Gold needs a breather. All of the same reasons that gold ran from $900 to $1200 are still in place outside of the catastrophic meltdown scenario on every investor’s mind in early 2009. Greece and other PIIGS news comes and goes with the news, the story of a rapid rise in interest rates comes comes [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Over the last 45 years, Warren Buffett’s investments have beaten those of every mutual fund.
If you have been reading the news about Greece, Spain, and other PIIGS nations, you might think that the whole EuroZone and any neighboring states would be in the tank. If you were asked about Turkey without making any quick research you might just lump it into the same pile. Well, Standard & Poor’s says [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
If you have been following all the news about sovereign debt risks in the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain), you would think that perhaps the Euro was about to implode overnight or that suddenly debt holders were going to have to figure out how to repossess a country. Yesterday there was talk of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A fast-growing asset class NOT all financial innovations have come to grief in the credit crunch. The explosive growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), investment pools that are listed on stockmarkets around the world, continued throughout the past decade.
We have already seen a flood of secondary offerings from many companies in many sectors either sold or filed this week. The strong market is giving many companies a window to raise cash, and we are seeing a specific push from the energy sector in efforts to raise capital. We have seen formal pricing, pending [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Standard & Poor’s often makes S&P index changes for the S&P 500, the S&P Mid-Cap 400 and the S&P Small Cap 600 at the end of the year. This is likely not going to be the last component shuffling before the end of the year, but this is likely to create some action in several [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The hedge fund industry is back to having assets worth over $2 trillion in November according to fresh data from Hedgefund.net. The gain of 3.39% came to $2.037 trillion for the hedge fund sector, making this the first time that hedge funds have tallied a $2 trillion handle since November 2008. Of the gains, $26.3 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tiger Woods has been the dominating news force over the last week. It has been such a distraction that we have even worried that this would take everyone’s eyes and ears off of the key issues happening in Washington D.C. and in the geopolitical climate. And now the business angles are starting to emerge, with [[ This is a content summary only
J. D. Power and Associates released its new 2009 sales satisfaction index
