeed, why not also use the Wizard to promote your own sites? Sign up for your own subscription here.

Once again, welcome aboard! If you have any suggestions on how we might improve the Wizard, do let us know through our Helpdesk: http://allegrettopublishing.com/support/index.php .

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

The rush to escape from the US Dollar as a reserve currency is on.

Additional nations are realigning the way that they use US Dollars in conducting their cash reserve management business. Nations that have announced or hinted at a shift in the percentage of foreign exchange holdings held in US Dollars include Russia, China, Japan, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Vietnam. There are probably many more who are quietly making adjustments in the percentage of foreign exchange holdings held in depreciating US Dollars.

The recklessness of the Bush administration with its spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow policies, and the growth of the twin US deficits in the balance of payments and for the federal budget seem to be forcing a change in the way nations will manage foreign exchange reserves. They will be reluctant to continue to accumulate dollars. You can’t really blame nations when they are lucky to receive 5% on Dollar deposits and in recent years are losing 15% to 20% a year in Dollar depreciation.

The following article in The Daily Reckoning details the recent moves to diversify away from the Dollar by Vietnam and Qatar.

“Qatar and Vietnam aren’t exactly marquee players on the world financial stage. But if this is any indication, they’re harbingers of what’s to come for the U.S. dollar:

Announcements on Thursday from the Qatari and Vietnamese governments that they are rapidly divesting in dollar denominated securities will not come as good news to the US government. Overseas investors hold half of America’s $4,400bn of marketable government debt, up from a third in 2001 according to the US Treasury department.

Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani said on US TV that the government-backed $50bn Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) now had less than 40 per cent of its investments in dollars, down from a high two years ago of 99 per cent.

Who doesn’t want to own gold coins?

For the past several thousand years people from all over the world have placed a high value on gold coins for their beauty, durability, portability, and universal acceptance as a medium of exchange.

No matter where you may go in this world gold coins will gladly be accepted as money. Given a choice between paper money or gold coins which one would you rather have?

During times of uncertainly it is only prudent to buy gold coins. While paper money issued by governments without any sound backing, known as fiat currency, may come and go, gold coins will endure.

As a means of maintaining purchasing power throughout the ages gold coins have no equal.

Monex is a gold, silver, and precious metals specialist that for over 30 years has been serving Americans with their investment needs.

Their experienced staff stands ready to answer any questions that you may have about the purchase of gold and silver coins.

Disclosure Notice: This is a paid post sponsered by Monex.

Are you an American enraged about high gasoline prices? If so take a look around the world to see just how well off you are for the moment.

I say moment as with peak oil and continued upward pressure on crude prices gasoline prices could more easily increase to world price levels than fall. All it would take to really push the gasoline market far higher would be a pre-emptive Bush lead military strike on Iran.

Here are the top world oil prices for June 18th, 2007.

United Kingdom $8.37

Netherlands $7.52

Norway $7.33

Belgium $6.95

Denmark $6.95

For more prices and comments on the outlook visit USA Today.

Maybe $3.00 a gallon isn’t so bad after all. Better fill up now and bring an empty 55 gallon drum along.

In a world where the demand for natural resources and the products made from them, like gasoline from crude oil, and flour from wheat, is greater than ever the opportunities to make money from commodity trading are abundant.

To be sure commodity trading is a risky business and not suitable for everyone. Price levels of commodities can change rapidly depending upon weather conditions, problems with production facilities, wars, new technologies, and rumors, to name a few.

Like any speculation or investment you should carefully study commodity futures trading before taking part. If you have the necessary risk capital, a good base of knowledge, use professional trading techniques, have self discipline, then with a bit of luck you might just make your fortune trading commodities.

A good place to start learning the business is at Commodity Futures Trader. Just be sure to learn at least the basics before trading with real money. A number of commodity brokerage firms will allow you to open a “practice” account funded by imaginary money to help you get started.

This approach is highly recommended as you can learn the ropes and test your trading plan without putting your own capital at risk. Then when you think that you are ready you can fund your account with real money.

That way you will have a much better chance of being a successful trader than if you had jumped right in with real trading without refining your commodity trading techniques and money management plan.