Financial Planning
Why Arabian stock markets have further to fall
- This has been a dismal year for investors in Arabian stock markets. What had gone up has most certainly gone down. The top market Saudi Arabia is now 56 per cent down while the Dubai Financial Market is 69 per cent off its all-time high a year ago. But it will probably get worse before it gets better.
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, November 06 - 2006 at 09:35 |
What is going to happen after November 7th to financial markets?
- Investors are probably aware of the US congressional mid-term elections on November 7th. Manipulation to keep financial markets up until this crucial date has been quite blatant. But what happens when the Bush administration no longer has an incentive to try to hide the housing crash now enveloping middle class America?
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, October 31 - 2006 at 11:08 |
How Arabian investors can use stocks to leverage the gold price
- Gold may now be entering phase three of its market cycle where the biggest profits will come. Investors have two main options to leverage a rising gold price. They can either buy gold futures or they can acquire shares in gold companies whose share prices are likely to outperform the gold price.
- Wednesday, October 25 - 2006 at 08:20 |
Considering cash as an asset class!
- Most people think of cash as something to be spent or invested. But actually cash in a deposit account is an investment, and in troubled financial markets can outperform bonds and equities. Paying off debts is also a good idea, as they are almost certainly costing you more than you would earn with cash on deposit.
- Tuesday, October 17 - 2006 at 09:11 |
Beware the US congressional elections!
- Investors should beware the distortions of the US congressional elections. Traders in many markets speak of widespread market interventions, some subtle and some obvious, which mean that a positive reading of current conditions could prove an expensive mistake.
- United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, October 11 - 2006 at 10:57 |
Why it feels like March 2000 all over again
- March 2000 was a lonely time for pessimists. Stock prices had hit a record high on the Nasdaq. Investor confidence was never stronger. Yet within months the capital markets tanked and the US was heading into a recession. Stocks finally reached rock bottom in spring 2003 before the Second Gulf War. So why this sense of deja-vu?
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, October 02 - 2006 at 09:33 |
Trade commodities from your e-broker account
- Gold and silver exchange traded funds have made big progress in recent months. But now ETF Securities has launched 19 Exchange Traded Commodities and 10 index securities on the London Stock Exchange. Investing in commodities has never been easier as ETFs and ETCs can be traded from any e-broker account.
- Tuesday, September 26 - 2006 at 14:37 |
Buy gold to hold, not to trade!
- Dr. Marc Faber this week told Bloomberg he is a buyer of gold at and below $580 an ounce. But traders in gold have recently suffered a mauling because central banks are manipulating the market. The Federal Reserve wants to contain inflation to engineer an interest rate cut before the November US elections.
- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, September 21 - 2006 at 09:33 |
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