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Dubai Out: December In

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:21:13 GMT

On Monday, the Dubai crisis lost its grip on global markets. Risk aversion cooled down allowing US equities to close in positive territory as financials led a late advance on hopes that possible fallout for US banks will be contained. Earlier, the market was trading cautiously on news of Iran’s ongoing nuclear ambitions and their seizing of a UK yacht, while a better than expected Chicago PMI was countered by mixed holiday-shopping results which sparked concerns about consumer spending. Outperforming sectors were Reits +4.4%, Banks +3.6% and Airlines +3.4 while Hospitals (1.9%), Tobaccos (1.6%) and Retail (1.4%) underperformed. How long before we hear talk of a Santa Claus rally?[More...]

Default In The Desert Sparks Panic

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:21:09 GMT

On Thanksgiving when Americans celebrate their first bailout, the big story is that the planned “orderly” decline in the Greenback is starting to be anything but! With most US investors probably thinking more about holiday than markets, it should be no surprise that markets have traded quietly for the most part overnight. The main action has been in currency markets, where the Dollar has been sold across the board after breaking through 1.50 against the Euro and slumping to a 14 year low versus the Yen.[More...]

Adens: Resource Favorites

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:54:55 GMT

"Resources are one of the best sectors for buy & hold investors," say Mary Anne and Pamela Aden. In The Aden Forecast they eye BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Freeport McMoran (NYSE: FCX).[More...]

Stocks Advance As US Dollar Plays Defence

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:18:26 GMT

Markets generally adopted a slightly more defensive tone on Friday. In the US, utilities and consumer stables managed small gains, but financials, consumer cyclicals and IT fell.[More...]

Coal, Copper And Ore - More Than Just Mines

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:45:19 GMT

Broad capital spending cuts, and curtailed production have landed machinery companies in the pits but mining equipment makers will likely be among the first to emerge from under the recessionary rubble. The reason is that commodity prices are up substantially from their recent lows, at a time when the world is running out of all those precious natural resources.[More...]

More Soggy Economic Data But Stocks Dont Care

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:14:03 GMT

Having briefly scanned the dataflow Friday before checking out the price action, your writer had thought he may be confronted with somewhat softer markets. Wrong. Rather, a combination of slightly weaker than expected GDP growth in Europe and a wider trade deficit and decline in consumer confidence in the US seems to have been trumped by a decent earnings report from Walt Disney and upped Christmas guidance from JC Penney. Indeed, in the US consumer cyclicals led the way with a 1.5% gain, versus a 0.6% gain for the S&P 500. Commodity markets were mixed.[More...]

China Awakens: Strong Growth Prospects

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:02:00 GMT

U.S. President Barack Obama has begun a nine-day tour of Asia at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling to emerge from a deep recession. But nothing looms bigger than China, the largest holder of U.S. debt (around $797.1 billion, up 10% this year), has emerged from the global economic downturn in an ever stronger position. When Obama sets foot in China for the first time, he will confront a dramatically altered balance of power between the two nations.[More...]

Diversify Away With EFA!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:58 GMT

Diversify Your Portfolio Outside the US Asset allocation is the most influential factor on investment outcome. There have been growing signs that the worst of the global crisis might have passed. While the US dollar may continue to weaken and the US loses significance in the global landscape, an allocation to other developed markets is deemed necessary. After all, 76% of global GDP is outside the US.[More...]

Fuel Your Portfolio With BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): The Best-Run Commodities Company In The World

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:31 GMT

Some companies just stand out – both in their own sectors and in the larger market. Australian firm BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is one of them. As the largest and most diversified commodities producer in the world, BHP has leading positions in most key, low-cost, metal and mineral deposits in the world.[More...]

Negative Signals For Chinese Economy

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:01 GMT

While the Chinese economy expanded 8.9% in Q3, propped up by easy credit & continued government spending programmes, Europe, US & Japan continue to flounder. The world’s 3rd largest economy has recorded 7.7% overall growth in the first 9 months of 2009, with officials saying they are confident that the much talked about annual growth target of 8% will be achieved.[More...]

ANALYSIS: Falklands: The final frontier

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Dec. 3--For a 20th century punctuated by truly bloody global conflicts, the battle for the Falkland Islands in 1982 is a historical peculiarity.
The Falklands Conflict -- Britain and Argentina, of course, never actually declared war on each other though they still managed to kill more than 900 servicemen between them -- has among historians of the Left been regarded as a cynical jingoistic ploy by Margaret Thatcher: the Prime Minister happily participating in a war to fire up her wilting ratings to the point she won a second General Election the next year.
Fevered talk in private investor chatrooms is that the British-owned Falklands will prove to be one of the last great frontier oil provinces of the world, a region so rich in hydrocarbons that it might eclipse the UK's North Sea oil and gas bonanza.

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Dubai Out: December In

Default In The Desert Sparks Panic

Adens: Resource Favorites

Stocks Advance As US Dollar Plays Defence

Coal, Copper And Ore - More Than Just Mines

More Soggy Economic Data But Stocks Dont Care

China Awakens: Strong Growth Prospects

Diversify Away With EFA!

Fuel Your Portfolio With BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): The Best-Run Commodities Company In The World

Negative Signals For Chinese Economy

ANALYSIS: Falklands: The final frontier

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