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Weekly markets checklist. Week 173. 4th October 2024
Update: US nonfarm payrolls for September came in red hot at +254k vs expectations for +140k, the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2% and defied expectations that it would rise to 4.3%. Full details next episode. Bond yields rose after the data on expectations that the Fed would reduce the rate of interest rate cuts.
I apologise about the sound quality in this episode. Richard's sound quality was poor so I have tried to adjust the sound level in the edit. The internet quality in his house was poor so he was on his laptop. Hopefully we will sort it out next time.
In this week’s episode we discuss US PCE inflation, the 30% rise in the Hang Seng over the past 3 weeks and all the usual market and macro-economic data. We have special sections on the revisions to US GDP , UK MPC forecasts for the UK economy and UK renewable energy.
There will be no weekly next week as I will be on holiday trying to take my mind off the Gilt market. Normal service will resume in 2 weeks.
Chapters
00:00:48 This week’s news
00:04:15 UK economic data
00:14:40 Weekly quiz
00:19:34 EU economic data
00:26:35 US economic data
00:39:41 US GDP data revisions
00:43:41 China economic data
00:47:08 One Chart
00:48:57 MPC UK economic forecasts for August
00:50:34 UK electricity prices
01:04:39 Inflation watch
01:07:41 Recession watch
01:10:44 Soft landing watch
01:12:23 Other charts
01:13:13 Good news
01:13:57 Equity market checklist
01:26:57 Energy commodities
01:30:52 Industrial metals checklist
01:32:31 Precious metals
01:34:08 Bond yield and interest rates checklist
01:37:33 Concluding comments
01:37:34 Keith and Richard’s portfolio updates
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Weekly markets checklist. Week 172. 27th September 2024
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This week we discuss a dramatic week in markets as equities and commodities rose strongly on the back of renewed Chinese stimulus efforts and the Fed’s 50bp interest rate cut. We have special sections on the details of the Chinese stimulus package, why Chinese M1 is declining, R* and The International Public Partnerships Fund (INPP). Plus, we have all the usual segments and SimonW’s latest Tech...
September 2024 oil market outlook
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I take a look at the prospects for the oil price and find that the outlook is very poor. OPEC are looking to raise their production by 2.4m bpd in the year starting December but there appears to be little prospect that they can do that without driving the oil price down further. In the medium term the outlook is highly uncertain. If the IEA is to be believed oil supply will outstrip demand in t...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 171. 17th September 2024
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Hurrah! The weekly comes out vaguely close to our target time of 1hr 30mins, mainly because I will be spinning out the segment on oil into a separate podcast, but good news nonetheless. In this week’s episode we mainly concentrate on last week’s US inflation data. We have all the week’s macro and markets data, plus SimonW’s latest Technical Analysis of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, and special sectio...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 170. 10th September 2024
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Our attempt to get the podcast towards its target length of 90 mins ended in abject failure this week unfortunately as we have extended coverage of the US labour market in the aftermath of last week’s JOLT’s job openings data, ADP employment numbers and Nonfarm payrolls. The latest data clearly shows the US labour market slowing with profound implications for the outlook for the US economy and ...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 169. 4th September 2024
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I am back from Japan with a long episode containing 3 weeks’ worth of macro-economic data. In future I will be trying to reduce the length of the podcast and will be more selective in the macro-data we report and which equity and commodity charts we show each week. However, because this is the first weekly in 3 weeks I have shown most of the equity and commodity charts. Henceforth I will only s...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 168. 13th August 2024
