Financial Planning
Load up on gold stocks while you still can!
- The price of the yellow metal advanced past $685 last week on US dollar weakness, yet gold stocks have lagged behind in the recovery from the sell-off that started last May. If gold has now got the wind in its sails then gold shares should be due for a sharp rally very soon and indeed leverage off gold’s advance.
- Sunday, April 15 - 2007 at 14:53 |
Why are global stocks not discounting an attack on Iran?
- In the run-up to the Second Gulf War in 2003 global stocks plunged downwards. And yet the precarious situation with Iran today is accompanied by stocks close to all-time highs. Indeed, a better than expected set of jobs figures in the US is likely to be greeted with a surge in stocks this week.
- Sunday, April 08 - 2007 at 08:40 |
Is buying property around the world a good idea right now?
- The Dubai International Property Show is in town this week with a whole host of real estate investment options from around the world. Yet with the US housing industry in crisis and global interest rates on an upward trend this is probably a time to be selling rather than buying real estate. Markets go up and they also go down.
- Wednesday, April 04 - 2007 at 08:56 |
Selling gold stocks now is something you will quickly live to regret
- Gold is back up to around $665 an ounce and yet there has been a notable shift out of gold stocks. The market appears to be anticipating a gold share sell-off and gold price decline if global equity markets weaken again. But this forgets the hugely gold positive general economic environment.
- Wednesday, March 28 - 2007 at 09:21 |
Lessons from the Soros and Buffett master class
- Hong Kong based investment writer Mark Tier’s book ‘The Winning Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros’ is an interesting read. It is also probably a lot cheaper than many courses in investment that would not provide anything like the same insights.
- Hong Kong: Sunday, March 25 - 2007 at 17:52 |
Parallels with the 1970s are striking
- The 1970s comparison with today is uncanny. This correspondent was a British schoolboy in the mid-1970s, and recalls a real estate boom that went bust almost bankrupting my father, and a stock market crash that hit the wealth of stockbrokers so much that they were still discussing it eight years later when I applied for a job in the City.
- Sunday, March 18 - 2007 at 09:10 |
Hold cash and wait for markets to settle, pay off debts, then buy gold!
- People holding cash are sometimes so keen to invest it that they forget that holding cash is an investment option in itself, particularly as a defensive move in turbulent global markets like the ones we have seen over the past few weeks. And if you hold cash then paying off any debts to save on interest costs is logical.
- Sunday, March 11 - 2007 at 08:45 |
Marc Faber gets its right again!
- Followers of Dr. Marc Faber’s column on this website will be aware of his very prescient predictions of a market sell-off last month. Indeed, his track record for calling market turns is probably unmatched over the past decade.
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, March 05 - 2007 at 10:50 |
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