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The Five Most Promising Emerging Market ETFs for 2009

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:20:00 GMT

By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning If you’re an emerging-markets investor, and you happened to peruse the study that the Institute for International Finance released... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

The Five Most Promising Emerging Markets ETFs For 2009

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:24:00 GMT

By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning If you’re an emerging-markets investor, and you happened to peruse the study that the Institute for International Finance ... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

9 ( Nine ) For 09 , Risky Stock Picks ( 2009 )

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:26:00 GMT

1. Midas ( MDS ) 10.49 a share As of 1/1/2009 Midas, Inc. is a provider of automotive repair and maintenance services with over 2,550 shops globally. Midas retail shops, which are operated by the Company, its franchisees and licensees, offer an array of automotive repair and maintenance services. As of December 29, 2007, there were 1,711 North American Midas shops located in all 50 United States and nine[More...]

Expert Interview: Barron's and Roubini

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:53:00 GMT

I rely on many sources -- more than I can count -- for information about what is going on in the financial world. Barron's in one of them. I have been a regular reader of the weekly magazine (and an online subscriber) for years. One feature I always look forward to are the interviews with (genuine) experts and old hands. This week's issue features a Q&A with Nouriel Roubini, an individual who has consistently been ahead of the curve throughout the unfolding crisis (as I've noted many times at Financial Armageddon). Barron's Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal is the questioner in "Yes, That's $2 Trillion of Debt-Related Losses."LIKE THE EXHORTATIONS OF JEREMIAH TO THE NATION OF Israel before the first[More...]

Business Week: Are P/E Ratios Past Their Prime?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:10:00 GMT

The Business Week article points out the problems with using P/E multiples as an indicator of future stock price returns. In particular, the problem with forward (estimated) earnings is that they are often wrong, and can be distorted by a number of factor[More...]

A Tour Through the Middle East...

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:34:58 GMT

While we wring our collective hands about how the infrastructure companies are going to lose all their business as crude drops from $100 to $75, and projects will be cancelled due to their rich customers actually giving a rat's behind if crude is $100 or[More...]

Will Citigroup ever learn?

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:17:41 GMT

In a credit environment where CDO values are dropping like rocks and write-downs are sprouting all over Wall Street, one would think that Citigroup (C) would tread carefully when it comes to rolling out new debt products.That, apparently, is not the case. The following is from Bloomberg:"Citigroup has announced a new $165M CDO backed by 30 microfinance loans to entrepreneurs in 13 countries including Bosnia, Tajikistan, Mexico and El Salvador.Citi will also invest in the lowest ranking, or equity, portion of the CDO along with International Finance Corp., a unit of the World Bank, according to Fitch Inc. Microlenders make loans...[More...]

Time for a "Contained" Hall of Shame?

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:52:01 GMT

For months, hordes of ill-informed, though frequently highly-paid policymakers and commentators have fallen over themselves in a rush to declare an early end to a still unfolding financial disaster. Often clueless and with little shame, they threw around terms like "contained," "limited," and "irrelevant," to describe a dangerous situation they did not understand, nor knew how to rectify, though many pretended otherwise. And yet, despite their wishful thinking and delusional happy-talk, the situation only seems to be getting worse, as the FT Alphaville blog notes in "Another Day, Another Subprime Victim: From State Street and Barclay[More...]