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I am afraid that it is a very long episode this week as Stuart Owen and I discuss the market turmoil over the past 10 days, plus we have special sections on the Yen Carry Trade and AI. As ever we discuss all the most recent macro-economic data including the soft July US nonfarm payrolls which seemed to start the stock market selloff, plus today’s UK employment and earnings data. SimonW has prov...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 167. 2nd August 2024
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I apologise for the poor audio and video quality this week as I dialled in from Brittany on my son’s laptop. It was an eventful week in the world and in the markets. The Fed met and left rates unchanged. The Bank of Japan met and raised rates by 0.15% to 0.25%. The Bank of England met and cut rates by 0.25% to 5.0% in a 5:4 vote. The interest rate cycle appears to be turning decisively down, he...
Weekly market checklist. Week 166. 26th July 2024
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We are back from holidays to find big changes in politics and markets. Over the past 2 weeks there has been turmoil in US politics and sharp falls in equity and commodity prices. We discuss all that and the recent macro data, particularly UK and US inflation, UK earnings growth, US GDP growth, and July PMI’s. There are special sections on US labour markets, the US lumber market, and UK truflati...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 165. 12th July 2024
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The big macro data announcements this week were US CPI (soft), US nonfarm payrolls (mixed) and UK GDP (good). We discuss these in depth plus all the other new economic data and markets data. There are special sections on: Silver, Index Linked Gilts and US housing affordability. Plus all the usual segments. There will be no PM next week as I will be hiking in the Lofoten Islands in Norway. We ar...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 164. 5th July 2024
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It was a busy week in politics with the UK election, Joe Biden desperately clinging on to the Democratic Presidential candidacy and 1st round elections for the National Assembly in France. The cover US ISM services and manufacturing PMI’s, JOLTs job openings for May, EU inflation for June, and the China Caixin PMI’s. We have special sections on the social limits to growth, AI model development ...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 163. 28th June 2024
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There was not much macro data this week giving time for Richard and I to discuss Migration, the state of the UK economy, the US housing market (again), the effect of government bond issuance on the money supply, and, following on from last week, Simon’s investment approach. Plus we have all the usual sections. Chapters 00:00:35 This week’s news 00:04:47 This week’s economic data 00:10:11 UK eco...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 162. 21st June 2024
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We are back after our holiday break with a (long) data filled episode that contains 2 weeks of macro data including US nonfarm payrolls, US inflation numbers and UK inflation numbers. We also have special sections on the political situation in France, Amara’s Law, Tech profits, Nonfarm payrolls and the EU energy market. Plus all the usual markets data and sections. Chapters 00:00:38 This week’s...
Angel investment story 3: Planalot
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Richard and I discuss the first of our Angel investment investments to fail. To protect the guilty all the names have been changed. Any resemblance to real events or people is entirely coincidental. Please don't sue us. Email: info@portfoliomatters.co.uk Discord: discord.gg/49YVnsFe55 Gofundme: gofund.me/f499b4f4 Our podcast is entirely free and in order to maximise the viewing experience we do...
Weekly markets checklist. Week 161. 7th June 2024
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There is a lot of economic data to cover this week including the US JOLT’s job opening numbers, PCE inflation and EU inflation numbers. We have special sections on Demographics, OPEC , Q1 US corporate earnings, and Seignorage. Plus we cover all the usual macro and markets data. After this was recorded US nonfarm payrolls for May were published and the follow the recent pattern. The headline num...
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  • @2xjsf83f2
    @2xjsf83f2 4 дні тому

