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Boa parte do sul e este da actual Ucrania de aproveitar o jogo de interesses que se joga pela "toika" (EUA;EU;RUS):
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China is beefing up spending on high-tech weapons and upgrading combat readiness as it throws its military weight behind territorial claims that have stirred tensions with Japan and Southeast Asian neighbors.
Premier Li Keqiang said the defense budget from the central government -- which will rise 12.2 percent to 808.2 billion yuan ($131.6 billion) this year -- would be used to modernize the force and enhance defense of its land, coastal and air boundaries. Defense will make up a slightly larger part of the government’s total expenditure than last year.
In a reference to rising friction with Japan, Li said at the opening of a meeting of the annual legislature that China “will safeguard the victory of World War II and the postwar international order, and will not allow anyone to reverse the course of history.”
China has signaled that it won’t back away from its more assertive stance in regional disputes, said Mathieu Duchatel, head of the China and Global Security Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or Sipri, in Beijing.
“If anyone moves in the region on territorial disputes there will be a strong answer,” Duchatel said. “The rising military spending reinforces this position and makes it more credible.”
The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
The $30 trillion increase from $70 trillion between mid-2007 and mid-2013 compares with a $3.86 trillion decline in the value of equities to $53.8 trillion in the same period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The jump in debt as measured by the Basel, Switzerland-based BIS in its quarterly review is almost twice the U.S.’s gross domestic product.
Borrowing has soared as central banks suppress benchmark interest rates to spur growth after the U.S. subprime mortgage market collapsed and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy sent the world into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Yields on all types of bonds, from governments to corporates and mortgages, average about 2 percent, down from more than 4.8 percent in 2007, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Broad Market Index.
A Chaori Solar Energy Science & Technology tornou-se na primeira empresa a incumprir o pagamento de uma emissão obrigacionista e existem já analistas a classificar o fenómeno como o "momento Bear Stearns" da China.
A empresa, que produz células que transformam luz solar em energia, está a tentar vender algumas das centrais que possui no exterior de forma a angariar capital para pagar aos credores, comunicou hoje o vice-presidente Liu Tielong. O responsável informou que a empresa só conseguirá pagar quatro milhões de yuan (cerca de 470.000 euros) do cupão de 89,8 milhões de yuan que vencem hoje.
O número de empresas chinesas cuja dívida corresponde ao dobro dos seus activos disparou desde a crise financeira global, o que sugere que o primeiro incumprimento em território chinês não deverá ser o último.
China’s exports fell the most since the global financial crisis, dealing another blow to confidence as Communist Party leaders meeting in Beijing assess the risk from the nation’s first onshore bond default.
Shipments abroad dropped 18.1 percent from a year earlier, the customs administration said in Beijing yesterday, trailing the median estimate for a 7.5 percent increase in a Bloomberg News survey of 45 economists. Reports today showed inflation eased to a 13-month low in February and producer prices fell for a 24th month.
Distortions in the data from the Lunar New Year holiday and fake invoicing that inflated numbers last year make it harder to assess the true picture. As the nation chases a 7.5 percent annual growth target, set at last week’s meeting of the National People’s Congress, officials need to contain stresses in the financial system from the credit boom that began with stimulus measures in 2008.
George Soros, the billionaire investor, believes the banking sector is a “parasite” holding back the economic recovery and an “incestuous” relationship with regulators means little has been done to resolve the issues behind the 2008 crisis.
“The banking sector is acting as a parasite on the real economy,” Mr Soros said in his new book “The Tragedy of the European Union”.
“The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. For a while 35pc of all corporate profits in the United Kingdom and the United States came from the financial sector. That’s absurd.”
Mr Soros outlined how the problems that caused the Eurozone economic crisis remain largely unresolved.
“Very little has been done to correct the excess leverage in the European banking system. The equity in the banks relative to their balance sheets is wafer thin, and that makes them very vulnerable.
George Soros wants to invest in Europe's financial sector, according to a German magazine's interview with the billionaire investor on Sunday.
"I believe in the euro," weekly Der Spiegel quoted him as saying.
"Therefore my investment team is looking forward to make a lot of money soon in Europe by, for example, pumping money in banks which urgently need capital," he added, noting the euro zone needs this kind of private investment right now.
Soros, who founded Soros Fund Management, is one of the hedge fund industry's most closely watched investors.
Soros told Der Spiegel his management team was also considering investing in Greece.
"The economic conditions in the country have improved. The question now is whether one can earn money there on a sustainable basis. If that is possible we will invest," he said.
Soros renewed his criticism against Germany's policies to save the euro, saying the austerity measures Chancellor Angela Merkel had forced upon Europe had aggravated the crisis.

