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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Fellow Investor,
Maybe you heard about what happened two weeks ago.I'm talking about when the rating agency Standard & Poor's unexpectedly upgraded Brazil's credit rating to investment grade... and the Brazil stock market exploded up 6.3% in a single day! |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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The main thing is to know how to spot buying opportunities. The right time to buy is in fact after a crash at a time when the stock is dropping far below it real value. Actrade Financial Technologies Ltd. is one of my successful investments. The company, which was founded by Amos Aharoni in 1987, specialized in the development of advanced e-commerce and payment solutions. |
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
By Ian Davis, editor, Quant Trader
"This nasty man-made microbe, hatched in the labs of Wall Street, surfaces every few years to prey on susceptible (i.e., gullible) investors. Symptoms include feverish optimism followed by cold chills of reality." – Time Magazine, 1997
Spectacular booms and busts are the norm for biotech stocks... |
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
By Tom Dyson
On October 31, 2006, Canadian Finance Minister Michael Flaherty closed a loophole in Canada's tax code. The next day, $20 billion evaporated from the Canadian stock market.
Canadian accountants call companies that use this tax loophole "income trusts." An income trust is an unusual type of corporate structure that enables a business to avoid tax. |
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Fellow Investor,
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battle it out in today's primaries, the elections in Russia this weekend offered no surprises. Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor, won the Russian presidency by a landslide 70% of the vote. Not that there was ever any doubt about the outcome. The Kremlin's main concern was that it may have done its job too well -- |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
By Jeff Clark
We're nearing the end of February, and it's time to take another look at this chart...
You may recall the last time I showed you a monthly chart of the S&P 500 plotted against the 20-month exponential moving average... It helps signal bull and bear markets. If the S&P 500 is trading above the 20-month EMA, then stocks are in a bull market. If the average is below the line, then the bear is in control. |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
Fellow Investor,
With oil nudging $100 a barrel, gold and platinum touching record highs, commodities are one of the few areas where investors are making any money in 2008. Worries about continuing credit-market jitters, reduced mining output in South Africa, and fears about "agflation" have fueled both high prices and high levels of speculation in everything from coffee to cocoa. |
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