    ua-cam.com/video/Z79MDYvUB34/v-deo.html

  • @CuriousityCat
    @CuriousityCat 12 днів тому

    How much production is left in the bakken tier one ? Chord and enerplus just merged in the bakken for a couple of billion dollars So I'm assuming there's money to be made 🤷‍♀️

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 3 дні тому

      I think that you are probably right. The death of US shale has been forecast continually. I remain mystified by this post by Art Berman: www.artberman.com/blog/beginning-of-the-end-for-the-permian/ He has run the numbers and claims that new Permian wells are increasingly less productive and unprofitable at less than $83 a barrel. That makes no sense. If that were true no-one would be drilling them.

  • @CuriousityCat
    @CuriousityCat 12 днів тому

    If Israel b:mbs Iranian oil Will this all just turn into a wash and price stays same?

  • @lincolnshireoilwells9757
    @lincolnshireoilwells9757 12 днів тому

    A very minor comment, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is in neighbouring Nottinghamshire, not Lincolnshire. Cheers

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 12 днів тому

    Now that USA jobs booming and uk inflation energy etc ticking up what you think of interest rates will still go down a lot?

  • @2xjsf83f2
    @2xjsf83f2 12 днів тому

    Great show

  • @robertdagge200
    @robertdagge200 12 днів тому

    Very good thanks. UK REITs are great but the 20% WHT is not. I invest in a couple of REITs that profess a 6% yield. Take 20% off and it is no longer 6% .,.... Look at tax-free SGX REITs..

  • @tbayley6
    @tbayley6 13 днів тому

    Keith, a couple of comments. The OPEC forecasts don't seem to account for the resulting supply increase whereas the IEA forecasts do, so not sure they are apples to apples? But at any rate, isn't OPEC saying they have room to taper their cuts? Saudi tend to be flexible, and there are dependable (non-perma bull!) analysts out there who don't think they want to kill the oil price. Also, you single out chinese demand which is of course hugely relevant but isn't it already in the forecasts? The chinese tend to play around with inventories BTW, arbing the oil price within the recent range, which I think can fool some watchers. And they have recently begun a huge stimulus programme of course. You also say supply and demand is currently in balance, but we keep seeing large draws in the US. And on top of that I hear the market has taken a historically large short position, larger than during the Covid collapse. Finally, there's a very important US election in November and during the run-up my feeling is that various "optics", and even the market itself, is likely to be managed somewhat.

  • @sankarAnnamalai-j1z
    @sankarAnnamalai-j1z 16 днів тому

    How to buy Petrofac shares

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 18 днів тому

    I think the secret to making money is ignore macro, look at micro, buy at ok value, and always always always have a bullish frame of mind

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 18 днів тому

      Difficult to argue against you this cycle. The irony of this disastrous trade is that I really thought that I had worked out how to play the market. Buy equities at the bottom of a recession, sell them when the market gets over excited, and repeat. This cycle I attempted to be bolder and buy long dated bonds to profit as higher rates slowed the economy and induced a recession. Well that clearly has not worked and I now have to live with the consequences. Not great. But, I have been playing this game for 30 years and I remain of the belief that equities are volatile and if you wait long enough they will give you a good entry point, which is not now.

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 20 днів тому

    Great overview of REITS; thanks. Still a glutton for punishment (on the IR reversion thesis for them) or could this be the winner? Certainly these are real assets serving a useful purpose discounted by changes in the discount factor which "must" change/improve. I will look at these next year when the stock market has gotten "really" overvalued but worth a dabble for income! 😆

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 18 днів тому

      I am buying income and a defensive portfolio that I can hold indefinitely until something I see better opportunities.

  • @innocenti67
    @innocenti67 22 дні тому

    interesting Keith .... by the way, fancy a coffee in NW3 when you are around ? Am WFH so always here !

  • @robertdagge200
    @robertdagge200 22 дні тому

    Very good thanks. If you look at AIM, there probably never has been much opportunity in the old sector - over the years I have invested in about 10 oil speculations ('for fun') and most all went bust (effectively) - remember that "sure thing" in the Bahamas etc etc? My final holding - COPL - is down a mere 99.999% - I don't sell it because the dealing costs are higher than the proceeds.... Harbour = Premier Oil. Another (bigger) oil slick, despite being a producer.

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 21 день тому

      Hi Robert, I agree that AIM oil companies have been a total disaster. That said I have made very good money out of them over the years by buying at the bottom of a recession and selling them at the top. I had a great Pandemic pursuing that strategy and would love to do it again if and when the oil price crashes. That is the plan. Next time though I think that there will be a lot fewer oil companies listed in the UK because of their performance. I will continue to watch oil but given the news from Saudi today I think that it will be years before there is an opportunity here.

