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The Banks in Spain Swirl Mainly Down the Drain

The Banks in Spain Swirl Mainly Down the Drain
STREETWISE PROFESSOR | MAY 12, 2012
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Spain’s banks, especially the cajas, are in desperate trouble due to that country’s real estate boom and bust.  The ... read more

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China Cuts Rate as Predicted

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People have been predicting this for months, and finally it's here.

After a slew of weak economic data, China is cutting rates.

From Reuters:

The People's Bank of China delivered a 50-basis-point cut in banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR), effective from May 18.

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Spain abandons the Trilateral Forum?

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'In a report on Sunday in Madrid’s conservative newspaper ABC the Spanish minister is asked whether he had received a reply from London to his request for a Quadripartite Forum over Gibraltar and is quoted as having said the following: “Yes, and it is entirely satisfactory, in the sense that now nobody hopes for the existence of a Trilateral Forum. What we would have instead is a series of “ad hoc” meetings with equality of representation”....'

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'China's Super Rich Are Building Private Museums To House Their Massive Art Collections.'

'HONG KONG (AP) — Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche.

Wang and billionaire investor Liu are part of a new generation of wealthy Asians that is better known for splashing out on extravagant toys such as private jets, mega-sized yachts and supercars. Some, instead, have built big art collections and now aspire to showcase their refined sensibility to a wider audience.

The trend is most apparent in China, where entrepreneurs who have gotten rich off the country's booming economy have been splurging on art, making it the world's biggest fine art market last year for the second year in a row.

As China's best known art collectors, Wang and her husband spent nearly 2 billion yuan ($317 million) on art in the past two years, according to a report in the state-run China Daily that quoted Wang. She declined to confirm the figure, and said "I do not like to talk about how much I spent."

Wang's 10,000 square meter (107,640 square foot) "Long" museum is scheduled to open in Shanghai in late October and will cost 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) a year to run. Aside from giving her a space to show off her collection of Chinese revolutionary and contemporary art, Wang said it will also help her give her nouveau riche compatriots a cultural education.

"The rich housewives have money but do not know how to spend it without shopping," she said. "I want to teach them to be more tasteful."

With that goal in mind, one museum is not enough for Wang. She is planning a second Shanghai museum that will start construction in August and open in October 2013.

More are in the pipeline. Indonesian-Chinese farming tycoon Budi Tek is set to open the De Museum in Shanghai next year featuring Asian and Western contemporary art, after opening his first in Indonesia's capital Jakarta in 2008.

Tek's museum will be located in an old aircraft hangar across the river from the site of the World Expo site in Shanghai's Pudong district, on land that the government is giving to him at a preferential rate. Tek will cover the cost of renovating the building and adding extra wings as well as annual operating costs. He wouldn't say how much he plans to spend, but said "the operating costs will be expensive, buying works will be expensive."

Collector Guan Yi is planning one on the outskirts of Beijing, according to art publications. Industry insiders say wealthy collectors are planning museums around China.

Sustainability is a big issue for would-be museum owners, who need deep pockets to deal with costs, said Magnus Renfrew, director of Art HK, Hong Kong's annual art fair.

"It's many millions of dollars for construction or refurbishment, and that's even before you've got to the art and before you get to the staffing and ongoing costs" said Renfrew. "It's not for the faint hearted."

A growing interest in philanthropy is one reason behind the private museum boomlet. Rapid growth is creating thousands of new millionaires in Asia each year. Their ranks grew to 3.3 million in 2011, surpassing Europe for the first time, according to Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. Between January last year and March this year, China's top 100 philanthropists donated $1.6 billion, according to the Hurun Report, a Chinese rich list. That's about a fivefold increase from 2004 when the list started.

But it also recalls earlier periods in the U.S. and Europe when wealthy art patrons helped build museums that are now world renowned.

In the late 19th century, British sugar magnate Henry Tate help fund the construction of a building to house his collection of Victorian art that he donated to the country, paving the way for the network of renowned museums that bear his name. Members of U.S. oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller's family helped found New York's famed Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Businessman Solomon Guggenheim is best remembered for the iconic New York museum his foundation set up in 1939, which was later named after him.

"It's a complex issue," said Philip Dodd, organizer of the Hong Kong art fair's first private museum forum last year.

"Why did Medici commission so much art? Why did the Vatican commission Michelangelo? Was it philanthropy or was it an exercise of power and display and spectacle? I think all those things are involved in Asia too," said Dodd.

Some 40 private museum owners and collectors from Australia, Japan, Indonesia and China are expected to attend this year's private museum forum at the fair, which will be held May 17-20.

Tek acknowledged that vanity and ego played a role when he started building his art collection, but now he has reverted to what he terms a modest lifestyle. He says his only extravagance is flying first class and he doesn't wear fancy watches or clothes and avoids giving too many media interviews.

"The action of opening the museum is an extension of love to society," said Tek, who is president of Sierad Produce, a $155 million company listed on the Jakarta stock exchange.....'

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How Low will Spain Go?

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The Queen's speech : '...approval on the anticipated accession of Croatia to the EU...'

Her Majesty The Queen set out the foreign policy areas of the Government's work in this Parliament during her speech on 9 May. In the speech The Queen said that her government will seek the approval of the agreed financial stability mechanism within the euro area, and approval on the anticipated accession of Croatia to the EU.

She said that the Government will work to secure a secure and stable Afghanistan, to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation, including in Iran, and to bring greater stability to the Horn of Africa.

Turning to situation in the Middle East and North Africa, she said that the Government "will support the extension of political and economic freedom in countries in transition".

The UK will assume the Presidency of the G8 in 2013. The Government plans to use the opportunity to promote international security and prosperity.

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The Disaster You Forgot: PORTUGAL

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'Investors have been focused on Spain this morning, but there's one crisis that's still flying under the radar: Portugal... ' 

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'European Shares Rally But Spain Is Just Cratering...'

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Goldman Sachs: Stocks Have Been A Better Risk-Adjusted Investment Than Housing Since 1890

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'Goldman Sachs has been producing a lot of bullish equity research, despite chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin's bearish view on stocks.  Last month, Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer published a massive report titled The Long Good Buy that argued stocks were insanely cheap relative to bonds.

In a new report today title Houses vs. Stocks: Who Wins the Long-Run ‘Sharpe’ Race?, Goldman's Jose Ursua argues that stocks are way better than housing on both an absolute returns basis and risk-adjusted returns basis.

One of the most common risk-adjusted returns measures is the Sharpe ratio.  Simply put, it's the excess returns divided by the standard deviation of excess returns. For long-term investments like housing or stocks, Ursua argues "What matters are risk-reward tradeoffs."

Here's a summary of his report...'

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