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Investment Postcards – a make-over of which to be proud! 30 Jan 2008 | 01:00 pm
The big moment has arrived – a new-look blog site for Investment Postcards from Cape Town! Since launching my international investment blog at the middle of last year, traffic has increased measurably...
Investment Postcards – a make-over of which to be proud! 30 Jan 2008 | 08:00 am
The big moment has arrived – a new-look blog site for Investment Postcards from Cape Town! Since launching my international investment blog at the middle of last year, traffic has increased measurably...
Words from the wise for the week that was (Jan 21 – Jan 27) 27 Jan 2008 | 10:54 pm
The past week witnessed an extraordinary set of events on the financial front, a rogue trader creating havoc at Société Générale, and wild swings on global stock markets as mounting concerns about a r...
The Year of the Rat: How to Invest 23 Jan 2008 | 08:47 pm
The Chinese calendar proclaims this as the Year of the Rat. Based on the behavior of economies and financial markets over the past few months, investors would be forgiven for thinking that a plague ha...
Words from the wise for the week that was (Jan 14 – 20, 2008) 20 Jan 2008 | 09:33 pm
The stock market continued its downward trajectory during the past week, experiencing wild swings on the back of a barrage of bad news in the financial sector, and ongoing concerns about the housing a...
Words from the wise for the week that was (Jan 7 – 13, 2008) 13 Jan 2008 | 10:36 pm
The past week witnessed mounting uncertainty as investors digested news regarding the ongoing credit market problems and deepening gloom about the global economy. In the words of Richard Russell, auth...
Words from the wise for the week that was (Jan 7 – 13, 2008) 13 Jan 2008 | 05:36 pm
This regular weekly article highlights some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviews the week’s market action on the basis of economic...
US stock market confirms primary downtrend 9 Jan 2008 | 08:27 pm
“Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call, and I’ll be there, you’ve got a friend …” These are the lyrics of Carol King’s song. Yes, as life swings from boom to gloom it is the suppo...
Stock market an excellent predictor of US recessions 8 Jan 2008 | 10:57 pm
The hot financial topic of discussion at the moment is the likelihood of a US economic recession. Against the background of a deteriorating economic landscape, it is not surprising that more and more ...
Words from the wise for the week that was (Dec 31, 2007 – Jan 6, 2008) 6 Jan 2008 | 09:26 pm
A trading week made up of a bit of the old year and a bit of the new caused some anxiety in financial markets as economic woes escalated and weighed on investor sentiment. The problems related to the ...