  • @2xjsf83f2
    @2xjsf83f2 22 дні тому

    With precious metals setting record highs and still rising, I would love a video on the gold and silver markets along with any miners you guys have on your radar. (Hochschild Mining, maybe 😂)

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 22 дні тому

    Great overview. Risk and uncertainty is in Demand in my view (Supply will follow price).

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 25 днів тому

    Do you think Chinese cars are a contrarian play now that all rhetoric is China is uninvestable

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 25 днів тому

    Great deep dive, not sure world trade tariff charts relevant this time because this time around USA doing it from a position of strength and targeted mostly at China this time

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 20 днів тому

      Hi Informer, I have received an alert that you have posted another question about Chinese EV's but the text of your comment has not appeared on UA-cam. Please can you repost your question?

    • @informer-365
      @informer-365 20 днів тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 hi I was just asking if Chinese EVs were worth a punt because of experts have been saying China is uninvestable, turns out they have now completely flipped their opinion to buy any China haha

  • @rsforthewin
    @rsforthewin Місяць тому

    One point on the Chat GPT numbers are most people who are using it for work or development now use the API or Azure hosted version. They wont be included in those numbers.

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 Місяць тому

    "Something's going on with the Chinese Economy".... Xi Jinping is going on with the Chinese Economy. It's bad to get rich. Ergo noone will try to get rich!

    • @2xjsf83f2
      @2xjsf83f2 Місяць тому

      The xi Jinping authoritarian China worries me 😢

  • @robertdagge200
    @robertdagge200 Місяць тому

    Very good thanks. Still not sold on these renewable funds. The few I bought did absolutely nothing despite all their blah blah blah of social good at profit and some I did not buy (GRID, GSF, IPX) totally collapsed. These guys generally don't make sizeable, if any, profits from activity and instead live on social goodwill and subsidies. Maybe some day some one will decide that they are not the way forward and simply stop the subsidies. Reits? Home Reit is a good example of goodwill turned bad. Home was into social housing (clap, clap....) - unfortunately the very respectable looking, well spoken and well educated management team were either totally incompetent or totally fraudulent. The reit went bankrupt and its remains now face a shareholder class action. Caveat emptor.

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 Місяць тому

      Hi Robert, thanks for your comments. I agree that you have to be very careful in choosing IT's as there is an agency problem inherent in the design: the managers get paid out whatever the performance unless it goes bust, while investors suffer any losses. I note that the IT's that you highlight, GRID and GSF are in the energy storage space. I remain unconvinced by the economics of grid level energy storage (large initial investment, intermittent usage and therefore income) and will be avoiding.

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 Місяць тому

    Have you heard the phrase bears sound clever but bulls make money

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 Місяць тому

    I agree nvidea might not be as high in the future. But your thesis is incorrect about competition because it’s by beating competitors is how they got to where they are so can’t be their downfall

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 Місяць тому

      Yes they have beaten the competition up to this point, but that does not mean that they will be able to maintain that advantage into the future. There was a time when Intel was expected to dominate the chip market........

    • @informer-365
      @informer-365 Місяць тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 surely a more accurate thesis is demand for nvidea chips will decline rather then competing demand will increase? For all we know nvidea tech could be compounding. Intel might have its own story very unlikely exact same story to play out

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 Місяць тому

    I’m no technical analyst but why can’t there be a triple top

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 Місяць тому

      @informer-365 ha ha, neither am I and you are most likely right. Nothing is ever 100%. The problem, as Stuart suggests, is seeing the pattern you wish to see. Paradolia