Republican star Sarah Palin closed out the Conservative Political Action Conference today, taking on both President Obama and the GOP establishment in her speech to the conservative crowd.
Palin took aim at the president’s foreign policy strategy, specifically how he has dealt with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“How do you convey to Putin the threat that sounds like ‘Vladimir don’t mess around or you’re going to feel my flexibility because I’ve got a phone and I’ve got a pen and I can dial really fast and poke you with my pen — pinkie promise,’” Palin said.
“I’m probably being too hard on the president. After all, who could’ve seen this coming?” Palin said, referring to her own warnings about Russia’s intentions.
Talking about the president’s handling of Iran’s nuclear capability, Palin said, “Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.”
NATO will start AWACS reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to help monitor the crisis in Ukraine, the alliance said on Monday.
NATO ambassadors, acting on a recommendation from the alliance's top military commander U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, gave the go-ahead to the flights on Monday, a NATO spokesman said.
Saudi Arabia on Monday rejected accusations by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Riyadh and Qatar are funding Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in Iraq's western Anbar province.
Maliki's remarks to France 24 television late on Saturday appeared to play to Iraqi fears of meddling by Sunni Arab states as he tries to burnish his image as a defender of Shi'ite-majority Iraq before elections next month.
Iraqi forces have been fighting insurgents of the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Anbar's two main cities since January 1. ISIL overran Falluja and parts of Ramadi after a tribal revolt provoked by the arrest of a Sunni lawmaker and the clearing of an anti-government protest camp.
An official source quoted by the state Saudi Press Agency (SPA) expressed the kingdom's "disapproval and surprise at the Iraqi prime minister's hostile and irresponsible comments".
"Nuri al-Maliki, before anyone else, knows very well the kingdom's clear and unequivocal position against terrorism in all its forms," the source said.
Instead of blaming others, the source said, Maliki should adopt policies that would end the violence in Iraq.
The Taliban is facing a "financial crisis" as Nato troops have disrupted their lucrative opium trade, according to a top US general.
Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2013 – despite nearly $7 billion spent by the U.S. to combat the problem, according to a sobering United Nations report out Wednesday.
Propelled by strong demand and an insurgency that has become more hands-on in the trade, cultivation of opium poppies, which are processed into heroin, rose 36 percent, amounting to 209,000 hectares.
The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces "don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug trade".
Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists, professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico's most violent states - one which directly borders Texas - going on the record with such accusations is unique.
"It's like pest control companies, they only control," Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva, the Chihuahua spokesman, told Al Jazeera last month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs."
A spokesman for the CIA in Washington wouldn't comment on the accusations directly, instead he referred Al Jazeera to an official website.
Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to the New York Times, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.
The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy influence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but instead fuelled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington's exit strategy from Afghanistan, the newspaper quoted U.S. officials as saying.
"The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan", one American official said, "was the United States."
In a dramatic and little-noticed reversal of policy, the Taliban have told farmers in Afghanistan that they are free to start planting poppy seeds again if the Americans decide to launch a military attack.
Drug enforcement agencies last night confirmed that they expect to see a massive resumption of opium cultivation inside Afghanistan, previously the world's biggest supplier of heroin, in the next few weeks.
The Taliban virtually eradicated Afghanistan's opium crop last season after an edict by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader.
In July last year he said that growing opium was "un-Islamic" and warned that anyone caught planting seeds would be severely punished.
Taliban soldiers enforced the ruling two summers ago and made thousands of villagers across Afghanistan plough up their fields. Earlier this year UN observers agreed that Afghanistan's opium crop had been completely wiped out.
Japan’s national debt exceeded 1,000 trillion yen for the first time, underscoring the case for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to proceed with a sales-tax increase to shore up government finances.
The country’s outstanding public debt including borrowings reached a record 1,008.6 trillion yen ($10.46 trillion) as of June 30, up 1.7 percent from three months earlier, the finance ministry said in Tokyo today. Larger than the economies of Germany, France and the U.K. combined, the amount includes 830.5 trillion yen in government bonds.
The world’s heaviest debt burden will weigh on Abe when he decides next month whether to implement a two-step plan to double the tax on consumers in a nation with ballooning welfare costs. While boosting the levy would drag on growth, Moody’s Investors Service yesterday warned that a worsening of finances would erode confidence in government bonds.
Ukraine may have to arm itself with nuclear weapons if the United States and other world powers refuse to enforce a security pact that obligates them to reverse the Moscow-backed takeover of Crimea, a member of the Ukraine parliament told USA TODAY.
