Comparing this bear market rally to the 1930s
If this pattern from the 1930s is repeated then the Dow Jones still has a little further to go, up eight more percentage points to be -27 per cent down, and then the bear market…
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Stock market going up or final spike of the bear market rally?
Mike Swanson is an up and coming online financial commentator. But I wonder if what he sees as proof that the stock market rally has legs is not actually the final spike in a…
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Marc Faber thinks the crisis is far from over
US dollar strength to come before devaluation?
Shorting US bonds and abandoning the US dollar is just too easy to be the correct strategy, remarked Bill Bonner, President and Founder of Agora Financial at its 10th annual symposium in Vancouver last week.…
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Invest in a man who made billions from the recession
Now back home in Dubai I was reflecting on who impressed me most at the Agora Financial symposium in Vancouver, Canada last week. It was a packed program and there were many investment ideas and…
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Rich Dad's adviser on how to buy gold
Now we see the true Virgin Galactic business model
When Sir Richard Branson introduced Virgin Galactic at a press conference in Dubai he asked journalists who among them would not want to fly into space. I put up my hand. What sane person would…
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Specific junior precious metal stock picks
This is not an article to explain the leverage that junior exploration stocks offer to the precious metal price. Suffice to point out that last autumn’s stock market crash has left juniors offering arguably their…
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Hong Kong investors confused about the outlook
Hong Kong based investors are confused about the outlook for investments and many of the brightest are sat on piles of cash and gold. They do not see good value in stock markets and property…
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Lessons from Hong Kong for the Dubai real estate crash
A useful although not exact parallel can be drawn between the Asian Financial Crisis and the Hong Kong property crisis post 1997, and the crash of the Dubai real estate sector since the global financial…
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