    • @sogoesit8008
      @sogoesit8008 Місяць тому

      Of course you can observe as many "tops" as there are to be observed... (i) see XOM Weekly Chart where I count 5 "tops" to date (in a Distribution price action); (ii) a 'Top" is only one when there is more than a Distribution (as XOM currently) or Consolidation (Bottom). I.E. When the second, or third, sell-off breaks down lower than the first sell-off otherwise it's void. (iii) the "Top" is only confirmed in hindsight but statistically, I think, Double and Triple Tops are significant topping (Bearish) formations. But always wait for confirmation that the second, or third, cycle breaks-down. If more than three without a Break-down then a Channel is formed or being formed. The "better" formation, recently by my observation, is a "Top" followed by a Lower High (see NVDA Daily where there has been a "Top" followed by 2 lower highs). The idea with this, stronger imv, pattern is to sell at the high of the first relief rally. See QQQ Daily and Weekly. Diversified Energy Company (DEC) used to be, and still is to some extent (with a reversion to its old strategy), a Channel Play where one can trade the highs and the lows with reasonable confidence. (PS I am an amateur with a Gain/Loss record of 35/65 at best). Good luck... but try to be objective not subjective!

  • @informer-365
    @informer-365 Місяць тому

    Apart from guilts and bonds what else are you looking at when buying into yield

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 Місяць тому

      In this week's weekly I include a section on The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG.L) which yields around 7.3%. In coming weeks I will be taking a look at other yield plays. Spoiler alert, I like TRIG and will be aiming to pick some up if the share price falls further.

    • @informer-365
      @informer-365 Місяць тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 do you consider cost of capital when looking at trig

  • @lincolnshireoilwells9757
    @lincolnshireoilwells9757 Місяць тому

    Another interesting episode- thank you

  • @miles4414
    @miles4414 Місяць тому

    yes please make it a little shorter thats a good idea :) and its not at all critics of your great content - but listening 2 hours with high intensity ... you really have to have or take the time for it .. so ...like 1h30 would be perfect maybe :)

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 Місяць тому

    "France doesn't have a government". Good news, the less meddling in markets the better! Good segment on US Housing, general lessons too (if I could discern what they were!). Thanks.

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 Місяць тому

      Hi Simon, in general I would agree with you but as you know France is running a huge fiscal deficit that is breaking all the EU fiscal sustainability criteria, and the FT had a report yesterday saying that on current trends the deficit would hit 5.5% this year, well above the target of 5.1%. If left without firm leadership the French spend. Will the EU sanction them?

  • @2xjsf83f2
    @2xjsf83f2 2 місяці тому

    Time for a second video? Currently 2:1 gold to silver miner going back to 50:50 with palacanta permit around 2027. 90% of rare earth mine demerged. (Acalra resources) Cost projected to fall on flagship mine (inmacalada). New brazil gold mine (mara rosa) came online early this year, expected 90-100k per year @ $1000 aisc Volcan project - entity listed in canada with the intention to sell/raise Argentina, mine aisc expected to fall as currency stabilises New low-cost project purchased in brazil (monte carmo) potential 100k au per year

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 2 місяці тому

    This is a great Weekly, thank you. Especially sections on the Carry Trade (and unwinding) and AI (dispassionate views). I think JPMs estimate that 75% of the trade has unwound is not credible. The rate of unwinding may have peaked but that doesn't mean that there will not be further sell-downs as asset prices rally and position holders sell-down. (AI getting more expensive? Hint, buy one company, sell the rest!!)

  • @danieluk5393
    @danieluk5393 2 місяці тому

    Content is superb, delivery is high quality and the presenters are knowledgeable.

  • @2xjsf83f2
    @2xjsf83f2 2 місяці тому

    Love this show

  • @nillejoslin
    @nillejoslin 2 місяці тому

    47:49 Regarding "Technical analysis" or "Graph decoration" as I call it, I'd recommend the book Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by Aronson (link below). It examines the evidence behind various "patterns" (like head-n-shoulder) and there is none. If you look at this guy's old forecasts you'll probably find that he has never been right all the time and has revised his forecasts. Especially Elliot Wave (wave counting) is treacherous since it is both subjective and fractal and has freedom enough to decorate any graph, even coast lines. It is an example of a "theory" that has no falsification condition (tells what must *not* happen for the theory to be true). Darwinism, for instance, has the suggested falsification condition of a pre-Cambrian rabbit. If someone finds one, the theory is wrong. But it hasn't happened, so the theory is accepted the best explanation and qualifies as a theory because of its falsifiability (Popper's term). There is therefore no essential difference between EW and horoscope even if EW may *appear* "advanced" and "structured". www.amazon.com/Evidence-Based-Technical-Analysis-Scientific-Statistical/dp/0470008741

