International Investing Doing Very Well

If you are invested internationally you had a great quarter. This is probably the best quarter since any quarter that I can remember since 2009 to be invested internationally. Because the weakness in the Dollar was a big tailwind. I think emerging markets had their best quarter in 4 years, the stocks were very strong. (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM))

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

Gold: Best Quarter In Over 30 Year!

Gold had its best quarter in better than 30 years! Gold was up more than 16 percent in the first quarter. Imagine being short that especially with the amount of leverage hedge funds use. This was the first time ever that the hedge funds were net short, they ended last year net short gold! (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), Newmont Mining (NEM), Goldcorp (GG), Barrick Gold (ABX))

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.

The Pain Trade

At the end of last year, everybody with an hedge fund was long the U.S. Dollar and short the Euro, short the Yen, short the Australian Dollar, short the Canadian Dollar, you name it. Some of these guys were short the Chinese Yuan. The Yuan had a pretty good quarter too, the strongest quarter in 2 years. So everybody who was long the U.S. Dollar and short another currency got killed in the first quarter. The on ly people that lost more money than the people shorting the U.S. Dollar were the people who were shorting gold!  (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX))

Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.