$6 - $8 Trillion in Investment Losses for 2008

On NPR radio (I don't recall the exact source) and this CNBC article on How the Financial Crisis Impacts Your Retirement estimated investment losses ... , commodities, hedge funds, value investing, mutual funds, sector funds, real estate, etc ... all the losses go. Looking back, here's what worked in 2008: Investing in CDs, bonds, and shorting stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:08:03

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White gold tarnished

At the start of last year sheep and beef farmers looked enviously at the returns dairy farmers were enjoying and aimed to get prices for meat, ... September last year. The state of global commodity markets isn’t the only problem facing Fonterra ... in any future investment in China.However, the financial losses from the Sanlu investment have already [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:59:59

Investigate before You Invest

.fullpost{display:inline;}by Larry WestfallIn today’s complex financial world, there are many investment opportunities ... lose millions of dollars to securities and commodities fraud. High-pressure salespeople promoting ... protection: Investigate before you invest. RISK INVESTMENTS: BEWAREBoth legitimate brokers and con artists [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 10:42:00

Huw Lewis's pseudo-socialism

It was Labour AM Huw Lewis's critique of Tory economic policy which led me to post this comment on his blog ( ... . Then we have the banking crisis. A crisis founded on the credit default swap, a financial commodity devised ... to the off-balance-sheet fixes, scams and fiddles of the investment banks and other financial institutions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:04:00

Eric Bolling: "Oil Should be $75 to $80"

Watch the following video... So, how to play it? the tickers are (USO), (DBO) and the double return (up or down) is the (DXO).Right now, I find it hard to be investing in stocks. Financials are out, consumer discretionary ... . So, that leaves certain commodities and I think the most value here is in oil..Disclosure ("none [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:53:00

Over-dependence on derivatives hit AIG

The US financial tsunami has washed out giant investment banks of the US and has led to many commercial banks being bought over or nationalised ... to speculate on the future price of commodities or shares - without buying the underlying investment ... , the inaccuracy of which may not be exposed for many years. Derivatives like futures, options and [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 10:29:14

in Financial Press | Short Selling | Trading There were a sew of articles in the papers today about just how much money those damned shorts are ... Partners I, from various commodity-related investments, among other areas. It isn't necessarily ... by Spitalfields Advisors, the London-based firm specializing in securities lending, show. Almost [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 16:26:57

Will energy show us that inflation and deflation can occur at the same time?

At the beginning of this decade investment advisor Marc Faber told incredulous investors that rising economic prosperity in Asia signalled the ... has important implications for what is currently unfolding in the financial and commodity markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 19:30:00

Inc Magazine Individual Investors Email List

42,430 Total Investors The Inc. Magazine Individual Investors Email list consists of entrepreneurs who play an active role in their personal ... for their financial futures. These savvy investors spread their investments across a wide spectrum in order to diversify their portfolios. Stocks, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, real estate, commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 08:36:15

Fed?s Stern Optimistic on Treasury Plan to Buy Assets

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said Thursday he is “cautiously optimistic” about the recently passed Treasury plan to buy ... -related investments from the market in a bid to get the financial system trading openly again. Stern ... of inflation, absent a resurgence in energy and other commodity prices.” He added that inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:52:00

Russia's Overleveraged Economy as a House of Cards

Andrew Kramer has a piece in today's New York Times which examines how so many of Russia's most wealthy people lost so much money in so little time during the current financial crisis. Not a lot of new information, but some interesting quotes ... by falling commodity prices and the flight of an estimated $74 billion in foreign investment since [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 16:01:33

Investment Banks, By the Numbers

At the beginning of 2007 the five major investment-banking firms (not including those, such as J.P. Morgan Chase & Co ... tons, both on bets in currency and commodity markets, and on the trading of those assets ... billion Merrill Lynch financial advisors, second quarter 2008: 16,690 Bank of America financial [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 15:09:09

Andrew Wilshire

Mr.Andrew Wilshire began his own Investment Newsletter in 1997 and has been generating market predictions/analyses for several large commodity traders. I certainly did not know him but I’m pretty much sure a lot of people knows who he is. To those who doesn’t know about him, Mr. Wilshire grew his venture from a small Financial Newsletter [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 18:46:16

A Proposal for an Investment Strategy

By Ctein I would like to make a suggestion, with all appropriate modesty, that would alleviate a considerable amount of current financial woe ... . Hence, investors always need the Next Big Thing. They moved on to commodities. Prices skyrocketed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 04:03:27

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