  • @innocenti67
    @innocenti67 2 місяці тому

    Finally it might come your way ! This move is all job related… as soon as I am in the hot seat in NW3 it goes t1ts up !!! Merde !!

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @@innocenti67 ha ha. Good luck with the new job. Volatility is great for stock pickers. I think there may be some opportunities in the coming months

  • @danieluk5393
    @danieluk5393 2 місяці тому

    Much appreciated, glad you squeezed one in as it was an interesting week, get a quality bottle of red and think the exit may be in sight for this trade, at least you may be able to adjust size so as to be able to take other opportunities that present themselves.

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @danieluk5393 thanks for the kind words. Hopefully this trade will now begin to recoup some of its losses. I am glad that the trends that we have been reporting all year are finally getting some recognition in the market. The US jobs market appears to be definitely slowing

  • @lukeoldfield7940
    @lukeoldfield7940 2 місяці тому

    Hi chaps, If you were already a profitable/cashflow positive gold mining company, then if the gold price goes up in line with your costs (in % terms) your cashflow and profits rise in real terms - this is the rationale behind investing in gold miners vs investing in the commodity? It also opens up the viability of more marginal deposits, meaning companies can potentially expand production and benefit from economies of scale to keep overall costs under control when individual components of costs are increasing - you can keep your AISC under control with higher throughput. I think is what Richard was trying to convey? We've seen the gold price up 20% in the last 6 months and the junior gold mining index (often lagging the majors) up 33%, for example (leverage). I would expect to see this trend continue as earnings reports come out. That's where some of my money is taking the 'gamble' anyway!

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @lukeoldfield7940 Hi Luke, that is absolutely the rationale and in theory gold miners should be geared to any rise in physical gold. However, my point is that they have not been. As the long term chart of the ratio of gold mining equities to gold shows, gold has actually been a superior investment over time. Yes, the gold price has risen 15% this year and gold miners should now be doing well, but their costs will have risen by at least 20% over the past few years so the recent rise in gold merely helps to restore profitability it does not make them hugely profitable. The lesson of the last 20 years or so is that the costs of gold mining have risen more than the gold price itself, in part because of declining ore grades requiring more time and effort to extract the same amount of gold. I can't see that dynamic changing in the future. Bottom line: gold grades matter. Buy only gold miners with high grade mines

    • @lukeoldfield7940
      @lukeoldfield7940 2 місяці тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 Fair points - it pays to be selective on which gold miners and jurisdictions you invest in - ideally with relatively low labour costs. High grade miners can be a trap also - if it is high grade, but narrow vein, then they can still have high costs as they have to be selective about which ore bodies to mine from etc, which takes time and extra work to unearth the best areas. If you have consistent, albeit lower grade you know what you're getting so can just 'chuck it all in the grinder' without the same extent of planning and careful extraction work. For example Serabi gold in Brazil are mining at 6-7g/t but still have far higher costs than ALTYN gold in Kazhakstan at c2g/t. I do think that miners will outperform gold at some point shortly, simply because the valuations have become cheaper and cheaper - sooner or later that translates to larger shareholder returns (dividends/mergers etc) and that's what I'm banking on. Find the right ones, with growth plans and financing and you will outperform the metal. ALTN for example is up nearly double since end Feb - due to having a new processing plant shortly coming on stream.

