Mover Mike

Hey Larry Kudlow:

SGL Carbon to increase prices for carbon fibers and carbon fiber products
Wiesbaden, March 17, 2005. SGL Carbon’s business unit SGL Technologies announces price increases across its carbon fiber products range with immediate effect. The double digit percentage increases vary from product to product and will affect the Company’s carbon fibers as well as fabrics, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced matrix products.

Jan Verdenhalven, Managing Director of SGL Technologies commented: "These price increases are based on raw material cost increases as well as on continually tightening demand and supply situation in the carbon fiber markets.”(emphasis added)But Larry, there is no inflation!

Mover Mike

Jim Puplava at Financial Sense Online is telling us today something that Larry Kudlow needs to read:

It is becoming apparent to the financial markets that pipeline inflation is on the rise. Price pressures are starting to show up in the rate investors are seeking as protection against higher inflation. The markets are waking up to the fact that the credit markets are becoming less benign. The riesgo país (“country risk”) is rising rather than falling, which signals trouble lies ahead for the bond markets. Yields across the board are rising once again from Poland to Pakistan, from Turkey and Russia to Argentina and Brazil. Emerging market spreads are up 6 basis points to 369. That’s up from year-end when they stood at 335. Bond investors and politicians in Latin America are watching the U.S. bond markets closely and paying attention to every nuance emanating from the Fed. Rising interest rates in the U.S. means rising rates for most of Latin America. Interest rates are up in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, and Mexico. Junk bond yields are also rising especially after last week’s bombshell by GM.