The United States, Great Britain and Russia agreed in a pact "to assure Ukraine's territorial integrity" in return for Ukraine giving up a nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union after declaring independence in 1991, said Pavlo Rizanenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
"We gave up nuclear weapons because of this agreement," said Rizanenko, a member of the Udar Party headed by Vitali Klitschko, a candidate for president. "Now there's a strong sentiment in Ukraine that we made a big mistake."
"Só há duas coisas certas na vida: que vamos morrer e que as taxas de juro vão subir um dia", disse hoje o presidente da Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM) no Parlamento. Carlos Tavares, que está hoje a ser ouvido na Comissão de Orçamento e Finanças.
Para o responsável, "ainda hoje não podemos dizer que estamos fora da crise financeira. Muito pelo contrário". Até porque há "novos riscos que foram criados durante estes sete anos". Para Tavares, o principal desses novos risco reside nas taxas de juros.
"As taxas de juro de longo prazo estão muito baixas ou negativas. E não há almoços grátis. Há quem aprecie mas não é algo que se possa manter sem custos. O seu prolongamento começa a ter efeitos secundários", assegura.
O presidente da CMVM recorda que "quando as taxas de juro subirem o valor das obrigações vai diminuir" o que, no limite, pode levar a que os investidores tenham "perdas significativas". Se esses investimentos estiverem alavancados - assentes em financiamento - há o risco de esse efeito se transmitir para os bancos que o estão a financiar.
Tavares admite que este é um "worst case cenario" mas garante que "é melhor do que admitir que tudo vai correr bem".
The Federal Reserve is expected to start raising U.S. interest rates in the third quarter of next year as the unemployment rate falls and the economy charts a new path of stronger growth, a Reuters survey of economists showed.
The U.S. central bank slashed short-term interest rates to a record low close to zero in December 2008 and committed to keep them there while it nursed the economy back to health.
Thirty-two of 63 economists surveyed forecast the Fed hiking overnight rates in either the second or third quarters of 2015, while 14 saw a rate hike coming earlier and six saw it coming later.
Two simply said sometime in 2015. The median forecast pointed to the third quarter.
Interest rates will rise six-fold by 2017 as Britain’s economy becomes one of the fastest growing in the developed world, the Bank of England Governor said on Tuesday.
The increase to more “normal” levels will be welcomed by many savers who have faced record low rates for more than six years, but is likely to plunge many borrowers into financial difficulty.
Mark Carney said that Bank rate could reach 3 per cent within three years, six times the current 0.5 per cent.
The largest U.S.-based companies added $206 billion to their stockpiles of offshore profits last year, parking earnings in low-tax countries until Congress gives them a reason not to.
The multinational companies have accumulated $1.95 trillion outside the U.S., up 11.8 percent from a year earlier, according to securities filings from 307 corporations reviewed by Bloomberg News. Three U.S.-based companies -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Apple Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. -- added $37.5 billion, or 18.2 percent of the total increase.
“The loopholes in our tax code right now give such a big reward to companies that use gimmicks to make it look like they earn their profits offshore,” said Dan Smith, a tax and budget advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which seeks to counteract corporate influence.
Hoje várias notícias indicam a mesma coisa. A subida das taxas de juro com a dívida dos países a aumentar de forma brutal:
http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/h...mos-morrer-e-juros-subirao-um-dia_188920.html
Não diria só nas obrigações, diria que as economias mundiais vão afundar.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/us-economy-poll-usa-idUSBREA2B0Y820140312
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-rates-could-rise-sixfold-in-three-years.html
A verdadeira crise ainda não começou.
Noutras notícias:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...es-206-billion-as-apple-to-ibm-avoid-tax.html
Mas quem foge ao fisco são sempre os cidadãos. As multinacionais são sempre idóneas.


Não sou nenhum economista, mas penso que esses excertos são exagerados.. Enfim, nem 8 nem 80!
É óbvio que no mundo financeiro estamos em fase "bull" ou seja em crescimento desde há 1 ano para cá. Tenho acompanhado em termos de investimentos e já realizei alguns a 500%, que é qualquer coisa, certo?
Agora vamos por passos.. Quer sejamos bombardeados de boas ou más notícias, tem sempre carácter especulativo! As cotações não podem estar sempre a subir, têm de corrigir e depois tornar a subir. Óbvio que quem lança más notícias, é porque já vendeu e quer comprar de novo!
Mas as notícias até são bem sustentadas por uma série de factores:
- o mundo financeiro está sendo mais atrativo que o mundo produtivo (por assim dizer), enfim os nossos bancos já estão cotados 300 a 500% em relação há 1 ano e contudo continuam com prejuízos! Onde está a lógica? Pura especulação, é apenas o acreditar no futuro, nada mais.