  • @nillejoslin
    @nillejoslin 2 місяці тому

    03:20"In particular he (Trump) will attempt to politicize the civil service and that would be very bad for US democracy" First of all, Trump refers to Federal employed activists/leftists that he wants to fire, so he wants to loosen their employment protection. So it will be bad for US communism, no doubt. You equal communism with democracy, which is not very odd for communists. I wonder why filling all Federal positions with left activists was not undemocratic when the Democrats did it. Why only when Trump wants to remove them to make authorities work again? Removing activists from authorities is rather unpoliticising them. Furthermore, what is it called to import 5 milijon poor migrants from South/Central America where it's known that at least 70% vote left? Democracy? And what is it called if those migrants are deported to the primitive and 3rd world countries they came from? A threat to democracy?😅 Your "analysis" bears the intellect of communist. "It's only OK when we do it!!!!!!" 😂

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @nillejoslin Thankyou for your comment. You are welcome to disagree with my politics but please don't call me a Communist. One thing that we can both agree on is that Communism and Socialism never work and inevitably result in economic collapse. The Anarchist Mikael Bakhunin pointed out many years ago that people were not equal under Communism because they did not have equal political power. The crimes and inequities of Communism and Socialism all stem from that fundamental imbalance. Venezuela is just the latest in a long list of Communist/Socialist regimes where the populace have been impoverished while the political elites have been enriched and use military oppression to maintain their privileges. Why anyone still believes in Communism/Socialism given all the evidence that it doesn't work is a continual mystery to me

    • @nillejoslin
      @nillejoslin 2 місяці тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 I look at what people actually accomplish with their policy recommendations, not what they fancy they do. If you, for instance, advocate migration from the 3rd world, or recommend Kamala Harris, who advocates migration, over Donald Trump, you're essentially a socialist/communist because it's a known fact that at least 70% of those migrants vote socialist. A "libertarian" like author Johan Norberg (In Defense of World Capitalism) that advocates capitalism is still effectively a socialist because he also advocates free movement for 3rd world migrants into capitalistic countries in the west, where they will replace capitalism with socialism. It happened in California with the Latino migration. The state went from stable Republican to stable Democratic. Ronald Reagan could not have made his political career today with a totally changed demographics.

    • @nillejoslin
      @nillejoslin 2 місяці тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473 There are more problems with migration from the 3rd world than making the west socialist. Their home country is called 3rd world for a reason. You should know from Rotherham and other places in England that there are Pakistan grooming gangs that have exploited young girls, often handicapped. The social authorities and police tried to silence this activity for almost 20 years and just let it go on. The lying press, once the scandal was revealed, called it "Asian gangs" to pretend it involved East Asians, the most peaceful ethnical group in the world (evidence from numeral western countries) and well adapted to society to which they move. There is a colony of 20.000 Japanese in Dusseldorf that people hardly have heard of because they adapt so well. Still, even East Asians vote by margin for the left in their new country.

  • @nillejoslin
    @nillejoslin 2 місяці тому

    01:10 "Kamala Harris has closed the gap. Donald Trump is still ahead in the polls. Be afraid." Yeah, marxist Kamala must win and continue the "green" revolution with wheather dependent energy and the population replacement where white capitalitic Americans become a minority in the US, like they became in California, by importing 5 million "refugees" per year from South n Central America that vote left to 70%. Yeah, be very afraid if communism does'nt win.

  • @danieluk5393
    @danieluk5393 2 місяці тому

    Appreciated as always

  • @srpasa6814
    @srpasa6814 2 місяці тому

    if central bank interest rate increases lead to greater payments on fiscal deficit than a reduction in private sector credit creation and corporate bond issuance then rate rises have a reduced impact on controlling inflation long term, possibly why long bond yields aren't dropping and may be a bad bet in a stagflationary environment ?? middle class americans fixed for 30 years so i suspect thats why the transmission mechanism hasnt been as fast!

