J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Dubai,one of the major members of the United Arab Emirates is apparently on the verge of going bust. Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said. “One cannot rule out -- as a tail risk -- a case where this would escalate into a major sovereign default...
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Emotions, preconceived ideas, opinion, ideas, knowledge, beliefs…………mention a name of a stock, index, market, sector etc and all these things will flood our grey matter and hopefully from that will come a decision (of course many individuals are unable to come to any decision but that is another story). Yet this decision will likely be highly biased to ones previous experiences...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Thomas MacLeod submits: Emotions, preconceived ideas, opinion, ideas, knowledge, beliefs ... mention a name of a stock, index, market, sector etc. and all these things will flood our grey matter. Hopefully from that will come a decision (of course many individuals are unable to come to any decision, but that is another story). Yet this decision will likely be highly biased to one's previous experiences...
StreetInsider.com News Articles (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
HIGHER PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP) 1.23% higher to $22.30. Investors are fleeing riskier European and Asian investments having a greater exposure to Dubai, though not as large as initially believed. LOWER: SPDR S&P Emerging Middle East & Africa (NYSE: GAF) down 4.54% to $59.71. As the leading Middle East ETF, a hit is being taken on the heels of Dubai World’s debt...
Forex Analytics (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Yesterday, emerging markets (proxied by MSCI Emerging the Markets index) recorded to their cases July since biggest, Ing final has week off firmly profits. Calmly, this one-day off 1.4% blades slide in comparison ton nearly 100% the profit index the has achieved since that bottoming read of March. In the other words, accelerator concrete investor [...] Post from: (c)Autor: Forex Analytics Markt-Luftblase...
Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
By Laura Cochrane and Tal Barak Harif http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news'pid=20601087&sid=aRsjlClzl500 Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai shook investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001. The cost of protecting government notes from Abu Dhabi to Bahrain rose, extending the steepest increase...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Low yields on cash are sending investors far afield THE hunt for the next bubble is well advanced. Gold, which has repeatedly hit record nominal peaks, is a plausible candidate. Like a dotcom stock, it seems to lack any valuation constraints. Another option is emerging markets. Equities in developing markets have already enjoyed a phenomenal rally this year, with the MSCI emerging-markets index up...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
ETF Database submits: As Thanksgiving hosts across the country focus intently on preparing a proper turkey, opportunistic investors have been considering another kind of Turkey product: the iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index Fund ( TUR ). Turkey isn’t even on the radar screens of most investors, but this Mediterranean nation has a unique economy and a potentially attractive risk / return...
Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I skipped the MBA market index earlier ... The MBA reports: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 4.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. ... The Refinance Index decreased 9.5 percent from the previous week and the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 9.6 percent...
NewsCommentary (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Market News Stocks were rising this morning after market news and a better than expected report on weekly jobless claims. Labor Department said Wednesday that initial jobless claims fell below 500,000 last week; it was the first time since January 3 that claims fell below the 500,000 level, it was also the lowest reading of claims since September 2008. The number of people filing first-time claims...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
On Monday, I noted that this market rally since March 2009 has been one of the most beta-heavy rallies in history. This means that picking out individual investments (individual stocks or companies) has contributed far less to investment success than the allocation of one’s money into the right “sector” or “asset.” Put another way, looking for “winners” has...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Prieur du Plessis submits: The MSCI Emerging Markets Index has notched up a massive 72.3% gain for the year to date, and an even more impressive 101.4% since the March 9 lows. Although emerging markets were the clear leaders during the initial months of the recovery, the MSCI World Index has subsequently done some catching up but still lags with gains of 26.7% and 69.3% for the two measurement periods....
<title> - MarketColorz, Indian Stock Market... (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Buoyed by gains in the scrip of one of the largest companies in the country -- Reliance Industries (RIL), a benchmark index of the Indian equities markets shut shop Monday 0.93 percent higher than its previous close. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) -- which opened at 17,067.14 points against Friday's close at 17,021.85 points -- ended the day at 17,180.18 points,...
<title> - MarketColorz, Indian Stock Market... (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets on Monday shut shop 0.93 per cent higher than its previous close. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) -- which opened at 17,067.14 points against Friday's close at 17,021.85 points -- shut shop at 17,180.18 points closing 158.33 points or 0.93 per cent higher. At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broader 50-share...
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Despite the rough financial times and what you may've heard on the news, it's still not too late to invest in gold . What with a weakening dollar, amongst other factors, gold prices are going even higher, thus the option of going after precious metal instead of wasting your time and money on purchasing stocks. And that's where GoldCoinsGain.com comes in. At GoldCoinsGain.com, investors can purchase...
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