Financial Planning
Is real estate yesterday's asset class?
- In the mid-1970s a global real estate bubble burst under the pressure of high oil prices and rising interest rates. Are we about to see the same thing happen again in the oil consuming nations; and what about the outlook for real estate in the oil producing countries?
- United Arab Emirates: Saturday, September 24 - 2005 at 10:58 |
Technical analysis is a must for investors
- Fundamental analysts almost all failed to predict the US stock market crash of 2001 and subsequent recession. But during 2000 nearly all technical indicators were telling investors to sell, hence the value of this approach to stock market analysis.
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, September 19 - 2005 at 15:47 |
Why gold could hit $1,000 an ounce
- In the commodities rally of the early 2000s gold has been largely left out. But a recent study from ABN Amro has pointed out that for gold to catch up with its former relationship with the oil price then the yellow metal would be more than $1,000 an ounce.
- Sunday, September 18 - 2005 at 17:22 |
Is it now time to sell-out of GCC equities?
- It is a classic sign of the top of a share boom when housewives and other non-experts start to trade on stock market floors. No wonder many of the GCC expert investors are beginning to quietly head for the exit door.
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, September 12 - 2005 at 10:24 |
Cash is king in a recession!
- High oil prices, overvalued stock markets, overpriced real estate, rising interest rates, there is little point in investing in such a malign environment. The next step is surely an economic crisis and recession, yet nobody seems prepared to say what is blindingly obvious.
- Wednesday, August 31 - 2005 at 13:55 |
The murky world of the offshore IFA
- Expatriates in the Gulf get frequent phone calls from independent financial advisors taking a friendly interest in their economic well being. Yet beware the biggest sharks in town are the offshore IFAs.
- United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, August 17 - 2005 at 07:53 |
How to invest your cash this autumn
- Do you really have to? Red lights are flashing on the desks of many investment analysts who are privately far gloomier about the autumn outlook than in public. This is not a good sign.
- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, August 11 - 2005 at 09:52 |
Should investors now exit the GCC stock markets?
- Nomura's recent report looks to have been a rare case of a foreign broker correctly calling the top of a stock market boom. So should investors now hang-on or sell-up in the GCC stock markets?
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, July 25 - 2005 at 09:35 |
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