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @srpasa6814 I agree that higher interest rates have had a reduced effect this cycle due to mortgage holders locking in 30 year mortgages. I also agree with the MMT argument that higher interest rates on the massive debt stock pumps money into the economy and some of that will be spent. But I don't see a stagflationary environment. Inflation has come right down as I expected. Bond yields though have not. As long as inflation continues to behave bond yields should eventually follow. Equities have done very well despite weak economies and high interest rates. I maintain my strategy of only buying equities after they have fallen.

  • @TheStuartOwen
    @TheStuartOwen 2 місяці тому

    Re Japanese property, it’s a tale of 2 markets. In the countryside and towns you’re right, depopulation, low wages, low wealth leads to very weak property prices (can even be negative!). In Tokyo, Osaka etc there’s higher wealth, higher salaries and international buyers looking to buy real assets to protect from depreciating currency (and possible risk of inflation).

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @TheStuartOwen thanks Stuart, that implies that the populations of the cities has been maintained or risen even as overall population growth has declined. Correct?

    • @TheStuartOwen
      @TheStuartOwen 2 місяці тому

      @@portfoliomatters2473my understanding is that the population in the big cities has been broadly flat. Certainly some buying from non-Japanese non-residents though, including Chinese money escaping from there. If anyone is deeply interested, there’s a website called Akasaka Real Estate that charts price per floor area. The line goes up for central Tokyo

  • @gibson4696
    @gibson4696 2 місяці тому

    Just to also add I really enjoy the one-off type shows you do such as "my worst trade" and your experiences in Angel Investing.

  • @gibson4696
    @gibson4696 2 місяці тому

    Just to say thanks for the work you do to produce this most weeks. Must watch for me. Also, I'm very much in favour of Simon doing a weekly segment.

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      @gibson4696 thanks for the encouragement and support. It has been a very bad investment year for me and I am glad that you find the podcast worthwhile despite my terrible bond call. Richard and I have discussed the future of the podcast and are both committed to keeping it going.

  • @lincolnshireoilwells9757
    @lincolnshireoilwells9757 3 місяці тому

    Great vid! Better than many others in explaining the maths

  • @lincolnshireoilwells9757
    @lincolnshireoilwells9757 3 місяці тому

    Great piece of work thank you

  • @mike-qq3hw
    @mike-qq3hw 3 місяці тому

    so your next pub night at northwich then , become part of the cheshire set ,you know you want to😀

    • @portfoliomatters2473
      @portfoliomatters2473 2 місяці тому

      Ha ha, if that is you Michael B, we should check it out when I next stop by. It will be an anthropological expedition

  • @srpasa6814
    @srpasa6814 3 місяці тому

    enjoy norway keith!

  • @22terrytibbs
    @22terrytibbs 3 місяці тому

    On Silver, to reduce risk in any speculative silver miners, could also use a covered call strategy. eg. buy 100 shares in exk, (500$) sell 1 7% otm 2 week call, get 2.5$. Losing you 10-70% upside above 7% over a 2 week timeframe if you're not stopped out, but potentially generating 12.5% per annum. Not something i'm interested in myself, but I know some use this strategy to 'sell premium' in high volatility meme stocks. exk looks like a short squeeze to me but looking at it has only taken 5 minutes.....

  • @oneclickandclosed
    @oneclickandclosed 3 місяці тому

    Looked through your archives, and great call buying colonial coal and holding for 5 years. We're in year 3 and things are looking up.

  • @rsforthewin
    @rsforthewin 3 місяці тому

    Would be good to see a video on gms as they seem to have turned things around.

  • @sogoesit8008
    @sogoesit8008 3 місяці тому

    There were a couple of SCOTUS decisions this week that bear heavily on economic conditions: 1. EPA "Good Neighbour" Rule blocked 2. The Chevron doctrine has been struck down; rescinding the power of regulators to allow lower courts to uphold regulators' interpretations of statute as long as it was reasonable. The second has significant consequences economically. "The best model for an economy is the economy". This is the truth. Applies to all unique structures physical and organisational.