- as taxas de juro são baixas, a inflação é baixa e portanto os salários não aumentam e por isso não aumenta o consumo, logo a economia cresce menos (estou a ser simplista, esquecendo os impostos claro).
- as multinacionais escondem o dinheiro em offshores, e preferem investir no mundo financeiro em vez de criar trabalho, produzir mais e melhor.
- se as taxas de juro sobem, desce as cotações de bolsa, sobem as obrigações e o mercado de metais preciosos.
Conclusão: se o mundo financeiro dá 2 passos e o mundo real (produtivo) dá apenas 1 passo, então temos mesmo de pensar que a continuar assim voltamos ao mesmo: crise mundial suportada por dinheiro empatado em produtos financeiros super-valorizados que em nada ajudam a combater a pobreza, enfim, criando trabalho sustentado pela produção e valorização daquilo que se produz.
Enquanto nada mais acontece, não perco o comboio especulativo e aproveito o máximo que puder, mas com segurança atenção.. Quem passar o tempo a queixar-se de neo-liberalismos, vai perder o comboio!![]()
In 2012, the U.S. will spend around $220 billion in net interest on its debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office — a figure that is expected to spiral ever higher in coming years.
Erskine Bowles, a co-chair of the president's bipartisan deficit-reduction commission known as "Simpson-Bowles," has called the nation's compound interest burden one of the biggest long-term challenges facing the United States.
"We'll be spending over $1 trillion a year on interest by 2020. That's $1 trillion we can't spend to educate our kids or to replace our badly worn-out infrastructure," said Bowles at a recent forum hosted by IHS Global Insight. "What makes it doubly bad is that trillion will be spent principally in Asia, because that's where our debt is."
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"Interest rates have fallen through the floor," says Baker. "What that means is at the moment our interest burden is pretty low."
Bull de 1 ano? Em Portugal. Lá fora já vai em 5...
Não sei a tua técnica de investimento, mas a ver os fundamentais:
- A China aldraba os números de crescimento; tem uma bolha imobiliária imensa; Empresas estão a ir à falência e não vão mais por causa do governo;
- EUA com limite de dívida inexistente; 1º excedente orçamental daqui a dois anos; desemprego a 6% mas com uma participação laboral em mínimo de décadas; Não esquecer que os valores do QE são treta porque não contabilizam os juros reinvestidos;
- Níveis de dívida mundiais (albrabada) aumentaram para 100 biliões;
Podes ficar contente com os teus 500% de retorno (normal e ainda bem). Nenhum dos problemas de 2008 foram resolvidos e está tudo bêbado com a "recuperação". Da próxima vez não haverão FMI's nem troikas, QE's e outras tretas. Vai tudo ao ar.
Por exemplo:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/19/how-the-nations-interest-spending-stacks-up
Isto com juro 0%. Achas mesmo que a dívida irá aumentar para sempre? Que nada acontecerá porque os EUA são "intocáveis"? Opiniões...

Não te tirei a razão, Orion. E sim, refiro-me a Portugal (desde há 1ano e pouco).
Existe de facto um conjunto de hábitos que se mantém: EUA sem tecto de dívida (quase desde sempre) e quando tentam limitar o tecto, é o descalabro nas bolsas.
Gosto de investir algum capital, mas não sou faço daytrading nem prático short sell, nem coisa que se pareça! Limito-me a seguir a tendência especulativa, enfim o "cardume", compro sempre que desce bastante (correções) e seguro o que tenho com ordens de venda condicionais "stop lost" para o caso de acontecer algo e me apanhar desprevenido!
Os tais 300 a 500% de valorização aconteceram na banca, basta ver as cotações há 1ano ou 2. É natural que assim seja, dados os previlegios que a banca tem, com apoio do estado e do BCE.
Preocupa-me bastante a situação, pois na prática nada mudou, tal como referes!
Mas já estou habituado a boas e más notícias de hora a hora, a declarações e desmentidos. O limitar o tecto da despesa pode ser interpretado como se queira, depende do sentimento: seria razoável limitar a despesa, mas ao mesmo tempo significa parar de investir ou pode significar medo de uma nova fase de crise global.
Mas neste momento é melhor estar dentro, que estar fora. É importante investir com capital que possamos dispensar, e investir em várias áreas, para que as mais valias de umas nos permita comprar noutras. Isto seria o ideal, difícil é concretizar..
Por último, acredito que há muito dinheiro escondido pelo mundo fora. Acabem com as offshores a nível global, que o dinheiro logo aparece!![]()