August 14, 2012

WAFER-THIN iPHONE 5 CHATTER GIVES APPLE NEW BUZZ AS STOCK BREAKS OUT

Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 may be thinner than originally expectated due to the use of new “in-cell” display technology.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office today granted Apple patent number 8,243,027 on the technology.

The present display technology uses multiple layers to perform display and touch functions. The conductive layers in the iPhone display enable touch functions. The new patent describes a number of methods to integrate touch functions within the LCD without additional layers. The effect of such integration will be reduced thickness.

Here is the abstract of the patent:

Disclosed herein are liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the display circuitry.

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August 14, 2012

SOLID DISCOUNTS IN EMERGING MARKETS ASSETS

Astute long-term investors are getting increasingly tired of quantitative easing (QE) or similar monetary moves from the Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and the People’s Bank of China.

In an environment where assets are artificially inflated, investors have increasingly turned to gold. However, gold has now become a high-risk asset as it is being controlled by the momo crowd and not the traditional investors who bought gold as a hedge against inflation and bad news.

In such an environment, some not all, emerging markets offer attractive opportunities to investors. Compare the following characteristics of some of the emerging markets with those of developed markets:

Lower sovereign debt
Higher growth
Favorable demographics
Cheaper equities
Less shenanigans by central banks

Emerging markets are on a 20% off sale.… Please click here or the title below to read more.

August 14, 2012

THE REASON BEHIND THE FALL IN GOLD AND SILVER

This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert

Gold and silver are falling hard this morning. As of this writing gold is at $1596 and silver is at $27.65.

The reason behind the fall is that economic data both from the U.S. and Europe has come out better than expected. Please see the morning capsule for details.

As we have been writing, gold and silver are under the control of the momo crowd. Momo crowd is beginning to understand that better economic data means less chance of stimulus from the central banks.

Light selling by the Smart Money is being seen in both gold and silver this morning.… Please click here or the title below to read more.

August 14, 2012