Reporting live from The Decade of Reckoning symposium, Vancouver, Canada
Today I am reporting live from Vancouver, Canada where Dr Marc Faber heads the cast of investment stars at this year’s 10th anniversary Agora Financial ‘Decade of Reckoning’ conference, part of financial newsletter baron Bill…
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Flying from Dubai to Vancouver with Cathay Pacific
Today I am flying from Dubai to Vancouver via Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific in their new Business Class. I will be reporting from the 10th anniversary Agora Financial conference over the next four days.…
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Bond market last bubble left says Jim Rogers
Peter Schiff bullish on silver
Cheap money supports UK house prices but what next?
Why is it that UK house prices have remained so expensive despite the gloom-and-doom circling the British economy about debt levels and rising unemployment?
Two historic factors are usually cited: a relative shortage of property…
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China stocks like the GCC bubble of 2005-6
Money manager Mark Mobius has created quite a stir by suggesting that within three years the Chinese stock market might be more valuable than its US counterpart.
US stocks are presently valued at $11.2 trillion…
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Is Etisalat about to go ex-growth?
For many years profits at UAE telephone giant Etisalat have been on an upward trajectory. But in the first half of 2009 profits growth slowed to 11 per cent with the company ringing up $1.25…
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Gulf IPOs a distant prospect
The Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets would love nothing more than to follow the Chinese who ended a 10-month IPO drought last week with two initial public offerings that were priced at more than 30…
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Roubini denies being the latest green shoot
The following is a statement from Dr. Nouriel Roubini, Chairman of RGE Monitor and Professor, New York University, Stern School of Business:
“It has been widely reported today that I have stated that the recession…
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Terrible trade data just being ignored
Buried in a corner of the back page of my Gulf News this morning is a news item about the latest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development comments on global trade figures showing ‘a remarkably…
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